some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it's not perfect
To those people, I say: do not let perfection be the enemy of progress.
Also, it's absurd, because it's clearly better than what we have now. I suspect many of those people are trolls.
I'd love to see parents flabbergasted by their children refusing the shellfish daddy worked hard to buy, and making sure their clothes don't use mixed fabrics.
We all do, Joe. That doesn't really change anything.
That DLC is actually $1.49 during the sale, at least in the US.
Event happens.
Internet floods with conspiracies about Event.
News reports that there are conspiracies about Event.
Rinse and repeat. "Event" can be virtually anything of public note.
The problem with that isn't Bernie. The problem is Trump. Bernie splitting the Dem vote is a more sure-fire way to get Trump than Biden running as it is.
It's almost like all these CEOs and MBAs are just shooting in the dark because of the $$$ in their eyes, but the fact remains that the market is no longer responding favorably to their absolute need for year-over-year growth.
I have not bought a phone through my carrier for probably around 10 years. I always buy something factory unlocked, often a LatAm model, and drop my SIM in. GSM was designed with that kind of freedom in mind.
It doesn't surprise me how much hardware costs are tied to (and inflated by) subscription plans in the US, though.
I am hopeful for this. Playing it on day one, I reported a garbage management bug on the official forum: only to be told it was "by design", and yet still game-breaking.
The performance woes got all the press, but the game was fundamentally broken. It was nearly impossible to lose. Too many services for a small city? Here's free "government subsidies" that you also can't shut off when your city is successful. Don't have garbage service? No problem, a neighboring city you have no control over is gonna handle your trash -- for free.
I hope this is finally a step in the right direction, but I'll never understand why it took a year to listen to day 1 issues. If the game had been released Early Access the response would have been better all around. Performance issues need to take second place: if the game isn't fun, I don't care how it performs.
I've been on Lemmy ever since the reddit API fracas. To date, I have not seen a reason to return. I have, however, seen many reasons to stay away.
Please, everyone, stop using Chrome. This is an easy vote with your wallet that doesn't even require your wallet.
Complacency means the internet gets worse, ads get worse, nickel and diming gets worse. It's the easiest chance to take a stand you'll ever have.
Good. Aren't we supposed to be excited at the "free market" at work?
Resell my free gravel for huge profits
Have a great street magic trick where I ask the spectator to empty a single container out of many with my back turned, but I can always pick out which one
I'll be Cris Angel, Gravel King
Reddit was always going to win that battle. But the fact that Lemmy now has a much larger user base (largely populated by many reddit OGs) is telling. At the very least, the online landscape changed. I for one am happy to be on a new platform away from the old corporate overlords.
This is going to happen for a while. Execs who actually have no clue have now been sold on the idea that AI lets them keep making money without paying labor.
It will fail eventually when the execs eventually take the time to learn what AI is capable of and what it isn't capable of.
Who am I kidding? It'll continue indefinitely because there are few consequences for clueless executives.
That's weird because they don't seem to have an issue charging me for a bunch of weird little shit while also keeping close tabs on my usage.
Perhaps they could stop doing both and then it would free up time to innovate like we've given them public funds to do time and time again.
Technically not my industry anymore, but: companies that sell human-generated AI training data to other companies most often are selling data that a) isn't 100% human generated or b) was generated by a group of people pretending to belong to a different demographic to save money.
To give an example, let's say a company wants a training set of 50,000 text utterances of US English for chatbot training. More often than not, this data will be generated using contract workers in a non-US locale who have been told to try and sound as American as possible. The Philippines is a common choice at the moment, where workers are often paid between $1-2 an hour: more than an order of magnitude less what it would generally cost to use real US English speakers.
In the last year or so, it's also become common to generate all of the utterances using a language model, like ChatGPT. Then, you use the same worker pool to perform a post-edit task (look at what ChatGPT came up with, edit it if it's weird, and then approve it). This reduces the time that the worker needs to spend on the project while also ensuring that each datapoint has "seen a set of eyes".
Obviously, this makes for bad training data -- for one, workers from the wrong locale will not be generating the locale-specific nuance that is desired by this kind of training data. It's much worse when it's actually generated by ChatGPT, since it ends up being a kind of AI feedback loop. But every company I've worked for in that space has done it, and most of them would not be profitable at all if they actually produced the product as intended. The clients know this -- which is perhaps why it ends up being this strange facade of "yep, US English wink wink" on every project.
I've never, ever seen anyone lick boots harder than this.
Americans need to embrace public transit. We need trains that don't completely suck in both speed and schedule reliability.
We're never going to convince a lot of folks to leave their lifted F-150 or massive Suburban behind for a small car. But quality, affordable public transit that is not only efficient but saves money over owning a car would actually make a difference. We're more likely to be able to get people to just leave the F-150 in the driveway and eventually move away from it.
Much better for the environment, too, and reduces traffic / congestion, etc. I agree smaller cars would be good, but the goalpost should be getting away from the automobile.
Yeah, that's not necessarily the case. Did it kind of work? Sure, if you knew what you were doing. Was it at all the seamless experience that Proton is now? No.
motive is unclear
looks at US politics
Is it?
Serious "you will address me by my husband's rank" energy here
Not actually fired, but I just resigned from a relatively high paying career position without something lined up.
I work in tech, and some parts of that market are very much in flux due to AI disruption. For this company it led to a shuffle and, in my opinion, a lot of people ending up in roles they shouldn't be in.
A few things happened during that shuffle. First, I was overlooked for a promotion that otherwise seemed in the bag (to the point where others were equally confused). Ultimately the person who ended up as my boss really should not be where they are. They don't understand the business and started making other bad decisions without even consulting the team of experts on hand. In fact, they apologized to me for "starting off on the wrong foot", but the damage was largely done, and they kept making really bad calls anyway -- calls which put the team constantly at risk and kept things very inefficient.
And yes, of course they are good friends with the new CEO.
That exacerbated a lot of issues we already had with constantly juggling tasks and chronic understaffing. After that promotion snub, plus being one of the few really holding things together anyway, I realized that the stress of the position entirely outweighed the stress of finding another job. Obviously I also felt like upward mobility was no longer a thing. I was dreading work every morning. I started to get really bad anxiety. I wanted to find something else, but my mental state was such that I didn't have the drive to seek alternatives or interview while also working at this place. I asked to reduce my weekly workload for a while, and when it wasn't working too well, I asked to go on leave to try and combat the burnout. New boss was instantly waffling on approval, so I felt I had no other realistic option but resignation.
My wife and I are in a pretty secure financial position, and she's got her own job that is going well. It is the first time in my life I have resigned from a position without anything lined up, which admittedly does feel weird. Taking some time for better mental health, then to hone a few skills, then will be returning to market.
OP is not in the sudoers file.
This incident will be reported.
Ah yes, of course. We must understand and accept those who have chosen to not understand and accept human nature.
Get fucked.
Most anti-piracy measures are useless at stopping piracy.
I'd argue that the idea that most games don't work on Linux is a flat-out misconception in 2023.
It's hard to quantify, but Valve's own Steam Deck (=running on Linux) verification stats have 70% of games either Verified or Playable (Playable generally means that it runs but text is small on the Deck screen, or it needs a lot of keyboard input -- nothing that matters on the desktop). Crucially, "Unsupported" doesn't mean it doesn't run -- it means untested, and in my experience at least, many of those just work too.
Protondb shows 80% of its catalog with a Platinum, Gold, or Silver rating -- 70% are Gold. Silver generally corresponds to e.g. switching to Proton Experimental, which is a single-click process.
Anecdotally, after being gaming only on Linux for more than a year, with a catalog of 500+ games, I've had one (1) that gave me any more trouble than that Proton Experimental switch (Assetto Corsa, first one).
So there is no "unspoken part" here. The experience running Windows games on Linux isn't what it was even 2 years ago. It is, for many people, an entirely seamless experience now.
PS: seeing Windows games running better on Linux isn't a new observation either. Elden Ring was a great example where Proton shader precaching eliminated the stutter that plagued that game at launch, so it didn't happen on Linux.
Feinstein was in her 30s when California colleges (UC and CSU) officially stopped having free in-state tuition.
We have to stop being "represented" by people with very little in common with the general populace.
X may fail. Twitter didn't fail. Twitter was bought by a twat who decided to shut it down piece by piece.
Capitalism naturally ends up in this position. That's why it's so hard to "fix" -- to those at the top, nothing is wrong.
In linguistics this is called a coarticulatory effect, and it's caused by needing to move the articulators between two positions rapidly. As such, it can be thought of as a kind of "hardware" limitation of humans, as opposed to a "software" limitation of any single language. Whether other languages would have the same sounds in sequence is the main factor.
The "ch" affricate (which is t͡ʃ in the IPA) is a mix of a voiceless alveolar stop component and a post-alveolar fricative component. Because "y" is palatal, you end up getting that post-alveolar fricative component through coarticulation.
Edit: here's an explanation without the jargon:
"t" in English is produced by your tongue contacting the ridge behind your top teeth.
"y" in this context is produced with the tongue sitting near the palate (significantly behind the ridge used for "t").
The English "ch" sound is actually a mix of two sounds: "t" and "sh", in rapid succession.
The "sh" sound is produced between the places where "t" and "y" are produced.
So, if you have a "t" and a "y" in quick succession, your tongue has to move quickly between a couple different spots -- and crucially, through the spot which produces "sh":
"t" -> "sh" -> "y"
And because "t" + "sh" equals "ch", you get the "ch" when producing this sequence. You can of course articulate things carefully and not produce it -- but in common, quick speech, that's why it shows up. Singing isn't different from speech in this regard.
As much as Google? Likely not. Does their carefully curated pro-privacy image actually match their practices? Also likely not.
Damn, well it's been fun using digital electronics everyone
"OK Boomer" is literally designed for this.
I upgraded my Intel system to AMD today. And I didn't have to reinstall a damn thing, because my existing Linux installation Just Worked™. It really is to the point that I could never imagine going back to Windows.
It's always projection.
I've just invented a way to never use a Roku product again, and I've chosen not to patent it.
The process is this:
It is far more convenient to pirate than to buy media legally, due to the extreme and purposeful fragmentation of streaming services and their constantly changing libraries. If you want people to pirate less, make your service(s) competitive.
PC power supply.
Never, ever skimp on a power supply. Get one from a reputable brand and with a rating above what you may actually need.
A failed PSU can in principle wreak havoc on any other components in the system, many of which are far more expensive than the PSU itself.
Remember when a huge coalition of people wanted RBG to retire? And then she didn't, and those people took it as courage or some such other virtue?