No excuse for the lack of attribution (especially for Emily Dickinson, it’s just ironic).
As a non-native speaker without any knowledge of English poetry, I can appreciate the added clarity of using more traditional punctuation which gives me an immediate feel for the intended pace instead of making me pause to “decode” the poem. I’m sure some meaning and context is lost, but I have to admit that for an idiot like me it is a much smoother (and therefore casually enjoyable) read.
It’s not been all great for Eastern Europe. Freedom of movement contributed to the massive brain drain plaguing former communist countries. But IIRC Kenya has a strong regional economy so they’re positioning themselves to be on the “good” end of increased workforce mobility.
Personally I think more freedom is a good thing despite those drawbacks, but also it’s easy for me to say as a Western European.
The newly elected post-communist democratic Polish legislature could not reasonably be accused of running their country into the ground. Yet brain drain following the fall of the Iron Curtain was (and is) a real problem because it harms the country in a very real way. Eastern Europe is still paying for decades of autocratic communist rule, and looser border restrictions are certainly one contributing factor to the brain drain that continues to harm Eastern European countries (which leads to continued brain drain, which leads to a worse performing economy… you get the gist). There’s a reason the USSR forbid essentially all migration from East to West across the Iron Curtain.
From an individual perspective moving to a richer country makes sense, I’d do the same, but from a macroeconomic perspective this traps less developed nations in a vicious circle of brain drain leading to less economic development leading to brain drain (and more develpped nations in a vicious circle of de-industrialization).
I do not claim that this means that we should close down borders, as I still value individual freedoms quite highly and am generally pro-EU, but that should not prevent us from recognizing the very concrete downsides of those policies as well.
We’d probably need a degree in economics to model this, but intuitively I’d think it’s both a matter of relative difference in wealth being much smaller between Cali & Louisiana than between Germany&Romania, as well as the absolute living conditions being much better in Louisiana than Romania.
There’s poor, and there’s poor. Nowhere in the US or Western Europe is even remotely poor like post-communist Romania was poor. That changes the game a lot when deciding where to live and work.
Île-de-France would be a better point of comparison then as the leading sector for service industries. $65,458 (2021), so 1.67x more. However the story this really tells is that Bucharest has an even starker difference in GDP per capita vs the rest of Romania than Paris vs the rest of France (unsurprisingly, the problem of highly underdeveloped rural areas is the same for most former communist countries).
More to the point, in 1990 the GDP/capita was $21866 for France vs $1648 (constant) for Romania. A 13x difference. Which, going back to my point of the brain drain, explains a whole lot better why in the '90s and even ‘00s countries like Romania got fucked hard by emigration of their skilled workforce, or at the very least why you can’t use the United States as proof that brain drain due to economic disparity is not a problem (though OTOH participation in the common market is a partial explanation for these countries’ economies “catching-up” in the post-communist era… it’s a complex topic, I was just trying to highlight a potential drawback).
French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a monument to the French language deep in far-right heartland....
Macron is a clown and his opinions on language don’t matter.
With that out of the way, grammatical gender in French is a really complex topic.
“Inclusive” language is centuries old through the usage of parenthesis or slashes. Somewhat recently, attempts have been made to codify this practice using a new syntax (auteur·ice), which conservatives aren’t on board with (either because they don’t want change, or because they can pretend it’s a new cultural import from the US and wage some invented culture war).
Progressives aren’t universally on board either. The new syntax is quite clunky, doesn’t translate to spoken speech, is quite inaccessible to dyslexic people, and completely exclusive of genders outside the binary.
This is all complicated by the fact that French is a very rigid language whose rules are practically set by the “French Academy” (which is a whole other can of conservative worms) which unfortunately gives old curmudgeons immense power to strike down any evolution of the language as “officially improper”. Imagine if the Oxford Style Guide or whatever was uniformly taught throughout the English speaking world, and from Mumbai to London to Auckland any step away from these rules at school would get you points deducted, and all administrations were forced by law to follow these rules. Then imagine that it’d been that way for longer than anyone’s been alive. That’s the world the French live in, and the very concept of written language being “alive” is fundamentally something most people either disagree with outright or at least look at with suspicion or a vague look of incomprehension.
Nah, you’re an adult when you realize other people’s expectations of adulthood don’t apply to you.
For me childhood was miserable, and being a financially independent adult with the freedom to pursue my own hobbies is where it’s really at. I could go to a hardware store and build my own friggin lightsaber right now. Or buy a faithful replica online. That’s just objectively the same, but better.
The people who proudly claim themselves “anti-zionist” IRL are almost always anti-semites if you scratch the surface. Not because anti-zionism is inherently so, but because the term has become a dog-whistle for “I watched too many conspiracy youtube videos”.
Also it’s a weirdly religiously charged word to use; we don’t use a specific word for Russia’s goals for Ukraine or China’s goals for Tibet or Taiwan. So of course the use of a religiously charged word begets accusations of religious persecution.
“I am against Israel’s apartheid state and illegal colonization of the West Bank” -> perfectly sane take
“I am anti-zionist” -> oh my god what kind of cookadoodledoo rant is this motherfucker about to get into
So yeah, I’d stay clear of “zionism” as a concept entirely. While it is an integral part of the history of Israel, it is not necessary to understand that to criticize Israel’s actions in the 21st century. And if you’re going to pull put the “but the zionists” card, you better know about domestic Israeli politics a lot better than I do (which if you don’t have a reasonable reason to do so like being Israeli, is again a red flag for an obsession with “the jews”).
I’ve always argued this wasn’t the case and that motoring is a worse transport mode because of the associated externalities, not because of anything inherent to the users....
The move makes some sense in context. Computer sales were declining and it was looking (if you’re Cueball) as if the traditional desktop/laptop computer was about to die out. The Surface was being developed, tablets were all the rage, PC gaming wasn’t that big yet, and so Microsoft thought “alright, K/B+mouse is out, touchscreens are in, we need to update our interface to cater for this new demographic, but we’ll still allow people to use a keyboard and mouse if they really want to I guess”. That’s when they went all in with Windows-On-ARM (remember Windows RT?) as well.
Obviously a completely missed shot in retrospect. What Microsoft miserably failed to understand is that smartphones were in, but touch screen interfaces are absolutely awful for power users. Ya can’t really use Excel or write a book on a touchscreen. And ya don’t need to pay for a Windows license to browse Facebook, Twitter, and passively consume some news and video. So the “middle segment” of tablets never really had broad appeal in general, and Surface tablets especially were the middle segment of a middle segment (with android/chromebooks on one side and the iPad on the other) so the Metro UI never had a chance to make sense for more than a handful of very lonely Surface users. No wonder they scrapped it a few years later when sales of touchscreen windows devices failed to materialize.
Art is a valid use-case for tablets, and actually the best one. For almost all of corporate office jobs however, tablets are a worse proposition than a regular workstation. Most people type more than they draw.
It’s fine, but that means that Windows 10’s “UI optimized for KB/Mouse with accessibility features for touch screens” was, in retrospect, the better choice all along. Windows 8 did the opposite and made the experience worse for everyone under the completely incorrect assumption that we were ALL going into a touchscreen-first world.
Having a dedicated touchscreen shell is something that I believe GNOME and KDE are trying to achieve, but I don’t know whether they succeeded UX-wise as I’ve never used them.
It’s unfortunate that Windows 10 was a regression for touchscreens, but if MS did not have the resources/willingness to support both well, then focusing on KB+M was the right call IMO. When building Windows 8 they simply miscalculated how relevant touchscreens would/could become for Windows in the 2010s.
If you want privacy, Linux is definitely the only choice anymore. If you want privacy and a good UI, Linux may be a good choice depending on your tastes in UI. I think KDE does UI/UX right for your average power user while retaining most of Windows’ UI paradigms (which is why SteamOS uses it for its desktop mode). Ironically Microsoft has actually been stealing a lot of design cues from KDE, especially with Windows 11. The lock screen of Windows 11 in particular is a straight ripoff of KDE Plasma, every time I walk in front of a locked Windows computer I have to do a double take. The rounded corners, slight Gaussian blur, cute-yet-serious font, it’s all there.
Yeah, a 2080 should be more than capable of handling a game like that, badly optimized or not. I’ve seen people report running the game much better with way worse cards.
However all the people I see complaining here of terrible performance don’t mention which CPU they have, when it was already the bottleneck in C:S 1… And the kind of people who don’t think the CPU is relevant information probably aren’t the kind to use a modern, top-of-the-line CPU.
I’ll still wait until the patches roll in before buying it, but I’m also not going to trust complaints from players who don’t even know which CPU they are using when playing a CPU-bound game.
Sure, but there’s no need to infantilize young tech workers either. Most of them knowingly decided to work in the most competitive industry, despite having a skillset that would earn them a better wage with comfortable work-life balance anywhere else. They can quit at any time and get a job that’s better in literally every way except that the end product won’t be shiny.
The real victims aren’t software developers, but people in creative positions: writers, graphists, designers, modelers, etc. who don’t necessarily have a skillset necessarily highly valued outside of the entertainment industry.
Even paying customers aren’t guaranteed feature priority. Have you even seen Windows outside of EU markets? You pay well over $100 for a license, and they shove a wheelbarrow’s worth of ads and data extraction up your ass. See also: the cableification of streaming services. (EDIT: Oh, and I forgot about Adobe!)
The Internet Economy doesn’t need a freemium model to be shit. In fact some of the worse SaaS I interact with on a daily basis is also extremely expensive.
It’s got everything to do with misaligned financial incentives already plaguing traditional markets (pursuit of infinite growth, short term thinking, etc.) compounded by how quick and easy software is to change and update which yields very high feature bloat and a much faster cycle of enshittification.
Does that mean you’re attracted to them being feminine? Or are you attracted because they’re men?
yes
More seriously, in my experience androgynous/GNC features are widely considered attractive in bisexual circles because they combine attractive features of multiple genders, which is at least twice as many attractive things.
However someone discovering themselves as “not straight” might not have enough understanding of the relationship between gender and attraction to answer your question.
In my case as I hit puberty I realized I was attracted to girls, so I thought “ok I’m straight”. Years and many ignored signs later I realized I found feminine men hot, so I thought “I’m straight so it’s because they’re feminine”. Then like a year or two later I caught myself thinking a definitely-not-effeminate actor was hot (not for the first time) and the other shoe dropped. Yeah, I’m a dumbass, but point is that it’s much easier to put a label on oneself and go from there, than to deconstruct something as complex as gender and attraction.
Being critical of the Israeli State and IDF is actually a very mainstream, well-accepted opinions in my experience. For instance Netanyahu’s fascistic bullshit is widely criticized, even within Israel.
However, Hamas apology or antisemitic remarks are not acceptable; so whenever someone says “we can’t even criticize Israel!! Freedom of speech!!1!!”, I strongly suspect that they’ve done either of these things and got a righteous clapback.
I haven’t seen anyone here “support Israel”. Almost everyone agrees that the Israeli State is not free of guilt, far from it.
What people really disagree over is whether that alone makes Palestine right (nuanced) and whether it justifies Hamas’ actions (unhinged but unfortunately semi-common take on here).
But for me the most obvious tell is the edge of the desk. SD focuses too much on local details, so the foreground edge is not in-line with the background edge.
Anything with straight lines and precise angles is the nemesis of these particular algorithms.
Co-ops are quite rare in Europe as well. I can’t name a single tech co-op.
In fact I’d say it worse over here. In my experience stock options are a very rare kind of remuneration, whereas as far as I understand it’s common in US Big Tech companies like Google or Apple (though of course non-voting shares are a far cry from actual co-ownership of the company).
On the other hand corporate profits are taxed pretty high in many countries (for the smaller tech companies that aren’t based in Ireland). It’s 30 % here in Belgium IIRC. So at least some of the profits make it back to the people, in a more general sense.
These games are inherently competitive with an unbelievably steep learning curve, so people git gud, which drives off casual players, repeat ad nauseam. The only people who regularly play CS are either absolute masochists, or very good at clicking heads even if by that game’s standard they’re only silver or gold or whatever.
To be halfway decent at CS means that no singleplayer shooter will ever be a challenge to you again, because there’s no intersection between casual gaming and competitive shooters.
Some French websites have already started saying “Accept advertising trackers or subscribe to the paid plan”. Marmiton started it, some newspapers followed suit, and I don’t believe the French courts have reached a conclusion on legality yet, but clearly some legal experts at those companies are convinced it could work.
PM: Hey Steve! Yes, you from development! How can the, uh, that runtime of yours, tell if it’s a new install or a reinstall? S: As of right now it can’t, we just have aggregate data. We’d need to update it to support that. We have an item on the backlog already if you – PM: No need! I have all the information I need!
That’d be most of them I think. Though it is right that we didn’t change back after the war because it’s convenient for business. And now everybody’s holding off on getting rid of DST because some countries prefer permanent summer time and others permanent winter time (fucking degenerates, no I will not take anyone else’s opinion on this, I am tired of explaining to people that time is made up but business hours won’t change and therefore winter time = less/no daylight for office workers).
Anyway point is we’d probably have seen several countries switch timezones or off DST if business was not a concern.
Yeah, that’s the part I’m pissed off about. I get off work at 5:30, so I don’t get to be out in the sun for MONTHS whereas if we were in summer time I would be able to catch the sunset even in December.
That’s wishful thinking. Offices/shops/etc. will be open 8-6pm and that’s just the way they’re going to operate, because that’s what’s in the work contracts, insurance contracts, etc. It’s fixed in stone.
However we do have a very powerful tool to shift the working hours for everyone: move the damn clocks one hour. Why is it such a catastrophe that the sun would be at its zenith at 1pm?
Lol you must live quite far south then. Here on the solstice, the sun rises at 8:40 and sets at 16:40 on winter time. Which means that most people don’t get to see the sun before or after work; best case scenario is you start at 9 so you get a bit of sun on your commute, but it’s not like you can depend on it for your circadian rhythm because you should already be well awake by the time you take the wheel of your car/bicycle/whatever…
At least with “summer” time I’d be able to see the sun for a little bit before it sets at 17:40 so I can start my free time with a bit of daylight, rather than optimize my day for the miserable early morning commute.
Nah, the sun already rises at 9am for me. With summer time it would rise at close to 10am, but in either case I’m already in the office by then so why should I care?
I’m assuming you live MUCH further south than me, but that’s the point I’m trying to make: you’ll never gave the Italians, Germans, and Scandinavians agree on a single time zone without DST.
Static electricity is unrelated to the danger of a socket.
Furthermore, all the exposed conductors on a socket built in the last 50+ years should be ground. Otherwise people (especially children) would kill themselves all the time. Modern plugs won’t even allow you to reach the live wire without pressing against both holes at once.
However North American plugs have an enormous design flaw, where half plugged-in appliances can expose current on the exposed pins of the plug (which is why modern plugs have a partial rubber coating).
They could have called it Creative Engine 129030129784.32985 for all that it matters. It’s just a name for an engine update, as they do for every new game. They didn’t re-write it from scratch; that would be a billion-dollar venture.
From what I’ve read it’s the exact same engine as FO4 with better lighting (and of course, as with every new game, some improvements locally relevant to the gameplay).
But, fundamentally, underneath the fancy lights, still the same engine. That explains the 2008-esque animations, the bugs, the performance issues, and general flatness of the game. It can’t be more than “Skyrim in Space” because that’s what it technically is.
Because other people are fucking morons and their editor doesn’t have visible whitespace enabled - or it does but they don’t give a shit.
Therefore these fucking morons have anywhere between 2 and 8 spaces-per-tab configured and will happily mash the tab key however many times is convenient for them to align their code or comments because they don’t understand shit about fuck when it comes to alignement (or they don’t care). Now I open their file and everything is predictably misaligned. Spaces and tabs are mixed from one line to the next, and in particularly egregious cases no tab width I can locally set on the file will make it readable because multiple different morons used different tab widths to align with tabs - sometimes within the same goddamn function or comment.
Have you ever tried to read an important technical diagram in ASCII art aligned with tabs by different people with different IDE settings? Because I have. Emphasis on tried.
Tell me you develop with modern languages without telling me you develop with modern languages.
Try linting perl, or bash.
Like yeah if you work on a modern JS/Python/C# project, whatever, whitespace is going to be autoformatted, so the tabs vs spaces debate does not matter AT ALL.
(lol lemmy bug found, can’t write the actual “left angled bracket - left angled bracket” syntax, it somehow truncates the comment)
OTOH if you use a modern auto-formattable language, then you can auto-format to tabs with a git hook or IDE plugin (and back for committing) if you want, so the debate doesn’t matter in that case. It goes both ways.
They’re already investing in renewables. However, solar is still quite expensive compared to coal (EDIT: NVM, it’s not, especially in India, I can only assume that the main driver for coal is the absence of capital costs for increased consumption as well as the intermittency issues)
Wind doesn’t have the short lifespan issue of solar, and is therefore cheaper, however intermittency is still a problem and storage solutions are hardly feasible (nevermind cost-competitive) at those scales.
Batteries ain’t cheap when you need them to output GIGAWATTS of power for 12 hours. “Keeping the lights on” is figurative, in reality you need to keep enormous industrial capacity running. Li-Fe batteries have gotten cheaper, but not cheap enough that it makes any kind of sense for that application (even in developed countries we’re just beginning to see battery storage, and the goal is smooth momentary changes in demand, not to power the entire grid at night. That’s still a faraway dream).
Oh neat, for India you’re right. I had in mind European figures, I wasn’t expecting Indian weather to make such a big difference to cost. Here solar is still, in the best case, just as expensive as other energy sources because of the intermittency and short operating life (which is why utility-scale installations have been very focused on wind).
Honestly I can only assume that the main driver for coal in India is the high capital costs / lead time in getting utility-scale solar installed, whereas using more coal only increases operating expenses (cost of fuel) without actually having to expand existing infrastructure.
Totally agree in principle. I don’t know about India, but geothermal is not feasible in many places on Earth, same goes for hydro (and with climate change, hydro has become increasingly unreliable in mountain areas due to the lack of snowfall). Wind usually doesn’t do much at night and in winter, so it’s not much help to solar in that regard.
So yeah, nuclear and batteries will have to work together to fully decarbonize our economies. Unfortunately greenfield nuclear is dead in the water almost everywhere for political reasons; even just keeping existing nuclear reactors running has been a losing battle here in Europe. Maybe Chinese designs will power India, I’m not up-to-date on the latest developments there.
So you both agree that the system fucking sucks. Fundamentally, the hoops you have to jump through to do anything are far worse than the annoyance of bad seeds on public torrents.
The counterpoint is that obscure torrents are better seeded on private trackers. If what you’re looking for is even mildly popular however, private trackers just suck.
Yeah but that’s not the origin of the logo, which is just the stylized coat of arms of Bavaria. Then in 1929, 12 years after creating the logo, they ran an add that showed it over a propeller, and never really did anything to dispel the myth that that is the origin of the logo, since it’s a much better story than “IDK we’re bavarian I suppose”.
That’s Volvo, doing that of their own volition. 180 km/h is well within “criminal charges” territory in most places, they’re not doing that for regulatory reasons but in order to improve their safety record. Completely different than if the government asked then to limit their cars to 130 km/h.
But obesity rates in Europe are still steadily climbing, despite food scarcity not being a widespread issue for decades and food quality increasing in the 21st century. Sure we’re behind America, but it’s not getting any better; we’re seeing the same kind of linear increase in obesity cases, on both sides of the former Iron Curtain (and obesity was already growing in many communist countries where access to cars was… elusive at best before the fall of the Wall):
The essay I linked talks about The Australian Paradox where “obesity in Australia nearly tripled between 1980-2003, while sugar consumption dropped 23%”.
It’s not as simple as “our food is better” or “they have more cars”. Yes it’s better (significantly so), and we aren’t as car dependent as Americans (though it’s still very bad here outside of historical city centers), but the correlation with obesity in particular is more elusive to find than you’re implying since things have also been steadily getting worse on this side of the Atlantic.
I would highly recommend reading the article I linked, it goes to great lengths to thoroughly debunk common myths like this about the causes of obesity.
My understanding is taking sugars/carbs off is good because they don’t seem to count towards the body’s “I’m full!” detection, unlike actual fat, despite being highly caloric and easily metabolized. If you’re eating till you’re full, fat is better, because you’ll be full sooner.
But yeah intuitively I can see how that wouldn’t do so much if the internal fat control system is fucked up to a point that you’re never full. (Though I’d assume that metabolization rates still matter? IDK I’m no dietetician).
Hopefully we can get some progress on the science side of things now that academic views on obesity are finally shifting. The medications in the OP also sound interesting, if they actually reduce the source of the problem (the cravings), but that’s a discussion to be had with your GP, not an unqualified internet stranger.
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