Only as many as I need for grouping my subscribed communities neatly. As there are no “multireddits” on Lemmy, your subscribed feed will be dominated by the popular communities, while all the small ones will be buried and forgotten. In order to solve that issue, I need a few accounts. If Lemmy grows, my need for accounts also grows. Maybe one day I’ll b have ten accounts.

Hasn’t Apple seriously considered the ad business in the past? I think I saw a video about it years ago. Most likely, they will switch their strategy as soon as it makes financial sense to do so.

That’s a good point. A human author would be influenced by life in general, not just the books.

I’ve been thinking about that as well. If an author has bought 500 books, and read them, it’s obviously going to influence the books they write in the future. There’s nothing illegal about that. Then again, they did pay for the books, so I guess that makes it fine.

What if they got the books from a library? Well, they probably also paid taxes, so that makes it ok.

What if they pirated those books? In that case, the pirating part is problematic, but I don’t think anyone will sue the author for copying the style of LOTR in their own works.

How many pages has a human author read and written before they can produce something worth publishing? I’m pretty sure that’s not even a million pages. Why does an AI require a gazillion pages to learn, but the quality is still unimpressive? I think there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way we teach these models.

Well that’s bad news for European battery production and recycling.

"Revolt Ett, located right next to the gigafactory, is the largest battery recycling facility of its kind in Europe. " source

Nowadays EU requires a certain amount of battery recycling, so a project like this can’t just fail. I’m pretty sure someone will restart production sooner or later. Maybe the Swedish government has to step in.

Yes. I’ve already got two variations of the white shirt Nicole.

Ooh, you’ve found the rare and coveted red shirt Nicole. You’re truly one of us now.

By eradicating one species, you’re probably going to save the entire planet. I guess in 500 million years the descendants of modern crows could become the new dominant species and they’ll end up nuking the planet sooner or later. You win some, you loose some.

The orientation of the connector occupies both states at the same time. If you look at it, the superposition collapses into either of the two.

Here’s a twist I just came up with. We experience time passing, because we’re sliding through it uncontrollably.

Imagine a sled sliding downhill. If you wanted to stay still in time, that would take active effort. It’s like pushing against the sled to prevent it from sliding down. If you want to go back where you came from, it would take even more effort. It’s like climbing uphill.

Also, I have zero evidence about any of this, which makes me 99% confident that time doesn’t really work this way. It just sounds like an appealing concept that should be a foundation of a scifi novel.

Amazing! I need to check how many of my cables actually follow this rule.

Also, the socket side tends to be aligned in a particular way, but it won’t work with all manufacturers. I recall seeing some laptops that had their USB-A sockets upside down. Oh, and desktops too! Those sockets are usually vertical, and facing a wall, so it’s anyone’s guess which way is right.

That’s cheating! You gotta wing it like a pro.

You need a strategy to reach your goals, and it should include getting enough sleep. Neglecting it will not help with your goals, unless one of them is to be as miserable as possible.

Once you have the experience, you can go back to the city and actually get a nicer job that pays well. Until then, you can either relocate and get the experience, or stay in the city and get a McJob where you get zero experience.

The USB law.

When you try to plug in a USB-A connector, there’s a 70% probability it won’t go in. Mathematically it should be 50%, but I don’t believe that.

You switch it around, and there’s a 30% probability it won’t go in. This is not something they taught at school.

You switch it around the third time, and there’s a 5% chance it still won’t go in. Your mind begins to melt down, you switch and insert repeatedly until it finally works sooner or later.

After graduating, I had to compete in a big city with people who have a higher degree and more experience than I do. Obviously, that didn’t work out so well for me, so I ended up working in the wrong field for a while. I kept my eyes open, until eventually, I found the right job in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Turns out, there was hardly any competition, and I got the job. Being willing to relocate and having the right degree was all it took.

Backwater places like that can’t afford to demand 15 years of experience and a PhD in precisely the one thing they care about. If you have a degree in anything close enough, and are willing to relocate to a small town, you’re in the top ten. If you happen to have the exact right degree, you’re going to win hands down.

Years later, I met some of my friends who stayed in the city. Oh boy, has it been rough for them! Several low-paying jobs in the wrong field, several career switches, more studying and all that.

If you’re a fresh graduate, here’s my advice: If things don’t work out in the city, consider relocating. When there’s a job opportunity in a small town, apply anyway and see where that takes you.

It will make you angry and frustrated, if that’s what you’re looking for. Probably doesn’t help with learning at all, quite the contrary. If you’re interested and engaged with the material, you can learn so much faster. If you hate what you’re doing, there will be very little progress, if any. Take a nap, and look at the material with fresh eyes when you feel better.

There can also be something I call “mental inertia”. Occasionally, it’s difficult to get started. That’s when a short warmup can help. Start with something easy, to get in the right mood. After that, you can tackle some of the harder problems.

There could have been a defect that caused immense stress in the glass. Alternatively, there could have been microscopic cracks caused by mishandling. Or both. Either way, a tiny temperature fluctuation was probably the final straw that broke the camel’s back. The actual root cause probably happened several years ago.