Also, those that prefer 'natural immunity' do not seem to know how immunity works: you have to catch the disease and survive it to get immunity for a next time.

Good luck with things like smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, plague, rabies, tetanus, etc...

Nobody seems to use a cokes grill.

Linux + KDE Plasma is the best way to replace Mac OS X. Did it on my MacBook Pro 2011, and on my daughter's MacBook Pro Retina.

mutt was the best :-p

Funny how everywhere around the world people have the same perceptions of BMW drivers...

Well, cigarettes kill slowly, but obesitas and diabetes level II also kill slowly.

You forgot "dig my own ore, grow my own trees". ;-)

It is up to the scientific and technically minded people to see to it that nothing in the government that is based on science works anymore.

To get back in the state at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Where a big country found (already after 1870, check that date) that he didn't need to respect the neutrality (internationally agreed upon) of a small country with a small army.

Yeah, I suppose the Book Tower (Boekentoren) in Ghent would have already sunk deep.

There were problems, but those were due to neglect, not shifting sands...

And let the Chinese turn it into a slag heap...

Turning the Gobi desert into the Gobi rain forest :-p

In my fourth decade, but been in C# since 2013, had a need to learn Angular and .NET 8 beginning of 2024. Professional engineer since 2012.

Where chatGPT is an enormous help, is in the following:

• Asking questions to get documented answers. Much better than StackOverflow etc, where many answers leave out context.
• I mostly know what I want, but the details are sometimes difficult to find. E.g. most MS .NET classes documentation is sometimes just downright uninformative. Here AI helps to get simple examples.
• Rewriting simple code, like transforming the usage of building query string from + and StringBuilder to a simple, single verbatim string.
• Sometimes even just as a way to expand thinking about problems

But I wouldn't let an AI write all my code. I still needs to be kept simple, I need to be able to explain why something is done the way it is, and there is no formal way that you can trust an AI, which is really someone else's computer, with code from my customers.

Hegseth is actually Joseph Goebbels....

That's still the case? So, nothing changed since the mid-90s, then ;-)