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Jajcus

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  • What is your country's "coals to Newcastle"?

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  • In Poland it is „nosić drewno do lasu” (bring wood to the forest). Similar, but a bit different (pointless not just by being pointless, but by being impossible): „nie zawrócisz kijem Wisły” – 'you won't turn Vistula (our biggest river) with a stick'.

  • Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

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  • Non-toxic glue would be starch or gelatine - both used as base of some 'real glues', both with valid culinary use, including exactly this use case. We just don't call those 'glue' in this context.

  • Millennials are 'quiet vacationing' rather than asking their boss for PTO: 'There's a giant workaround culture'

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  • I like our European rules, when we are guaranteed PTO by law and employers would often force you to take it when you accumulated too much unused off days. The system cares even for those who would not care for themselves.

  • Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route

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  • Those would be different kind of regulations. Not just 'you need functioning brakes' kind, but also 'you must serve this route that hardly anyone uses and and you cannot make any extra money from'. Or 'no extra fees, even where some people would pay them'.

  • Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route

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  • If that means proper regulations (as it should) I bet they would hate it.

  • Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route

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  • And that is the problem with this idea.

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    Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs

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  • Subscription to a software is not mutually exclusive with self-hosting. Developers deserve to earn money, especially those who do not rely on collecting data, showing ads and enshittification of their cloud platform.

  • What do you think of these 17 political policies?

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  • Also not a fan of #16 since it sounds to me like forced labour for the poor

    That is how actually that worked in some (if not all) communist countries. No unemployment, but people (mostly those 'undesirable' for various reasons) would be sent to hard work in bad conditions, which would often cost their health or life. The other side of the coin was: everybody had a job and little fear of losing it, so people rarely treated the work seriously enough. There were factories full of workers, but so inefficient, that nothing was produced in sufficient demand. People had money, but little to buy with it.

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    Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

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  • It would be like click-baiting, bur worse, as the titles / leads would be crafted even before there is any article.

  • Google removing links to California news websites as part of test in response to pending legislation

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  • 'Pay to show a link' is the way Google wants us to see this legislation. But linki are not what the news sources are fighting. The problem is Google presents the news and other information in the search result in the way that users often do not need to leave Google and foll9w the link.Someone produces content so people visit their się and make them money, but those users get the information they want (sometimes incomplete or broken) straight from Google and only Google gets the money. That is not fair and that is what laws like this try to fix (better or worse). But Google and such have powerful propaganda and here we are.

    Another thing is: users of services like Reddit or Lemmy also do similar thing (posting content in a way that preventing monetization at its source), so they have extra reason to take Google side.

  • In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel?

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  • …and if you are interested in the sound of static rather than the image, then the Polish word is: „szumi”. This can be approximated in English as: 'shoomy'. The 'sz' sound does sound like static.

    The funny thing is that our 'sz' (in „szumi”) and 'ś' (in „śnieży”) usually sound exactly the same to English or French speakers, while for us they are quite distinct sounds.

  • In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel?

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  • I am not even able to write it phonetically in English. Ask Google Translate - its pronunciation is close-enough.

    In IPA it is: /ɕɲɛʑɨ/

  • In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel?

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  • In Poland it was „śnieży” (snowing).

  • Programming languages personified - leftoversalad

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  • My experience with C++ was when C++ was a relatively new thing. Practically the only notable feature provided by the standard library, was that unholy abuse of bit shift operators for I/O. No standard collections or any other data types.

    And every compiler would consider something else a valid C++ code or interpret the same code differently.

    I am little bit prejudiced since then… and that is probably where the author is coming from too.

    Then things were just getting more complicated (templates and other new syntax quirks), to fill the holes in attempts to make C a 'high level language'.

  • Good luck speed cameras

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  • Poland and probably most of Europe. You don't need a car here for everyday living, so there is no point in giving licenses and care to kids.

  • A US scientist has brewed up a storm by offering Britain advice on making tea

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  • Yeah 'make a better tea by making it taste less like a tea'. I have seen a lot of that from people who just don't like tea.

    Though, for me that also include Brits, who spoil a good tea by adding milk ;-)

  • Mega-rich renew call on global leaders at Davos to 'tax our extreme wealth'

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  • This would only give more power to the remaining billionaires, who won't disperse money on their own. This is why it must be a systemic change and not a volunteer action.

  • Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe

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  • Europe used to laugh at American big cars, but recently the cars on our roads get bigger and bigger too :-(

  • It's October, soon we'll switch to winter time. Does anybody know what happened to the suggestion to remove it?

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  • It was, but also we have the same time in most EU, so at the west or east extremities either winter or summer time is quite wrong (or even both). Synchronized time is handy for international relations, though.