Eq0
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- Comment on Bene Gesserit 3 hours ago:
From what I remember, death penalty drug need to be approved to be “painless” (gag+sarcasm), so there are very few legal options and fewer yet being still produced.
- Comment on Anon experiences a glitch 2 days ago:
It happened to me in my 20s! I was playing cards with some friends and one of them was dealing. The split second later, I ask where my cards were. Apparently, I fell asleep while they were dealing the cards, slept exactly through a full game and abruptly woke up while they were dealing cards again.
- Comment on Anon experiences a glitch 2 days ago:
Reminds me of a university oral exam I had… I got a super hard question first, nailed it but took a long time. Got a second question but my mind just blanked. I looked at the assistant and said, “I am sorry, I don’t know the answer”. Assistant “prof just gave you full credit”
- Comment on Gap Year 🧏 5 days ago:
It really really depends on the state of your bank account
- Comment on If I became the next president how would I go about getting the illegally detained people under Trump freedom? Would I need congress? 5 days ago:
Just a organic statement: you are laying on a world wide platform. As least, refer to which country you are talking about when asking the question. I know it’s clear from context, but it’s off-putting for all the others that are not in the US.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 1 week ago:
I’m surprised to have watched quite some of them! And I am glad to see Andor high up (subjectively, I would put it number 1, but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea)
Sales pitch: politics, political activism and action in the Star Wars universe. What happens when you are not a shiny Jedi but just a dude? Absolutely great, perfectly paced, tackling cool problems. Gives meat to the dystopian Empire. I will stop here, you should watch the first episode.
- Comment on Bang! 1 week ago:
I think an outlook on the future is also necessary. A mass murderer that is not repenting will likely murder again. A vigilante without just cause will likely not. You are saving all the future lives.
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 1 week ago:
If The Hand had always been there, it’s basically like being struck by lightning. There would be people claiming to have survived, people telling the tale of having seen the squishing, but overall such a minuscule occurrence not many would really care about it
- Comment on Pilot project 2 weeks ago:
I hate how a big chunk of my work has become to write reports nobody should read. Our team produces a report every January, that gets passed to our director, that gets compiled into a yearly lab wide report, that gets combined into a 5-year report, that get sent to the government to ensure continuous funding… so much time wasted by everyone
- Comment on Dog Love 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I know more about US politics than about my own country because I spend more time on Lemmy than reading newspapers. And any time on Lemmy automatically exposes you to US news day in day out
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I used to. It was nice, it was almost effortless. Now, I am higher in the chain so the amount of bullshit admit has skyrocketed, and I every minute at my job is a minute less with my family. I still think I have the best job in the world, but that doesn’t mean anymore that I love it. Working half-time would make it nice again but that’s not an option. A full time job is just a drag, a net negative in your life, a constraint keeping you away from your loved ones (at best)
- Comment on Tracked GPU prices daily for 3 months. Watching the ~32% jump happen in real time didn't make it any less annoying 2 weeks ago:
I have been considering upgrading my computer, but I don’t need to, so I have been postponing and postponing… I wonder if I will get to wait enough for a reasonable price or I will just have to suck it up when my current PC dies…
- Comment on The second-hand business 2 weeks ago:
50 rolls for 1€. Great price! Only 2c each!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
My first meal away from home was a hard boiled egg, some bread and a raw bell pepper. That was the full extent of my cooking knowledge (plus maybe pasta?). The shared kitchen was somewhat furnished, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to cook the egg
- Comment on academic jargon 3 weeks ago:
The jargon is precise, the translation can provide intuition. You often need both to get the full depth of a concept across. Good academic communication should be a mix of both, with introductions/overviews/conclusions/remarks interspersed along the way to help and conduct the reader, while the precise elements are also given in parallel to explain the technical aspects. Often in presentations the hardest bit is determining the level of precision that is expected by the audience. And usually, the format is intuition first, precise, jargon-heavy details afterwards.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
My advice is the same, but my timeline very different. The hardest moment was a couple of days in. I didn’t have friends or hobbies or knowledge of the place yet, a lot of time on my hands and I was staring down being away from home “for ever”. Then the ball got rolling on my social life and I found my tempo.
Other advice: make learning the local language an absolute priority if you don’t know it yet. Also because language courses are a great place to meet your first local friends.
- Comment on the lesson here is you tried your best 3 weeks ago:
I agree that the middle one looks thinner
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 3 weeks ago:
While I agree it got worse, I remember some people doing exactly that when I was in high school in the 2000s - sms were enough to constantly distract them form what was going on in front of them
- Comment on It's That Hard, Idiot 3 weeks ago:
For a plank, it is. For anything else, where you are using more complex shapes and more than one material, no finite firm is known, so FEM all the way (or some other simulation technique)
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 weeks ago:
But the article doesn’t give any additional info and it’s therefore only there to rile up people against “the spooky algos”
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 weeks ago:
Any systematic method of decision is an algorithm, so it is an algorithm.
Usually you also want to add contacts-of-contacts posts if they are relevant “enough”, so you need to define what that means. New first often gives you a lot of crap and hides more interesting content (have you tried it on Reddit?), so that’s not the preferred algorithm even in the best case scenario.
And here we are, deep in algorithm making.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 weeks ago:
When tracking about legislation, being outside is importante. Because as present the law is both useless and unenforceable, on top of being demagogic
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 4 weeks ago:
People really don’t understand what ‘algorithm’ means. You can’t turn off all algorithms to determine what appears in your feed. If you do that, you would get nothing in your feed at all. But, there are many different algorithms and you can give power to the user in choosing which one(s) to use. Only content from your contacts? New first? Highest upvotes first? A mix? Payed content how and where? And so on.
Small pet peeve of mine…
- Comment on Life is hard 4 weeks ago:
Why would there be condensation if there is no temperature gradient most of the year?
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 4 weeks ago:
“Two to three jobs” is already a statement that in Europe would apply to basically no one, while it’s a common reality in US
- Comment on Life is hard 4 weeks ago:
We have wiper blades?
- Comment on Life is hard 4 weeks ago:
“Here” is an important word! I assume you are Canada based. I live where we rarely or ever get freezing temperatures, and only decently started having warm/hot summers. Why would defrosting or ac be mandatory in such climate?
- Comment on Anon has a paranormal experience 4 weeks ago:
If it happens once, it’s most likely self-suggestion
- Comment on Take the pledge! 4 weeks ago:
I went to a young meeting in the early 2000s… I don’t remember the exact numbers, but roughly 4k teenagers for two days with, I think, 8 toilets? In the middle of summer. The queues were insane. Everyone was trying to hold it as much as possible.
- Comment on Forever relics 4 weeks ago:
I really needed the laugh! Thanks!