As more and more libraries are open source on GitHub or gitlab or sourceforge or whateverthefuck, asking questions on the libraries themselves (as an issue) is often the right thing to do, too… Less centralised than SO but also the only people who care about how to do things in a lib are people using the lib, so…

Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually…

Ufghh I know but omg I’m not one of nature’s posters. I was on Reddit for like 5 years before I even made my first comment. I dunno if I have it in me. That’s probably one of the reasons I’m so loath to complain about content - like, what right have I?

Yeah I agree 100% with this sentiment. Every so often - say, every 20 posts or so - there’s something that’s actually uplifting. But most of it is just political wank, as you say. Or one was ‘Israel finally allows some food into Gaza’ which tbqh I don’t find uplifting so much as absolutely sickening because it reminds me of how absolutely awful the context for it is.

Still, not gonna unsub because Lemmy is too small for me to be that picky 😅

Even there you need some basic critical thinking. Wildly impossible figures (e.g a human height of 1.84cm) should not be slavishly and blindly transcribe, y’know?

Name just one job where critical thinking isn’t important

I’m glad that you have a workflow that works for you! I like to open up articles, instantly hit the ‘reader mode’ button, cmd+f for keywords, and hit ‘next’ until I find the relevant section. This usually takes just a few seconds to get to get meat (if there’s anything worth skipping). One advantage is my internet connection isn’t always great, so I only have to wait for a few kb of text to download (even on a shit connection that’s not generally a lag I’m capable of noticing), whereas with videos I often have some loading issues. Also I hate the style of most presenters and can scroll back to the right point more easily in text articles if I’ve gone ‘too far’, so that’s an approach that works for me.

Thanks for sharing! I’ve never heard of sponsor block, I rely on ublock origin (for Firefox, not the handicapped chrome version) when watching videos, and usually only watch videos that I actually want to watch, but I appreciate having another tool in my box.

Who are you, that can skim a video faster than skimming text? That’s, like, the complete opposite of my lived experience 😂. What a rich melange of folks make up this world, eh.

And the answer is no!

I thought that Sam Ryder one was fun!

That’s a lovely little idea, imma steal that

😙👌

I’m still bitter about cha cha cha

Lot of people boycotted it because of their inclusion, which kinda pumps their numbers. Wouldn’t have seen myself rooting for Austria to beat Israel when I was younger, lol, but here we are

Yeah you can basically completely disregard any other aspect in this study, right? ‘massive trauma in early life has strong impact’ is the real finding here, and that’s hardly a new one

Literally seen my girls do both at the same time today. These are far from mutually exclusive

Is this a joke? Analysis of techniques would be literally asking why an argument were lost, if an argument was indeed lost. Of course you’re making a lot of assumptions there, and I agree you’re not making an effort

YouTube will put multiple ad breaks into a popular 8 min video. Which is why I use playtube and/or Firefox with ad block unless I’m too hungover to fully function

Is this some American usage of the word University as opposed to College that I’m too British to understand? I don’t think I quite followed your second paragraph; unless you mean that a university that doesn’t support genuine academia over conflicting interests is undeserving of the name, in which case I agree with that much… But I would say that as far as value goes, it should also have those same benefits I mentioned for those as attend it.

That’s a bit OTT IMO. You don’t need to become an academic for knowledge of the world, the ability to digest information, and the ability to effectively communicate, to be useful. I think it’s valuable just as, like, life enrichment, too. Not to mention that spending the first few years of your independent adult life around people going through that same transition has other value - socialising, shared experiences, it’s not unusual to make many friends for life.