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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Hmm, you mean things are intentionally kept simple so everyone can sing along? Something to note is that this answers is already 7 years old and may not be as accurate anymore.

But at least according to the author chinese pop wasn't good 7 years ago either, considering their harsh words:

In a purely subjective line, I will say most of the pop music in China, especially now is utter crap: saccharine schlock that wouldn't cut it in 3rd world countries without potable water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think it is so easy to value the music of a country with a history, culture, customs and values. completely different from the western one, as are also the tastes and preferences of the people.

That is certainly true, what makes it interesting, and the reason why I started looking into chinese pop music. It's just that I found it notably less refined to say k-pop or j-pop and was wondering how that came to be. And at least the chinese people from the quora thread concede that c-pop is in terrible shape.

which leads to word games

While those certainly can make a song more interesting I'd wager they play a minor role and can't make up for a lack of an interesting melody. And said lack of interesting melodies or rather the extreme similarity of the songs I listened to is my main observation and leaves me somewhat disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

To me it was not immediately clear from the title what this tool does: It is meant for migrating issues to SourceHut's TODOs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

The article concludes with:

A lot more needs to be done to make a maintainer's life easier, but paying them real wages for their real work would be a great place to start.

Which leaves the obvious question, who is going to do the paying. It certainly is not feasible to expect end users to pay the devs directly, especially considering how most projects are built on top of many libraries. That leaves companies, but this can't really work either as even though a few projects may find a fitting company as sponsor (i.e. said company uses the project as library), there are certainly tons of projects that can't be tied to some company for sponsorship. And this is not even mentioning that for the most part there is no incentive for companies to sponsor a library even though it's heavily used internally.

What does this leave? Well, the state, the taxpayers money. The way I see it open source software in today's society is necessary infrastructure, just like streets or electricity. Open source software is a public good and so the public should fund it. I'd love to see states spending more money on it but I doubt it's ever going to happen unless our society changes drastically.

But I guess a good first step is to inform non IT people and increase awareness on just how much our world relies on open source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Sounds like you should consider dual booting :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

One should take this with a grain of salt. First of all according to the article the authors of the paper themselves admit that they do not have conclusive evidence that the observed structures are actually mushrooms. And if you go through the paper everything you see just looks like pebbles.

And something else to consider are some of the other papers of the main author that suggest at least to me that they probably are not an expert in this field:

  • Quantum Physics of God: How Consciousness Became the Universe and Created Itself
  • Quantum Entanglement with the Future: Lincoln Dreams of His Assassination
  • The Time Machine of Consciousness Quantum Physics and the Time Machine of Consciousness: Past Present Future Exist Simultaneously. Entanglement, Tachyons, Relative Time, Circle of Time, Quantum Time, Dream Time, PreCognition, Retrocausation, Deja Vu, and Premonitions

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rhawn-Joseph

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Are you aware of https://www.windy.com? In comparison it provides quite some more information.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, one thing I wonder is how they make money / how this is funded. This just seems too good to be true, no data collection/tracking, free apps, no ads. Sadly it looks like the apps are not open source though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Kinda looks like the output of pwgen -sy 1024 1 but that's probably not very helpful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I see, better have a closer look next time :)

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