I pay for someone else to hold an encrypted backup of some data. The living data is in my server, they’re just one of the backups in case there’s a fire at my house or something. I pay because I expect legal liability from them to hold my data safely, no freemium shenanigans. And I encrypt because no one can be trusted not to mine my info for AI or sell my shit to a shady third party for profit.
Grammatical texts are still useful for one thing. Self-assessment when a native speaker or some other teacher is not available.
A rational comprehension of a target language’s grammar can accelerate production acquisition. What improves language proficiency is not raw mindless consumption or practice alone. But focused practice with a well structured intentionality. I’ve met my fair share of fellow language learners who can, for example, watch a whole anime episode without subs. But still can’t produce a single word of original Japanese expression.
Can full on immersion produce language proficiency? Of course, eventually. Raw memorization is still not the answer. But eventually is not enough for most people. Study of grammar and guided exercises will reduce the time required to acquire language skills.
People who mix study modes still fare the best compared to those who rely on a single source of methodology. Yes, memorize words (in context is best, with example sentences). Yes, study grammar books (with a focus on practicing the concepts, not just memorizing tables). Yes, consume content (written and spoken) in the target language. Yes, find a learning partner. It can be the difference between being stuck in A2 for a decade and actually progressing over a couple of years.
But I do go there. And when I tell them I don’t eat mayonnaise due to health concers they understand and offer an accommodation. The waiter most definitely doesn’t berate me or scuff at me. Nor do they refuse my patronage.
Even most landlines today just relay to a fully digitalized VoIP infrastructure. The new stuff is just way more economical to run, even if the residences still run kilometers of old copper wire, the hubs have changed to microwave antennas or satellite uplinks, as they are much cheaper to maintain.
Even low fixed price day-menu restaurants in my town offer some basic choice or variation. People have food limitations and preferences.
Yes, and 99.9% of the meals you eat in your life will not be there. Because it is either prohibitively expensive and elitist gourmet BS. Or it is trivially easy to offer some choice when it is not elitist gourmet BS.
It would jump all over the place willy nilly. Time left is a non-trivial issue in software development.
Oh no, it’s not parody. They genuinely hate Linux and are on a crusade against the community. I have them blocked because the spam on the new queue was relentless.
“If you lie, people won’t notice”.
Quite the lesson to learn.
Interestingly, social stigma is one of the somewhat associated factors. But not the way one would think of: high stigma equals high suicide rate. Instead social stigma skews statistical data available. Somewhat under or over reporting. Essentially the more stigma around suicide, and also mental health, the less reliable the data. It is similar to how social attitudes about sexual violence distort the reliability of statistics about rape.
They’re supposed to be the clashing adjacent colors of red in the color wheel.
This is just an example. They are usually toxic and combative if anyone even slightly disagrees with the echo chamber. The post I took the image from has half of their comments deleted by mods. I’ve had a couple of instances of harassment, spam and threats. Always users from .ml
But back to the point. Suicide is complex, and again, it has nothing to do with welfare state either. One of the most baffling things about suicide is that it’s rate of incidence is also independent of access to mental health care, suicide is almost independent from most of the typical socioeconomic factors we can think of. Look at Guyana and Uruguay. Exactly the same suicide rate. One is a country with development challenges, widespread poverty, troubled government, impoverished health care infrastructure and difficulty with access to mental health. The other is a wealthy country, with a long history of development, strong welfare state with great upward class mobility and mental health pioneers on the region. Both exact same suicide rate.
Sure it might be partially true (as per your link Taiwan’s rate is actually lower), the implication that thus North Korea is a good place to live on however doesn’t follow.
As a psychologist, suicide is one of the most complex mental health phenomena. Most often than not, it is completely detached from life quality or living satisfaction. It’s multi factor and it says nothing of what the meme implies.
Counterexamples exist. Rusia has a higher suicide rate than all of those countries, Cuba as well. And it doesnt get more capitalist than the UK and they also have a very low rate comparable to north Korea. Suicide has nothing to do with political ideology of the government in power.
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If memory serves me right. This is like the fourth unintended rollout in OneDrive history, on W11 at least. Every time our IT has to send an email to remind all staff how to disable computer wide backup and how to disable OneDrive in general. Since we don’t pay for it but MS still insist it should infect everything.
Each of these unintended rollout costs us millions of dollars of people’s time, since our organization has hundreds of thousands of employees all over the world.
can’t agree that he is overall a bad guy or source of science education/discourse
I never said so much. I said he has a problem with speaking confidently without double checking himself because of the typical attitude that is socially taught to white cishet men. Which the whole AI thing has clearly highlighted. Again, I don’t dislike him as a person, I don’t think he is bad, I don’t think anyone is purely good or bad. But I think that, though commendable to use his privilege and status to platform diversity, also requires a modicum of caution before speaking. Science communications is one of, if not the hardest, topics of communication because of the great potential for harm if misinformation is given authority. Apologizing and changing to do better is fine, but when it happens over and over, it starts to highlight a pattern of carelessness and lack of impulse control. Science communication requires due diligence and deep nuance. On the contrary, he seems to have been aiming for a neck breaking pace of content creation, accelerating more and more as of late. When you rush, you make more mistakes, you risk doing harm.
If you want to know more, here’s a video from someone from the knitting community that articulates my gripes with the Green’s brand of slop better than I can in the limited space of a Lemmy comment. Edit:i also want to add this commentary to the pile, since the original video is delisted.
Here there’s a commentary about the whole HRT misinformation problem. I had also forgotten the whole «it’s misogynistic for trans women to claim they experience mood swings», it’s so erasing of personal experiences of all trans persons in general. Anyways, my point is that the Green’s are lousy science communicators, and I do think that race, gender and sexual orientation play at least a small part in that. They’re far from the first science channel to fall for that trap.
He made a video describing hrt and saying it was safer to take testosterone blockers without taking estrogen for mtf trans adults. Which is established in medical science as a sure way to get osteoporosis.
He also claimed that knitting is a female hobby of old grandmas that had no impact in technological development of civilization. Both videos caused an online uproar and have since been delisted.
My criticism is not about who he is. But the general social conditions, like race, gender and orientation privileges that allow him to speak with authority without being put into question by the vast majority since his status is socially determined to be the default. This makes him particularly dangerous when he speaks of things he knows nothing of, or was just lectured about by an LLM, as if he is the level headed rational voice. When, more often than not, he isn’t. It is when he gets burned that he starts really avoiding topics, which is commendable at least. This is why he carefully avoids touching Palestine-Israel when talking about geopolitics (while also generally supporting a pro US neoliberal stance) or avoids talking about trans people anymore. He did a video on weaving and semi tried to apologize for the knitting thing, but unsuccessfully, since he glorified weaving as a male world of tech advancement unlike knitting.
People really need to stop putting condescending misogynistic white cis hetero dudes who talk confidently on the internet on a pedestal. This shit happens like, every other week.
The whole knitting saga showed that Hank Green knows nothing about the world but he’s ready to confidently spew his very wrong personal notions as facts.
Because in the end, that’s the biggest problem. He always talks with over confident authority. Sure, he puts the whole, this is just my opinion as it exist in my brain, spiel. But hidden as a footnote to the end notes. He acts the part of the know it all dunce. His content is so off putting when you even tangentially know a bit about the topic he is talking about. It highlights all his biases and misinformed opinions and how he enjoys showcasing them as scientific facts.
Then there was that time he made a video with harmful information about trans people and completely wrong facts about HRT. Seriously, about AI is not the first time he’s been a menace.
EDIT: If you disagree with me but want to know more, here’s a video from someone from the knitting community that articulates my gripes with the Green’s brand of slop better than I can in the limited space of a Lemmy comment. ADD: this video that reacts to the knitting video.
Here there’s a commentary about the whole HRT misinformation problem.
BTW: If you read white cis hetero dude and think that’s an insult, that’s on you. That’s not the part I disagree with and is not even the most important part of the comment.
Those who are the most vulnerable to fall for the cult are a) those who have no safeguards or experience and thus don’t see the signs that it is a cult, and b) those who see the signs and know for a fact it is a cult, but think themselves they can outsmart the cult.
His overconfidence is the reason he is leaning so hard into AI. Because he thinks himself knowledgeable and smart enough to always know better than the AI slop. He is the perfect mark to fall for it.
Implication or not. GNOME is hit or miss with accessibility features. They’ve done some stuff, but they could still do more at no particular greater cost to them other than a shift in attitude. Which…you know… GNOME.