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  • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

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  • Dismissing the role of environmental factors in ADHD overlooks the basic science that our behaviours and surroundings can fundamentally alter brain function. It's a leap to equate cautious exploration of these effects with debunked myths.

  • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

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  • You're literally doing the thing you accuse others of—jumping to conclusions without full evidence. Declaring ADHD purely genetic, while ignoring potential environmental factors, is a leap without scientific backing. It’s not about muddling waters; it’s about acknowledging our current limits and exploring all possibilities. That’s the essence of true scientific inquiry.

  • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

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  • Casting doubt on environmental factors without conclusive evidence simplifies a complex issue. Science thrives on openness to new data, not dismissing possibilities without thorough investigation.

    Personally, I don't think you should be telling folks "how science works".

  • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

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  • neuroplasticity

  • Self Hosting Fail

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  • and don't fuck with sync writes

  • Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses

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  • We're just word predictors too.

  • Sri Lanka ends visas for hundreds of thousands of Russians staying there to avoid war

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  • It is awful, but think of culture like software. In fact, think of it like Microsoft software.

  • You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

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  • That was close, wow. I really admire your composure in zero gravity.

  • Another successful OpenBSD setup

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  • Ok, cool - do we have astroturfing on lemmy now?

    pfSense has a very good record, but OpenBSD's record and code quality are literally unparalleled.

    Conversely, I spend a fair bit of time working on devices made by SonicWall, Fortinet, etc. and it's all fucking garbage.

    Are you concerned about it being designed in China in addition to the conventional and thoroughly ubiquitous "manufactured in China"? Please explain your concerns in detail.

  • The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US

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  • With Google it's usually just rm name

  • ‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral

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  • What about when they do return the favour, though?

    As someone who has spent a fair bit of time on the other side of this issue, I've found people tend to assume I'm being shitty even as I am actively going out of my way to accommodate and support them.

    One time I moved someone from hourly to salary because he was very receptive to guidance and was learning very quickly - essentially I didn't want him to be compared on hourly terms as his pay increased, since the cap for more independent salaried employees was much higher. I was kinda risking my own ass in doing this since he had neither experience nor education, but I saw incredible potential, and felt it made sense. As part of this, to ensure he wouldn't be shortchanged by the conversion, I had payroll add 5K when they switched him. I expected this would be well received, but he had so many concerns that made absolutely no sense. We got through it, but in the end it seems he thought that all of the extra time I was spending personally to teach him a new role and help him get from ~40K to 100K within a year and a half was something to be wary of.

    I have many stories like this. Sometimes when I feel hurt by people I've been so loyal to, I get urges to stop being compassionate and stop prioritizing their concerns so heavily. I don't think I'll ever change, but it is extra exhausting to go through this stuff over and over only to be lumped in with folks who do treat people like shit.

    Perhaps the model is just fundamentally broken, and there's no way to win as long as there is any sort of power differential in the relationship (implied or otherwise). More and more I feel that that is what I'm up against, and no amount of concern for an employee's wellbeing will ever be able to overcome this.

    So, my question is not rhetorical - I realize this isn't my post, but I'm super curious about others' perspective on this: are you open to the idea that at some point in your career someone might actually care about your wellbeing? Will it matter to you, or just ... get whatever you can, and never stop trying to fuck the system?

  • Every language has its niche

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  • hey can u tell me how

  • Every language has its niche

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  • ok that sounds like what i need

  • More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities

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  • Unless you're using a NUC or similar, M.2 is the worst form factor - and consumer grade drives are all shit. If you're in the market for storage I'd recommend looking at used enterprise U.2 drives in the 0.5-1 DWPD range. Adapters (PCIe or M.2 to U.2) are super cheap.

    Edit: 12.8TB is gonna be a stretch, obviously, but even Solidigm TLC drives are quite a bit better than any consumer grade drives and I've seen some of the 7TB models go for surprisingly cheap.

  • My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

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  • I suppose, but I'd argue that in your case the deficiencies are even more obnoxious: modifying a template should require deliberate effort on your part, with the default save action automatically creating and switching to a new file - otherwise why even have template filetypes?

  • My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

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  • "Easily solvable" is an understatement, though. Autosave should maintain parity with the undo buffer, and manual saves should be pointers to a specific point in time, like tags. The only way this gets complex is branching - if you go back in time and start making changes from there, do we just prune it, do we allow the user to go back and undo undo, or, if we have something decidedly less fucking garbage than MS Word, do we facilitate merging?

  • My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

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  • Same 80s experience. The idea that someone would argue or even think that software should still behave as it did back then is mind-blowing. None of the resource constraints of that era are even remotely relevant today, but we are still dysfunctional meat. There is no good reason for a word processor to not automatically save work by default - and unless someone is working with a lot of large images, even persistence of the full undo stack is not a tall order.

  • ‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

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  • The bar is so low that that's almost not tautological.

  • I am unable to visit Japan.

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