Boost for Reddit quietly still works for moderators but the app is probably now unmaintained with all development effort (one guy) going towards the Lemmy version

Well at least it didn't save us -10^100% and just post the text equivalent of a ZIP bomb

This task seems quite important, doesn't it? Maybe it's time for the workers to teach the company the meaning of "inelastic demand"

This is like saying every lock is pickable so don't lock the door at all.

I believe in the open-source world, this is called "mission creep". It means when a project gradually expands its scope and mission until it becomes unmaintainably broad.

I think the reasoning here is perfect. You didn't make it. You told the computer to make it. But only human works are eligible for copyright.

Adam Something on YouTube:

It's like a train, but shittier, like a bus, but shittier, like a tram, but shittier...

If you think studying literature is to teach you literature, you're sorely mistaken. Similar to if you think you study mathematics to learn mathematics.

You are taught literature so you can better communicate with other people. What is the author's intention with this passage? What are they trying to say? What might their motivations be? Now apply this to a letter from a potential business partner or a politician's tweet and you might begin to see how what you were taught becomes relevant.

Why are you taught grammar? Who cares whether you use the Oxford comma or not? Who has the need to know what mood, theme, and figurative language are? Apply this in the context of trying to write a professional email to your boss or trying to tell a story to engage other people, and maybe you'll start to see that it wasn't worthless.

Why do we need to know the way to prove that the angles of a triangle add up to 180? Who needs to know the Quadratic formula and how to apply it? It's so you know how to think rationally and apply logic rigourously, so you don't fall into familiar logical traps that we see on the evening news and the Internet every day.

Why do you need to know how cells reproduce? Why do we need to know how the pH scale works? It's so when people on Facebook claim that vaccines erase your DNA or that alkaline water prevents cancer, you'll know better.

T-Mobile, a US mobile carrier, currently throttles video streams to 480p. It's a pretty bad experience and I look forward to seeing it end.

I'm sure the Government can go tell a company to remove the backdoors on Government devices:

Remove all the backdoors and we'll buy phones for each of our 100,000 employees and award your company a ¥3 gazillion support contract. But if we find out the NSA hacked our phones then there'll be big trouble, Mao Zedong-style.

The difference in Cantonese usage couldn't be more stark. I'm currently in Hong Kong. Everyone speaks Cantonese, and if you speak Mandarin, that says to people "This person is a Mainland tourist, let's overcharge them.", and if you speak English, that says "This person is a rich foreigner/white person, let's overcharge them.". This is despite English and "Chinese" (both variants) being official language in Hong Kong. All Government services are provided in all three languages but if you use anything but Cantonese, you're going to see significantly more friction and encounter many more difficulties that Cantonese speakers don't.

In mainland China, even in the eponymous Guangdong province (AKA Canton province), only old people speak Cantonese. When you're at a restaurant or trying to buy something at a store, it's 50/50 whether the other person speaks Cantonese and even then it's likely they'll greet you in Mandarin

Two types of people in this post:

• Those answering "Why are you on Lemmy and not doing something productive", and
• those answering "Why are you on Lemmy and not Reddit"