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Funny. In French, we call it a “pronom impersonnel”, meaning non-personal pronoun.
Fuuuuck I rented that game so much back then. If it wasn’t available every other weekend at my local video store it was 100% my fault.
I think it’s at the very least true in the sense they’re both things many people can’t afford
Gen Z is getting downright worrying at this point. I keep witnessing behaviours and hearing opinions that had practically disappeared since my high school days. I didn’t expect the same ass-backwards bullshit I would have heard some drunk uncle rant about at a family outing when I was a kid, to come out of the mouths of a generation raised in the 21st century. It’s utterly mind boggling. All I can wonder is, who failed to teach them this shit? Were they legitimately raised that way? Who did this, how did it get so bad?
Interesting. I interpreted this definition more like an oval vs. circle distinction. The vast majority of ovals aren’t circles, but circles are a subset of ovals.
IMHO it’s even worse with ADHD, just less immediate. There are songs and artists that were major favorites of mine at one point, that I just haven’t listened to in years cause I’m so fucking tired of them after listening to them 8h a day for 3 months straight. There also not a single job I didn’t get tired of after a year or two lol
Faux-wood was just everywhere at the time indeed. It was a mix of the materials getting affordable and a certain commodification of the hippie aesthetic. Electronics were more perceived as appliances back then, and it was a common trend to make appliances less sterile by adding “natural” materials such as wood.
We do get what you mean (extremely condescending and reductive take, if you ask me). I was thinking rigidly along the lines of data engineering, as this is, well, a data engineering problem… There just isn’t 30% of people doing this on Google captchas, and this isn’t a “take”, just a reality of the scale and amount of people interacting with Google products. Have fun all you want, you do this, your data most likely gets thrown out, that’s all.
We’re still talking about image recognition, aren’t we? This feels like a general commentary on how Big Tech sees their customer base, which I don’t disagree with, but in my mind was just another discussion entirely…
That kind of data sanitization is just standard practice. You need some level of confidence on your data’s accuracy, and for anything normally distributed, throwing out obvious outliers is a safe assumption.
58% goes to fundraising, administrative and technological costs. The rest has some money going towards, but no limited to, other programs.
Only thing I can find in their financials that would maybe qualify as “random outreach” would be “awards and grants”, at 26mil last year out of 185mil revenue, or 14%.
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund
As far as I can tell, it’s not particularly random.
Maybe I’m missing something?
Really bigger updates obviously require a major version bump to signify to users that there is potential stability or breakage issues expected.
If your software is following semver, not necessarily. It only requires a major version bump if a change is breaking backwards compatibility. You can have very big minor releases and tiny major releases.
there was more time for people to run pre-release versions if they are adventurous and thus there is better testing
Again, by experience, this is assuming a lot.
From experience shipping releases, “bigger updates” and “more tested” are more or less antithetical. The testing surface area tends to grow exponentially with the amount of features you ship with a given release, to the point I tend to see small, regular releases, as a better sign of stability.
I do connect to VMs and containers all the time, I just don’t see a reason not to speed myself up on my own machines because of it. To me, the downside of typing an alias on a machine that doesn’t have it once in a while, is much less than having to type everything out or searching my shell history for longer commands every single time. My shell configs are in a dotfiles repo I can clone to new personal/work machines easily, and I have an alias to rsync some key parts to VMs if needed. Containers, I just always assume I don’t have access to anything but builtins. I guess if you don’t do the majority of your work on a local shell, it may indeed not be worth it.
I’d rather optimize for the 99% case, which is me getting shit done on my machine, than refuse to use convenient stuff for the sake of maybe not forgetting a command I can perfectly just look up if I do legitimately happen to forget about it. If I’m on a remote, I already don’t have access to all my usual software anyway, what’s a couple more aliases? To me this sounds like purposefully deciding to slow yourself down cutting paper with a knife all the time cause you may not have access to scissors when you happen to sit at someone else’s desk.
Music (and other art forms) happen to trigger our brains to shoot the same happy/sad/etc chemicals other less abstract physical experiences do, for reasons we don’t completely understand. I’m utterly confused why being aware of them, or having the curiosity of wanting to learn more about it, is “what’s going wrong with society”. If anything, curiosity is one of the main things that kickstarted us as a species, and brushing it off to some abstract “deeper layers of human existence” like it was some sorcery we shouldn’t dare try to understand would be way more concerning about our state as a society. As for the completeness of this particular theory… I mean, we are on /c/showerthoughts after all.
Jazz has patterns and repetition, like any interesting music genre. If it didn’t, it’d be called noise. They just aren’t as in your face and predictable as the ones employed by pop genres.
Polyrhythms and polymeters are still patterns. They’re often harder to perceive and follow than your typical 4/4, but we’re still searching for the beat and bobbing our heads to the complex patterns it creates.
That’s not “self hosting” related tho lol
Audition, Photoshop and Cubase you’ll probably have the hardest time to truly replace. Even more if you rely on third party plugins for either of those.