mirshafie
@mirshafie@europe.pub
- Comment on It was one time OK! 2 days ago:
I remember when Spotify was in its early days, they basically hired the Swedish pirate community and tons of music freaks to either write the code or hand-curate the recommendations. Tons of people sat down and linked artists together in a recommendation web in what must have taken years before there was enough user data to have the algorithm roll with it.
I imagine something similar was done for Netflix in the beginning. And at some point, some self-important corporate asshat decided to just throw one of their most valuable assets away.
- Comment on Oh yeah that's it 2 days ago:
Texans saying no to their vegetables holy shit
Where’s the gloating about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and his boyfriend Hasan Doğan Piker though?
- Comment on Scrooge would definitely be on that list. 6 days ago:
Jeffrey Epstein’s talent was to offer the things that powerful people wanted. Some of them wanted a secluded island where they could molest children. Others wanted book clubs with Nobel prize winners or famous writers.
Epstein would have tried to figure out something that appealed to Scrooge’s sensibilities, like maybe an audience with a dumb charismatic TV personality who’s running for president and that owes him a favor or two.
- Comment on It was a simpler time 6 days ago:
I guess any kid in school fucking cares that their politicians set the clock after when cows want to be milked.
- Comment on It was a simpler time 1 week ago:
Because the hens, pigs and cows came out an hour early, right?
- Comment on why i love my country 1 week ago:
I thought cunt was a term of endearment in Australia?
- Comment on After all, why not? 1 week ago:
If your coffee tastes like piss and your piss smells like coffee, take a break.
- Comment on After all, why not? 1 week ago:
This right here. Vaping needs way more regulation, but come on, the physics here are quite straightforward.
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
It’s insane now fast it is for boiling water. I brought our electric kettle to the office because it is now useless in our kitchen now that we have a kettle for the induction stove.
- Comment on I suffer tragedy every night 2 weeks ago:
It’s slanted by 0.25° which is fucking wild. I love it.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the picture, appreciate it.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that looks nice! By front-facing, are the knobs still facing up from the face of the stovetop or do they point out like on a classic stove?
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
Cool! Can I ask which one you have?
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
Because we’re working with AC, we need a small skin effect, which is given by the inverse square root of [pifrequencypermeability*conductivity]. It’s permeability that’s going to be the deciding factor here, because all metals have reasonably similar conductivity but ferromagnetic materials have four orders of magnitude higher permeability.
This also means that steel which is not ferromagnetic will not work on an induction stovetop. The stove will detect it and the chip will reject the pan to prevent damage to the coils.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
Some induction stoves do have real knobs. Smeg makes one that I have not used so I can’t say anything about the quality, but I’m just happy that they exist.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
Induction rules but the touch controls that almost always come with them can fuck right off.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 3 weeks ago:
It’s the mythical Double Dick of Norway and Sweden with the mighty Finland Ballsack at the ready. Double Dick is more than twice as good as just puny Single dick.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but we’ve still got a quarter of Sweden to go from the route I mapped bro. This isn’t even my final form!!
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 3 weeks ago:
You mean like Dubuque, pop. 60k?
The path I drew for Sweden takes you via about 7 million people, with 100k+ littered cities along the way. If I were to guess the route likely has a similar population density along it as the Germany route, while being longer.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 3 weeks ago:
Well:
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 3 weeks ago:
Yes, 30 minutes is a bit too short even if you have a good restaurant nearby. In Sweden we get 42 minutes but in most workplaces nobody’s really clocking you.
I always used to prep for the reasons you said. I feel really lucky now that my workplace has a reasonably good restaurant on site, and there’s no issue taking proper lunch breaks.
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 3 weeks ago:
A peanut butter sandwich is a snack or a dessert, it’s not real food. You need a way more varied diet.
I’m saying this out of concern, it really isn’t my intention to be rude.
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 3 weeks ago:
Well I didn’t say fast food. I said restaurant. You know, a place where you could just fill up on salad every day and probably be fine nutrition-wise.
No I am not in the US.
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 3 weeks ago:
Packing a lunch costs time, and it’s probably not going to be as healthy as what you could get at a restaurant.
I’m pretty thankful that my workplace has a restaurant with cheap but good food.
- Comment on Indeed 3 weeks ago:
The solution is paid overtime. In Sweden there are a couple of overtime categories. If you’re scheduled to work on Sundays, you get like 20% extra. This stacks with working nights which gives you like 20% extra again.
Holidays count as Sunday.
- Comment on They all look like this 4 weeks ago:
In general, making things look like something it’s not just feels wrong. Unironically painting plaster walls to look like stone or brick comes to mind - you’re ruining the plaster.
- Comment on No, you can't keep your 20 year old dictionary password 4 weeks ago:
I make up a sentence and then I write it out. Why limit yourself to 12 characters?
Like the actual phrase
Why limit yourself to 12 characters?
Is a very strong password, easy to remember, fast to type and has the added benefit of not containing any adjectives.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been the weird environmentally conscious kid for more than 30 years. People’s attitudes haven’t changed. The arguments haven’t changed. You’ll still find people who immediately get excited about global warming, because they like warm weather.
Some people are just astonishingly stupid, and yet, they walk around and talk and have jobs and can appear to be normal. That’s because they are normal. It is normal to be stupid.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
This really bothered me when I visited the USA (East coast). In retrospect I feel like I had the right to the highway, as long as I was driving. But no town square with a bench where I could just sit, no park where I could lean against a tree, no parcel of nature where I could just go for a walk. Cafés and restaurants were expensive and uncomfortable, clearly designed to push you out once the nominal transaction was complete. No wonder people eat in their car, alone.
I’m sure I missed a lot of good places during my visit, but I felt like the pattern was very quite obvious. Highway, Walmart, highway, Walmart, highway, Walmart. The forests aren’t wild parts of nature, they’re closed-off as-yet undeveloped land, awaiting their appointment with the axe. The town centers now have fewer options to linger than a classic mall. The suburbs are endless rows of freestanding houses, with no padding - no library, no shop, no playground, no outdoor gym, no football field. Maybe some pro-social resident set up a box for exchanging books between neighbors. That’s it.
Not saying the rest of the world is perfect by any means. But in Sweden where I live, I feel like the I’m seeing positive changes over time, with new third spaces being added every year. In my town the city center is now car-free during summer time to make space for outdoor furniture, and the nearby cafés and bars thrive. They’re adding grills for cooking to parks, making nature trails more accessible, and peppering the place with playgrounds and outdoor gyms. There’s a long way to go to perfect but at least it’s moving in the right direction.
