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azertyfun

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  • Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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  • The purpose of a system is what it does.

    If an organization rewards empty bluster and ChatGPT-driven corporate drivel, then that it is because those things are the organization's purpose.

    Corporate lingo is a social filter for humanoid shitweasels to identify their peers and control eventual threats.Nothing is more menacing to an incompetent manager than an underling speaking the truth. Thankfully corporate lingo allows underlings to be dismissed out of hand because either:

    • they didn't use the correct lingo ("Steve fired the only guy who knew how that machine worked and ain't nobody got time to figure it out because every other machine is falling apart as we speak" -> you get muted on teams and a meeting is booked with HR)
    • they did use the the correct lingo which is - entirely by design! - devoid of negative turns of phrase ("our rightsizing efforts mean that other team members will have to step up and synergize" -> sounds fine, deal with it, next topic).

  • It's all SO simple!

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  • It can definitely have side effects. Psychological (eating disorders, debilitating feeling of hunger) and physical (unbalanced diet, or fatigue because the body gets in the "oh fuck must conserve energy" mode).

    There is no one size fits all solution. A random 50 year old IT worker with a sedentary lifestyle and a Big Mac diet does not need the same help as a physically active 25 year old with severe hormonal imbalances. Using Ozempic is bad in the former case, but so is shaming the latter person for relying on it.

  • why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom.

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  • Real answer: those things matter to me because a quick frictionless experience very heavily dependant on muscle memory really helps with my ADHD. Laggy interfaces, having to hold left key for several seconds, and similar issues quickly pull my out of my train of thought.

    It's not about shaving 2 minutes off my day, it's about not interrupting the flow.

  • BC Gov News- British Columbia is moving to permanent Daylight time

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  • Literally none of the institutions which start at a fixed time (6-9 am) will offset their schedule by one hour. These things are literally written in stone. They don't give a single fuck where the sun is, school starts at 08:30 and work starts at 09:00, from now until the end of western civilization, because doing otherwise would be a logistical inconvenience and sleep disorders are not their problem.

    Permanent ST = 1 hour less sunlight after school/work. It's unavoidable unless you have the luxury of making your own schedule, at which point timezone does not matter to you so why are you crusading for the working man to be forever cursed to only see the sun from a cubicle? (I could live with permanent DST but that doesn't seem like the road we'll be going down)

  • Live Dangerously

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  • I've been dailying the exact same arch installation since 2014 without reinstalling it a single time.

    Now to be fair I did have it non-bootable at several points. Worst of which was a PAM update which broke it completely because the new config was in a .pacnew file and the old one was not compatible anymore. But since it was a edge-case there was no forum post about it. Still recovered it just fine after an hour or so of troubleshooting.

    It's all open-source and usually decently documented. The only reason anyone should have to reinstall a Linux desktop is lack of experience, but I would always advise to persevere because troubleshooting my system is how I gained much of my expertise. If that's not what you want, stick to Debian.

  • You could be entitled to compensation

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  • We knew it was bad then too. This is cynical propaganda to try to normalise its use in the face of a mounting public health crisis.

    Much like fossil fuel companies today will continuously put out statements and ads and fund studies that either refute their impact or minimizes it. The cigarette industry pioneered this approach which essentially consists in putting just enough doubt and uncertainty into the public discourse to make regulation seem unnecessary overreach, despite overwhelming consensus from the subject matter experts who unlike lobbyists can't just buy their way into getting real estate in magazine stands.

  • Reddit decides to remove r/all

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  • It also trends much more political than /r/popular. (Low quality liberal bait like "DAE think trump bad???" most of the time, but still). Their explicit goal with their "alternative" feeds was to de-rank the political discussions in favor of 9gag-esque slop.

    When a big political event happened, you could go to /r/all and be blasted with tens of discussions about it, or go to /r/popular and watch staged animal rescue videos or whatever.

    Now I'm not saying it's a conspiracy necessarily, but it certainly is yet another major loss for free political speech online.

  • Oh nooooo

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  • USB is 5V so I suppose a 10 mA draw (500 ohm resistor) would be sufficient. 20ohm would be 250 mA/1.25W which is certainly overkill for a dummy load. I don't recall exact values but mine barely needed any load to shut up.

  • Oh nooooo

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  • The trick is to put a tiny dummy load on the USB charger. Just buy the cheapest USB cable, cut the end off, and solder (or twist) a resistor between red and black. Boom.

    Had a whiny USB power strip at my office desk that stopped whining when my phone was plugged in. Small resistor took care of that perfectly, cheaply, and nondestructively. Got a kick out of confused colleagues asking why I had a dangly cable plugged in with nothing but electrical tape on the end.

  • U.S. historian Robert Kagan: "We are watching a country fall under dictatorship almost without resistance"

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  • "We're too poor to afford to risk anything" is insulting to all the popular revolutions which happened because people were actually poor. Like, sorry not sorry, but the median American proletarian may live paycheck-to-paycheck but still lives in untold luxury compared to a 1917 Bolshevik who had to go to war sharing two boots and one rifle with multiple people, or the median revolutionary in Nepal last year (one of the poorest countries in the world).

    Americans really have it too good to risk it all, that analysis is correct. They could have it a lot better, sure, but threat of not having it so good anymore is what keeps them complacent.

  • Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US

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  • Convict you in absentia then use the judgement as an excuse to freeze your bank account and ban you from all forms of banking (something that the US has the power to impose on foreigner because they hold every western bank by the balls due to their reliance on the fed)?

    I don't know if they would do it, but it certainly wouldn't be unconstitutional; the US have long made it clear that foreigners on foreign land don't have any legal rights whatsoever. I would be having a long conversation with lawyers to get some hard assurances before going down that path.

  • 'Beating heart of Europe': Belgian PM wants to make Benelux into one country

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  • De Wever is a far-right populist, this is just bluster.

    Don't forget about the political clash as well. Flemish separatist movements have always ran into a brick wall: Brussels is majority French-speaking, entirely within Flemish territory, and wants nothing to do with their nonsense. No matter how much Flanders might want to cut off Wallonia and reunite with their orange daddy, they won't be able to bring Brussels with them, and that would be political and economic suicide.

  • Life expectancy in U.S. States and Select Countries

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  • This American obsession with those awful abbreviations is exhausting. Foreigners should not have to remember if AL is Alabama or Alaska or MI is Mississippi or Michigan, especially when lacking any context clue as to which one it is. "ME" for Maine is straight up evil. Can you name the TLD of Peru of the top of your head?

    There are places where abbreviations make sense: where there will be extreme repetition (TLDs, letters) or where space and readability are under tight constraint (license plates, next to the points counter on a football broadcast). An already extremely sparse infographic with no hard layout restriction is decidedly not either of those things and should therefore just use the full goddamn name instead of trying to signal "hey look this is made by an American for an American, fuck everyone else".

  • it's so blatant once you notice it

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  • ... This is not a made-up thought experiment though? We do have empirical data? Out of the five (5) companies mentioned in this thread, one (1) does not fit the pattern outlined in the OP. Seems pretty clear that something is going on. Unless you can point to some kind of sampling bias (by finding additional counterexamples), I don't see how you can just chalk it up to confirmation bias.

    Sure, it could all be coincidence, in the same way that maybe the dog really did eat my homework. Not a very convincing explanation.

    Interestingly I never see this kilometric leeway given to tech companies when discussing, say, their technically unproven surveillance practices, which pretty much everyone readily accept as fact.That so many people are fighting this particular point is inherently curious. For "some reason" accusations of misogyny require a much higher burden of proof than many other kinds of accusations, which is really more a reflection on the people debating this than on the tech companies themselves (which we already know are run by complete and utter human shitstains anyway).

  • Locked

    Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.

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  • Except the Armageddon is real but no-one will rise up to save us when every major city is nothing but glowing embers under an ever gray nuclear sky while the remnants of humanity fight each other with sticks over the last grain silos.

    So-called American "revolutionaries" make me sick with their reckless disregard for the unavoidable responsibility their country has with regards to their military. An "accelerated downfall" won't just affect you bozos. Especially not if the means are "stoking the fire of imperialism".

    If I could press a button to accelerate the US downfall and magically contain the fighting to the lower 48 in a way that leaves whoever is left standing nuke-less, I would, but that's not an option on the table, so barring that, please vote against the guy who really can't be trusted with the nuclear briefcase, yeah???

  • Pretty much 🤷

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  • The complete fracturing of children's education post-war cannot be understated as a society-wide catastrophe.

    Ironically stay-at-home mothers were already not the norm pre-war for the poors/minorities. Which participated in generational poverty as those children had a worse access to parenting and education. But the post-war middle class suddenly fell into that pattern as well, with similar results.

    On top of that you've got the meteoric rise of car-centric urbanism, fracturing communities. It used to take a village to raise a child, now they can't even walk across their neighborhood unsupervised because the roads aren't safe for children. Indirectly, parents trust fewer and fewer community members to watch their children, making the task of raising small children unusually difficult and tiring.

    Countries with more socialized childcare and better working conditions were better off overall, but the entire western world is facing a natality crisis because it truly is harder to raise a child now than it used to be. Which is absolutely bonkers because the world is also richer and more productive than at any other time in history.

  • Portugal Hits 80% Renewables, Power Bills Drop €703M

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  • Yeah sorry but that's completely sensible. Grid-scale solar is awesome, but private solar is a symptom of complete government failure.

    Compared to grid-scale you have:

    • No economies of scale
    • Massive investments required to force utilities to upgrade transformers (here in Belgium it's quite common in the summer that whole neighborhoods have their inverters shut off because the voltage is too high because the low-voltage grid simply wasn't meant to flow in the other direction)
    • Horrendous fiscal incentives that reward the rich and punish the poor (who are forced to shoulder the distribution costs for the rich who are still using the grid but "offsetting" it with net metering).

    Getting ~30% back on the energy you put back into the grid is fair when you that into account (distribution is more than half of your actual energy cost, therefore putting 1 kWh back into the grid does not discharge you from paying for 1 kWh of distribution costs!).

    If the government was doing its fucking job no house would have solar on the roof (except in remote places for outage preparedness) because when you account for externalities it doesn't make any goddamn financial sense. Put those panels in former colza fields by the GW if you want cheap electricity.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Or it's the opposite. I refuse to watch shows without giving them my undivided attention, but that kind of pacing begs to be background noise while you do something else.

    Sometimes there is nothing significantly plot-relevant happening for entire episodes at a time, both for bad reasons (the incentive structure for children's show rewards empty filler slop with zero plot value because it's easy to re-run) and less bad reasons (children like repetition). Both of which are painfully evident throughout the whole experience.

    Good for you if that's your jam, if you find it comforting or like it as background noise or like it because it leads to better paced seasons down the line or whatever, but I refuse to accept that it's an issue for me to dislike objectively horrendous pacing.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • I tried but like most children's shows I just can't deal with (at least the early seasons') pacing. It's excruciatingly slow, full of obvious filler content, and doesn't seem to be trying to get anywhere.

    Typically those children shows' pacing tends to get a lot better in the latter seasons as the audience ages out and the showrunners are trusted with bolder story arcs, but that doesn't change the fact that there are tens of hours of slop to get through before that point is reached.

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