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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

But they also keep you in your toes. Nobody ever worries about what their fish is doing while they aren't looking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

$ 200 billion for ICE?

That's pretty good, webrtc deserves that money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why are people who understand what they talk about always so pessimistic? Pessimism is not good for your health - they shouldn't be dismissive of anything just because of what might/will happen in the future. Learn something from the folks who talk out of their elbows and start living in the moment. The world hasn't ended even once before, so why worry about it? Let people do whatever they want and if that leads to the end of the human species completely, then we deal with that after it happens.

Edit: I'm confused about the downvotes - is the sarcasm not clear enough and you're downvoting because you think I might actually mean it, or is the sarcasm clear and you just feel like the comment deserved a downvote?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Audio communication is too slow. If Humans can't evolve to communicate telepathically, language itself should evolve to account for this. Here's what I propose:

  • we develop a mathematical formula to generate a fingerprint/signature for sentences we intent to say;
  • before saying anything, we calculate this fingerprint in our head, then say this fingerprint result, followed by the actual thing we want to say
  • the listener then gets this fingerprint result and keeps in mind; whenever it tries to predict what the full sentence from the speaker is going to be, it calculates the fingerprint for the predicted sentence and compares it to the fingerprint received at the start.
  • if the fingerprints match, then the listener reports: "I got it" and the speaker can then skip saying the rest of their sentence.

Surely this is bound to improve communication for everyone and would have no downsides whatsoever.

(Sorry, the amphetamines must be kicking in right about now).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I somehow managed to get pretty good at getting a good feeling of "did this person understood what I want them to understand?" and I adapt my level of overexplaining based on that feeling.

It's something I wish other people did to me as well, as I hate it when people keep talking more to make the same point I already got. Tbh sometimes I even wish people would stop mid-sentence if I already autocompleted their sentence in my head.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Brazil.

If I'm at home and simply unwell, I can walk to the neighborhood clinic (one specific clinic based on my address) and get checked - that usually takes half an hour to a couple hours, but it may not always have a doctor available.

So most people skip the local clinic completely and go to a municipal hospital instead (something doctors often plead people not to do). These should always have a couple doctors available and they'll see anybody - even if you have no documents. When you get there a nurse will check your pulse and stuff and ask some questions to determine your priority level, then the waiting time can go up to 4 hours if it's low priority.

If you need specific exams, that will depend on how well equipped the hospital is. Many will do it right there, some will request it from other cities and that may take time, so there's the option of doing it in private clinics too.

No matter what you may end up needing, if you do it through the public health system you won't need to pay anything at all. Even experimental treatments and surgeries can get arranged. But there's always the option of going to private clinics as well. Those can have much shorter waiting times.

Based on my limited experience, this is what people seem to do for each kind of visit:

Emergencies: pretty much everybody go to public hospitals. Most places don't even have private options for this.

Basic check up: most people will use the public system first, unless it's something very specific and they are well financially.

Dental care: most people who won't be financially crippled by it will go private. People tend to stick with the same dentist once they find a good one. On the public system you never know who you might be seeing.

Eye doctor: 50/50. There are nearly as many private options for this as there are for dental care, but a lot of them suck.

Expensive exams and operations: people will try to get them for free at first, or through some Health insurance plan they may have from work. Everybody knows someone who's been waiting months for something on the public system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's a completely different launcher, I just like the way they list the apps that are not in your home screen (very similar to windows phone). I still prefer smart launcher for its categories but sometimes for the apps I rarely use I liked Niagara's list.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I kinda agree with you to some extent. At the time my general reaction was something like: "everything it does, it does wonderfully. But I wish it did more".

When TotK came out, my first impression was "I guess I'm never playing BotW again". Mostly because they kind of overlap with each other in many aspects.

But I still thought BotW was a great game, before TotK existed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My ideal launcher would be a mix of Smart Launcher with the addition of the app list from Niagara.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had all of those symptoms with a migraine once, caused by caffeine withdrawal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Depends on your point of view. It's better than chatgpt, but still bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The code is open anyone to inspect, test, and improve. Vulnerabilities don’t stay hidden as they are found, reported, and fixed in the open.

That's also a myth, specially for a project of the size of nextcloud. Bugs can and do go unnoticed for years while in plain sight - with no way to know if it's been detected by any black hat.

Even worse: as soon as you merge a security fix in an open repository, people will instantly be trying to abuse it in any environment they can find that is currently running the unpatched version.

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