SapientLasagna

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[–] SapientLasagna 3 points 8 months ago

Unlike Canada, where the consensus seems to be that the country is ruined now. Not damaged, or heading in the wrong direction or anything, but actually ruined. The only things that can save us now is banning all gender bathrooms and adopting bitcoin.

[–] SapientLasagna 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like most of Microsoft's more odious features, this one can be turned off through GPO/Intune policy across an organization. As such, the liability will mostly fall on the organization to make sure it's off. The privacy and security impacts will be felt by individuals and small businesses.

They claim that the data is only stored locally, so far. We'll see, I guess.

[–] SapientLasagna 1 points 9 months ago

The data is unreliable. If we knew how much of the data was faked we could compensate for it, but we don't. We could discard the outliers, but we don't know if we're discarding valid data, and someone who is deliberately tainting the dataset would submit a bunch of samples that are only a little bit off as well.

And while some of the numbers must be from trolls, manufacturers (and shady investors) are heavily incentvized to sway the listings.

[–] SapientLasagna 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

One nice thing about learning (and teaching) python is that it's a multiparadigm language. Students don't have to learn about indenting until you cover flow control. Classes and OOP can come way, way later.

I started with C++. Also multiparadigm, but the syntax and compiler errors were brutal, not to mention pointer arithmetic.

I'm not sure I can think of a language that would be better suited to learning. GDScript seemed kind of nice, and you get to make games.

[–] SapientLasagna 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some of the number are faked. The only person who knows the accuracy of these one are the people who posted them.

[–] SapientLasagna 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think this is a good example of class struggle, at least not directly. The bear meme is valid in as much as it describes one woman's feelings, but the truth is that in 85-90% of cases, the woman knows her attacker^1^. The random man is simply not the issue.

The issue is power disparity. Teacher vs student, employer vs worker, landlord vs tenant. It's difficult to reduce the power difference due to physical strength, but the others are all changeable. More (meaningful) oversight for police, better tenancy boards, and stronger unions are all examples of structures that might make it harder to victimize women.

Class struggle explains economic, and maybe political power, but those are not the only types of power in play.

And if I'm wrong? Then we've made a better society for nothing.

^1^ https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/most-victims-know-their-attacker

[–] SapientLasagna 1 points 9 months ago

Many people who aren't vegan still choose free range eggs, organic beef, fair trade coffee and chocolate.

The 500 mile diet is absolutely a moral choice, even if it includes meat.

Albertans preferentially eating large amounts of Alberta beef is viewed as a virtue there. Veganism is viewed as immoral, unalbertan (amongst some communities).

[–] SapientLasagna 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Because if you look closer at the data in the Geekbench browser, it's kind of shit. The iPad entries are probably not too far off, but there are a ton of entries that are obvious garbage, like a Pixel 7 Pro with a Ryzen 9 5900X. Also, a lot of system names are VM hypervisors. In a VM, you can control the realtime clock that the Geekbench profiling software sees, so you can just kind of dial whatever performance number you want.

Geekbench obviously just takes the average, but the average of garbage is still garbage.

[–] SapientLasagna 8 points 9 months ago

For a concrete example of what @[email protected] said, if there are 10 workers, and 9 of them are making minimum wage ($17.40 in BC), then the remaining worker would make $192.90/hr. $1772.40/hr if 99/100 make minimum wage.

Median is definitely the better measure, though no single measure is adequate to answer the question of whether Canadians are better off than they were last year.

[–] SapientLasagna 3 points 9 months ago

It's literally the opposite of taxing innovation. If you reinvest your revenue back into improving the company, you don't pay any tax. If you use the revenue to prop up stock prices instead, expect to pay taxes on the capital gains.

[–] SapientLasagna 2 points 9 months ago

Furries, to be sure, but atheists?

[–] SapientLasagna 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What "other side"? Vegans? I suppose there are some who are just sort of "cultural vegans" too, where they don't have a moral stance, but are vegan because their friends or family are.

I'm not sure if maybe you're reading more negativity in my comment than I meant. There's certainly nothing wrong with animal welfare as a moral stance.

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