The only thing making his life difficult is his constant need for attention

To answer disassociating you. You had help. That’s how.

This isn’t 32000 in 1 wave, though. This is ~2500 a year over 13 years. Even the answers given at the beginning of the study could have changed wildly if the same people had been polled at the end. And even if not, 4 people per city is not representative of an entire city at any given moment of time.

What demographics in China did they poll each year? Did they poll people of different racial profiles? Did they poll uyhgurs? Were the candidates selected randomly or were the assigned by the government? If the latter, were they coached or paid? Any number of things could throw off that study.

That is by far the least satisfying study I’ve ever heard. 32000 people surveyed over 13 years. That’s essentially 3.5 people per city in China. How are we to take that as a valid survey?

I’d certainly be interested in how those Harvard studies were accomplished what with much of China not being on the Internet. 95 percent certainly sounds high.

Working as designed. I should report myself for the things I’ve said.

I wake up at noon because I’m depressed and went back to sleep.

This interaction is so indicative of the reality of device fandom.

The Android user isn’t storing information about the iPhone in their brain.

The iPhone user is responding like everybody knows everything about iPhone features and it was dumb of the android user to not know this thing.

I’ve seen scrub/dish daddies and did not know the mommy existed

There’s an app for that.

Yes, but other cars aren’t operating inside enclosed tunnels at all times.

My hot take was “the notoriously hackable companies are now trusted to not get hacked”

For the goal you have, the best thing to do is find something you’re passionate about and build something for it.

Ask yourself what do you love to do outside of programming? What is some problem you have that you could solve by writing a a piece of software?

You are more likely to complete a project that you are passionate about and when you speak about it in an interview your passion will show and excite the interviewer.

If there is an industry you are interested in, try to attend conventions that are relevant and go speak to the reps at the companies you are most interested in and ask questions about their products. Ask if they have any internship programs coming up and who to speak to after you’ve shown interest in their projects.

Source: an engineering manager who is not currently hiring

Man. Maybe I’m lucky, but the five guys near me is 11.29 for a full sized cheeseburger with no sides. 12.69 is the most expensive one with bacon but I usually just do the little one which is 8.79.

They do charge an arm and a leg for the fries, though. Which I guess is to be expected since their measurements for a small fry is “all of them”

Back in my day we just looked at photoshopped pictures of celebrities like respectable men!

I had this thought all the way to the airport, once. Got on the plane without knowing the answer for sure.

I did lock the door, it turned out.

As somebody who frequently dislikes extremely popular movies, everybody else has trash taste.

Inception was just ok and Interstellar got me to stop watching Nolan movies all together.

It’s completely fair that your view on the pricing is different than mine.

Complete transparency, I do play their ads sometimes. I only refuse if I’m watching on my phone directly, but I cast from the official app. And I will have YouTube playing when I’m eating or playing a game on the steam deck.

The thing people should be referring to instead of it being a racket is that YouTube has a stranglehold on creators. I can watch streaming vids on another service, but if I want to consume content from small creators, I have to use YouTube. There isn’t a real option for alternatives.

So, I do provide the platform with some money. Then I pay creators in a way where they get a higher dollar amount than YouTube would give them.

“Racketeering” is definitely the wrong word.

I’ll put it like this. I think YouTube Premium is too expensive. I also think YouTube is too aggressive with it’s ads.

I opt to send them that message by using an ad blocking service tailored to YouTube and paying the content creators in other ways.

If the family plan weren’t 20 dollars a month to cover 2 accounts I would probably buy it. But they opted to offer only 1 or many never just 2.

I’m capable of affording it. I pay nearly every major streaming service monthly even when I am not using them, so long as their cost is reasonable.

YouTube Premium’s cost is not reasonable. Especially when you consider they are still collecting and making money off of your data in the end.

One of the biggest things I’d point out for security is that unless effort is made to ensure people are upgrading, more systems on Linux is going to mean more versions of the kernel being on more machines.

It will result in a lot more machines running versions that have known exploits open against them so malware will become easier to propagate on Linux in general.