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Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
In my experience, I have found the least intelligent people to also be the most vocal, which makes it look like they are overrepresented in the population.
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Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
In my experience, I have found the least intelligent people to also be the most vocal, which makes it look like they are overrepresented in the population.
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YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim
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The thing about public domain is that anyone can do whatever they want. Youtube is still providing a service by providing storage, cpu and network to be able to stream the video and they are within their rights to charge for that service one way or another. Of course anyone can also offer that same service for free as it's public domain.
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Help with offgrid (power, no internet) "streaming"
Might not be the best place to say this, but considering Plex relies on online authentication servers to function it might be better for you to look into Jellyfin which works fully offline.
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sudo-flix: the new movie-web
Why do they always keep using GitHub for this stuff??
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What are the bad patterns of Reddit to never repeat on Lemmy?
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It's the currently trending topic for pretty much everyone here. It will die down by itself eventually as it becomes old news.
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University Students
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Universities often teach students to write a lot of comments, because you are required to learn and demonstrate your ability to translate between code and natural language. But this is one of the things that are different in professional environments.
Every comment is a line to maintain in addition to the code it describes. And comments like this provide very little (if any) extra information that is not already available from reading the code. It is not uncommon for someone to alter the code that the comment is supposed to describe without changing the comment, resulting in comments that lie about what the code does, forcing you to read the code anyway.
It's like if you were bilingual, you don't write every sentence in both languages, because that is twice as much text to maintain (and read).
The exception of course, being if you are actually adding information that is not available in the code itself, such as why you did something a particular way.
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Texas Girl Born in Jail Heading to Harvard After Graduating at the Top of Her Class
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It's not just "assumed". There have been numerous studies that people with better social networks and resources around them are much more likely to succeed. It's not surprising at all
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Search engines down?
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Not at all. This just searches multiple search engines at once and presents you with the results from all of them on a single page.
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Google's annoying 'update ownership' sideload warning spreads to more apps and phones
Don't see what is annoying about this dialog.
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Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions
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There should be a vote to contest button next to the duplicate question notice/link.
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My ISP sends me letters even if I am torrenting on VPN. Is there anyway to make my traffic not look like torrenting?
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You should always bind it directly in qb to prevent it from accidentally leaking
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Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?
My goodness
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No I won't feel bad about having ad blockers
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It's probably worth noting that this has a lot to do with VCs pumping in a seemingly unlimited amount of funding for services that aren't profitable yet but has potential to be later. Hence why Twitter is still a thing despite running at a loss for almost its entire lifetime.
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Firefox 127.0.2 Release Notes
Finally. Thought I was going crazy about the YouTube playback getting stuck all the time!
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What's your favorite note-taking application?
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Trilium for the same reasons, but the featureset of Trilium is more like Obsidian.
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Google updates the Android brand with new logo and 3D robot
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We're going full circle
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NIST Warns of Security and Privacy Risks from Rapid AI System Deployment
The issue presented in the thumbnail is just as applicable to human drivers. Bad roadmarkings confuse unfamiliar drivers regularly.
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Google “search”
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Just wanted to chime in and say that I am super happy with my Pixel 7 so far. Easily one of the best phones out there, especially considering the price.
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Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%
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The annoying text scrolling can't be removed because the AI generates one word at a time, which is what you are seeing.
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Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14
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Considering your comment I wouldn't say you are happy lol