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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Nurses are not bound by the same rule is a lawyer is to a defendant or a wife to a husband or a priest? If someone says something on their death bed why are we suppose to report?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the UK. Patient confidentiality is protected by law - medical personnel cannot share personal information unless the patient gives explicit consent (with some latitude when someone is incapacitated and has a spouse/next of kin)

  However there are some explicit limits. Medical professionals also have legal duties under Safeguarding laws; there is a professional and legal requirement to divulge information if it is necessary to protect the patient or other people from harm. If someone confesses to a crime it can be shared if there is a risk to other people (e.g. child or domestic abuse being sadly common examples). It’s on a case by case basis; it would be a breach of patient confidentiality to share a confession if no one is at risk of harm. But where you draw the line is difficult - there is established case law that confidentiality can be breached “in the public interest” which is very subjective.

  But it’s obviously very subjective territory - if someone confesses to a murder 20 years ago, should you share it? You could argue that there is a risk that someone who has murdered may murder again, but you could also argue that there is no actual reason to suspect they would commit further crime especially if they’re dying. It’s also “in the public interest” to investigate murder and convict someone, especially if it prevents someone else from being falsely accused etc.

  One key part of all this is that a breach of patient confidentiality is a legal issue and the person &/or organisation (e.g hospital) can be pursued legally for the breach, including for compensation, and also via professional bodies for sanctions. So breaches can be pursued legally.

  It’s very complex and difficult to blanket say all information is 100% confidential. A lawyer is retained specifically to represent someone under the law, so a 100% confidentiality makes sense. A doctor or nurse is there to look after someones health, but also has responsibilities to the population at large, so confidentiality comes with caveats as you’re balancing the safety of the one patient against other unknown people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the fundamental difference between sudo and doas ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Sudo has been around for ages and is in pretty much every distro. So Doas just hasn’t really taken off due to inertia. You can install it yourself in many distros, but people tend to default to what they know. I’m not sure if any distros default to it. Also tutorials all over the internet use “sudo” so it kinda embeds it more as THE tool.

  It’s similar with a lot of the core GNU utilities. For example “ls” lists directories and it’s everywhere, but there are actually better written newer alternatives. They just aren’t as widespread because people tend to use the GNU utilities together. I personally like eza for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the fundamental difference between sudo and doas ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Su = Switch User / Substitute User; it allows you to run a full shell as another user. It can be any user, but if you don’t specify then it’ll open a shell as the root user with the elevated privileges has. It allows you to do everything the root user can while that shell is still open, until you exit.

  • Sudo = SuperUser Do; it allows you to run one command with elevated privileges as the root user. Once it’s done the command it usually then ends, but there are some QOL where you can run sudo again and may not need to reenter the root password again for a certain time.

  • Doas = Dedicated Openbsd Application Subexecutor (seriously). It’s an alternative to Sudo that originated in Openbsd that also allows users to run a command with elevated privilages as the root user. Its code is smaller and tighter, and is seen as more secure than Sudo. It also has much more straight forward configuration. It’s newer than Sudo, so although Doas is in theory better, Sudo is the default widely used tool across the vast majority of Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we so afraid of cockroaches?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some excellent answers here.

  I would add that it’s not fear necessarily but also disgust. Cockroaches are associated with filth, so the presence of a cockroach makes people feel disgusted and uncomfortable. For me, if I see a cockroach it means the place I am in is dirty and unhygienic, and that is enough to cause revulsion.

  A lot of the examples you give bar spiders are not things you’d find in your own home. Cockroaches are somewhere you’d find in a dwelling where you’d naturally feel safe and separated from nature. Seeing a cockroach in your home or a place you’re staying / eating is different because it’s an invasion of your space, and by a creature we associate with filth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over-Sensitive HP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The printer wasn’t worth $10; they should have paid you to take that junk away. Now you’re going to have to dispose of that rubbish and it’ll probably cost you more.

  Maybe you can do what the last person did and donate it to a thrift store?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this seems a fair summary, although I think the question more accurately should be “Why do AAA now take 6+ years to make?”

  There are plenty of smaller and indie games that don’t take 6 years. There are also plenty of smaller and indie games that do take 6+ years but for somewhat different reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly the smartest person of our time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, his videos are interesting but I must admit I do find the somewhat fake “lecture” style off putting. It made as if he’s lecturing to a class of people and there are even fake western “students” asking questions at the end. But the guy is in China, and these are clearly produced for a new audience but dressed up as if it is educational. I can see why he does it - it lends an air of authority to the videos, and it is engaging, but the conceit of it being a real lecture undermines it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do.contires that use commas for decimals read such numbers aloud?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the world will ever standardise to one or the other?

  The . for decimal separator is used in English, as well as China and India but apparently that is only 35-40% of the global population. The , is used for 60-65%. Although the figures may not be accurate as a lot of countries seem to use both, with . used for international business.

  Probably never be standardised as it’s pretty obvious which is which? 1,000,000.00 and 1.000.000,00 are clear because of the use of three 0s for thousands etc, and two 0s for decimals. But 1.001 and 1,001 are much more ambiguous and would definitely need context as to which system is being used - is it 1 thousand and 1 or 1 and one thousandth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does almost nobody live here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few reasons. One is there isn’t much flat land; most of it is hilly and even mountainous and covered in thick forests. The flat areas are occupied with farms and towns but the space is small and not enough for big cities to grow. The hills and mountains are heavily forested and there has never been a big enough population to need to encroach on them. It’s also not great for building and farming, unless grazing animals.

  The other big reason is there are no natural deep sea ports in that region. It’s either marshy or the estuary of the river Colombia. Small fishing towns would be fine, but not big industrial ports that drive city growth (or did in the past). Meanwhile, Portland sits further back up the river with plenty of flat land and access to the water, so makes a natural port. And Seattle sits on the bay further north and is coastal, and a good port.

  The dynamic got set up of big cities further back, and those areas never really grew. Once the land became part of state forests, then that restricts growth even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English has too many words for animals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises.

  This isn’t an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it would be free forever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And we were right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile in California⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For comparison, prices near me in the UK are £1.55 a litre which is about $7.45 a gallon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sim City 4 is the best version of the Sim City games, and is 75% off on GOG right now, $5 / £4.

  Cities Skylines 1 is the best modern city builder, 3D and a lot of fun plus well designed. But only really worth it when it’s on sale; lots of DLC and overpriced as a package when not on sale. Avoid Cities Skylines 2 - it’s just not fun and hasn’t been fixed - maybe they will one day fix but I doubt it 2.5 years in..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Native English, very basic German from school.

  I want to learn another language but can’t decide which.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech seems to often seems to follow the Pareto Principal of 80:20 split; where one company dominates and gets at least 80% of the market share. In tech its often more extreme and 90% domination often occurs, and is even expected by investors.

  It’s debatable where this is cause or effect - e.g. whether tech would naturally move to such dominant splits or whether this is actually the effects of bad regulation allowing monopolies to form. I personally favour the latter but thats irrelevant.

  So in the space of “forums” Reddit has taken a dominant position. In some ways it gets away with this because it’s regarded as “social media” and as such is no where near dominant, with Meta dominant (Facebook, Instagram) and big players like TikTok etc. But in terms of the forum style discussion platform it really is dominant. It’s so dominant that people who host communities on there seem to unquestioningly believe Reddit when it says it owns them and all it’s content.

  Lemmy, MBin, and PieFed show that actually anyone can host their own instances of Reddit like forums, but Reddit does still dominate as a single location hosting and controlling lots of other peoples content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So 113k released between 2016 and 2025 is about 12600 a year. We have only been told that 5863 games made more than 100k last year, not what their total lifetime revenues are. Bearing in mind games generally make the most money in the first year of release (of course there there is big variation and there is a tail but mostly), then very crudely as much as 46% of new games could be making at least 100K in the first year. That’s an overestimate for many reasons but 5% is also a huge underestimate as the figure is using at all games released across 9 years and diluting the the 1 year figure we have. Also we need to bare in mind how much of the Steam library is slop and not an actual fully formed game, or is place holder entries for things like demos and even DLC.

  The real figure will sit between those two extreme limits, it’s not going to be as low as 5% but also not as high as 46%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is one where actually it really makes no sense for the US to attack Iran - this comes down to a bad president making impulsive decisions. It certainly benefits Israel. Trump seems to think he is untouchable after attacking Iran last year and kidnapping Venezuela’s president. This war seems to be him shooting from the hip and not being restrained by those around him from making very bad decisions.

  From a US strategic point of view, it can’t achieve regime change in Iran by bombing the country (it’d need troops on the ground) and it has low supplies of air defence munitions thanks to selling stocks to Ukraine and also using up some supplies in it’s 2 day war against Iran in 2025. Going to war now is foolhardy - Iran just needs to prolong this war beyond a few weeks and the US will be in trouble. It will need to pivot to a defensive posture to protect its allies in the region as defenses run out, which will be tough and cost US servicemen and women’s lives. It will also cost a fortune to prosecute this war without any real benefit.

  US allies in the middle east have been drawn into a conflict they certainly didn’t want, global trade will be disrupted by closing the Strait of Hormuz (a very major shipping route), oil prices will spike and could stay high if oil infrastructure is damaged in the war, air traffic will remain disrupted and the gulf states economic hub plans (building up Dubai as an Economic centre etc) will be damaged. It’s possible this could even tilt the global economy to recession, or even precipitate an earlier end to the AI stock-market bubble.

  This war is looking like a major strategic blunder by the US; more stupid than the Vietnam war (which was at least thought-out by strategists). Its likely the Pentagon was against this war, but sadly Trump and his clown-car cabinet are pulling the shots. It’s a war that’s goals cannot be achieved, yet will costly the longer it runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is 2003, I am playing a new expansion for Diablo 2 as the US starts a war in the Middle East. It is 2026, I am playing a new expansion for Diablo 2 (!) as the US starts a war in the Middle East.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! So it’s your fault! Get him!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  tuna steak is fish, so why isn’t it tuna fish steak?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans do love redundancies. e.g Just barely, only just, just a bit, true facts, free gift, end result, advance warning etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im curious what they will come up with⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to be the only one confused by this - what leak? Is it just a typo?

  A leak is when something is released without authorisation? So far the only information is authorised releases of the files with lots of stuff redacted, and allegations there is more being held back. Has there been a leak too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He must be a great guy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only the healthiest of relationships use whatsapp to accuse your partner of theft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never understood why they were always pink⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently cost - made from recycled paper which looked grey as poor quality, so they added a little red dye to make it look better. Then it became a standard, partially as it easily stood out from white and yellow paper in offices. TMYK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved CS1 and have had CS2 since launch. I just can't get into CS2 - it's just not fun.

  A large part of that is Paradox Mods in CS2. When CS1 launched from day one you could go onto the steam workshop and download player made models - houses, offices, train stations, roads etc. It grew rapidly and continuously, and it meant every city you made you could customise and change. The game was constantly refreshing and fun, and you could make whatever you wanted.

  For CS2, 2 years on and you still can't add custom assets to the game. Paradox/CO have released themed region based asset packs that they have made and the mods are there, but the player made assets remain largely missing. And I suspect the reason is Paradox Mods and the upcoming console version - the PC version seems to have been held back from being good so Paradox can get it's console launch. There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding that the player made content was what made CS1 so great. I suspect CO get that, while Paradox only cares about DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow this is terrible news. Basically Paradox owns the IP to Cities Skylines and Colossal Order seemingly want out.

  I'd say a large reason CS2 has been such a mess is because it was rushed out, the paradox mod system is just not fit for purpose and there remains a ridiculous focus on getting the console version released + move on to DLCs rather than fixing the main game. I'd put most of the blame on Paradox's shoulders to be honest.

  It'll be interesting to see what CO does next. CS1 was a great game, CS2 could have been a great game. Will they do another city sim or more onto something else? Seems a shame if they move on as they have grown so much expertise in the genre. I'm hoping they're cutting free to do a game with their own vision, which was how CS1 came to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's historically interesting to maybe understand who he was as a human being. He's often painted as a monster but he was a human, and is a warning to all of us what evil human's can achieve.

  For example, they're revealed he had Kallmann Syndrome (which can cause a micropenis and undescended testes) - he may have essentially been essentially asexual which may explain some of his life choices and why he was so dedicated to politics and gaining power. They've also shown he had high genetic risks for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, as well as ADHD, autism.

  Sensationalist reporting aside, these findings do add something to our understanding of a historical figure who had massive influence on human history.