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folkrav

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  • What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?

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  • I'm not sure if you're agreeing or trying to disprove my previous comment - IMHO, we are saying the exact same thing. As long as those stranded travelers or data breaches cost less than the missed business from not getting the product out in the first place, from a purely financial point of view, it makes no sense to withhold the product's release.

    Let's be real here, most developers are not working on airport ticketing systems or handling millions of users' private data, and the cost of those systems failing isn't nearly as dramatic. Those rigid procedures civil engineers have to follow come from somewhere, and it's usually not from any individual engineer's good will, but from regulations and procedures written from the blood of previous failures. If companies really had to feel the cost of data breaches, I'd be willing to wager we'd suddenly see a lot more traction over good development practices.

  • What/Why/How is This Video Related to Autism?

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  • I don't even own a cat, but objectively speaking, they are extremely low maintenance compared to pretty much any other pet one could have. Is there a lot of other pets that generally take care of themselves and don't need much more than food, a place to poop, and very occasional grooming? Pretty much every other pet I can think of needs some combination of a special enclosure, foods, grooming, exercice, socializing... Even dogs are a hell of a lot more work.

  • What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?

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  • Main difference is, a bridge that fails physically breaks, takes months to repair, and risks killing people. Your average CRUD app... maybe a dev loses a couple or hours figuring out how to fix live data for the affected client, bug gets fixed, and everybody goes on with their day.

    Remember that we almost all code to make products that will make a company money. There's just no financial upside to doing better in most cases, so we don't. The financial consequences of most bugs just aren't great enough to make the industry care. It's always about maximizing revenue.

  • Liberals be like

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  • Considering your original comment is gone, meaning I can't even refer to what you said nor to my own response in its context, and that you basically instantly went to ad hominem attacks calling me uneducated, merely for what was either misinterpreting your original comment or disagreeing with it, I can only assume you're not having this discussion out of good faith, so let's end this here.

  • Liberals be like

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  • I'm utterly confused: how do you define "liberal", and why do you think "they" are trying to drive "them" away by criticizing liberalism as a whole?

  • Liberals be like

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  • You're quite literally arguing that liberalism isn't liberalism because conservatism/neoliberalism exists.

  • Strix Point AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Yoga Pro 7 compatibility with Linux specifically EndeavourOS?

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  • What, you don't think Strix Point AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Yoga Pro 7 is easy to say? Which part of Strix Point AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Yoga Pro 7 do you dislike so much? If anything Strix Point AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Yoga Pro 7, or how I like to call it, SPARA9365YP7, flows pretty well, as far as I'm concerned.

  • What do you do to not feel tired everyday?

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  • I just checked mine and the P10 is what I use :) Hopefully he likes one of them.

  • What do you do to not feel tired everyday?

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  • The point was that I woke up groggy and tired regardless of how much I slept. That was a symptom, not my problem.

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    Should people get preferential treatment because they have kids?

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  • Is that the fault of the parents, or shitty to inexistent worker rights?

  • What do you do to not feel tired everyday?

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  • So sorry to hear this - do those couple of hours with the machine help him a little at least? Did he try different masks, by any chance? I had a nasal mask initially, and eventually switched to nasal pillows before I started actually enjoying mine. Everyone's anatomy and way of sleeping are different, so there's often some trial and error necessary.

    For example, a lot of people dislike nasal pillows cause they're much easier to rip out or have a leak for some. A lot of people seem to like nasal masks, while I hated mine with a passion, as even with the XL size, my (large) nose's bridge was rubbing against it and hurt quite a bit. Some people also seem to love their full-face masks - they tend to work better for mouth breathers and those sleeping on their backs.

  • What do you do to not feel tired everyday?

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  • Do you remember what your AHI (Apnea-Hypopnea Index, number of "events" oper hour) was? Normal is 5 or less, severe sleep apnea is 30 or more - I was at 69 events an hour. Considering an event is either 10 seconds or more without breathing (or a more or less equivalent drop in blood oxygenation due to partial respiratory tract blockage), it means I wasn't breathing for at least an hour and half every night 😂

  • What do you do to not feel tired everyday?

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  • Same, it quite literally changed my life. I went from sleeping 12h in a row, still waking up groggy and generally being a walking zombie, to being functional after 7h of sleep. Young children still make it hard to get those 7h of consecutive sleep, but this gets better with time.

  • What do you donate to?

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  • I donate a bunch of things on Marketplace (mostly baby/kids' clothes and toys the kids outgrew). I also give to the local food banks and food drives whenever I can and think about it. If you're specifically asking about money, I give to, and last summer fundraised for, Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

  • People with wide or flat feet - what are your favorite shoes?

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  • It's interesting, I have very wide and flat feet, but support shoes makes my foot slimmer and shorter to the point my Brooks Adrenaline GTS are a full size down from my Vans and at least half a size down from most regular shoes.

  • What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy?

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  • For a second, I was wondering why they'd ban links to the World Series Of Poker.

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  • Technologies very seldom get chosen on technical merit alone. With messaging apps, it's always the same problem - if the people you want to talk to don't follow you to an alternative, you won't be speaking to anybody. Of all people I regularly talk to, only my dad uses iMessage/RCS/SMS, everyone else is basically unreachable outside Messenger. It's either cutting myself off from most communications with everyone I like, or having a Messenger account.

    Otherwise my FB account is relegated to find or sell stuff on Marketplace at this point. The alternatives we used to have around here are basically dead.

  • Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich?

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  • Phew, a lot of their Democrats actually seem to think they sit left of the spectrum, and they already get called commies by their right wing. Their brains might split in two when they realize that their Democrats are merely another side of the same liberal coin...

  • Why are you on Lemmy?

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  • dont fall for Big Phallus propaganda