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Crabber
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Searching for a niche topic on an internet without advertising: 10 results of pages run by hobbyists, who care so much about their topic of interest that they are willing to pay out of their own pocket to make information available to others

Searching for a niche topic on an internet with advertising: 1000000 results of SEO spam, senseless AI generated articles, 10 minute ad-filled youtube videos, posted by people who have no intent to actually provide high quality information but just see internet users as hoards of mindless meat to show advertisements to

Which kind of internet would you rather have?
Crabber
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
70 million people in America are obese. Eating food doesn't make you obese, it's over indulgence of food and using food as a coping mechanism.
Crabber
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Redhat offers self-supported versions though, for half the price.
Crabber
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
The term "unconscious bias" is based on the (false) assumption that every group of human is exactly identical.

It is 100% a political term that is shoved at people to make them feel like a bad person for noticing differences where there actually are differences.

If you want to eliminate "unconscious bias" you are trying to create a society where women talk to men in the exact same way that they talk to other women, women act the exact same way around attractive men as they do around ugly men, adults talk to a 5 year old the same way that they would talk to a 95 year old.

i.e. a delusional utopia that is completely detached from nature and reality, and which has never existed in any society.
Crabber
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I think one of the most egregious examples of this is Snapchat Inc's official mission statement being:

We contribute to human progress by empowering people to live in the moment

From my own observations of how snapchat makes people behave in the moment I couldn't think of a statement any more ironic
Crabber
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
"open source" and "free software" are two words for the exact same thing.

Both of them are pretty poor descriptors. "open source" doesn't convey the legal freedom you are granted (as you have just found out), and "free software" makes it sound like it's just about price.

If someone lets you see source code but doesn't allow you to do anything with that code it's not what people would call "open source", you could probably call it source-available or something. "open source" has a specific legal definition that means code released with a permissive license.
Crabber
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Crabber
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
So which way do you want it then? Multiculturalism, with all the "nonsense" that comes from those cultures, or do you just want every brown person to come to america and start acting white?

I thought one of the big benefits of multiculturalism (that all big businesses love to tout) is how it brings diversity of cultural values to the workplace. Well I guess mission accomplished because now you've got the indian caste system in the workplace.
Crabber
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
All OpenGL does it draw triangles.

Once you get through the process of drawing a triangle on the screen then you're learnt 70% of the core of OpenGL. I think you're making the incorrect assumption of "wow if it takes this long to just get a triangle on the screen it must take 1000x as long to get an entire model of a watch" when really you're almost able to draw a model already, you just need to put multiple triangles on the screen now instead of just one.