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- Comment on The gender pay gap is at average 15% in North America. When shopping though, items that are marketed for Men or Women specifically seem to be on average priced the same. 4 days ago:
Sorry, were you quoting someone? I can’t see that anywhere else… but perhaps I missed it.
- Comment on The gender pay gap is at average 15% in North America. When shopping though, items that are marketed for Men or Women specifically seem to be on average priced the same. 4 days ago:
I’ve had this discussion quite a bit, and it’s tough to break the 77 cents on the dollar and whatnot rhetoric, because those people are convinced that a man and a woman doing the same job with equal experience, the woman just automatically makes on average 23% less than a man. And it’s easy to prove that wrong, and entirely misses the point.
With the pervasiveness of social media, outrage culture, and, frankly, the steadily increasing difficulty to finding credible sources of information… it’s just far too easy to just revert to our baser “tribalistic” tendencies and blame someone and get mad. Toss into the mix the fact that a lot of these topics are sensitive issues and boy howdy EVERYTHING is a powderkeg and ONLY black and white despite evidence to the contrary.
[…] Now, I imagine a lot has changed in 23 years, so maybe that mentality has changed, but if all else is fixed and there is a “pay gap” based on choice like that… that’s not a problem that needs to be solved.
Agreed on this point. Different strokes for different folks.
So to recap, we need to stop talking about cents on the dollar and start talking about making rejoining the workforce more available and appealing after having babies, and giving dads more time with their kids to let their wives work.
I’d really like to see a world where it’d be possible for both parents to get leave, be able to work part time while not being put in a financially dire situation, and still have access to crucial things like affordable healthcare and insurance. A pipedream - without question… but one can hope.
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 4 days ago:
Don’t be ::: spoiler spoiler caught being ::: evil…
- Comment on Walmart says it will raise prices due to tariff costs after posting solid first quarter sales 4 days ago:
Never waste an opportunity to
pick consumers pocketsincrease value to shareholders. - Comment on The gender pay gap is at average 15% in North America. When shopping though, items that are marketed for Men or Women specifically seem to be on average priced the same. 4 days ago:
As I recall there have been a number of studies done on this… and they fall into the “technically true” if you looked specifically at gender within a given work pool and discounted all other factors then this is the answer you arrive at.
Unfortunately, every single one of these that I have personally read suffered from the reality that other factors play a part in that somewhat disingenuous number. If roles are factored in - these numbers begin to fall apart. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread: women have maternity leave… and following that can look to exit the workforce or move to part time. Compensation can be different between these categories. Continuing down this path: in a household that is dual income - it has been traditional to see the woman leave the workforce for child rearing opposed to the man. So looking at a given workforce, specifically at a given role in that group may still have a disparity in experience and time in the position (and thus compensation.) Lastly there is the bane of all - starting compensation negotiations. It is my understanding that generally men are more aggressive / assertive during this phase in the hiring process.
In short: this is stupidly difficult to generate fair and correct numbers for this type of metric and RARELY does it behoove the party running that inquiry to get the details right. The more accurate the results: the less sensational the number. Now to be clear: I do believe that there are cases where there are unfair practices taking place - but they are the exception… not the rule.
At the end of the day - if we made it commonplace to be acceptable to discuss compensation… And put some more workers rights laws into place… We’d have a system where everyone could have a fair shake in a job, equally.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong with some numbers that have actually factored in these variables. With regard to OPs statement: that number looks strikingly familiar to one attached to a horrifyingly old and incorrectly run survey.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 1 week ago:
Jokes on them. They suck so badly I don’t fly anymore.
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? 1 week ago:
Funny how that works. ;)
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 1 week ago:
Nintendo isn’t just the nestle of companies to users… they are the same or worse to their own.
I’ve seen people lose teams over errant comments about a novel idea for the IP they would love to see happen, or maybe even be developing as a passion project, purged for the notion that they were anything more than drones.
It’s a disgusting work culture taking advantage of bright eyed developers that grew up with fond memories of the brand. I genuinely love some of the IP and worlds made by the developers - but I will never, ever, spend a fucking penny on that company until it is changed.
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? 1 week ago:
mmmm banana bombs, holy hand grenades, and those cursed shopping levels * shudder *
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 1 week ago:
Look I don’t fault developers for kissing the ring. I know and have spoken with multiple devs at different Nintendo affiliated companies and they don’t enjoy it either but it lets them make the games they love for the people that they want to entertain.
I can’t say I support hating a full group of people because that’s not great either. “… except for the Amish but it’ll never get back to them” - John Pinette
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 1 week ago:
I see Nintendo emulation / mod chipping / console hacking I support it. Toxic company deserves a return in kind for its abuse of its fanbase.
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? 1 week ago:
Meanwhile StarCraft, one of the most pervasive rts for its time and in the PC gaming sphere in general … let you have multiple people play multiplayer on a single disk. Offline. It’s kinda like it advertised itself and people went out to buy it… which influenced more people… who bought it… gasp.
Mindblowing.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
They’re still around and the various configuration technologies tap into them.
I noted this in a dismissive way… Yes they exist; but as mentioned - depreciation and outright ignoring settings has become a thing Microsoft has willingly done if they feel “they know better.” (Reboots and update times are an excellent example of this.)
Yep, configuring Microsoft has sucked incredibly hard compared to free OSs. Managing plain text configuration files in
/etc&~/.configis refreshingly nice compared to the bolt-on weirdness hidden behind various interfaces in Windows. It’s cute getting an error to contact your administrator when you’re the administrator.Locking some things out makes sense. This exists in all OSs… what is maddening is Microsoft almost aggressively working against admins. Want local accounts? No sir. Not allowed. Not unless you remove the network card, face the PC east at precisely 2:30 am, and type a 40 character rolling code into the terminal that appears… twice.
Attention in that area is extremely late & overdue, so I was happy to see something like
configuration.dsc.yaml.While I agree - the point I was stressing was that many admins had perfectly workable scripts and methods that used the existing tooling as it was intended… and it’s mostly been fine. With their recent push into spyware inside ™ … ahem engagement … they seem to be actively punching holes in this to force management to their cloud resources which surely will not ever have problems …
I see AI mostly as an assistant whose work I review […] AI won’t fix broken foundations.
Agreed. It does have the means to save some time - but it’s just not “cooked enough” for me to use it on any meaningful level. Personally speaking.
I try to avoid Windows altogether if I can & confine it to less serious work.
Sadly some things I work with just don’t play with wine just yet otherwise I’d abandon it entirely. I’d personally love to, though.
What really bothers me is late in the patching cycle windows 2000 was borderline amazing and could be tuned to an absolutely minute footprint. If it was fully updated for x64 it would have been just about perfect. Nothing got in your way: very minimal UI with “just enough” modern features. Getting to almost any administrative interface was at its lowest “clicks to access” of any (subsequent) windows version. NT dna.
I may just have rose tinted glasses but from basically that point on it was all just bolted on UI garbage that got between you, your resources, and most importantly what you wanted to be doing. And when it comes down to it - regardless of what os were talking about - something has gone horribly wrong if that is the reality.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
God help you if you want to assign multiple addresses to the same adapter. It’s like navigating a labyrinth.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
But people in all these companies find the need to reorganize things to make it seem like they are accomplishing something.
Gotta put something on that LinkedIn profile. 🙄
Honestly it really feels like a race to the bottom with windows recently. It’s like taking a decent product and then just fucking with it to say you did. Nothing is gained and somehow, almost illogically, the action results in even more system resources burning up.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Shit you know … I feel like Microsoft has done that with the registry and gpedit… a real shame they seem to disregard those controls when it suits their new advertising model… erm… bing engagement system.
We’ve had config files and scripts for ages. Most of us are pissed that all of those methods half work or are depreciating away for no reason other than some UIx twat couldn’t be bothered to hook something properly so they just reskin an element and misplaced half the functions. Bonus points if they did so while wasting more system resources, breaking their own search pointers, and infuriating sysadmins and users alike.
Now I’ll give you that new methods can absolutely be implemented and replace (effectively even) old, longstanding methods… but Microsoft has utterly missed the boat on this. Repeatedly.
To your ai statement: Look I won’t comment on where AI may or may not end up in 5 years but I know that getting a black box to hallucinate 40% less has got to be infinitely harder than indexing a filesystem, a series of .lnk files, and maybe… maybe some control names. Considering they had most of that working (even if you had the index disabled!) in windows 2000 / 9x / XP it blows my mind why this has not been resolved when it’s basically a meme at this point.
No other OS has this basic problem. Why are we building onto something when the foundation is shit? I’m certain there’s developers at Microsoft that have skills - but I’ll be damned if I see any of them taking a step forward without two back.
Block kernel level driver access to shit. Maybe improve resource usage on existing processes. Fix the goddamn search. Don’t bury a setting behind ANOTHER useless dialog. Fix something - don’t jam more useless shit down our throats. We don’t need new: we need working.
At the rate we’re going the next windows version (maybe even 11) will intersect with Linux (pick a flavor) in terms of compatibility, usability, and stability with Linux doing literally nothing but existing. To be fair every other version is hot garbage. I’m sure we can ride out 11 on 10 … right?
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Now hear me out on this, maybe, just maybe if we didn’t move the same settings 1-2 layers deeper behind some UI bullshit we wouldn’t have to look for it. And- get this- let’s say we needed to search for these settings… (calm down y’all. I know you know. 🤣) What if we made the search work?! INSANITY.
As a dev - legitimately what the fuck are these morons doing. The os gets worse every iteration - it uses more resources, to do less, shittier. I’m sorry: you don’t get to kill off another os version because you can’t entice the user base into a worse situation. (internal screaming)
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
I vaguely remember a dystopian book that described that exact thing as the protagonist thinking he was looking at an odd flag on the front of the truck until he realized what it was. Can’t remember what the book was though 😔
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
*** everyone but the lobbyists liked that ***
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Gravy seals needed a part time job.
- Comment on Could tarriffs deflate some food prices? 2 weeks ago:
Short answer: no, and probably not.
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They will. These publicly owned companies do not give two shits about the consumer outside the price the market will bear not being reached yet. Any opportunity to raise prices and produce a better earnings call will be taken… and this is no different.
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The word you are looking for is subsidize and we do this to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Now tariffs can (help) pay for subsidies if done properly… but when you effectively create a scenario where nobody in their right mind is going to pay those taxes - you’ve shot yourself in the foot. What we now have is a surplus without a buyer - and higher costs on the producers (farmers / processors.) If you think that sounds bad … it’s because it is. Farmers operate largely on credit and very few (to my knowledge) can afford getting blown out any given year.
Put simply the clown in charge learned a word we wish to god he didn’t… because he didn’t bother learning anything else about said word. He still fervently believes that other nations are paying the tariffs and not his own citizens. This isn’t even a difficult concept. It’s so basic, in fact, that I’m reasonably certain it is still covered in grade school history.
Having a pet rock or goldfish determining our economic status for the next 3.75 years (+ !?) is legitimately a safer bet. I digress.
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- Comment on Data hoarding is more important than ever 2 weeks ago:
Take what you can … 🏴☠️
- Comment on Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering 2 weeks ago:
That’s some interesting insight - thanks 👍
I’ve done some sm work but as repairs and upgrades … it definitely was /easier/ to remove and replace: that was for sure. I’m unclear on if it ultimately had a higher real world failure rate though.
Personally I’m hopeful that their reasoning for this is increasing the quality of what does hit shelves even if there is a higher on line failure rate. They can’t always be the cheapest (and recently haven’t been) but if they can double down on “It just works” for a slightly higher price… I’m here for it and I imagine other makers likely will be as well.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering 2 weeks ago:
So if I’m reading that right - higher failure rate on the line but those that passed I’d imagine have a higher rate of success?
- Comment on Data hoarding is more important than ever 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 5 weeks ago:
Hah. I should have refreshed. I just wrote a small novel theorizing you might have been making that exact point. Cheeky ;) I found it amusing - even if the point of it got buried (but made for another great example…)
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 5 weeks ago:
Food for thought: as polarizing as this statement is - it’s not all that different from the cheap (generalizing) shot at OP for not having a broad enough statement.
I’m uncertain if that’s what @roofuskit@lemmy.world was going for … but regardless: either by the statement itself or by the apparent downvote pummeling he got - demonstrates perfectly that nobody likes the feeling of getting singled out simply because of their grouping.
It’s almost always a dick move. Unless the group in question is a hate group or nazis… because fuck them. Topically - this behavior was (and is) championed by aforementioned groups.
Put simply: we can do better. Better than reddit at least, right?
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 5 weeks ago:
It’s pedantic. At best because someone wants to virtue signal by tilting at windmills. At worst It’s a bad faith argument being made to isolate someone. In both cases it’s shite behavior:
An example would be assailing someone for not liking cookies when they simply said they enjoy cake. This tactic was originally used by trolls and hate groups to splinter larger social groups support structure and/or put people on the backfoot… Now it’s so commonplace people will do it just because they can… and someone else will if they don’t. Might as well get the glory of taking someone down a peg.
It’s pathetic. Op made an affirmative statement about something they believed in and was promptly shit on by some cunt who brought nothing meaningful to the table themselves. What’s worse is they initially were getting nothing but positive reinforcement so they could go and do it again. Are we still enjoying all the polarizing “LOL [insert group] BAD!” It really brings the community together.
You don’t need to engage every person doing that shit… but for fucks sake stop upvoting it and reinforcing the behavior.
- Comment on Poisoning AI scrapers 5 weeks ago:
Keep calm and … what a magnificent shirt. I was always a fan of the taller of the Mario bros. The man not only is an entertainer - but clearly has inspired taste.
- Comment on Ubisoft’s Colorblind Simulation Tool, Chroma, Now Available For Public Use 5 weeks ago:
EA games with command and conquer and now this. The world surely is coming to an end.
