install "ublock origin" and enable "annoyances" from settings.
Thanks, also didn't know about annoyances!
Readit NewsGLjEI4YbnGD27LB commented on Is air conditioning making cities hotter? euronews.com/green/2023/0... · Posted by u/elorant
>be 1178 BC Egyptian working
>working my ass off on the pyramids every day
>no days off
>my wife has really bad period have to take off work
>goddammit.png
>boss gives me shit for missing work
>embarrassed I tell him reason I missed work
>he writes it down
>MRW 3200 years later people are judging me and my wife
The big pyramids at Giza were built around ~2500bc in the old kingdom of egypt. After that comes the first intermediate period, then the middle kingdom of egypt, then the second intermediate period, and then in the new kingdom of egypt, towards the end this tablet is written.
(Not judging, just providing context around how old Egypt is)
Unsong is an absolute favorite. I would love to pay $$$ for a printed version.
Its target demographic miiiight be specifically Jewish, atheist, programmers. Who think about those three things a lot and in combination. I've stopped trying to get anyone not in that demo to read it. But if that's you, please give it a shot!
I, nor my friend, is Jewish and quite liked it. (Still atheist programmers, so that might help)
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB commented on Why is Middle School so hard? theatlantic.com/education... · Posted by u/laurex
In Germany it's worse. We don't have a distinct middle school as such, but we have three parallel tiers after four years of elementary school. One is only until grade 9, one until grade 10, the third is up to 13 years.
I'm leaving out a lot of details here, but basically students have to choose one track after elementary school. And upgrading is hard, especially because the lower tracks are "optimized for slower learners". Side-Note: As you might have guessed, the track selection has become more and more based on ethnicity.
Studies have shown that such a tracked system is worse in every imaginable way. But it is extremely attractive to conservative academics.
I really liked the tracked system in the Netherlands. I feel like it really let the higher tier learn at a faster rate. Do you have links to the studies?
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB commented on Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down github.com/michael-lazar/... · Posted by u/pplonski86
Which is true. But when I discovered reddit about 7 years back it was nothing like this. Now the website leaves me feeling absolutely crap, angry and frustrated. Plus, it is addictive.
I still like reddit. I go to like r/fitness, leagueoflegends, themotte, askhistorians. I don't go to any of the political or news reddits, so whilst its fairly meme-heavy I still get that in-group feeling.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB commented on Cost of serving billions of images per month medium.com/p/f499620a14d0... · Posted by u/ghoshbishakh
Is there a way I can short this company?
My uneducated guess would be that they have no outstanding stock, as they have not done an IPO. So you can't short against their zero public stock.
In the comments on the article, someone asks about Bitwarden. The author mentions there's a possible vulnerability, but in depth research isn't worth it, because he doesn't get paid for reporting vulnerabilities. This scares me about all these 'better than Lastpass' open source alternatives. First, they tend to get less attention from the infosec community. Secondly, I need to make sure to properly secure the server I'm running it on myself, of which I'm not 100% sure I can do myself, nor most developers I've worked with, let alone any person not working in IT.
If you can pass your password database via something like dropbox (or your own nextcloud), then KeePass has had audits, for example by the European Commission's EU Free and Open Source Software Auditing project. And you don't have to trust your server that does the syncing.
In the place where I live (Austria, town with 30k residents), the Fußgängerzone in the center is currently dying. Shops close left and right, and migrate to the three big shopping centers. This town is a strange mix because almost everybody needs to own a car (bus system is underdeveloped) to take kids to school or shop groceries, but the town itself is not that big (a lot of places are reachable by bike). Most people rather use the newly rebuilt, comfortable malls with free parking and major brand chains over the harder-to-reach-by-car town center with parking fees and mom-and-pop stores.
The administration is taking desperate measures now, trying to keep shops from closing by promising funding etc, but it turns out the big malls made exclusive deals with brands and there’s not much anyone can do.
I guess Fußgängerzonen only work with an intact public transport system that people can rely on and that won’t take you thrice as long to get there.
Living in the Netherlands, the city center (practically no cars allowed) in 2 cities I've lived in over the past years, both have lots of shops going out of business.
But I would identify this trend as people doing more online shopping, most of the major shopping centers are still in this city center, and it has parking garages near, but people are just doing less shopping in brick and mortar stores.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB commented on The Annoying Site: Source theannoyingsite.com/index... · Posted by u/tosh
As someone who browses the internet with JavaScript disabled by default, I've never felt more vindicated.
Exactly, it's just a white page for me.
In reality, all federal revenue - whether from income taxes, tariffs, or any other source - flows into the U.S. Treasury and becomes part of the general fund. Tariff money doesn't create a separate pool of funds that the president can spend at will. Just like with tax revenue, any spending of tariff proceeds requires congressional appropriation through the normal budget process. The executive branch cannot spend money that Congress hasn't specifically authorized, regardless of the revenue source.