Strange that so many of our customers at Qt use Qt Quick if it’s as useless as you say it is

Yes I’d say that such people should get extra protections

In europe (at least in Germany), they do get extra protection.

And that's why people think 5 times before hiring such. It's already super hard to fire people unless they make gross mistakes. It's nearly impossible to fire someone like that. It's stupid.

Its not stupid rather humane, just very ineffective from economical perspective.

You want society where its everybody for themselves, fuck the rest, be lucky with ie your health so you and your family can have a decent life and one problem big enough can wipe you out? The benefit is more money, economy works better, is more agile to ever-changing situation. Just those extra money often go to that healthcare (since we all end up with various issues over time, the only exception is early death), or university for kids, or cost of properties.

Or something glacial, without real pressure to improve, more poor, but with additional safety nets.

I keep saying it over and over - EU should take over system (and mindset, good luck there) of Swiss folks. They strike the best balance between predatory capitalism that often grinds unlucky individuals and various safety nets (free top notch public education, almost free public healthcare, very good but not ridiculous social system etc). Unsurprisingly, mix of European competency and a bit of proper capitalism creates one of best stable living standards in the world, and arguably still The most free nation in the world (TM).

Its a place that french or germans just can't swallow - neighbor showing them how much better a similar society can end up functioning with few rather minor tweaks.

In a thread about US company firing QA (in USA) we see an anti EU rant that sounds like russian propaganda.

Read my comment history if you care, you couldnt be further from the truth.

What I wrote is reality about EU, whether you like it or not is another topic. I dont mention russia at all, that medieval shithole has (hopefully) no say in how European future will look like.

In the US at least, there are needs-based high-risk insurance programs run by states that do just that.

Even so, while it's not a good argument against layoffs, the fact that it's even considered as such is in itself a reasonable argument against health care being tied to specific employment.

Why is that impressive?

“Physical”? I don’t think that’s the right word to use

Agreed, the original title is better (and typo free) although a bit long.

H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs

Yeah, actual title is "H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs"

But regardless of title this is all highly dubious...

Not just politically bad but I read through the authors contributions to X11 that got him banned and they were full of random renamings and irrelevant refactorings that seemed to have no reason to be there other than to look like he was changing lots of things. That’s why he was kicked out, because he kept making really technically bad pull requests, not for political reasons

Not quite, because the brain is an empirical object itself. Kants pure intuitions and categories are before any possible experience. Kant would say we can’t conclude anything certain from the empirical observation of the brain, only that before any empirical observation we have those a priori intuitions and categories.

The issue with blogging is that now people are absolutely brutal about quality. I wouldn’t be comfortable sharing my understanding online on a blog, even if I’m an expert. I just know that what I write will be endlessly picked on, probably mocked in some cliquey discord channel

Hello, as someone who does this for years, don't worry.

People out there are generally nice. People mostly don't care. And even if someone mocks your stuff in private - it says more about them than you.

> I just know that what I write will be endlessly picked on, probably mocked in some cliquey discord channel

So if you started creating content to teach other people, it would then live rent free in the heads of people who cant do it? If anything, that sounds like a reason to start blogging.

I don't mock people who write about stuff I already understand. https://xkcd.com/1053/ was kind enough to grant me immunity to that. I do mock people who write incorrectly from authority, without curiosity. Equally I look down on those who try to use their knowledge as a cudgel against people still learning. I would mock those trying to weaponize knowledge, but I try not to punch down.

If I wrote something, and found out it was being mocked in some discord channel, that would make me laugh, much more than worry or feel ashamed. In order for me to value some criticism, I would first have to value or desire their opinion. I can't imagine a single person who's feedback I would be interested in, if their version of humor is trying to dunk on someone who is learning, and sharing that learning. They're too stupid for me to waste my limited attention to care about what they ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ say.

Chances are, there is someone out there who would be grateful you explained something in a way they could understand, when everyone else failed. That's how the intersection of knowledge and shared context works.

You don't need to value the opinions of idiots. Let them be idiots. It's ok, and even desired to focus your attention on making something good with value to people who aren't stupid.

Could just disable comment

I agree I’m also tired of it. It’s all so hypothetical, trying to guess what a dead man would think. Who cares anyway? He made loads of bad decisions

I always found it too fragile. There’s a reason why smalltalk VMs have such good recovery features, it’s incredibly easy to brick your system when it’s all a network of objects, and I’m sure anyone who has worked in smalltalk has done so many times

How can it be fragile if there are "such good recovery features"?

Just restore unsaved changes when you launch the same image again. That's robust not fragile.

https://drcuis.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Change-Log.html

The recovery features are external, and exist to solve a problem that is specific to smalltalk

You may as well claim that computers are robust because you can just buy a new one. It has nothing to do with computers

Pretty sure ST-80 doesn’t even mandate recovery features, which is pretty scary

Huh? The recovery features are built-in to Smalltalk implementations.

I used to find it amusing that you could say `Smalltalk := nil` in the early days of Squeak, and poof! all the classes in your system are garbage collected.

(I’m not sure that’s exactly what happened, probably the system crashed before garbage collection could happen. But it was definitely a guaranteed insta-crash).

The issue is when people conflate formalism with truth itself. I know a lot of people who reject anything that isn't under the umbrella of "stuff that is formalised", even if it can be formalised but was simply not presented as formalised in its first incarnation.