ursakhiin

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ursakhiin,

Do it 2 days before highly anticipated mod drops

The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

The New York Times is one of the newspapers of record for the United States. However, it’s history of running stories with poor sourcing, insufficient evidence, and finding journalists with conflicts of interest undermines it’s credibility when reporting on international issues and matters of foreign policy....

ursakhiin, (edited )

The core of your argument seems to be 2 separate incidents that are 20 years apart. The WMD article series is one of many series that were released by different outlets at the time because the Whitehouse did make such claims.

I don’t know enough about the most recent article to form a serious opinion, but I did read the intercept link you posted and it appears to be entirely sourced by an interview with somebody who was fired for expressing bias outside of work. I also clicked the democracy now link and its just a paragraph stating that the intercept wrote the article in the first link but doesn’t provide anything else.

I’m not sure these two incidents are enough of an indictment against the NYT to sway me at all. News outlets get it wrong sometimes. The question is how they handle it afterwards and 2 incidents in 20 years is hardly a pattern. The NYT is definitely leaning slightly left but is generally considered to be highly factual by most fact checkers that I’ve seen.

ursakhiin,

This was my take away. They paid 1 individual over twice the amount they lost last year. That fix is easy math to me.

ursakhiin,

My hot take was “the notoriously hackable companies are now trusted to not get hacked”

ursakhiin,

This doesn’t mean they aren’t. Just that we don’t have proof yet.

ursakhiin,

If this guy only has 600 hours, he wasted his money. I’d expect this guy to have closer to 6000 at this point.

ursakhiin,

This. C# has been losing momentum for years but some people just won’t see it. I think Microsoft trying to move 365 of of it is just another big flag that devs need to start looking elsewhere.

Microsoft has been pretty open that they intend to move to Rust. They are currently re-building the Windows API in Rust as well. I do expect they will try to push .NET in that world which will be a bummer.

ursakhiin,

Back in my day we just looked at photoshopped pictures of celebrities like respectable men!

ursakhiin,

Are you suggesting that just because their ancestors were tortured beyond recognition that they are no longer worthy of basic rights?

That’s definitely a hot take if I’ve ever seen one.

ursakhiin,

Not gonna lie. I’ve never heard of Substack but I appreciate their stance of publicly announcing why I would continue to avoid them.

ursakhiin,

Where is the nearest fire to dump this comment in?

ursakhiin,

Just think, somewhere in the multiverse is a universe where boomers can’t afford houses because their kids traveled back in time and bought them all up.

ursakhiin,

I’ve actually been wanting to watch this one and didn’t even realize it had released. I thought it was scheduled for early next year. Poor marketing for sure.

ursakhiin,

I think Chrome OS did an excellent job of achieving what it set out to do. Which was be a low profile closed ecosystem meant for people who just need to surf the web.

I won a Chromebook in a drawing and used it fairly regularly until my wife co-opted it as her own.

ursakhiin,

Lucille Ball was a comedian first and an actor second. That’s why.

ursakhiin,

FYI that’s definitely a you thing.

Some people jump to problem solving immediately when they find out about a problem. Others will sit and contemplate how they are feeling about a problem.

This text sounds like a compromise that has been worked out because she was getting frustrated that he just jumps into problem solving when all she wants to hear is affirmation of her feelings. He’s still got work to do, but he’s clearly trying.

Source: this is exactly a conversation my wife and I had

ursakhiin,

It’s important to remember not to compare your situation to that of public figures. Greta Thunberg is wealthy and she’s not have to work to survive. She is using that to fight for a cause that is admirable and we should applaud her for that. But don’t beat yourself up for prioritizing short term survival needs. Some people genuinely can’t do more than go vote once a year.

This system is stacked against the little guy in more ways than one. Including ensuring that we don’t have enough time to raise a stink. While I have the income to suggest I could spend time doing stuff like this, I also recognize how quickly all of my assets would disappear if I took a couple of months.

ursakhiin,

I genuinely think it’s funny that in a post that isn’t making fun of Emacs you felt the need to defend Emacs.

It’s making fun of Emacs users for always finding ways to talk about Emacs. (Which I don’t think is a real problem anymore)

ursakhiin,

And this whole conversation overlooks one of the major complaints a player would have of Bethesda did the same thing.

Entering an atmosphere changes the physics and those physics are different for all sorts of reasons on every planetary body for every ship. From gravity to atmospheric density the ship would fly differently on every one and that ignores the fact that ships are near enough to infinite in configuration in this game due to the builder.

If Bethesda did this, players would be complaining it wasn’t realistic enough.

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    ursakhiin,

    Lemmy is a collection of instances with the express purpose of each instance getting to set us own moderation rules.

    As a concept, it can neither be pro or anti censorship as the software doesn’t enforce either model.

    ursakhiin,

    If I had to make a wild guess I’d say he isn’t trying to mislead others but has convinced himself.

    He was holding the gun that accidentally killed somebody. That’s a heavy burden to carry and a trauma in is own right. He probably needs to believe he didn’t pull the trigger.

    ursakhiin,

    JS is fine. But as with any tool it’s not the best for every scenario.

    The flak JS tends to get us mostly because of the rise of popularity is Node.js leading to backend JavaScript beginning commonplace. which it’s overall a poor choice for backend when compared to many other languages as the strengths that JS has are more tailored to frontend.

    ursakhiin,

    That’s not a Reddit thing. That’s just a thing.

    ursakhiin,

    I'm not sure I agree with the premise that gamification is bad. Many people need a push to do things that improve their lives.

    The Fitbit example is one that jumps out in that it is there to motivate people into exercise. While I personally don't respond to comparisons to others, I do respond to data where I can compare my results and recognize that my watch telling me I did a good job feels good about the exercise I just did.

    Kahn Academy is gamification of a form of education. Earning points for learning many subjects.

    I think there is merit to the argument that Duolingo went a bit overboard with trying to guilt you into continuing, but I don't think it can reasonably be argued that trying to motivate people into language study is bad.

    I think mentally, the author is probably just one of those like myself that doesn't respond well to gamification overall but the majority of people definitely do and it can help in self improvement.

    That said, I totally agree about a gamified workplace. That strikes me as a slippery slope to an unhealthy relationship with work.

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