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computational linguist more like bomputational bimgis

  • I can't imagine most Nvidia employees don't make enough to become millionaires within like 5-10 years if they aren't already. Their entry-level software engineering positions have a base pay of $147K and total compensation of $180K. The lowest paying level of senior engineers gets more like $300K... Even the ones who leave before then are highly likely to get a job with comparable pay or benefits considering they have Nvidia on their resumé.

    Now, tens-of-millions-aires, I don't think most employees get there.

  • In most American dialects and some British dialects, "bore" and "tour" rhyme (called the "pour-poor merger"). But in some dialects it may rhyme with "sewer"/"two-er" or have the same sound as in "blue" or even as in "were".

  • It's much slower to decompress than DEFLATE ZIP though

  • I like where you place your bets. I'm inclined to agree, either those or Rainbow Six. Maybe WoW

  • Please never imply temptation to go to Idaho again. I live in the deep south and even I'm afraid of that hellhole

  • It's monthly. Very few countries use something else for the time period for minimum wage.

  • There is no such thing as "curing" a mental disorder/disability. Although it could theoretically help speed up recovery from temporary bouts of depression or post-traumatic stress (which is often labelled "PTSD" when it's not), it cannot cure a lifelong disorder like depressive/mood disorders or PTSD & CPTSD. "Curing" a mental disorder would mean making you a completely different person, it's inseparable from the rest of your brain – especially something that leans more into the "neurodivergence" idea, like ADHD or ASD/Autism, which both have imperfect yet effective treatments (ASD less so than ADHD), but "curing" such a thing would be impossible.

    The only solution that helps people with disabilities is to make treatment in the form of pharmaceuticals, counselling, and other methods widely available and accessible over the long term – not to look for a cure. Not to say that MDMA can't be used for that though, it definitely can, it'd just be misleading to call it a cure.

  • You're telling me Australia was founded by convicts, yet they won't allow criminals in? Where is their respect for heritage?!

  • don't remind me of that guy 😭

  • The right have killed significantly more than communists. We just don't label it as murder when it's capitalists, because making "lower beings" suffer is the intended effect of capitalism. Why is it not capitalism's fault when conservative states fail catastrophically and cause the deaths of millions, but when a communist state fails it's suddenly socialism's problem?

    Conservatives refuse to acknowledge that capitalism is built on mountains of bones, hubdreds of millions of bones at least, and is still completely dysfunctional. Their criticism of better ideologies is just projection of that.

  • This guy wants to abolish the US Department of Education and all federal education organizations, defund/privatize healthcare, and leave Ukraine to fall to Russia. No thanks.

  • Arabs & muslims not having full rights and being 2nd class citizens is progressive and diversity? What are you on? Even fascist Erdoğan's Turkey is more progressive than that!

  • Israel makes most of its own weapons (the Merkava can be made completely with domestic parts, unlike other countries' MBTs which rely on some foreign parts). Their policy is basically "we shouldn't completely rely on other countries because they might abandon us" (wonder why anyone would do that, hmm). That being said, I'm pretty sure they don't actually manufacture their own ammunition so I don't know if they produce their own bombs...

  • Does a laptop with a built-in high refresh rate display and mechanical keyboard count..?

  • Its like the greed is getting in the way of their ability to be more greedy in the future.

    late-stage capitalism in a nutshell

    We've been at the point where the people at the top (who are there only from nepotism/luck) are heavily rewarded for screwing over the thing they're a part of (and everyone in it) in the long term. And our government fuels the cycle by spending trillions in subsidies and bailouts and stuff for companies after executives & stockholders make them implode.

    The people who control for-profit organizations generally don't have much of an incentive to do what's best for the company. Just to do what's best for them and jump ship when things start to go south.

  • "Toxic masculinity" is a term with a certain usage by sociology/psychology/gender studies/etc. researchers which is separate from "masculinity". Toxic masculinity is using performative gender expression / the presence or absence of certain gendered traits as a way to determine how "man" someone is. Toxic masculinity can be considered basically weaponizing the concept of masculinity, directly or indirectly. People who display stronger beliefs/behaviours/traits indicative of said toxic masculinity are labelled as having more toxic masculinity (poor wording I would say since it's not something you "have").

    Not sure where you think "bias" comes into play. Biased in what way? Who or what is being biased for or against here?

  • It's a lot better not to participate in rape culture and risk committing sexual assault, rather than submit to a woman perpetuating toxic masculinity, ngl. I wouldn't want to be the person to get raped just because other people think that accepting "no" for an answer is for pussies.

  • Toxic masculinity isn't necessarily the "masculine" traits themselves. You can have traits which are considered masculine, and those traits not be toxic. Toxic masculinity has more to do with the expectations of traits/gender norms rather than the idealized traits. A trait (or lack of a trait) might make people in a patriarchial society see you as more or less of a man, and that expectation is the toxic masculinity.

    Basically the toxic masculinity is just how society rewards or punishes you for what degree you meet certain normative male/masculine gender roles.

  • I like polymorphism. Having to have a hundred differently named functions or structs or something that do the same thing but slightly differently in Rust is annoying as hell. Especially with all the underscores you have to type... If Rust were more functional though it'd make that problem go away pretty quickly.