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What hills are you dying on? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter

. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy

. You don't need to shower everyday

. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans

. Monty Python is very overrated

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[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

LTS Linux distros are not good for desktop usage and terrible for beginners. (And for servers too but a bit less ig).
The current distribution model of Linux apps is garbage. The concept of package maintainers, in most cases, is just redundant, duplicated work.
Bash is horrible and relying on it for anything else than personal scripts gets messy really fast.
Having a standard "platform" in Linux is key.
SystemD is actually good, not perfect but very powerful.
Apps not using Portals are a crime.

Obviously written by NixOS sectarian.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

The red nub on IBM/Lenovo laptops is far superior to a touchpad

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Mental illness or/and a disability aren't excuses for shitty/abusive behavior.
No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.
Boiled eggs > fried eggs.
If people need it to survive, then it should be free.
Littering should be punishable with jail time.

[–] The_Ferry@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Honestly good points overall, but I will die on the other egg hill

[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.

Complete protection? Certainly not, but melanin does provide some protection from UV radiation. Still important to wear sunscreen because if a melanated individual where to get skin cancer it usually has a higher mortality rate because they're often caught late.

Epidemiological data strongly support the photoprotective role of melanin as there exists an inverse correlation between skin pigmentation and the incidence of sun-induced skin cancers (1) and subjects with White skin are approximately 70 times more likely to develop skin cancer than subjects with Black skin (67). The shielding effect of melanin, especially eumelanin, is achieved by its ability to serve as a physical barrier that scatters UVR, and as an absorbent filter that reduces the penetration of UV through the epidermis (68). The efficacy of melanin as a sunscreen was assumed to be about 1.5-2.0 sun protective factors (SPF);

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2671032/

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Yep, however my friends and family who have darker skin tend to believe that it makes them immune to it, which isn't the case, if anything they can get away with using sunscreen with lower fps and/or reapply less often, but everyone should protect their skin regardless.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've said it somewhere earlier today, I'll say it again here. I think Windows XP was bad, and that Vista was good.

But Windows in general is still absolute rubbish anyway.

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Vista was great. It just needed double the ram which was standard back then.

There are still functions of Vista MIA in w11. It was far ahead of it's time.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Definitely. People just had garbage computers.

I got a new computer a year after Vista came out. It came with Vista pre-installed. That thing lasted me 11 years, and the first three (2008-2011) WERE on Vista. That's how much I liked it.

[–] Captain_J@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

People should be educated on FOSS software & Fediverse and try to use it whenever possible.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 11 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Python sucks.

Not only is it extremely inefficient, it is also a pain in the ass to work with if you have to use APIs that heavily rely on dynamic type wrapping and don't provide stubs. Static analysis via Pylance is not possible then and you're basically poking around in the dark, increasing the difficulty enourmously to get to know such an API. Even worse if there isn't even a halfway decent documentation.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 1 points 24 minutes ago

thank you.

I really don't get how so many people find Python "ergonomic." kwargs and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race. they break type hinting and intellisense, and there's all kinds of proxy class shenanigans that all the libraries use. matplotlib is a horrible experience because there's just a kitchen sink of options, and it's hard to dynamically update plots. if there were a TypeScript-like dialect of Python I wouldn't have problems, but Python's type hinting is absolutely wretched.

I really want Julia to succeed.

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 47 minutes ago

Surprised to see Java that high tho. I have been using it for uni stuff and it's not bad.

Feels overly complex on some areas (gradle??) and I am not a fan of OOP but still relatively good.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I absolutely hate the package management in it. I can't tell you how many times I've found a cool python project, downloaded it from GitHub then tried to install requirements. And it turns into a huge nightmare of trying to find compatible packages. It'll be like you need wheel v3.1.0 so I try to install that,.then it's like no you can't do that because it's not compatible with numpy v79.84.1 that you have installed. So then you search and try to find which version is compatible, then install they go to install wheel again,.and it's like no you need pandas,.so you install pandas but it like sorry I'm not compatible with the version of numpy you installed.

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

I literally almost failed a uni course bc how shitty python packaging is. And well, maybe I am lazy, but the horrors of daring to get fucking deps were too much.

Just use Julia ffs. 😭😭

[–] wulrus@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

I thought you were referring to Monty Python like op did and I thought: what the heck is he talking about?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 26 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

People on Lemmy aren't "normal" people and shouldn't use their personal views as the norm.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Both employer related:

no biometrics
birthday not for sale

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