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by zanny 7y ago
If upper management wants culture to change they will take the action necessary to change it. The last people to be powerless to inflict change on a corporation are the executives running said business.
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by zanny 7y ago
Qt 5.14 is now in beta and has a toggle switch to do per-display scaling based off DPI on all platforms. I've had a 4k 27" monitor mixed with 1080p and 1440p monitors of varying sizes for years and have managed to get 90% of softw
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by zanny 7y ago
I used a lot of mixed screens with KDE, from 150 DPI laptops to 30 DPI tvs to my main desk setup having DPIs of 105, 125, 155, and 115 respecitvely. GTK3 and Qt5 software works great, anything else is a pot shot.
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by zanny 7y ago
It absolutely isn't the individual employee developers job or responsibility to try to fix corporate culture. Almost anyone on here or reading this is a line worker developer and trying to take on the job responsibilities of C level st
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by zanny 7y ago
> I'm not so sure it's okay I'm not sure its okay for China to be maiming and killing protestors while trying to subjugate a city under tyranny, The reality is that there are not okay things out there, and people often fee
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by zanny 7y ago
> United States does not want to be talked about 911 As a US citizen, please talk about 9/11. The response Americans had in the wake of that tragedy is reprehensible - the entire country gave unanimous support to the government to c
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by zanny 7y ago
The thing is that for a new device you only need hardware enablement in the kernel - something largely one off that manufacturers can do in the same cadence as device sales so their priorities align. What should be happening is that the FCC
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by zanny 7y ago
China already adopted and is widely benefiting from this strategy. Their massive civil engineering corps first built up their "ghost cities" that are now populated, more high speed rail than the rest of the world, and brought the
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by zanny 7y ago
Nowhere on Earth is close to peak density. Concepts like Shimizu Pyramid exist demonstraing high class living with densities over 100k / km². Transit infrastructure has already been developed to handle volumes as high as the millions o
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by zanny 7y ago
What the US really needed, and could have been using for 30+ years now, was a reorganization away from a military industrial complex war machine for 600 billion a year to a civilian engineering corps to build up the country and provide a gu
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by zanny 7y ago
China built its entire commuter train network in the last ~20 years from almost nothing and now have more track laid than any country by far while doing it for magnitudes less than the US. If a country that was suffering a self-implied fam
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by zanny 7y ago
Encouraging people to live attached to a subway and then incentivizing their usage of it, regardless of distance in almost any circumstance, is a huge transit efficiency boon for the economy. If you price people out of the trains so they st
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by zanny 7y ago
Socialism has a bad rap because it comes with a monetary cost. The powers that influence and control legislature today are foremost interested in personal profits - policies that improve society but cost money to do are uninteresting to suc
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by zanny 7y ago
Considering the state of healthcare and savings in the US this puts a majority of the population in poverty because they cannot afford a $500 medical expense. Which is true, and I would agree on most people being impoverished even if you th
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by zanny 7y ago
About 1/10 households were food insecure in the US last year according to the government itself: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
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by zanny 7y ago
> I cannot imagine doing all of that myself and making the app free at that. The only reason we are here talking about it is because its free software. Its not even about price, its about how Calibre evolved thanks to a community that gr
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by zanny 7y ago
Calibre is just a qwidgets based pyqt program. Since its as KDE project the "modern" UI stack would be Kirigami QML and you can use QWidget::createWindowContainer to embed QtQuick parts in a QWidgets program. With signals and slot
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by zanny 7y ago
The problem is that, while there is now a large stock of massively oversized residences to have large families occupy, said residences are built around an expectation of extravagance that makes them far removed from commercial, business, or
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by zanny 7y ago
This thinking is counter to acknowledging the modern automation revolution. Wealth and productivity are largely becoming detached from people, and as such the sources of revenue western nations use to fund entitlements wouldn't be goin
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by zanny 7y ago
You don't get to choose your parents. You choose your friends, your career, etc. If economic pressure means you can't choose where you live, you can be left miserable or abused with no way out. I'd rather see a diversity of h
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by zanny 7y ago
Why are all western societies like this? East Asia doesn't hesitate to build dense apartments from Jakarta to Seoul. I don't buy the "cultural homogeneity peaceful society" argument because the amount of cultural diversi
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by zanny 7y ago
Except the strawman of abject simple property rights falls apart when you acknowledge that taxes, especially sales / capital gains / etc, are the absolute and certain forfeiture of your property - your money - to the government, t
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by zanny 7y ago
Having contributed to KDE over the years and using the Phabricator in that time the main pain point with it for something like KDE is twofold - 1. it doesn't support the merge request workflow which a lot of would-be contributors would
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by zanny 7y ago
> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". A large part of what makes American per-capita healthcare costs so outrageous is how much is treatment rather than prevention. Because going to a d
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by zanny 7y ago
50 years of medical innovation leading to the propagation of procedures, medicines, and equipment costing upwards of tens of millions of dollars to procure and maintain. Nobody is equipped to try to make an informed purchasing decision on
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by zanny 7y ago
Nothing about removing tuition costs to universities changes the AMA artificially restricting the number of medical doctorates issued every year.
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The salaries given relate back to expenses paid. Doctors in Europe broadly don't pay anything for medical school and thus don't have a mcmansion of debt to recoup after graduating. Developers throughout Europe find their salaries
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At the same time doctors are given immense authority and depending on circumstance very limited oversight in their administration of care. People will go to three different practices and get radically different diagnosis and prescriptions.
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by zanny 7y ago
Cop cars aren't collectively bought. For one its on a state by state basis, and then in some states individual PDs are responsible for their own vehicles, they just get a budget to buy and fix them. That means they usually end up in an
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by zanny 7y ago
If you don't have faith in your government, you need to fix your government. Nothing else in society can be healthy or long term stable if you are operating under a fundamental distrust of the exclusive wielder of violent force. Its fu

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