Serinus

@Serinus@lemmy.world
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It does say, prominently, "Who you vote for is secret."

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Tulsi Gabbard?

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Depends on the margins. There's a huge difference between a 50 seat senate win and a 56 seat senate win.

We've expected that for over a generation. It's more than just the boomers doing this. If you're waiting for Gen X, you're going to have to wait for Millennials too, because we thought the same thing.

It wasn't boomers that were influenced by r/the_donald and 4chan.

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I expect if her positions were completely reversed, you'd complain about those too.

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What the fuck? Not the ones I go to.

It wouldn't be the first time a dude showed up to a place with a gun wanting to kill people, killed people, and then got away with it scott free while conservative media fawned over him.

Anyone can theoretically sit down and study for the equivalent of a university degree. Most people don't have the motivation or discipline for that.

Half the point of the degree is that it pushes you to get it done. (The other half is verification that you did it.)

If you still can't do it, then it isn't so easy after all, is it? The main challenge isn't how big your brain is. It's actually putting in the work.

If you can't find enough self-discipline to get through it, you're going to regret it later.

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The preparator has also left a note reading "wasn't me!" /s

It's important that he disabuses himself of the notion that he's really good at this if he tried. The trying is the part that's the challenge. They make the ability to understand part relatively easy. That's the whole point of college.

The tip is to change his perspective and stop thinking that he's above it. It may not be the only tip, but it's a big one.

The world is filled with people who used to be brilliant slackers when they were young who did nothing with it.

It's possible it was stress from the litigation. In fact, if you don't specify whose stress, I'd almost guarantee it.

Because changing the engine in an existing project is a huge pita that requires many, many hours and possibly in some cases a full rewrite.

This also applies to games that would be released in 2023 or 2024.

Nobody should be considering Unity for a new project, but it's understandable to make either decision for many existing projects.

Ripping out the engine of your game isn't a trivial thing.

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Also it wasn't a "unity gesture". It was a funny moment for the people in the room and/or was intended to make the Trump convert more comfortable.

Either way, it was absolutely fine in context. The only concern is how it could be taken out of context, and fuck that. I'm tired of walking a tightrope worrying about what Fox News might say.

If it was a "unity gesture", it was for that one guy. It wasn't for the Fox News audience.

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The biggest thing is to be aware of how much things should cost, and just refuse to buy them if they're gouging.

Can I afford $13 for a case of Coca-Cola? Sure, I absolutely can. I can afford $24 a case. I'm just not willing to pay that. That same case was $7 in 2019. You can't tell me their costs have doubled.

And even if I believed their costs doubled (and I don't), that doesn't mean their prices have to double. They're not entitled to growing percentage profit on a larger number. Just because they made 20% on that $7 case doesn't mean they deserve 20% on that $13 case. 20% of $7 is $1.40. They could absolutely take $2 profit on $10 and be happy with it. But they won't. Because people don't pay attention and they can get away with it.

There are enough barriers to entry and cooperation among would-be competitors that they can charge basically whatever the duck they choose.

The primary purpose of the sugar pill is to maintain the habit of taking a pill daily.

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Guys, guys, guys. I know a surefire way to get Ukrainian troops out of Russia immediately. Putin, call me.

They're cowards. There was a vote. That was the time to "fight", but at that time they didn't want anyone to know they were against the decision.

It was only after they got backing from conservative hate groups that they cared enough to cause problems.

They're trying to market emotion because emotion sells.

It's also exactly what AI should be kept away from.

My health is nearly none of my employer's business. I will not be telling them when or how I exercise.

This is a gross invasion of privacy.

There isn't much difference between a "bonus" and a penalty, given enough notice.

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They're going to follow the Ohio playbook and just keep submitting bad maps until the time is up.

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It's open source. We don't have to depend on the original developers.

If it gets too bad, someone can just make a fork.

Afaik people are just impatient with the developers and have different short term goals.

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They did, but Elon asked one of them for a latte and they brought him one with 2% instead of oatmilk so he gutted the whole department.

/s, because it might be to be specified.

I hope the Republicans are laughed out of relevance and the Dems split into two sane parties.

Same end result.

I'd love to vote based on how socialist I think we could be instead of voting based on how tyrannical I think we should be.

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It doesn't matter. We don't do eye for an eye here.

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17 million seems like a lot, doesn't it.

Elon wants a 56,000 million pay package.

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Imagine someone dies for you and you don't even remember.

If I'm looking to build skills in a new language, that language is probably going to be Rust and not Java. One of those languages has a bright future. The other is going to look a lot like Fortran in 15 years.

I expect real performance issues with Java at some point, especially compared to Rust. The initial difficulty in picking up the language is worth it if I never have to see another Factory pattern that only returns one type. Why just use a constructor when you can use idiopathic idiomatic java?

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Were you as good in English as you were in math?

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Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.

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Who they released a video of anyway, right after telling her they wouldn't.

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To be fair, I'm sure this is a lone developer at Microsoft, not Microsoft as a company. A lot of this still absolutely applies, but it's not Microsoft as a company making an official decision to go ask the FFMEPG guys for free shit.

It'd be nice if the guy had an avenue to go to leadership, tell them about the issue, and just ask them to actually fund the guys to work on it.

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I have exactly as much loyalty to my employer as they have to me.

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hindustantimes.com

Is not a source I'm familiar with. But everyone wants to believe it, so upvotes it is.

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Which is why Democrats were doormats for so long. They were very aware of this and made concessions to maintain democracy.

Of course that didn't work. It's clearly not just a phase.

We can't just keep getting run over to maintain some false sense of decorum.

The shots are a lot cheaper than dying of rabies, which is often done in a hospital.

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And if it did smell like weed near the MRI place, you know what I'd suspect? That's a venn diagram with cancer patients in the middle.

You really want to crack down on cancer patients?

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This has national security concerns. He shouldn't be near anything requiring a security clearance, which likely means he shouldn't be CEO of SpaceX.

Probably just A/B testing.

The real danger isn't on Lemmy.World, where I think the money would go where intended. The real danger is incentivizing people to spin up small instances in the hopes of collecting.

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Usually they set up a hotline which may or may not get you fired.

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