breadcodes

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[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's how polls work. I'm not sure if you genuinely don't know, but that's just how they are done.

You can very accurately extrapolate data on the entire population with just 1000 participants. The flaw is in geography distribution, population distribution, willingness to poll, and other types of sample bias, but if they account for those then that's perfectly valid.

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Schools sign the contracts themselves for license deals. The program either doesn't collect the same data, or doesn't collect anything other than analytics.

They do this in Enterprise too. All of our enterprise software is a special version made for distribution. No EULA is involved.

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

No you're actually right, I didn't go to college... Because it was expensive, not because of the advice lol

No clue why they thought it was a good idea. Maybe it was a scare/reverse-psychology tactic to get us to study something specific.

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was told to be a garbage man. Who the fuck made these tests? My guidance counselor for years told me not to go to college.

I'm a software engineer now, and while I believe garbage men deserve better pay and benefits and recognition as essential skilled workers, who the fuck tells that to a kid? That they should give up on college and work a labor job for their entire life?

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always upvote Noodle. This specific video led me to leave my workplace abuse as a dev, and just about just about everyone else I worked with left as well once they saw people leaving. We're all much happier for it. I wish we had a union, because I loved those people and wanted to work with them forever, but we all had to move on.

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a cop out. Blocking requires engagement with the content, and some of us want a blanket ban so it doesn't seep into our space.

I just want to post about fun stuff without having to wade waist deep in content that wants people to kill themselves.

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No. The point is so that servers can do what they want without influence. If a server hates Nazis, then they don't have to participate with them. That's their right.

If a server wants free speech, they can do that, but it'll always eat itself and that's fun to watch as people piss and moan now that people don't want to engage with them.

If you think this is about free speech, I think you should join a free speech server. I'll laugh when you find out free speech servers are just hateful places without consequences, though!

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Mac is a competent *NIX BSD system. The problem is the price and lack of control. Anyone who thinks Mac isn't on the Linux side 50% of the time hasn't used it.

Work only gives me the option between Mac and Windows, and I'll pick the *NIX 100% of the time.

[–] breadcodes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's because they're mixing dialogue for the center channel speaker. Most people don't have a center channel on their TV or sound bar, but some "Dialogue Mode"s will exclusively play the center channel and drown out the sound effects. It's a trade off, but one that most manufacturers don't even give the option for.

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