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by rekabis 7mo ago
People have children when they have economically vibrant lives that allow them to live comfortably, with sufficient energy left over after employment to raise said children. People have children when they see a future for those children to
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by rekabis 7mo ago
> The article's central premise is based on a false assumption, which is that people taking UBI will be idle. There is no significant evidence to support that claim. Absolutely true. Even meta-analyses of all UBI experiments to date
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by rekabis 7mo ago
In any two-way communication, the onus is also on the other person to ask for clarification on anything which is suspiciously out of character or wildly out of left field. In this case, the onus was on Perry to ask, “gays, as in gay people?
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by rekabis 7mo ago
> The magic number to remember is the "Just Noticeable Difference" (JND). For dE00, JND is around 2.0. Below that, people struggle to tell two colours apart. Below 1.0, basically no one can. Except for a tetrachromat. Specifica
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by rekabis 7mo ago
ROTFLMAO Yes, Java is robust and bulletproof, but modern? They had to pull their version of string interpolation in 2024 because they couldn’t make it work. C# has had string interpolation since 2015. 2015. And it’s gotten a hell of a lot s
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by rekabis 7mo ago
Of course. This is so “voting non-Republican” can be included on this list of views and opinions that require incarceration.
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by rekabis 8mo ago
> Anyone who knows what any of that means, or even to looks at those specs, are not in the market for this and should know better. Why? I am a power user, and if I didn’t already have a copious stable of second-hand machines (a side effe
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Ecosystem integration is the shining difference between Apple and others, as it is radically better than any other available implementation. I would argue that ecosystem integration is the only primary consideration that you need to use a
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by rekabis 8mo ago
I am perfectly fine with many of the technological restrictions on this device, and think it represents a great balance. However, I think that two will bring sour tastes to people’s metaphorical mouths much more than expected: the RAM and d
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by rekabis 8mo ago
WTF did I just read? I mean, maybe I’m just a bit on the older side. And being on the spectrum, I am also brutally practical. But reading this was a lot like having an alien psychology described to me. It’s got solid echoes of the Beanie Ba
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Password Generator: please add a fifth checkbox to include the entire printable UTF-8 character set, and a slider to tweak how much of the password should use those characters. The slider is important, because the existing 4 only use a minu
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by rekabis 8mo ago
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.” - Agent K, Men In Black
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Grüße as Kanada!! Quick question: while I love the offline aspect, how does this handle spelling in relation to context? Is that via a ruleset, or is there some intelligence that learns user speaking patterns and common subjects?
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by rekabis 8mo ago
It’s a totally blank page under mobile. I mean, my system has anti-adware protections via a configuration profile, but that rarely nerfs entire websites.
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Tim Poole… right-wing rage farmer. Misinformation and disinformation is his bread-and-butter. Going to need significant secondary sources before I believe anything he says.
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by rekabis 8mo ago
For a lot of use cases, even 8Gb/512Gb will end up being horrifically constraining in the long haul. I understand the simple screen, the reduced speakers, the reduced ports, the smaller battery, and pretty much every other design decis
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by rekabis 8mo ago
> A GUI that competed with the Mac. Oh, that is _hilarious._ Mac started out strong and has always kept ahead of Windows in many if not most ways that GIUs are done. Hell, every now and then I’ll fire up my 2002 Power Mac (dual 1.25Ghz G
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Bold of any greenfield project to choose Electron in an era when RAM prices have quadrupled in only 6 months, and are likely to remain at nosebleed valuations for years to come. Must be nice to willingly “price” yourself out of a market t
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by rekabis 8mo ago
I’m only halfway through the article, and I am forced to turn away and go holy shite, this hits too hard. I’ve got a dual Voltron of Aspergers and ADD. This makes it so that not only do I have cognitive superpowers (the Aspergers), but
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Personal fresh-setup first steps: • StartAllBack heavily modified for WinXP look-and-feel • Win10Privacy (yes, it handles Win11), with all Windows Store apps yoinked except for store and media utilities • Raphire/Win11Debloat • builtby
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by rekabis 8mo ago
>they didn't add a 3.5mm audio/headphone jack. This works wonderfully in quiet environments. But the moment you have any significant background noise, and need noise-cancelling headphones, this ends up being useless because no
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by rekabis 8mo ago
The need to support apps - when you are constantly internet-connected anyhow - is becoming less and less important. You can now pin many websites to your phone’s “desktop” and have them run identically to native apps, and sometimes with eve
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by rekabis 8mo ago
>99 € down payment — deducted from final price, fully refundable Uhhhh… so why isn’t that final price stated, even provisionally? I mean, if it’s going to be a 300€ phone, imma gonna bite. But if it’s going to be a 500+€ phone, I am go
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by rekabis 8mo ago
LMAO-class first impressions: builds entire UI into a carbon-copy of iOS Like, I thought I was looking at an older version of iOS with those screenshots. It took a few of the screenshot flips to realize that things were subtly off and not-i
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by rekabis 8mo ago
I think, in the spirit of accuracy, that they should more rigorously define the capacity of the cup they are measuring. For example, my coffee mug clocks in at 750ml. If I were to have two of those every morning, I would be vibrating thro
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Beyond the loyalty angle, this is a pretty stupid play. Sure, China has about 2B people, so good strategists should be reasonably available, but it takes decades of training and experience to make an effective battlefield general. If they
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by rekabis 8mo ago
I can understand a paid pro tier. Content takes up server resources, after all, so this is a legitimate implementation of a subscription, as much as I might hate them. And yet… markup is text. Only text. And text takes up almost no drive sp
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by rekabis 8mo ago
DotNet 10 allows me to create a single web application for all three major platforms, and to ship it with the runtime baked in. This allows me to host said application anywhere I want. If talking about non-web desktop/mobile software,
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The primary reference comes from the book Antifragile (2012), by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book)
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Likely perfectly fine for most normies, but for someone with ADD/ADHD? Yeah, that’s gonna get triggered in due course completely unintentionally. It’s gotta have at least 10 levels of pestering, timeouts, and escalating warnings in ord

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