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joined 6 months ago
[–] turtle@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

America’s right has been pretty relentlessly trying to get people out of pensions and into 401Ks for decades

Not just pensions. They've also been trying to get rid of Social Security in favor of private retirement accounts invested in the stock market for decades now.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dear CEOs: devour feculence.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for your thoughtful reply! I feel similarly about mean replies online, which is why I usually try not to contribute to that trend. If nothing else, I at least try not to escalate arguments.

Regarding programming languages' efficiency, it's a pretty interesting topic to consider in this time of climate change. There can be trade-offs like for example in the case of Python vs. Rust, while you gain a lot in terms of performance and resource utilization with Rust, you lose a lot in terms of development speed, from what I understand (I have not programmed with Rust yet, nor any large projects with Python). I hope that more programmers begin to consider these factors when picking a language to develop with.

Take care.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, but I've felt this way for quite a while. It's not recent. I think it has to do not only with personal family stuff, but also national and world systems, and most especially climate change. All stuff that has been going off the rails or threatening to. Also ADHD here.

By the way, this movie may be of interest to some of you, as it deals with this kind of feeling (a little more dramatized and specific for the story, but it portrays the feeling of impending doom fairly well, I think): Take Shelter (2011)

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe it's just my face shape, but I basically extend the top and bottom panels almost completely. The edge of the bottom panel is pretty well under my chin. Comparing with your photo, I think my middle panel would be a little lower relative to my face. Maybe you can find a video somewhere on how to best fit that particular mask?

Edit: the other thing I do after extending the panels is to put the mask on my face pretty much where/how I'm going to wear it, then pull the rubber bands over my head, then do some final fine adjustments to make sure that there are no gaps.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How weird, those 3-piece 3M N95s (Aura) are my absolute favorite ever!

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't look at the details of those three communities before posting them. I was just pointing out what I had found on a search. I don't mind lemmy.ml. and prefer it over lemmy.world, but I can understand that some people don't like .ml. I'm glad that you and others are creating alternatives to .world communities anyway.

I figure that Mbin is not too bad, since PHP seems to be quite a bit faster than Python too.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Haha, yes, that!

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

There is also:

I'm not too keen on Piefed because it's written in Python, which is multiple times less than Rust (what Lemmy is written in) for a server back-end application. It just seems like a waste of electricity or adding more carbon to the atmosphere than it should, for a widely-used server application.

Edit: "less [performant]" - missed a word there.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jason Statham is like his own IP now, similar to superhero or star wars movies. Should we call it the "Jason Statham universe"?

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago
[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're welcome! :) I'm glad that you have someone to help. It's always useful to have a second set of eyes review papers.

 

It's almost as if capitalist billionaire sports team owners in the US believe that doing everything possible to ensure all parties have equal chances at success is worthwhile and benefits the whole system, and conversely, that allowing completely unrestrained economic competition would lead to ruin. 🤔

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Salary caps

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Drafts

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An alternate system of league organization, used primarily in Australia, Canada, Singapore, and the United States, is a closed model based on licensing or franchises. This maintains the same teams from year to year, with occasional admission of expansion teams and relocation of existing teams, and with no team movement between the major league and minor leagues.

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