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Honestly, if you’re sharing office files you’re probably using office 365. This means everything is a web app first and therefore Linux compatible.

I tried using the desktop version of word on a Mac last week, and the latency was so bad on a shared document that I had to switch to the web app anyway.

Basically, if you just want to use Linux you’ll be fine. If instead you don’t want to use Microsoft, you’ll probably have lots of problems.

Microsoft have been brutally effective in getting their tentacles into academic institutes, and you’ll find that everything from email to logging into internal sites relies on an office 365 account.

And that common enemy is normally another European country.

No it doesn’t work.

But it’s better than not doing it.

People suspect who the author is but maybe you cited those papers because you’re afraid of getting the author to review them, or you’re a fan-boying grad student.

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This is going to massively depend on which country you live in, but frequently neither.

Parties can pick who they like, but they often allow politicians and party members to vote as part of internal selection process.

In the UK only weirdos and political extremists are party members, and the Tory party tends to spend a lot of effort trying to stop their members from having a vote.

So of the last four prime ministers.

Sunak didn’t have a vote (lost to truss before that).

Truss won an internal vote.

Johnson won an internal vote.

May was uncontested.

And this is only the internal vote. All of them became prime minister without an election. Generally you vote for a party (some pedant will claim you vote for MPs, but they do what the party says) and then the leader can change while they’re in power.

It does. The UK sucks too because it doesn’t have proportional representation. But that’s a whole separate problem.

What basically makes it suck a little less than the US is each seat only receives tens of thousands of votes, so it’s possible for local interests to do well in particular seats and get a little bit more diversity.

So the UK is probably the simplest to discuss because it doesn’t have a constitution, and this means parliament is sovereign and decides everything by a simple majority vote.

They can pass laws saying that certain things need a super majority, but then they can just turn round and unpass them as well

This means that what you think of as the executive, i.e. the prime minister and all his helpers, can be changed by a simple majority, and an election can be called by one. They don’t need to happen at the same time. The last parliament had three different prime ministers without an election, and it’s common to switch prime ministers well before an election in order to create an incumbent advantage.

Nah, you’re forgetting how fucked the US is.

Citizen’s United mean it’s absolutely fine for billionaires to spend as much money as they like supporting geriatric fascists, providing they don’t ask the fascists how they’d like the money spent.

Providing Elon keeps going off half-cocked and making decisions on his own and isn’t following instructions from the trump campaign this is all perfectly legal.

And even if he is acting on orders, how could you ever prove it?

Yeah but they don’t use LLMs for this, they’ll use some other kind of machine learning mixed in a big pipeline of data processing. It makes it really hard to guess how much work it would take to fix. It might require retraining, might just require an easy patch of the rest of the pipeline.

My guess is that they’re just shitty jumpers and there’s nothing to fix anyway.

Better than USA bread but worse than e.g. French or German.

I’m at this point too. I think the next step is to just declare sock bankruptcy again and throw everything out and start over.

“It’s a cross that means Jesus will force you to have a baby.”

Unfortunately, this is bad statistics.

The Teslas in self driving mode tend to be used on main roads, and most accidents per mile happen on the small side streets. People are also much safer where Teslas are driven than the these statistics suggest.

Pi is predictable and deterministic.

Computer programs exist that can tell you what the next digit is. That means it’s deterministic, and running the program will give you a prediction for each digit (within the memory constraints of your computer).

The fact that it’s deterministic is exactly why pi is interesting. If it was random it would typically be much easier to prove properties about it’s digits.

No. 1011001110001111… (One 1, one 0, two 1s, two zeros…) Doesn’t contain repeating patterns. It also doesn’t contain any patterns with ‘2’ in it.

But pi is believed to be normal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

So it should contain all finite patterns an infinite number of times.

If I had to guess I’d say it’s because fundamentally Facebook development is about deploying servers.

As you move through the main branch, at any commit, you should have something that you can deploy. The moment you split the repo you lose this, and need to worry about keeping multiple repos aligned.

5 more years and then run for president after that.

Yeah, but a combination of this approach, and adding all compiled file types including .pyc to .gitignore would fix it.

You don’t need to bribe a judge.

You need enough money to have a team of lawyers grind through the evidence and find what’s been hidden.

Compare this to having a public defender with limited resources. They basically have to trust the DA’s office.

What’s depressing about this is the DA’s office is so used to getting away with this shady shit, that they can’t do their job properly even when they know they’re under a higher level of scrutiny. Think of all the average Joes that have been fucked over by these guys.

Rich persons justice isn’t really about bribing your way out of things. It’s about having enough resources that you can force the system to behave, for you, in the way that it’s meant to.

This is instead of the usual process that just steamrolls over every poor bastard that ends up in court.