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@ BitSound @lemmy.world

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  • Are trans women actually as scary as cis men?

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  • Thanks. I'm not intending to push anything here. She has some other interesting articles and I came across this one on her blog while I was reading those. Didn't really see any discussion online about it, and thought this would be a good community for evaluating the claims. I'm coming from a place where I think stuff like this that tries to make concrete claims from data is best discussed and picked apart, especially since it didn't come across as bad faith to me, but I can understand that might not be a view shared by everyone.

  • What’s an album you thought you would like at first but ended up disliking after listening to it?

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  • Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique | Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison

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  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Neoliberalism is dead. Where do we go from here?

  • BestOfLemmy @lemmy.world
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    @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz explains why we need compilers

    lemmy.world /comment/9473132

  • The Planck Cruncher: The universe's fastest password cracker

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  • Not sure if this is what you're referencing, but there's a famous quantum computer researcher named Scott Aaronson who has this at the top of his blog:

    If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel.

    His blog is good, talks about a lot of quantum computing stuff at an accessible level

  • The Planck Cruncher: The universe's fastest password cracker

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  • BestOfLemmy @lemmy.world
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    @Charger8232@lemmy.ml does the math on password cracking

    lemmy.world /post/21413449

  • What is your Brown M&M?

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  • Idiomatic awk

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  • Does anyone here actually use awk for more than trivial operations? If I ever have to have to consider writing anything substantial with bash/awk/sed/etc, I just start writing a Python script. No hate to the classic tools, but Python is just really nice.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is your Brown M&M?

  • Finally did it, got my parent on linux.

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  • Finally did it, got my parent on linux.

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  • Definitely not. There's a whole genre of music that's created for riding the coattails of popular songs. They wait for a song title by artists like Taylor Swift to be announced and then release their own songs with the same title. Sometimes they're actually good, like this dude:

    https://genius.com/artists/Only-fire

  • Where'd everybody go?

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  • I've been wondering how much of that is back to school. I have the sense that Lemmy has a lot of younger users. I can't judge though as I've been inactive for long stretches due to life. I've been trying to contribute more now

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  • The latter, but I also don't really mind paywalls in the form of "get early access" like SMBC comics or "get exclusive special content" like a lot of bands do.

    You can just straight paywall with those too, but you don't have too. A band I like crowdfunded a music video and you can watch it free on youtube, but if you didn't crowdfund it you missed out on perks that go all the way up to being in the music video

  • Undersubscribed Communities

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  • Probably my favorite set of stories is by qntm, who writes lots of short fiction you can check out at his site. He wrote There Is No Antimemetics Division, which I think is best described by the intro he wrote for it:

    An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

    Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams…

    But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war?

    Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

    No, this is not your first day.

    There's a lot of other good entries too. They generally take the form of a wiki entry at https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/, as a classified file describing some anomalous thing or event. They have a shared canon but only loosely, individual stories can conflict with one another. Here's a couple good ones:

    I'll post over in !scp@lemmy.world too, to see what other people recommend for getting into it

  • Which scene in a movie/series do you think didn't make any sense to the plot ?

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  • The trilogy would've been much better if either director had done all 3. Either J.J. Abrams with a fun nostalgic return to form, or Rian Johnson with a fresh new take. The whiplash from them fighting with each other over the direction of the plot just ended up being a huge mess. I'm pretty surprised they weren't just told what the plot was going to be, kind of seems like a screwup by whoever handled that.

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  • False dichotomy, I'd rather see other funding models like Patreon/Kickstarter. Paying gets you early access/bonus stuff/whatever, and you don't need intrusive technologies like ads/paywalls.

  • Undersubscribed Communities

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  • BestOfLemmy @lemmy.world
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Lemmy draws a duck

    lemmy.world /post/20718737

  • Difference Between Concrete, Concrete Slabs and Concrete Lanes?

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  • I was also confused. I've been using concrete:plates for almost all walkways that I've encountered. On surface=concrete:plates it says this:

    surface=concrete - concrete forming a large surface, typically cast in place and may have predetermined breaking joints

    Which is confusing, because sidewalks AFAIK are cast in place and have predetermined breaking joints, but it seems like surface=concrete is more for mostly continuous concrete surfaces regardless of that text?

  • Aneurysm Posting @sopuli.xyz
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    Water isn’t wet, water wets things

  • Recreational sinkhole

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  • @IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world recounts how they quit hexbear

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  • I can't really seem to find a good way to see active user growth over time. That site has a chart at https://lemmyverse.net/instance/hexbear.net/user-growth, but that only goes back to January, and a simple user count isn't really enough to say anything. Something like https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats but per-instance would be pretty informative, especially going back a few years.

    At any rate, this is the sort of productive conversation that I thought would be good to have about the post.

  • BestOfLemmy @lemmy.world
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    @IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world recounts how they quit hexbear

    lemmy.world /comment/12777548
  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN...

    github.com /Anuken/Mindustry/commit/5548e727501793479c4cdb557e267a9441dd5698
  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Preferred way to map landuse=residential?

  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    How should sidewalk crossings be mapped exactly?

  • Python @programming.dev
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines

    discuss.python.org /t/should-we-consider-ranked-choice-voting-for-sc-elections/61880
  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Can I use a Relation to join a restaurant and its patio?

  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Is this really the best way to track bus and other routes?

  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    What value should I use for traffic_signals=*?

  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    What is the best way to mark an inactive bus stop?

  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Can I assume orthoimagery is the best for tracing buildings?

  • Art of MTG @mtgzone.com
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    A History Of Phallic Art In Magic: the Gathering

    commandersherald.com /a-history-of-phallic-art-in-magic-the-gathering/
  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Opinions on Rembrance of Earth's Past Series