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  1. Comment on Some of my family members aren't convinced that ICE isn't overstepping and that they are just deporting people that broke the law, can you help me share unbiased links that proves they are? in ~society

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    I think this is a great suggestion, it also forces them to introspect (or at least pushes them in that direction) to think about "am I just digging my heels in, or do I have good reason for my...

    I think this is a great suggestion, it also forces them to introspect (or at least pushes them in that direction) to think about "am I just digging my heels in, or do I have good reason for my position"? Tbh I think this would probably be good advice for anyone to self-reflect on when you're feeling that you're in a conflict of some sort.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge in ~humanities.history

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    You might be right. Fire is usually 'eld' in Swedish, but I think the rest of your reasoning works. I have a hard time coming up with any modern uses of 'fyr' in Swedish that doesn't come from the...

    You might be right. Fire is usually 'eld' in Swedish, but I think the rest of your reasoning works. I have a hard time coming up with any modern uses of 'fyr' in Swedish that doesn't come from the lighthouse though.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge in ~humanities.history

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    Readly cool, It's 'fyr' in Swedish, so I guess that's the same as well

    Readly cool, It's 'fyr' in Swedish, so I guess that's the same as well

    3 votes

  4. Comment on What science says we’ve been getting wrong about exercise in ~health

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    I know I've been recommended to either go for full run 3 times a week or don't bother exercising at all by a professional, because it will give nothing. I've never believed it. I've also been told...

    I know I've been recommended to either go for full run 3 times a week or don't bother exercising at all by a professional, because it will give nothing. I've never believed it. I've also been told that walking for 20 minutes to work instead of taking the bus is meaningless from a person with serious interest in exercise. That stuff can kill motivation for sure. I've also been told that if I want to start meditating, I only need to do it for 40 minutes every morning. I don't think that person understand what it means to have kids.

    Just saying that even if you start out motivated, other people giving bad advice with good intentions can really break that down.

    13 votes

  5. Comment on Two small word games in ~games

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    Fun games, although a bit hard for me, especially unzipped, maybe make different versions of unzipped with fewer words as an easy way to tweak difficulty? For tumblers, I think it would nice to...

    Fun games, although a bit hard for me, especially unzipped, maybe make different versions of unzipped with fewer words as an easy way to tweak difficulty? For tumblers, I think it would nice to have the alphabet under the puzzle for convenience. I suspect many players have it open in another tab.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis in ~comp

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    I don't think unique lines of code is great for measuring boiler plate. Often boilerplate includes the name of the function, or class, or similar, making it not unique, but still almost copy...

    I don't think unique lines of code is great for measuring boiler plate. Often boilerplate includes the name of the function, or class, or similar, making it not unique, but still almost copy paste. Also, is e.g. the try: statement in a try-catch boilerplate? I would say no, but it will be counted by this metric.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Why there's no European Google? in ~tech

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    This took some time for me to figure out, sorry about that, but it's more of a feeling than anything. At work I've used mostly GCP and some AWS, privately I'm investigating setting up something...

    This took some time for me to figure out, sorry about that, but it's more of a feeling than anything. At work I've used mostly GCP and some AWS, privately I'm investigating setting up something for myself and so far I've looked mostly at Scaleway and Hetzner, and a little bit at OVHCloud. So goals are obviously completely different. Honestly it's more of the overwhelming list of services offered by AWS (and to some extent GCP) compared to the listings of the european alternatives. The services I've investigated for myself can probably be well covered inside EU from what I've seen, and I didn't spend any time actually looking for alternatives for the services we use at work, mabye it can be replicated.

    From what it looks like so far, Scaleway is the most competent. Also I know that I didn't talk about that in the original post, but Scaleway only have presence in 3 countries from what I can see (except edge nodes). That part alone would be complete no go for at least parts of what my company wants to deploy.

    So, to summarize, there's no specific thing I know that I would be missing, and maybe all of the extra things in AWS list of services is crap. Hope that made sense =)

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What healthy habit has made a difference for you? in ~health

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    Putting an alarm for when I shall go to bed, not just for getting out of the bed. Makes maintaining the amount of sleep much easier for me.

    Putting an alarm for when I shall go to bed, not just for getting out of the bed. Makes maintaining the amount of sleep much easier for me.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on My relationship feels like it's collapsing and I don't know what to do in ~life

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    Thank you for sharing, I feel for you, and this is a bit overwhelming for me, so I can't imagine what it's like for you. Here are some thoughts I had while reading. Take them for what they are and...

    Thank you for sharing, I feel for you, and this is a bit overwhelming for me, so I can't imagine what it's like for you. Here are some thoughts I had while reading. Take them for what they are and don't put too much weight on them, I'm just a stranger on the internet:

    1. First of all, I get the impression that B (and you) have been functioning much better before, that means that there may be a way back to that. Don't stare at it blindly if the current situation is swallowing you whole, but I thought I'd mention that I don't think this is necessarily hopeless even if the rest of my comments are talking about the problems.
    2. Is B able talk about not being able to talk, or at least acknowledging that she's shutting down? I'm thinking of this as a completely separate discussion, disconnected in time from talking about any other problems while assuring her that you won't bring anything else up during that discussion (we don't want her to feel ambushed).
    3. Therapy, together or separate, or even just you. Is this something you have considered? I understand that the budget is tight, both for time and money, but it feels like you could do very well with an outside perspective, someone that's used to talking about these kind of problems in a way that might be easier for B to handle. EDIT: When I read through your post again I saw that you did bring this up. I'm gonna leave this here as a gentle poke that I think you should try to get it in some way.
    4. Marriage, going forward into marriage if you can't even talk about your problems seems very scary to me.
    5. Marriage party. It's quite possible to postpone the party without cancelling the marriage completely. You seem to have plenty of reasons that you could list if that's something you'd want to do.
    6. Screen time for B. I understand that you're not the parent of B, so solving this issue shouldn't be on you. However doomscrolling is probably hurting more than helping if she finds herself doing that for longer periods of time. I.e. if she's spending every evening doomscrolling for more than a week, then it's probably causing more issues than it solves.
    7. Your children (maybe not, but it's not all about blood). I don't know nearly enough about children with diagnoses to say anything concrete here, but I think you should really talk to a professional if that's an option. It sounds like you have more than you can handle.
    9 votes

  10. Comment on Why there's no European Google? in ~tech

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    I'm not talking about a lack of cloud hosts, I'm talking about the services they offer. I also think it's a problem that the services are not standardized making it hard to move from one provider...

    I'm not talking about a lack of cloud hosts, I'm talking about the services they offer. I also think it's a problem that the services are not standardized making it hard to move from one provider to another, I think that should reasonably be caught by antitrust laws. But it's a different problem from the services being not being offered in eu at all.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on Listing for GOG Galaxy developer cites Linux as “next major frontier” in ~games

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    Wine/Proton integration like Steam has would be very useful and imho the first logical step. (I know that's a bit philosophical if games should ported or use wine, but personally I'm of the...

    Wine/Proton integration like Steam has would be very useful and imho the first logical step. (I know that's a bit philosophical if games should ported or use wine, but personally I'm of the opinion that we need a solid userbase in linux and once we have that the native versions will come on their own).

    12 votes

  12. Comment on Listing for GOG Galaxy developer cites Linux as “next major frontier” in ~games

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    Cool! I gave up on GoG because they had so bad linux support compared to Steam. I hope this is a general linux push for them.

    Cool! I gave up on GoG because they had so bad linux support compared to Steam. I hope this is a general linux push for them.

    22 votes

  13. Comment on Terry Pratchett’s novels may have held clues to his dementia a decade before diagnosis, our new study suggests in ~books

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    I didn't notice the difference before Snuff, and I don't think I would've finished Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown if they hadn't been written by Pratchett. It's fascinating that it was...

    I didn't notice the difference before Snuff, and I don't think I would've finished Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown if they hadn't been written by Pratchett. It's fascinating that it was noticeable so early, I think some of his best books are in that list.

    2 votes

  14. Where to buy mp3s legally?

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    Recently I bought a mp3 player and I want to know the best place to buy mp3s (or similar). Biggest priority is things that are in Swedish and stories for kids . Maybe the things I want there...

    Recently I bought a mp3 player and I want to know the best place to buy mp3s (or similar). Biggest priority is things that are in Swedish and stories for kids . Maybe the things I want there counts as audio books, some of it, but not all I think? All input is good :).

    22 votes

  15. Comment on Why there's no European Google? in ~tech

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    I would not use mastodon as a success story, but outside of that nitpicking (throwing in curl as a replacement) I think a lot of the reasoning holds true. It is good that we're not building tech...

    I would not use mastodon as a success story, but outside of that nitpicking (throwing in curl as a replacement) I think a lot of the reasoning holds true. It is good that we're not building tech giants in that way. I think we are lagging behind in some important ways. E.g. for cloud hosting there are no alternatives inside eu that are even close to aws or gcp when it comes to features and maturity.

    15 votes

  16. Comment on No knives, only cook knives in ~hobbies

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    Thanks! That makes sense, in my mind I was thinking Damascus != Sweden, but I guess damascus steel has not necessarily been made in damascus for a long time =).

    Thanks! That makes sense, in my mind I was thinking Damascus != Sweden, but I guess damascus steel has not necessarily been made in damascus for a long time =).

    1 vote

  17. Comment on No knives, only cook knives in ~hobbies

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    Sidenote: Looking at that "other knife", if you know, what is it that makes it swedish? I don't see anything in the description that references sweden in any way.

    Sidenote: Looking at that "other knife", if you know, what is it that makes it swedish? I don't see anything in the description that references sweden in any way.

  18. Comment on What’s a point that you think many people missed? in ~talk

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    Or it's a loss lead, where they expect to make more money on other things. Or they need to move a lot of items to compensate for a fixed cost. Or another reason. I think the actual...

    Or it's a loss lead, where they expect to make more money on other things. Or they need to move a lot of items to compensate for a fixed cost. Or another reason.

    I think the actual misunderstanding here is that prices are set based on the expenses of the seller. Prices are set based on what the market can bear. Sometimes that's a direct loss where you need to get rid of stock to make room for something more profitable, but mostly it's not, because store owners have the store to make a living or make money. There's also not a direct connection between individual items in the store and profitability. The total amount of money made is what should compensate for fixed costs like staffing and rent etc.

    7 votes

  19. Comment on ‘Sell America’ returns to Wall Street after Donald Trump ups the ante against Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve in ~society

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    Isn't that the key to Trumps whole governing model, where loyalty to him is more important than anything else? Regardless of it has direct effect or not. Trump wants people to know that its best...

    Isn't that the key to Trumps whole governing model, where loyalty to him is more important than anything else? Regardless of it has direct effect or not. Trump wants people to know that its best for you to do what you think will make him happy, other orders, procedure or legality be damned.

    19 votes

  20. Comment on What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? in ~society

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    Thank you! Looks like it's still thriving. I was indeed looking at wikipedias lists of individual movies which was very lacking. I don't know how complete it is, but imdb/nigeria/2024/movies has...

    Thank you! Looks like it's still thriving. I was indeed looking at wikipedias lists of individual movies which was very lacking. I don't know how complete it is, but imdb/nigeria/2024/movies has numbers and individual films, around 800 per year, at least at a glance.

    3 votes