Millennials are ignorant of Rodney King Riots, Desert Storm, Waco / Oklahoma City Bomber (far right domestic terrorism), Newt Gingrich’s rise of the ‘Party of No’, and other such political events of their era. Pop quiz, what is the Cranberries’s Zombie song about?
Gen Z however is keenly aware of the problems occurring around them.
I remember the politics of the 90s. It wasn’t as happy as others point out here. We really didn’t start the fire.
Columbine happened under our childhood yo. And the 1980s going Postal craze was a different brand of public mass shootings. 9/11 was the SECOND attack on the Twin towers after all.
I’m also a millennial and all my friends are millennials.
Outside of my history-buff friends, most of my friends (despite being Engineers, Doctors, PH.Ds and other well-educated positions) are very ignorant of the 90s era of politics. All of us have had our awakening starting with 9/11 or so. In fact, the only reason why I know these things is because I explicitly went back and studied the politics of my childhood. Its not a thing I knew back then.
Most of my elders who were young adults and adults in the 90s don’t know what that song is about either.
Typical Gen Z will know “This is America” references the Charleston church shooting. As well as adults.
You know why? Because today, we have the internet, and everyone is far more knowledgable and can pick up on references. Back in the 90s, “Zombie is about The Troubles” was obscure, and hell… just knowing what “The Troubles” were was kind of obscure with a lot of people completely ignorant to the events.
Today, we have things called cellphones, Wikipedia and Google. The level of obscurity and references in our modern media landscape is far more subtle because everyone and everything is smarter. Have you ever use the Dewey Decimal System, card catalog, and microfiche to look up information? Shit was hard to do research back then.
Mate we were literal children during these events.
My literal 7 year old niece knows about both the Israel-Hamas War and the Ukrainian War.
I duno how old you were, but lets say 3 years after the Rodney King riots of 92? So lemme pick a random 1995 event. Were you aware that Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated when you were 7? Something I do remember was the USS Cole bombing. Do you remember that? That happened a bit later, Wikipedia says 12 October 2000.
The issue isn’t “we were children”. The issue is that research and information was far more difficult back then. Newspapers cost money and required manual reading. (Though I was able to pickup a few Newspapers when I was waiting for a haircut or other such events). We didn’t have online forums (well, ignoring BBS and USENET)… or at least online forums weren’t popular. And internet was very expensive and slow back then. So we didn’t get information anywhere as quickly as children today get information.
Secondly, it wasn’t “cool” to be politically informed before 9/11. That was just nerd shit back then. 9/11 changed our collective mindsets and everyone became more aware of world events.
The best we had in the 90s was Encarta, ya know, that CD-ROM Microsoft sent with some computers?
My library was on Dewey Decimal / Card Catalog for a good chunk of my childhood. If I was looking up information, it was like that. The computers were some weird old DOS-like prompt screen that almost no one knew how to use. No fucking internet. My Dad happened to be able to get Microsoft Encarta and that was the first time I ever was able to look up information in any manner similar to today, but as a CD-ROM it was only about historical / cultural old stuff, not about recent events.
No, I’m a millennial I used the Internet.
And secondly, bullshit. Wikipedia wasn’t invented yet… and if it had been invented, it wasn’t respected until the 2010s+ (unable to be used to write our school reports off of). So what website were you even using back then if you happened to magically have access to the Internet?
We were playing Neopets, maybe using GameFAQs or spreading memes on SomethingAwful. But looking up information? What is this, 2010s+ ?? No one trusted the internet yet for information.
You literal 7 year old is not 5. Of those events you listed, the Troubles is the only one I was over 4 years to experience the end portion.
Okay so you were 7 during the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and you were 12 during the bombing of the USS Cole and you were 7 during the Oklahoma City Bombing. You were 9 during the US Embassy Bombings (linked to Osama Bin Laden: en.wikipedia.org/…/1998_United_States_embassy_bom…).
We all know children today, even literal 7 year olds, are more informed than we were back then. Like seriously, we couldn’t look up information back then. Its nothing against us as a generation, its everything to do with our technological level.
Wikipedia started in '01. I was absolutely using it before '02/'03 for schoolwork. Just because you didn’t know about it or how to cite things doesn’t mean that applies to everyone.
100% bullshit. You’re forgetting that I’ve actually lived in this era. No teacher was accepting of Wikipedia citations until the later 00s. There was no trust on Wikipedia’s articles until much later. You didn’t cite Wikipedia because your Teachers would penalize you for doing so. (and this culture was true well throughout all the 00s). Citations on the other hand, were just a Microsoft Word / .doc plugin so it wasn’t that big a deal.
Furthermore: there were competing online wikis and webpages. I don’t even think Wikipedia was the breakout wiki at that age, but instead the C2 Wiki.
And with 25-million subscribers, that’s only some ~25% of American-households with AOL back then, at its absolute peak. Internet in general was never a common thing for Americans to get until the Broadband era.
If you want to talk about the internet in the 90s, be my guest. But any Millennial who lived through that era remembers that the internet was relatively rare. Most people’s exposure was through libraries and maybe schools/university systems.
Ummm… no. I loaded it through a floppy found in the mail through a system called shareware. (Where people would leave floppy disks in people’s mailboxes, and we didn’t know what viruses were so we just plugged them into our computers).
Did you actually exist in the 90s? That was floppy era of shareware, you’d spread games like Doom by mail and/or by copying the floppy and giving it to a friend. That’s why it was called SHAREware, you shared it with friends. In some cases, computer stores would combine a bunch of shareware games into CD-ROMs (650MBs!!! So much space!!) and you’d get a lot of shareware all at once.
Go look at this “90s was full of hope” crap that the rest of this thread is full of.
There were the Troubles in Ireland/Britain, there was Osama Bin Laden (1993 Bombing, 1998 Embassy Bombings). The was far-right nationalism. There was Columbine. There was Rodney King race riots. There was Desert Storm 1.0. There was Ruby Ridge and Waco. Etc. etc.
I dare say that today is possibly more peaceful than back then. We just are more informed about various disasters today than we used to be. All this “Era of Peace” crap the rest of this thread is talking about is pissing me off. It wasn’t like that in the 90s at all.
I’m bringing up the Troubles because 90s-era Troubles got pretty bad, up to the Good Friday Agreement in the very late 90s. The world was always on fire, and any 90s kid talking about “The Peaceful 90s” has extremely selective memory.
Yup. Its nothing about “better” or “worse”. Its about the technological differences of today’s children vs myself as a child.
Here’s a memory for yall who are too young to remember how dumb we were in the 90s. On 9/11, bullies were blaming China (and me, being a slanty-eye Asian) for bringing down the Twin Towers. I think people don’t grasp how unfathomably ignorant pre-Internet and pre-9/11 people were. Such a mistake wouldn’t happen today.
Nothing against those bullies. Everyone was that dumb back then.
9/11 was a big wakeup moment. Society collectively decided that paying attention to world events was important, and we got smarter. Technology improved as well, so it became easier to look up news events after that. But deep down within our collective psyche was a turning point in foreign-policy mindset. I’m seeing that Gen Z today is far more anxious and worried about world events (both good, and bad, associated with that). The 90s “peaceful” era of my youth was an illusion, it was created by my (and my peer’s) collective ignorance about the world.
I look at my ignorant Youth vs what GenZ grows up with today, I see pros/cons with both. I think knowing more about the world is a better thing overall though.
Looks like 22% had internet at home, but over 54% had a computer.
How do you think the majority of computer users played Castle of the Winds, Jazz Jackrabbit, Doom, or other shareware games? Hint: it wasn’t the internet because most computer users didn’t have internet.
1993, the previous census figures are even worse as that’s before AOL
Btw, downloads weren’t a thing even for those who had internet. Back then, you paid per minute hour of internet usage.
My family connected to the internet to download (POP3) out email and then disconnected. Because my Mom would then want to use the phone to call her friends. Unless you had two phone lines like a rich person, extended multi-hour download sessions at 33kbps (or slower) was just not a thing.
That’s 14MB per hour, if you don’t remember how slow 90s internet was.
The college students with T1 connections were the source of shareware / disks by the later 90s (like 97, 98 etc. Etc). But home users weren’t doing online downloads yet, too expensive and too slow.
Good. Now look at the rest of this thread downstream. Plenty of people talking about how “peaceful” the 90s were as if they didn’t live in that era.
I stand by what I said. Millennials largely were ignorant of world events before 9/11 and the overall explosion of information the internet afforded us. Meanwhile, GenZ always lived in post 9/11 world AND always had information at their fingertips.
Nerds weren’t celebrated back in the 90s. If you knew too much back then (or showed that you knew too much), people would look at you funny and bully you. Today, knowledge is more generally appreciated.
In a letter sent to the service’s members Oct. 28, AOL Chairman Steve Case touted a new pricing plan that offers unlimited access to the service’s proprietary content as well as to the Internet for $19.95 a month.
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Until the new unlimited plan was unveiled, all users paid $9.95 a month for 5 hours of usage and $2.95 for each additional hour.
This is what I remembered. My dad always told me to watch the Internet usage, because it cost money for each hour. These were 5-hours / month plans back then. That being said, 1996 is a year before Diablo, meaning the “unlimited” plans came in soon afterwards. But “unlimited” didn’t really work out in our favor because my mom and grandma who lived with us always wanted to use the phone.
And we were the only kids of the neighborhood who had internet. People came over to our house to surf the net.
I know that this instance is nominally in Finland, but as far as I know this is the most active Ukrainian-news on Lemmy. I’m expecting that a fair number of US Citizens are here....
Good question. Its not like the Senator/Representative reads all of these. Tomorrow, a bunch of young 20-year-olds will be reading these emails / letters, tallying them up and summarizing them to the politician. The important thing here is mass.
In some respects, spamming would be counter-productive since they might just delete us all or consider us fake. But whatever we can do to demonstrate to the Representative / Senator that we’re a large group who cares about this issue will be beneficial to us.
A hand-written letter would be “harder to fake”, so it might possibly be taken more seriously. Just recognize that these Representatives/Senators are basically seeing us as statistics / summaries from their staff. Write simply, write effectively. Communicate that Ukraine is the #1 issue so that we get filed into the “proUkraine” bucket and increase the odds of being recognized as an important issue.
So yeah, I guess if you’re in a position to deliver a handwritten letter before Thursday, do so.
So #1: Send that letter.
#2: Tell everyone you know to do so as well. The key here is as many real letters as possible.
Every fake-historian complaining about unrealistic boob armor in fantasy games needs to look up historical codpieces.
Armor was a status symbol and includes sexualized designs to demonstrate the girth of your penis prowess. If females were in a historical armor setting, I bet you boob armor would have become at least as big a thing as codpieces were.
I mean, the ancient Greeks painted abs and male nipples in their armor, lol. Gotta be sexy while fighting a war, at least if you are in the back just commanding people. It’s not like these Kings or Generals really saw someone swing a sword at them or needed actually functional armor. It’s just shiny metal proving you had more money than the other soldiers in many cases.
I think this depends on the time period, location, and individual King/General.
If you don’t mind, I’ll choose the time period, location, and King to prove my point. Yes, this gets rather specific but… I choose Sigismund II Augustus’s armor as a 15-year-old. King of Poland.
Many kings never took to the battlefield though and only wore their armor in parades and celebrations. I bet you this piece of armor never saw a single battle. No one would seriously put a 15-year-old inexperienced King into a battle.
This king was also rich enough to afford not just one suit of armor, but multiple. There’s a lot of parade armor / ceremonial armor. Now… these don’t have sexualized codpieces on them but the ostentatious / fashion statements they made is obvious. These were clearly designed to make the wearer look good.
Codpieces were either worn by that like ~100 year period where they were lol in fashion, or by “Big Dick” (so to speak) Kings (Henry VIII, and the like). There’s a certain personality type that really just wants to emphasize their penis and they’ll spend good money back then to make a massive codpiece.
Henry VIII saw battle, and likely in that armor. But in his later years, he was a rather sickly man (gout, etc. etc.), so I’m sure his generals made sure he was never really in danger in those later military campaigns.
Given the ceremonial / parade / and even play/costume/theater armors that existed in the Medieval Era, if more females were in power… some fashionista would have looked for ways to accentuate her femininity, much like how Henry VIII or other kings did so with their codpieces to portray manliness. Not necessarily “for battle”, but for a parade, ceremony, or other such event. Not all suits of armor were for battle.
EDIT: As for “battle”, remember that these 1500+ era armor pieces coexisted with Muskets. That meant that if you were hit by a musket while in armor, the armor deformed and pierced you, meaning you’d have to cut the armor off before you can remove the armor piece. There was little military use of armor in this era, a lot of it was just cultural momentum / status symbol purposes from an European perspective. (Armor remained useful vs the Aztecs or other cultures without guns).
So yeah, armor made bullets worse, it was better for the bullet to pass through you than to be stabbed by your own armor while getting shot.
I’m not saying all kings were like this. I’m saying some kings, and some real armor, was like this. That’s the difference.
And since we have at least an entire century where codpieces were in fashion, it’s possible that that particular era was more about just wearing normal looking armor. Because obviously codpieces are normal in that weird time and likely weren’t seen as a sex symbol. So my statements don’t even generalize to all codpieces.
I’m not seeing this comic in that artist’s profile. Its possible that this comic / meme came after this artist’s drawings of “Landsknecht girl”.
Yeah, this is someone who has studied Medieval Armor. I can’t say I’m an expert on this but I’m getting vibes of real armor from these drawings, its pretty cool… albeit in anime-style and some exaggerations for artistic effect, but I can kinda-sorta place some of these armor drawings within a time period.
Like I can instantly recognize this as a Knight Templar.
I think we look back at history and realize these mercenaries had increasingly audacious costumes to stick out, possibly to better make a name of themselves. But… its historical. That’s literally how Landsknechts dressed.
Given the mercenary / audacious ways of fighting, it is quite possible Landsknechts used crazy weapons like Zweihanders to increase their odds of being remembered on the battlefield. They were grossly more skilled than everyone else on the battlefield, so it wasn’t about optimizing fighting anymore, but instead optimizing the chance you’re remembered by the local kings so that you’d get hired in the next fight.
But I’m not a specialist of this era. You’d probably have to ask someone who studied specific guilds / mercenaries back then for more precise details.
Not to mention that giant sword being held like that
Dude, that’s literally a historical Landsknecht pose.
EDIT: Note, this Zweihander here is STILL shorter than a typical Pike. So even with a weapon of this size, you’re fighting with less range than the typical 1500s opponent. Bigger == better was a thing at this time.
Zweihanders were only popular for a few dozen years, but their absurd size made them a historical curiosity. Real soldiers (“Double Soldiers”, because they were paid double a regular soldier: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelsöldner) used them. You needed a sword that big to deal with the increasingly large pikes and halberds of the 1500s, though gunpower was beginning to really take off at this time.
If you’ve got any HEMA friends, I do recommend grabbing a Zweihander from them and feeling it. Its surprisingly nimble, not too heavy. But the bulky size makes it difficult to rest. Its a very fast weapon due to its size and surprisingly light swingweight. I’d say that poleaxes (like Glaives) or other “axe” shapes on the end of a stick felt heavier to me., though they probably weigh about the same. A sword just naturally swings faster due to less weight on the end (though a poleaxe will have more power / armor penetration capabilities).
16th century means you are fighting guns on the battlefield, though halberds were still used cause the guns were very slow.
But a bullet will pass through you if you were unarmored. If you had armor, the armor catches the bullet and then stabs you, so now you can’t even remove the armor anymore. So it’s worse… The bullet AND armor is embedded inside you.
The first picture is either Homestead act-era, which was “funded” by US Citizens just stealing lands from the natives (on purpose mind you), such as Homestead act of Oklahoma. Or its from an even older era funded by slavery and/or indentured servitude. I don’t know exactly what period panel#1 references, but… its not exactly nice politics.
Ex: If its 1800s, then free land in the frontier was a tactic for negotiating with Canada for where the borders would be set. If we got enough settlers out there, we knew that USA’s side of the border would be larger. Too bad about the natives though, amirite?
Early 1900s factory workers, a-la “The Jungle” era (Upton Sinclair), were children who got their hands regularly mangled by machinery and had to live in the slums. The idea of mortgages was non-existent and most people were trapped in a forever rent cycle, unable to build generational wealth. Bonus points, banks and their silver and/or gold deposits would disappear randomly every 20 years because the metal standards were utter crap to base an economy over.
Pre-WW2 was the Great Depression, and with 20%+ unemployment and the great dust bowl, farmers were moving into the cities and just being unemployed bums. (Their original homes on the plains lost their ability to grow food due to 1920s climate change issues). Post-WW2 was the economic miracle that led to a relatively easy life and is finally representative of Panel#2.
So I argue that panel#1 never existed and/or only existed due to literal conquest of other people (Native Americans mostly), and panel#2 is a very isolated time in our history.
So you really haven’t studied early-industrialized pre-labor union factory politics?
12 to 16 hour shifts, 70+ hour weeks were regular.
No safety standards – regular loss of limb and life.
No age standards. Ignorant children were commonly employed.
Pre-air conditioning. Hot, loud, poor conditions.
Shanty towns characterized by overcrowding, poor sanitation, and diseases (cholera anyone?)
A single-family home? Laughable. These people lived in disease-ridden tenements and had to pay laughable sums of money for that privilege. No one was building generational wealth… certainly not during the era of “Robber Barron” industralization. Factory owners would employ spies, they would play labor forces against each other using racism (albeit “White” racism: Germans vs Irish vs Protestants, but that’s the 1800s for ya. Racism looked different back then).
There weren’t any ecological standards either. All the pollution for the factory seeped into the living quarters. Lead, toxins, smog, you name it and it was in the drinking water. Smog was so thick, that Vitamin D deficiency was widespread, leading to rickets.
You didn’t even have a damn private toilet, let alone a damn house to yourself. 1800s was the era of shared and communal outhouses, and those outhouses went right back into the drinking water, leading to Cholera outbreaks. Its utterly laughable to suggest that factory-worker time of early industrialization was a good time to live and/or raise a family.
And I got some pro-Trump comics to share if you don’t care much about historical accuracy. The reason why comics / words / discussion works is because people should be spreading the truth and/or revealing truths about the world.
I see you’ve missed my point. Let me dumb it down a bit: there’s a highly popular politician out there who is reinventing the past with fake history, and invoking fake-nostalgia upon this fake-history to gain political power.
how shit has gotten progressively worse under Capitalism
Glorifying early-industrialization factory conditions, a time of the robber barons, laissez faire politics, and literal corporate overlords spying + sabotaging labor movements sounds like a bad way to create that discussion. There’s a fucking reason why Leninism / Communism was invented in the late 1800s to early 1900s.
I think that’s an acceptable answer. 1910s wasn’t perfect but it was better than 1880s for sure. Hmm, its just that “factory job” has so many implications depending on exactly which decade you’re talking about.
The only “really good” factory job times IMO were 1950s, post-war. Even by the 1970s, USA factory jobs began to lose out vs rise of Japanese products and giants. So its a really short period in the great scheme of things. Arguably, the rise of 1950s-era economic miracles was only made possible because Europe + Japan was so wrecked by WW2 and the USA was one of the only undamaged industrial nations, so our products did extremely well around the world. I don’t think its going to be possible to replicate that era.
The 1910’s were the first time in American history where a single factory worker could sustain a household on one salary, including purchasing a car. It wasn’t a perfect system and included a lot of corporate paternalism, but it was far better than what came before.
Um, no. 1910s was still “Henry Ford builds town because none of the workers can afford a house” time of history. Workers weren’t just dependent on corporate leaders for their job, you also were dependent upon them for your house, well being, schools, and more. Henry Ford advertised his towns of workers under a utopian dream, but in practice there were all kinds of warts.
Workers wouldn’t “own” their own house until well into the 1930s when laws were finally being passed to encourage home-ownership as part of the New Deal. But in practice, people were too poor during the Great Depression to actually afford homes in practice, but at least the dream existed. It wasn’t until the 1950s where postwar economic miracle combined with the legal changes to banking (from decades prior) finally combined into an environment that allowed for large scale homeownership.
In the 1890-1940 period, the homeownership rate fluctuated in the 43- to 48-percent range. From 1890 to 1920, the homeownership rate fell as immigration and urbanization offset the rise in income. Income growth increased the homeownership rate during the 1920s, but the Depression more than wiped out this gain so that the rate had fallen to a low of 43.6 percent by 1940.
During the 1940-1960 period, the homeownership rate rose by over 18 percentage points, from 43.6 to 61.9 percent. This remarkable transformation was facilitated by higher incomes, a large percentage of households being in prime homebuying age groups, the FHA-led revolution in mortgage financing, the GI bill of rights, improved interurban transportation, and development of large-scale housing subdivisions with affordable houses. While all of these factors played an important role in making the United States a Nation of homeowners, it is important to note that a Department of Labor study (cited in the Housing and Home Finance Agency’s Housing Statistics Handbook of 1948) reported a 53.2-percent homeownership rate for 1945. If this survey was correct, then approximately half of this change took place prior to many of these factors becoming fully effective and during a time when wartime needs virtually halted residential construction. Higher wartime incomes, the absence of many competing consumer goods, and shortages of rental housing may explain this wave of homebuying.
Bruh, no shit, you clearly missed my point, this comic is depicting how the housing crisis has gotten progressively worse.
Home Ownership rates in 1950-1960 was like 61%.
Homeownership rates today is 65%.
Go back to 1900s and you’re down to like 45% home ownership rates.
That’s why we take the census, so that people know how this country progresses. Part of the problem with today’s politics is that people go with vibes and feelings and MAGA and fake nostalgia instead of looking at the fucking data.
Got myself a few months ago into the optimization rabbit hole as I had a slow quant finance library to take care of, and for now my most successful optimizations are using local memory allocators (see my C++ post, I also played with mimalloc which helped but custom local memory allocators are even better) and rethinking class...
I had a pretty standard linear-list scan initially. Each time the program started, I’d check the list for some values. The list of course grew each time the program started. I maximized the list size to like 2MB or something (I forget), but it was in the millions and therefore MBs range. I figured it was too small for me to care about optimization.
I was somewhat correct, even when I simulated a full-sized list, the program booted faster than I could react, so I didn’t care.
Later, I wrote some test code that exhaustively tested startup conditions. Instead of just running the startup once, I was running it millions of times. Suddenly I cared about startup speed, so I replaced it with a Hash Table so that my test-code would finish within 10 minutes (instead of taking a projected 3 days to exhaustively test all startup conditions).
Honestly, I’m more impressed at the opposite. This is perhaps one of the few times I’ve actually taken the linear-list and optimized it into a hash table. Almost all other linear-lists I’ve used in the last 10 years of my professional coding life remain just that: a linear scan, with no one caring about performance. I’ve got linear-lists doing some crazy things, even with MBs of data, that no one has ever came back to me and said it needs optimization.
Do not underestimate the power of std::vector. Its probably faster than you expect, even with O(n^2) algorithms all over the place. std::map and std::unordered_map certainly have their uses, but there’s a lot of situations where the std::vector is far, far, far easier to think about, so its my preferred solution rather than preoptimizing to std::map ahead of time.
As computer programmers, our code runs on a wide variety of machines. From 2TB of RAM dual-EPYC servers with 128+ cores/256 hardware threads, to tiny single-core Arduinos running at 4MHz and 4kB of RAM....
Answer: Good luck finding out. That’s not documented. But based off of the layout and what I can see with screenshots, far more than 4 layers.
A schematic alone is kind of worthless. Knowing if a BGA is designed for 6, 8, or 10 layers makes a big difference. Seeing a reference pcb-implementation with exactly that layer count, so the EE knows how to modify the design for themselves is key to customization. There’s all sorts of EMI and trace-length matching that needs to happen to get that CPU to DDR connection up-and-running.
Proving that a 4-layer layout like this exists is a big deal. It means that a relative beginner can work with the SAM9x60’s DDR interface on cheap 4-layer PCBs (though as I said earlier: 6-layers offer more room and is available at OSHPark so I’d recommend a beginner work with 6 instead)
With regards to SAM9x60D1G-I/LZB SOM vs Orange Pi Zero, the SAM9x60D1G-I/LZB SOM provides you with all remaining pins of access… 152 pins… to the SAM9x60. Meaning a full development board with full access to every feature. Its a fundamentally different purpose. The SOM is a learning-tool and development tool for customization.
Rasp Pi’s power usage, be it the RP2040 or the Rasp. Pi products in general, always have had horrendous power-consumption specs and even worse sleep/idle states.
which is exactly what they said about Bakhmut a year ago, and that fell to the same strategy.
Wagner captured Bakhmut and Prigozhin sits dead, (probably) assassinated by the Russians he served. Prigozhin will never be a problem in this war again. There is no replacing Prigozhin or his elite Wagner troops.
The quality of Russian soldiers is dropping off significantly. 1st Guards Tank Army has been defeated. VDV is taking horrific losses (but still seems to be able to be fielded). Wagner is virtually collapsed, driven to the point where they attempted a coup.
I think these kinds of “trades”, Bakhmut for Wagner, are well in Ukraine’s advantage.
Hi, as the title says I’m a new developer and some days ago I was diagnosed. My diagnose journey started because I’m unable to be consistent (That’s not something new) and it is making me really depressed....
I think I’m borderline ADD, but never felt the need to see a doctor. My personal workflow is to “assume I forget everything by tomorrow”. Each day, assume that “tomorrow me” is a completely different person who has forgotten what I was doing today. This sounds debilitating, and probably is for normies who can rely upon their memory to keep them motivated on a daily basis. But ADD people cannot do this.
What’s the solution?
You need to build and retain one key habit. Keep a notebook that contains the notes from yesterday (or even a few hours ago), that you can consult. While our memories / motivation suck, our habits are something you can reliably change.
It doesn’t have to be a physical notebook, it might just be a notepad.txt file on your computer desktop. It might be a blog, it might be a word.doc file. Or in my case, it really is a physical notebook that I write into repeatedly and spend a decent bit of time rewriting important bits. (Note: tomorrow me isn’t going to read more than 1 or 2 pages behind. This means I need to rewrite important data over-and-over again to where the bookmark is).
Yes, this means you effectively have a daily memory that consists of no more than 2 pages, maybe 3 pages (or whatever “tomorrow you” will reliably read). That’s fine. Work with that. Build the habit and continuously reference the notebook. Write notes to yourself, future you, about what you were doing, where you’ve come from, words of encouragement. That’s all you need, just one or two pages worth of “memory”. Never shy away from rewriting important things. Always remember that you only have a 1 or 2 pages worth of attention at best, so rewriting is key to carrying memories / motivations over more than a day ago.
You still have to work on the habit though and you can fall off the habit if you get lazy. But habits are something easier to keep than actual memory or motivation in my experience.
I mean, if motivation is the problem not much can help with that.
But in my case, its memory. I literally cannot consistently remember what I’m doing. So that’s what the system is there for… at least solving the memory problem.
My psychology teacher points out that habits are very different from higher-level brain stuff. You might not be able to solve the motivation problem per se, but you can at least grow a habit to work off the list consistently. Building new habits is something well within the means of everybody (even those with physical damage to their brains who have lost a fair amount of functions). So “trust in habits”.
Habits aren’t motivation. But they’re still something that (if you build up and work at it), will consistently get you to check that list over-and-over again each day. And that’s enough. But its not easy to build a habit. And remember, habits aren’t motivation, they aren’t memory, they aren’t… a lot of things. They’re just that, a habit. That nagging feeling that you should do something (like closing a door when you leave your house. You’ve gained the habit, right? I’m sure you’ve failed before at it, but ADD / ADHD folk can gain habits)
I’ve been doing some electrical engineering projects recently, and I’ve noticed that the !ece community exists, but hasn’t had much traffic in it aside from what I posted. The current moderator hasn’t made a post in 3 or 4 months....
Plenty of leftist-Tankies here on Lemmy’s federation where I’ve had to explain that yes, Russia is a problem and what they’re doing to Ukraine should be stopped.
The left is doing a good job preventing the Tankies from taking over their party however. Republicans are letting the far-right dictate politics and are likely going to (try to) cut Ukraine out of the budget this week. So the far-right is a bigger problem, if only because Republicans are failing to rise up and counter the threat from their own party.
No offense Germany, but you gotta fix your military.
A lot of the Ukrainians complaining about poor training / equipment are the ones getting German gear it seems. That’s… okay. Some training is better than none, and Germany is sending good tanks / equipment after all. But Germany definitely is underperforming IMO given its economic level of output and overall strength of the country.
Because putting a beacon on a stealth aircraft is like installing a flashlight onto an invisible car.
Even if people can’t see the rest of the invisible car, they’ll see the flashlight and track that instead. At a minimum, such a feature would be ‘default off’, and never default on.
A stealth aircrafts literal design is to be invisible to enemy radio waves. The last thing you wanna do is you know… Emit a radio beacon.
The F35 is the result of Billions of research and development dollars. And the adversaries we have (ie: China) are very, very good at copying technology.
What are some generational differences between millennials and Gen Z ? (lemmy.zip)
Urgent: US Congressional action needed before Thursday this week for USA to support Ukraine. Contact Representatives now
I know that this instance is nominally in Finland, but as far as I know this is the most active Ukrainian-news on Lemmy. I’m expecting that a fair number of US Citizens are here....
Codpiece rule (lemmy.world)
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What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?
Got myself a few months ago into the optimization rabbit hole as I had a slow quant finance library to take care of, and for now my most successful optimizations are using local memory allocators (see my C++ post, I also played with mimalloc which helped but custom local memory allocators are even better) and rethinking class...
Entry Level Microprocessors: Linux, 600MHz and 128MB of RAM
As computer programmers, our code runs on a wide variety of machines. From 2TB of RAM dual-EPYC servers with 128+ cores/256 hardware threads, to tiny single-core Arduinos running at 4MHz and 4kB of RAM....
Russian Troop Losses Are Likely Near an All-Time High (www.kyivpost.com)
The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive? (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Ian Cutress muses upon rumors around SiFive, the forerunner of high-performance RISC-V cores.
Being a new developer and ADHD
Hi, as the title says I’m a new developer and some days ago I was diagnosed. My diagnose journey started because I’m unable to be consistent (That’s not something new) and it is making me really depressed....
I'd like to be made a moderator of [email protected]
I’ve been doing some electrical engineering projects recently, and I’ve noticed that the !ece community exists, but hasn’t had much traffic in it aside from what I posted. The current moderator hasn’t made a post in 3 or 4 months....
What is the "Takeover process" of a potentially abandoned community?
I’ve found a community I’m interested in already here on Lemmy.world, but the current moderator / leader hasn’t made a post in a few months....
It really sticks with ya (lemmy.world)
"We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukraine (streamable.com)
Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall (www.forbes.com)
Lost my F-35 in my couch (feddit.de)