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Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men
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Comment on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability in ~tech
V17 Link ParentOfftopic, just sharing it as good news: probably thanks to the spread of right to repair laws relatively easily repairable USB-C ports are already available. I don't know of any devices that use...Those ports and/or USB-C ports have historically (at least in my experience supporting them) been a common failure point through wear and tear in an office environment, that used to require entire motherboard replacement.
Offtopic, just sharing it as good news: probably thanks to the spread of right to repair laws relatively easily repairable USB-C ports are already available. I don't know of any devices that use them yet (haven't really looked though) and they're kind of expensive for now, but both is likely to change soon since adoption of similar stuff will likely be mandatory. So in time this too will hopefully be a thing of the past.
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Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men
V17 Link ParentNo, that is not what is surprising. What is surprising is the graphs showing that the younger you are, the more of those conservative sentiments you have in general, meaning boomers are by far the...I mean at the risk of being crass is it really that surprising? I feel like it's once a week we have some study that shows gen z men being more conservative and gen z women being more progressive.
No, that is not what is surprising. What is surprising is the graphs showing that the younger you are, the more of those conservative sentiments you have in general, meaning boomers are by far the most progressive generation, gen X less so and millenials are almost as conservative as gen Z.
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Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men
V17 Link ParentSeems like it. At least some of the data exludes "don't know/not stated", which could distort the results by a lot. It doesn't even need to be a true hardening of agree/disagree sentiments in this...Seems like it. At least some of the data exludes "don't know/not stated", which could distort the results by a lot. It doesn't even need to be a true hardening of agree/disagree sentiments in this young generation, it could just be that young people may tend to have stronger opinions in general.
On top of that most of the data was collected online and naturally includes more people from urban/well connected groups. This likely selects for more educated and liberal boomers specifically because 60-80 years old people with more conservative views and/or from rural areas are surely much less likely to respond to online polls.
Some of the groups are also really small. They don't weight the results based on population I think, which means that countries with few respondents have the same weight as countries with a lot of respondents, but the boomer groups may be tiny with a lot of noise in them.
And speaking from experience with similar polls done in the EU, there are sometimes issues with translation that create pretty big biases, for example in this case it could be "wife should always obey the husband" translated to something like "wife should always respect or follow the husband", which is far less extreme. I remember something like this happening with polls on attitudes towards ethnic minorities, the wording was different enough in different languages that it made some countries look nonsensically bad.
Only the first two points would directly lead to what we're seeing in the graphs, but I'm not convinced by the quality of the data in general.
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Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men
V17 (edited )Link ParentWith a carefully selected sample 23k people easily is a big enough sample. But it really seems strange that literally all the metrics are continually increasing from boomers to gen Z. edit:...With a carefully selected sample 23k people easily is a big enough sample. But it really seems strange that literally all the metrics are continually increasing from boomers to gen Z.
edit: looking at the data, it is not a carefully selected representative sample.
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Comment on The Lobster programming language in ~comp
V17 LinkOh, it's the guy who made Cube and Sauerbraten, and worked on the first Far Cry engine among other things. I was always a bit disappointed by the unfulfilled potential of Cube and Sauerbraten as...Oh, it's the guy who made Cube and Sauerbraten, and worked on the first Far Cry engine among other things. I was always a bit disappointed by the unfulfilled potential of Cube and Sauerbraten as actual games, but engine-wise they seemed brilliant - original and well thought out. That makes any claims he makes about this project trustworthy for me.
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Comment on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in Israeli and American joint strikes in ~society
V17 Link ParentLikely the most important update at this moment: Times of Israel now claims that Khamenei is confirmed dead. 1 2 -
Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology in ~enviro
V17 Link ParentI think Scandinavia is an exception in this regard. I'm from Czechia and our hydroelectric capacity (realized and potential, without negatively affecting too many other things) is very small....I think Scandinavia is an exception in this regard. I'm from Czechia and our hydroelectric capacity (realized and potential, without negatively affecting too many other things) is very small. Hydroelectric is great when it's available though.
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Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology in ~enviro
V17 LinkI finally watched the whole video and I'm really disappointed because on one hand he raises interesting and optimistic ideas and calculations, but on the other he completely glosses over the...I finally watched the whole video and I'm really disappointed because on one hand he raises interesting and optimistic ideas and calculations, but on the other he completely glosses over the biggest hurdle: energy storage, grid firming and in general the fact that PVE is currently not a panel cost problem, PVE is a grid infrastructure problem.
The energy grid needs to be firm, meaning we need to be able to provide energy close to 100% of the time. That is not a problem right now because solar adoption is low enough that any state/country with higher proportions of PVE that gets big seasonal drops in efficiency can either temporarily increase fossil production or buy energy from their neighbor, which is economically worth it because you only need to care about overnight storage for PVE plants. When everyone scales PVE up and this ceases to be a risk free option, the renewable energy cost multiplies.
Even overnight firming using battery storage, which is commonly done, increases the energy prices by about 2/3. That is still cheap enough to be competitive, but that's not the real issue, the real issue is seasonal firming: in a big part of Europe for example you can get 2 weeks with virtually no solar energy generation but peak energy consumption. The video mentions that PVE with storage is cheap but completely omits that this is only true for overnight storage, for seasonal storage not only is this completely wrong, but the demands are so huge that even space becomes a problem.
The cost calculations vary, but they seem to at least approach 100 USD/MWh for grids that are mostly but not entirely based on renewables, and climb higher for 100% renewable grids. This is despite the fact that since solar is so cheap, we can simply build more, overproduce during the summer and essentially throw out the energy so that we get more adequate coverage in the winter - even this approach has economical limits.
I am no fan of fossil fuels. I think that, economically, we can still rely on them for a long time, but both ecologically and politically they're a nightmare. But clearly solar still has strong limitations outside of very sunny areas and broad adoption over a certain percentage is going to increase energy costs, not reduce. Energy transport from sunny desert areas is great, but in a large capacity that's not cheap either and increased centralization brings some strategic issues as well - especially from a European point of view (a couple main VHV lines are easy sabotage targets).
Most of all I'm pissed that we have slept on nuclear innovation for decades.
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Comment on Tell me about your favourite web-based logic puzzles! in ~games
V17 LinkKonkr is technically a turn based strategy, but it's so simple that it really feels like a strategy-puzzle hybrid, at least in the small maps. If you know the old shareware game Slay, this is an...Konkr is technically a turn based strategy, but it's so simple that it really feels like a strategy-puzzle hybrid, at least in the small maps. If you know the old shareware game Slay, this is an updated clone that runs in the browser, works well on the phone and is free.
Not web based, but if you have an Android phone, try Tower of the Sorcerer. It's a port of a puzzle game from 1995 that's quite brilliant (literally started a whole genre of games) and can be played in small batches as well (save anywhere anytime), though it is somewhat addictive. It's basically about resource management - you spend health in fights with creatures that block the way, improve attack and defense in various ways to reduce the health spent and decide where to spend limited numbers of keys for locked doors. It has a few special items or monsters here and there, and the goal is to get through 50 floors - each of it is small enough to fit on a phone screen.
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Comment on Third spaces: What do we want, and how do we get them? in ~life
V17 LinkOur local hackerspace is surprisingly open. Honestly I somewhat preferred the time when it was smaller and a bit more gatekeepy as a result (not because we would exclude anybody but because if you...-
Our local hackerspace is surprisingly open. Honestly I somewhat preferred the time when it was smaller and a bit more gatekeepy as a result (not because we would exclude anybody but because if you didn't have an interesting project or something, you would not really have a motivation to join), because the people at that time did more interesting work on average, but it works okay as a larger community these days and it certainly is a place you can visit any time and between say 9 am to 3 am somebody's going to be there to chat. You don't need to be a member (and pay fees) to visit regularly, and we have a grill/community meet every friday. The only challenge is keeping it going by seeking out new members: over the years people naturally fall out because hackerspace projects often take a lot of time with no financial gain, so as you get a more demanding job and/or a family, you stop being active. Few people stay for 10+ years.
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Various music communities. This is quite demanding because you need to be able to make music in some way, but the rewards are immense. The jazz community in my town especially is great - lots of cool people, great music, and with jazz it's natural to play in more than one band, substitute for others etc. Even going to band practice of a mediocre student big band every week is often a great social opportunity. There's a vibrant swing dance scene as well, which is much less demanding with regards to skill and accepting to newbies, though it seems to have a smell of "you need to have the right opinions to be one of us" for some reason, much more than the musicians.
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Beer pubs. This is a bit less kosher since it generally involves drinking regularly, but Czechia is still managing to keep its beer culture, although covid did a number on cheap pubs. The essence is that we still have a lot of pubs that are reasonably cheap and that serve as a social equalizer, because the guests range from a homeless looking person to literally the president. It is not generally normalized to go alone and join random strangers, but there are pubs where it happens, and there are opportunities to do so in other pubs, like foreign language practice groups, tabletop game groups etc. I don't drink much these days, but I love our dirty pubs.
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Comment on What are your architectural hot takes? in ~design
V17 Link"Classic" or "old school" architecture line neoclassicism or art deco is superior in looks to almost everything built today, and even faux historic architecture that is often objectively imperfect..."Classic" or "old school" architecture line neoclassicism or art deco is superior in looks to almost everything built today, and even faux historic architecture that is often objectively imperfect in its representation of a time/style period and slightly kitchy is superior to most.
And a second part of this not so hot take is that most people agree with this and the other reason why other, worse architectural styles are being built (after money) is that most architects have a dislike of faux historical styles that is based on nothing but snobbery.
I can tell you for a fact that returning home each day into a flat in a beautiful 100 years old house with statues on its facade in a street full of such houses is awesome.
I do like well made brutalism though, nothing against that, I just think it's rare. The Japanese seem to be able to do it pretty well.
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Comment on Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube in ~tv
V17 Link ParentIt's region locked though, not working in Czechia, the previous ones were.It's region locked though, not working in Czechia, the previous ones were.
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Comment on Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube in ~tv
V17 Link ParentYes. The youtube link is on warnerbros.com, so it's legit, but it doesn't work right now, who knows what heppened.Yes. The youtube link is on warnerbros.com, so it's legit, but it doesn't work right now, who knows what heppened.
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Comment on Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube in ~tv
V17 Link ParentJesus christ. Why. I'm expecting another NuTrek, and I'm really tired of that.Bad news though - last I heard JMS was out and Netflix was fishing around for a new showrunner to create the reboot.
Jesus christ. Why. I'm expecting another NuTrek, and I'm really tired of that.
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Comment on Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format in ~comp
V17 LinkThis is really cool... but the example page doesn't actually load any of the resources, the title image or the audio clip, for me - neither on firefox nor on edge. That's not exactly convincing....This is really cool... but the example page doesn't actually load any of the resources, the title image or the audio clip, for me - neither on firefox nor on edge. That's not exactly convincing.
edit: okay no, now that I posted this it does work, dunno if it needed several refreshes or just a couple minutes of waiting, or perhaps the page decided to load the big audio file very slowly before the title image. Still not great as the example, but it does work.
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Comment on Joy of sharing a creation replaced by a longing sadness in ~talk
V17 LinkI remember vividly how frustrating it was to try to post on some technical advice subreddits, whether asking for advice or contributing in some way. Shadow bans on some words or topics that are...I remember vividly how frustrating it was to try to post on some technical advice subreddits, whether asking for advice or contributing in some way. Shadow bans on some words or topics that are not listed anywhere, no warnings, mods don't react to any messages, stuff like that. And that's for a thing that I spend maybe half an hour on, so really not much time lost, but it was still frustrating because it's so stupid, you know that this affects so many people and yet it's been getting worse, not better.
Can't imagine how it feels in a situation where you put hours of genuine effort into the thing.
It's not the same, but maybe try to befriend another map maker or somebody legit from the community who can post stuff on your behalf and forward messages back and forth. Because when it's just one person, you can keep several communication channels with them including those that do not normally get blocked, and they can then post stuff on the channels that tend to fuck you over.
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Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud in ~tech
V17 Link ParentI mean it depends. I can still enjoy crust punk or Darkthrone. Some amateur live recordings with average camera sound became clearer and a bit easier to listen to. But some overly loud popular...I mean it depends. I can still enjoy crust punk or Darkthrone. Some amateur live recordings with average camera sound became clearer and a bit easier to listen to. But some overly loud popular music recordings became quite annoying, which I consider a feature, not a bug.
The only thing I dislike is that Rick Rubin fucked up a few albums that I enjoy with loudness wars, like half the Slayer discography or Californication by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. And those became even more tiring to listen to than before. It pissed me off so much that I started coding an audio declipper to remove all the clipping distortion and make my own remasters that are easier to listen to, still in progress - that is the weirdest audiophile thing I've ever done by far.
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Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud in ~tech
V17 Link ParentBecause the experience is that much better. It's a different world. But it's possible and better to start small - headphones or especially in-ears can sometimes be bought really cheaply if you...If I can enjoy 96 kbps MP3 over shitty speakers, why would I spend thousands upon thousands on equipment to ruin that experience?
Because the experience is that much better. It's a different world. But it's possible and better to start small - headphones or especially in-ears can sometimes be bought really cheaply if you know what you're doing and fix their frequency response with EQ. Headphones are always a compromise though, and speakers cost more, but even there the prices fell sharply in the last decade. Some studio monitors for less than 500 USD can be pretty great.
Unfortunately the difference between 500 USD studio monitors and good 6k USD hifi loudspeakers is also pretty big and clearly audible for a normal person without hearing damage. But the fact is that you can get actual, real hifi sound for sub 500 USD, and okay sound for even lower, that wasn't a thing 15 years a go and it's pretty great.
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Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud in ~tech
V17 Link ParentWell to be faaaaaaair you really do start hearing when something is a bad recording much more with good quality audio. Things you had no idea existed are suddenly obvious. I think every audiophile...Well to be faaaaaaair you really do start hearing when something is a bad recording much more with good quality audio. Things you had no idea existed are suddenly obvious. I think every audiophile needs to go through a phase in which they decide whether they prefer listening to music for the music or to be impressed by the realism and acoustic illusion. The latter is sometimes mockingly called "listening to equipment", and this is true in some cases, but I think that enjoying a mindblowingly realistic acoustic illusion with nice music can be great on its own and shouldn't be mocked. I like both of those approaches.
I only went through the data briefly (it's linked in the article) and I don't have more time right now, so maybe I misunderstood, but that is what it seemed like.