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fraud charges for anyone claiming it to be non fiction and censorship similar to what porn gets for religious media
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This looks a bit like https://boringnews.co/newsletters/index.html
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ISP mitm sounds infuriating
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I'd like a single atheist state where Palestine and Israeli have equal rights but religion is strictly outlawed. But I wouldn't kill people to achieve that, so I think my endgame isn't gonna happen
When there is a heated, with a lot of strong and exaggerated arguments on both sides, and I don't know what to believe, or I'm overwhelmed with the raw information, I look at Wikipedia. Or even something that is not a current event, but the information I found on the internet doesn't feel reliable. I'm sure some would find flaws there, but they do a good job of keeping it neutral and sticking to verifiable facts.
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When I want to read something relatively well verified and unbiased I reach for Wikipedia. They are doing a better job than any other source I found on the internet so far on keeping things clear of BS
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I guess it wasn't about the price for you then
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consciousness is just an illusion. the only hard problem is people trying to make reality fit into their beliefs instead of the other way around
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The trade-offs probably aren't the same for developed and 3rd world countries. I want the free public schools to be as good as they can and have the private ones too
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you need to at least be able to explain what is wrong. a "this is bad" criticism is just frustrating
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I don't think it was ever born to have died. I think they grossly overestimated how much this tech would improve
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Everything’s generative-AI, GANs, LLMs… now, which do not produce any value,
hey, I think my LLM satire news thing is cool, at least I have fun with it
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better things exist, but nothing is ever perfect.
it would be better to learn to dettach your self-esteem from the job. think on work like the chore it is, like taking out the trash and washing dishes, something you do to pay the bills
I took decades of experience plus adhd medication and depression medication to get where I am. I still feel annoyed to be using tech I don't like and doing stuff I don't like, but I'm handling it a lot better now
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Government doing everything works better when the government has enough money for it, our taxes, with an already high tax burden, makes about 100 usd for person/month IIRC. There is no policy that will work around that
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Oh, Bolsonaro is gone, now we have Lula, moving from the extreme right to the extreme left. He wouldn't kill public education, just intensify the communist propaganda that already happens there
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I don't think there is a good answer for that, but someone will have to take hamas down. I don't blame the Palestine people for not dying trying to take them down, and I don't blame Israel for doing it either.
On what they should do about Israel, almost any kind of protest you can imagine would give better results than the shit hamas is doing.
They could throw poo on baloons on Israel direction. They could invade dressed weirdly and throwing pies or water on the face of Israelis. Anything that would make them annoyed, think on the problem, and that had the chance of bringing people to their side instead inviting a war they won't win.
Hamas isn't there to solve the problem. They knew from the start what reaction it would cause and that it wouldn't improve palestinian lives or piece. They wanted to make things worse to keep relevant for the people that want war
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Dunno, I live in Brazil, I'm used to things not working. Getting from here to what they have in Finland is unlikely
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I won't say any war is justified from the comfort of my couch
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this shitty false dichotomy again, the options aren't just dying or murdering civilians, but I would rather just die than murder random civilians in a party anyway
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no, it's war. you can't attack another country and claim it's illegal when they cross the borders after you
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if your government invade and kill civilians in any country that have a strong army you gonna have a bad time. how do you think Canada would answer this?
and the USA? the Germans?
I love the convenience of not having to create a password everywhere I need to be authenticated. It would be interesting to be able to use lemmy instead of feeding more information to these big corporations.
www.darkpattern.games
This a game review site that list games free of dark patterns, and explain these dark patterns (like things used to make games addictive)
I read a lot of people on reddit's r/adhd were they suffer with ADHD (or something similar, as they aren't diagnosed) but can't afford it. I read one that said they spend over US$ 1000 and had to stop looking because of the price. I'm Brazilian, on the Brazilian private care, I was paying around 60USD for 1h talking to a doctor. A doctor that is fluent in English will probably charge more to treat international patients. My full diagnose took around 10 visits, so it wasn't super cheap in comparison, but it was very through. I can share a translated version of the report I got on private message if anyone is curious. edit: I created the I created [!adhd_resources@lemmy.fbmac.net](https://lemmy.fbmac.net/c/adhd_resources) as suggested by @MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world
All these posts about async are making the freedom to choose our runtime seem like a bad thing. For most people, we can just accept Tokio as the de facto standard, and everything is good. Having the other runtimes only makes things better. Don't do anything weird and it won't be too much work if you need to change. Any big change you miss is bound to either be implemented in Tokio or be too different for any abstraction to save you from the work. If you're writing a library that you want to be reusable by everyone, I understand your frustration that it's not easier to make it universal for all async runtimes. You can still choose one, minimize the code you would have to change to implement others, and appreciate that in almost every other programming language you don't get more than one async engine anyway.
This is just an anedoctal observation, don't generalize based on just this. It's something I've been thinking for a while. I've been on development since the end of the 90s. I noticed that in the last positions, I did much more interviews for higher level languages then for C and C++, but got jobs on the fewer interviews that were looking for C and C++. There's many other variables, I think more than half the ones I landed I had strong referrals from people that already worked with me. The referrals were the most important thing to bypass being poor at interviewing, but with C++ it is a smaller world around here, and there is less people to compete with the referrals themselves. There isn't as many people that you reference for those. I'm wondering what other modern languages I should build experience on to future proof myself a little better. I like Rust, I'm using it in some smaller things. I didn't see much of it out of the blockchain market until I noticed Lemmy. There is Golang love the idea that they focus on fast build times. At my current job I have projects that take 1h to 4h to compile on C++, if it was golang it would be so much better. The stackoverflow survey says that Clojure is the most well paid programming language. Chances are it got it's status for both being niche and having positions available for it, that is a good signal that they could hire someone that is bad at interviewing (probably not with the salary they said on the stackoverflow survey). I suspect Closure isn't easy to move into. Being niche and the language that pays better, something is keeping people away from it, and I don't know what it is yet.
I think my interview/offer ratio is somewhere below 1%. One factor that you probably guessed is I have very low social skills, well documented in my psychological evaluation that I did to diagnose my ADHD. I started learning programming about as a preschool kid, in the 8 bits era, then did some Visual Basic desktop apps, C, .NET, embedded C payment devices, vehicle plate recognition systems, backend of payment systems, android programming, etc. Changing that much was probably a bad thing, as a senior any position I attempt I'll be competing with people that is focused on the same stack for years. All the best positions ask for fluent english and my pronunciation is not that good, and I'm 44 years old now. There is no chance I'll move up to management because of said social skills.
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