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howrar ,

The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.

Same type of work, sure, but the fruits of their labour are going towards shareholders. The point of public work is that it’s for the public good.

howrar ,

I feel like if anything has the right to be ridiculously expensive, it’s art.

  • It’s not a necessity for survival.
  • It’s not a necessity to live a fulfilling life.
  • There’s so much else available to us that can fulfill the same purpose that are cheap/free.
  • A one time $435 cost feels a lot more expensive than lots of small purchases adding up to the same amount, meaning this is more likely to be purchased exclusively by people who can actually afford it, unlike the latter which can trick people into spending more than they can afford.
  • It funds free entertainment for everyone who don’t have the ability to pay.

What’s the downside?

howrar ,

Worse than what they’ve been doing for the last decade? It seems to me like this is a better state of things because it’s clearly a lot of money for one big purchase, so you know immediately that it’s not something you can afford. Better transparency, so less manipulative.

howrar ,

I don’t think forking Firefox is going to change what you see in the add-on store. You would need someone to run their own store. Or just install the plugin manually.

howrar ,

This is a problem with the add-on store, not the browser. Do the forks have their own add-on stores? Or do they just use the same one that Mozilla provides? To the best of my knowledge, the only forks that have their own stores are the ones that wouldn’t be able to use Firefox plugins anyway (e.g. Palemoon).

howrar ,

You don’t think a country with 20% of the world population and a culture that heavily emphasizes academics is capable of producing anything of scientific value?

howrar ,

I grew up in a multigenerational home. Grandparents spoke one language, my parents spoke another. Used to play with the neighbours a lot and picked up a third language from them. Then started elementary school and learned a fourth there. It seems to work well to have each person in your life exclusively using one language.

howrar ,

But now you have the means to change that with a free $15!

howrar ,

Cooking can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Could it be that you’re having problems because you’re going too far into the complicated end?

If you care to share how things usually go wrong for you, maybe you’ll get some useful tips in return.

howrar ,

Interrogate them if it’s necessary. Until they stop with the “Do as much as you like” and instead instruct you with “Put about a cup of X and about a quarter of Y by volume”. If you got this you are nore prepared for the measure by eye and feel.

I get around this by asking them to make the specifics dish, gathering all the ingredients for them, then weighing everything before and after to get exact numbers.

It really is a matter of “do as much as you like”, but without an intuition on how different ingredients taste and affect the dish at varying quantities, you’re not going to know how much you like. So getting that starting point to experiment with is very important.

howrar ,

The food wouldn’t be in a form factor where they can turn sideways and get lodged in your throat. It’s so unpleasant when that happens.

howrar ,

And also waking up

howrar ,

Maybe an advantage of this setup is that you ensure that your bus factor is high and you’re constantly testing it to make sure it stays high? Kind of like how Netflix uses ChaosMonkey.

howrar ,

You can also check the ingredients. It should have exactly one ingredient, and that’s peanuts. Maybe salt too.

Best way to backup files

I have about 500GB of data (photos, documents, videos etc.) that I have accumulated over the years. Currently, I keep them on my computer and rsync all additions / changes once a month or so to an external hard drive. Do I need to be worried about data loss (sectors going bad, bit rot, bit flip, whatever it is called)?...

howrar ,

It’s always a good idea to have an off-site backup (e.g. in case of fires, robbery, natural disasters, etc). If you prefer to manage them yourself, an option is to find someone else who also needs an off-site backup and exchange disk space. You do your off-site on their machine, and they do theirs on yours. With external HDDs, you can just have someone else hold on to it for you at a different location. You can come up with fancier schemes to reduce the chances of data loss or to make the process simpler if you care to do so.

howrar ,

That wouldn’t communicate that this scratches the same itch as a hotdog made of meat.

howrar ,

The egg is such a small part of mayo that I’m pretty sure it doesn’t contribute any flavour. It’s just there as an emulsifier.

howrar ,

Isn’t the main health concern due to the nitrite from the curing salts? If there’s no meat to cure, there’s no need for curing salts.

TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.

The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!

howrar ,

Is this a good thing? Consuming plastic means releasing all the carbon that they’re made of.

howrar ,

That’s how things work in the AI community. Publications all go through various conferences and journals that are free to submit to. In many of these avenues, if you submit something, the cost is to get a certain number of papers reviewed (not necessarily doing it yourself, but you have to find someone capable of doing it). The publications are then made freely available for anyone to read. Everything is organized by the research community for the benefit of that same community.

howrar ,

It’s also the only viable route to doing science for most people. So even if you’re aware of the problem, you just have to grit your teeth and play the game if you want to pursue your passion.

howrar ,

I’d be surprised if being born with a specific face configuration isn’t protected in the same way that race and gender are.

howrar ,

Treat people well, and people will like you.

howrar ,

My local bakeries use paper bags. But they also don’t sell sliced bread.

howrar ,

Somehow, we manage to accept organ transplants despite it hurting one healthy person a little to help an unhealthy person a lot. What’s stopping us from treating birth control the same way?

howrar ,

A: “Oh hey you got a little choc on the side of your mouth”

B: “Oh, thanks”

B (in their head): “Oh no, how embarrassing. How can I face A again? Time to avoid them for the rest of eternity.”

howrar ,

I don’t do this myself, but I know people who have expressed similar worries.

In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?

With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...

howrar ,

You’ll be dismissing the vast majority of experts in the fields. The only people who refuse to call it AI are those who think AI refers to the stuff you see in sci-fi movies. The ones doing the work and who actually know what they’re talking about use AI to mean even the simplest thing like a bunch of if statements that make up a hard-coded decisions tree.

howrar ,

Right, so if that’s the discussion you care about, that’s totally fair. Most researchers I know couldn’t give a rat’s ass what you call it as long as there’s something to call it. I think we’ve all long accepted that no two person will have the same idea of what intelligence means.

howrar ,

Akai EWI Solo

My partner insisted on getting me one of these as a gift because I like playing music. It’s cool for sure, and I enjoyed the little bit I’ve played on it, but there’s just no time. So it’s left to gather dust now.

howrar ,

Everyone still uses LaTeX for CS/Math at my school. It’s not an age thing. Just different circles. I don’t think anything similar even comes close to LaTeX yet.

howrar ,

Ooh, that looks cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

howrar ,

As long as you address the root problem in the window of time before things get worse from this cash infusion. And to be honest, I don’t have much confidence in that happening.

howrar ,

“Insufficient detail. Please ask a specific question.”

This is a very real problem from the answering side. So many people would rather have you guess what they’re trying to ask and then get mad at you when you guess wrong.

howrar ,

A well fitted suit looks really nice imo. It gives you the same kind of silhouette as someone who’s really buff. If it’s poorly fitted, then I agree, it would look like school uniform that’s sized up so that the kid grows into it.

howrar ,

But then that wouldn’t be for health reasons, right?

howrar ,

You might benefit from installing earlyoom. It’ll kill some of your processes before the system freezes from running out of memory.

howrar ,

Would Lex Fridman fit the bill? He runs in the same circle as Joe Rogan with similar guests, but generally just let’s his guests speak instead of actively pushing nonsense, and especially not with the degree of confidence that Rogan does while being wrong. It’ll still require you to listen critically, but that might be easier if you don’t have someone actively pushing you in one direction.

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by...

howrar ,

then-girlfriend/now-wife’s roommate

Had to do a double take on this.

howrar ,

I subsist off Doritos and Mountain Dew. Let all the ladies know. I’ll be waiting in my mom’s basement.

howrar ,

Gotta ignore infinities too. The axioms they’re based on are highly controversial.

howrar ,

Steve Mould is great. I finally have an intuitive understanding of how diodes work because of him.

howrar ,

I’m aware that there’s evidence of saturated fats having undesirable effects on your health. But plenty of meats are low in saturated fats (e.g. skinless chicken breast, or fish).

howrar ,

I don’t get much time to watch videos these days so I’m not going through the Netflix series. Though it looks like it’s based off this paper, and that I can look through.

They studied 22 pairs of twins, intervened by changing their diets so that one gets a vegan diet and the other an omnivore diet, then measured a bunch of stuff via blood and stool samples. I don’t see mention of how they correct for multiple hypotheses, but I’ll just give them the benefit of the doubt here.

They found statistical significance in two places

  • LDL-C: Participants all start out in a healthy range, and they stay in a healthy range. So while the vegans improved on this measure, it also tells us that omnivores are perfectly healthy as well.
  • Fasting insulin levels: Same as LDL-C. Start off healthy, ended up healthy. We see the vegans having lower fasting insulin, but we don’t know if that’s a good thing or not when they’re already starting at 12.7 μIU/mL.

So basically, the conclusion from the paper is that vegan and omnivore diets are both perfectly healthy, but you might gain slight benefits from going vegan.

Should I join "free speech" alternatives?

Hello! I’ve been searching for a reddit alternative, and yes, I’ve picked Lemmy and Raddle, but here’s the thing. My morbid curiosity is perked up, and a part of me wants to join the “free speech” alternatives, like Saidit, Poal, etc. What’s wrong with me that I want to join toxic places? I mean, yes I’ll find a...

howrar ,

Be careful however. No matter what, you’re still just a brain in a flesh jar. You are susceptible to false information and lies as your brain can’t really differentiate between false and correct info that well.

You are not immune to propaganda

I never understood this argument. How is it any different for leftist propaganda? This just feels like telling someone to stop thinking because you’re on our team now and we want to make sure you don’t leave.

howrar ,

So if I understand correctly, you’re saying that

  1. you’re more likely to be exposed to lies on a right wing forum compared to left wing forums
  2. the types of lies you’re exposed to are more dangerous in a right wing community compared to the left.

So first of all, how do you determine that #1 is true? I’ve seen my fair share of misinformation on Lemmy and the left-leaning parts of Reddit getting highly upvoted and vice versa. But I’m basing this on what I personally know (and who knows if I’m right?) and in general, there isn’t much objective info going around. It’s mostly people sharing their sentiments on a topic with little to no factual information (e.g. “fuck [entity X]”).

#2 also assumes that you’re right to begin with and that sharing these false statistics would lead to a better world. Take false statistics on police racism for example. This can be a problem in many ways. Let’s say hypothetically that there is no police racism, but we say there is and we convince everyone that we need to fix it. This can divert resources away from other problems (e.g. working on reducing spousal abuse), and thus making problems worse elsewhere. Moreso if the police force is tasked with handling spousal violence and they’re now tied up in internal investigations, maybe losing funding, and thus reducing their capabilities. It’ll also be fuelling an unnecessary conflict (possibly violent) between people who should otherwise be allies in the struggle that is life. More people get hurt, more people can die. That’s a pretty dangerous outcome.

howrar ,

I’ll go over this again later when I have more time, but for now, I just want to say that I don’t appreciate spending so much time trying to understand what you’ve written only to be met with accusations of having deliberately done the exact opposite. I may not be particularly smart, but I’m putting in the effort.

howrar ,

So my efforts didn’t yield the correct understanding. I recognize that it happens and that’s why I put a short summary of my understanding right at the start so that you can easily correct it without having to read through everything else and expend unnecessary energy trying to parse it out. If you don’t want to continue the discussion, that’s fine. I can find my answers elsewhere. There’s no need to be a dick about it.

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