Telling others that you’re too sensitive is likewise used to deflect any criticism.

What if, that might overwhelm you, this doesn’t answer the question at all?

You’re simply pushing the question half a millimeter to the side. Nothing more.

That’s what I’m asking myself with pretty much any “sexy” decoration.

Why put a poster of a nude girl in your locker, break room, bedroom, whatever? The only explanation I can find is performative display of (hetero) masculinity.

Pff, I carve my own CPUs from compacted sand, like real men.

Do you assume a dead body has feelings?

The fact that you immediately jumped to depression seems like you didn’t even think about the question.

There is literally no reason to live, we’ve made that all up. That’s not depression, that’s reality. Pushing fundamental questions into a pathological corner is condescending.

That’s a solved problem, though (and I described it in my comment). If you always assume the current month’s payment is 1/12th of your yearly salary, you already pay according to the tax bracket relevant to you. You might overpay a bit, but most people don’t double their income within a year, so the refund is typically not that much.

Why, though?

I’m in Germany and my employer kind of knows how much they pay me. So they can easily calculate the income tax correctly. It’s just assumed that each month’s salary is 1/12th of my yearly income and taxed appropriately.

You can literally live your entire life without “doing taxes” even once (though it’s a good idea for your individual deductions).

Obviously, the trees counter this by always growing downwind.

Asking obviously doesn’t hurt, but usually the laptops aren’t even technically property of the company but leased and given back after some years.

And even if your company actually owns the laptops, there’s likely a bureaucratic nightmare lurking because a laptop with potentially critical information on it is missing.

I know of a company where the IT guy “accidentally” sent a mail to everyone that the old hardware is sitting in a hallway waiting for the recycler.

Also just being liked by the interviewer. For my current job I had an interview of about 90min, and basically just had a rather one-sided chat with the two guys. They seemed to like me, just let me talk and the next day I had the contract draft in my email.

I certainly did not excel at anything during the interview.

I think it’s worth distinguishing between censorship and limitations.

Deepseek essentially wipes out events or concepts in order to hide them, obviously without saying so. That’s bad

When, say, OpenAI removes/blocks porn/nudity and says so, that’s maybe not aligned with your values, but it’s not hiding anything.

The problem here is, we don’t know how large each category is for each model. I’m 100% sure there’s knowledge blocked/removed from Chatgpt without ever publicly saying so.

At least for programming/Linux stuff, it often enough actually does deliver keywords, that you can use as jumping off points. The proposed solutions however…

That’s one of the reasons why I prefer to run older, enterprise hardware.

There’s a good chance, everything has been configured before and most distros work just fine without any tweaking.

I want a stable platform to work on, not another hobby.

Yep.

That’s what the RTFM folks don’t seem to understand: if you didn’t even know, what you’re looking for, you can’t look it up.

Yeah, it’s a budget Wurstbrot, but perfectly serviceable.

So, you fucked up and it’s postgres’ fault?

Maybe I’m too autistic to read her, but that woman is not mourning looking.

I didn’t say Ubuntu isn’t used, but it’s by far not as clear cut as the previous comment made it look.

I wouldn’t say that.

RHEL/Centos/Alma and their derivates are very popular in enterprise contexts. Unless you count docker images based on Debian, I’ve literally never seen a non-RPM based distro being used by the companies I worked for.

Redhat isn’t worth billions without a reason.