Your assumption is that all meat tastes the same. Try eating a free range Argentinian steak and a cheap Tesco value steak… They are not the same.

I cannot judge grown meat, but meat taste greatly varies

They set zscaler so that if I don’t access an internal service for an unknown number of months, it means I don’t need it “for my daily work”, so they block it. If I want to access it again I need to open a ticket. There is no way to know what they closed and when they’ll close something.

In 1 months since this policy is active, I already have opened tickets to access test databases, k8s control plane, quality control dashboards, tableau server…

I really cannot comment how wrong it is.

For research labs, dell workstations used to be great. Put debian on it and you could forget about problems. I don’t know if it is the case anymore.

The selling point of xps is that they are light. Many of us just need light laptops nowadays, as almost any hardware is more than capable of any task with the exception of gaming. But I have never gamed on laptops

Xps developer edition has been a thing since almost a decade. I bought a xps13 with ubuntu in Europe. I replaced it as soon as it arrived though. The built in OS was not “standard”.

I still use it almost daily. Battery has gone, but everything else works

Light ThinkPads are not cheap either

Main issue of mine was the wifi card. Awful. Everything else very nice.

No one does real analytical work with excel… If one is using excel, they are doing basic analytical work that can be done pretty much by every spreadsheet software.

It is just habit. People are used to excel, and are not competent enough to use more advanced tools to do real analytical work. And that’s fine. If one is good in a lab doesn’t necessarily need be good in data science

By experience, being a scientist doesn’t mean one is the smartest guy in the room. Just that one has passion and luck and luxury to pursue that passion.

Many use alternatives to excel (R, python, Matlab, libreoffice).

For others installing a software is challenging enough that they use whatever provided by IT.

The remaining don’t give a sh*it, they are too busy in exploiting or in being exploited. No time to think about what is better

I don’t know who he is, sorry

I guess nobody knows. It also really depends on the program installed. If you need all qt, gdk, jdk, java for each program with a ui… You’d run out of space soon

Around the world you find many examples of matriarchies along the history. Men were still the principal hunters in many of such matriarcal societies (probably even all…). And women were main responsible for children, and leaders.

Roles and societal organizations have been different across tribes and civilizations.

They probably consider that they overall lose more with strong cryptography, than the risk of other countries intercepting US communications. They must have other solutions in place to protect confident information. But they likely struggle with encryption being so widely used by anyone. Even granmas can now cover their communications without much effort

Two years of subscription buys a ps5 or a steamdeck, if one want the “easy” experience

I heard the same for people who downvote on lemmy when notified about being an exemplification of the dunning Kruger effect

That is not how it works. Your smartphone has all the dictionary available, same as LLM. It is simply something very different. People super confidently discussing about AI on lemmy are the real hallucinating parrots

I don’t put wsj as reputable. I meant that even a journal considered reputable as wsj has been found publishing fake news in the past. That’s why I say that I am pro filtering all Murdoch’s media

Edit. I added an adjective in the original comment to make it clearer

The real challenge is “how do users can judge what is a fake news?”. In a similar situation it is an extremely difficult task even for newspapers with journalists on the field. See what’s happening with the blame-shifting on the bombing of Gaza’s hospital.

Even guardian and bbc have trouble understanding where is the truth.

A solution could be filtering the sources (for instance, no unknown blogs, or the sun and fox News, only reputable sources such as guardian and bbc). But important real news might be missed in this case, that are direct testimony of journalists on the field. And supposedly reputable sources such as wsj or similar are also known to have shared fake news, particularly when it comes to this conflict. And also reputable sources are biases.

It is an extremely difficult topic. No one has a definitive answer unfortunately.

I would be in favor of filtering at least the widely known sources of fake news (shady blogs, all Murdock’s media and so on)

Edit. An adjective to clarify

Never used dead eye on purpose. As a game it is beautiful and fun but too easy. With dead eye feels like cheating when playing chess with kindergarten kids

2d animation is regarded as a dead market nowadays, with few exceptions. Betting on it is a risk. Disney doesn’t like risks