henfredemars

joined 2 years ago
[–] henfredemars 32 points 1 week ago

Stay safe! I’ll take wrong exit over unsafe maneuver every time.

[–] henfredemars 90 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Florida. Can’t talk about climate change.

[–] henfredemars 168 points 1 week ago (31 children)

Legally my state can’t tell us why. They banned the words that you would use to describe the situation.

[–] henfredemars 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Looks like they’re trying really hard to cancel out all of those progressive votes in Orlando.

[–] henfredemars 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Violent rhetoric definitely influences the mentally ill.

[–] henfredemars 10 points 1 week ago

That’s how you know who is the main character.

[–] henfredemars 5 points 1 week ago

I thought the bottom formation was teeth coming up to swallow the oddly drawn tree.

[–] henfredemars 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I strongly prefer recursive descent for parsers for a different reason: clarity. They are easy to read and they are easy to generate helpful error messages for the user because right there in the code of your parser you can provide great, contextually-relevant error messages.

I’ve tried parser generators a few times, but after running with the code for a while, it just doesn’t offer me the level of error reporting flexibility that I can achieve using a simple descent.

[–] henfredemars 8 points 1 week ago

Article title from the original source was changed by the author because it doesn’t actually make the case that the title claim is going to occur.

“When circumvention is more popular than compliance” is the new title.

[–] henfredemars 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In what sense? It’s certainly a gathering place.

[–] henfredemars 80 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem to be a shitpost. This seems pretty cool.

[–] henfredemars 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Consider the discrepancies in jobs requiring similar education and responsibility, or similar skills, but divided by gender. The median earnings of information technology managers (mostly men) are 27 percent higher than human resources managers (mostly women), according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

I don’t think its article did itself a service by making this their first example of similar jobs with similar responsibilities.

A new study from researchers at Cornell University found that the difference between the occupations and industries in which men and women work has recently become the single largest cause of the gender pay gap, accounting for more than half of it. In fact, another study shows, when women enter fields in greater numbers, pay declines — for the very same jobs that more men were doing before.

I think the article has a habit of muddying its point. The second study is extremely interesting, but it belabors the first one.

While the pay gap has been closing, it remains wide. Over all, in fields where men are the majority, the median pay is $962 a week — 21 percent higher than in occupations with a majority of women, according to another new study, published Friday by Third Way, a research group that aims to advance centrist policy ideas.

Editing is bizarre. It seems like we were about to make an argument but then forgot to do so. It has the feel of someone who wrote an essay trying to meet a word count. We know why we’re here and reading. A simple report on the second study would have been plenty.

Finally, the article was posted back in 2016.

 

So much pony on the canvas! Where are all you guys and gals coming from? MLP has always seemed fairly quiet on the fediverse, but the proof is in the pudding, apparently!

It warms my old, nerdy heart.

 

After Linux reduced LTS releases from 6 years to 2, Google has committed to supporting its forks for 4 years.

 

AI-generated Summary:

A new leak suggests the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, featuring an Adreno 830 GPU, will support frame interpolation, allowing games like Genshin Impact to run at 1080p 120 FPS. Frame interpolation, similar to Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FSR, increases framerates by adding artificial frames but can cause input lag and visual artifacts. This feature might also be available on older Snapdragon models via firmware updates, potentially enabling AAA PC/console games on Android.

My take:

Fascinating that this feature could be supported on mobile, but I'm personally not convinced that there are many mobile gamers pushing the hardware. Most mobile gamers are very casual, and even Apple has trouble getting consumers to take AAA games on mobile seriously.

 

Google Earth is almost not usable in Firefox. I’d like to ask for suggestions from the community because I really don’t want to use Google Chrome where it works great. I’m on Linux Mint, an Ubuntu derivative.

 

Points taken from article:

  • Android 15 is adding a built-in mechanism to protect your device from “juice jacking” attacks.
  • Charging will be allowed when lockdown mode is enabled in Android 15, but USB data access will not.
  • Juice jacking is a largely theoretical problem you don’t really need to worry about, but it’s still nice that Android will protect you against it.
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by henfredemars to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
 

I’m not sure if an opinion piece is appropriate here, so please let me know if this doesn’t fit the theme of the community, and I’ll avoid sharing such thoughts in the future.

I’m extremely frustrated with the car centric culture in my area. I live about 25 miles west of a quarry. Every day I watch trains go up and down the railroad mostly carrying gravel. This railroad stretches for several hours by car in each direction, connecting several large cities and even passing a few tourist attractions, and despite our traffic congestion problems there is little interest in trying to use this rail for actual people.

One company moved in and started running a new passenger rail service. Within a few weeks, we had protesters at the railroads complaining that drivers don’t understand railroad crossings. I saw posters about how trains were killing residents when drivers park on the tracks and get hit. I don’t understand! Where do you think the train is going to go? They don’t exactly come out of nowhere. They follow the tracks! And we’ve always had trains passing through our town before. At a later local election a candidate ran on the premise that they’re going to protect home values and our children by reducing or eliminating the number of trains passing through our town. This candidate did win our local election and sadly they succeeded in cutting down on rail investment.

Fast-forward a couple years later. Passenger rail stations were built at the endpoints of this rail to ferry tourists. I drive parallel to this rail on the way to work several times per week for almost 45 minutes each way, 20 minutes of which is heavy traffic. I get to enjoy watching people ride the train while there’s no stop anywhere near my house because our local government has sided with homeowners that a passenger rail station is “simply too dangerous.” I would have to drive over an hour to the nearest passenger rail station to ride the train, and I can literally see the tracks from my apartment.

Every time I see that train I feel bitter. I could save so much money if these boneheads would have let them build a train station in our town. Absolutely ridiculous! The train is there. The rail is there. I don’t understand why a train is such a personal, existential threat to your way of life.

 

Surprised nobody has posted about the new expedition. I learned about the last one from Lemmy, so I'm returning the favor in case someone else learns about it from me.

Six weeks remaining!

 

AI Summary:

Google Messages will support texting 911 via RCS starting this winter, offering features like location sharing and read receipts. This upgrade improves emergency texting which is already supported by over half of US dispatch centers. Google collaborates with RapidSOS for enhanced responder info. This announcement precedes Apple's expected RCS support in iOS 18, aiming to broaden RCS adoption.

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Stolen Oats (derpibooru.org)
 

I wouldn't have Chrome installed if it weren't for those crappy school and government websites that refuse to work on anything else but Chrome.

 

Handle with Care.

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