At some point I realized that it is okay to drop a book I started reading. If it turns out to be boring or not meeting whatever expectations I had, I just ditch it and move on.
I am not. The EU’s move is to force Meta to stop personalised ads and Meta is pushing for an ad-free option. That’s an attempt to appease the regulators and keep their business model.
They’ll make the argument that the customer has a reasonable choice: see targeted ads or pay for the service.
I’m betting They’ll follow up saying the business model in the EU will not be viable without personalised ads (which it really probably won’t) and that they’ll consider leaving the EU altogether. Then the EU can have fun figuring out what will be the economic impact for its economy after they get cut off the largest social network
Meta has ditched Canadian news already. If the finances don’t make sense in the EU, I won’t be surprised they just ditch it
Sure you don’t NEED meta. But it still offers value to their users. Regardless of their “addictive” design, you can’t deny that people want what they (and other social media) offer.
It would be absurd to say they don’t add any value to people’s lives.
We’re not talking about heroin here. You can always just delete all your accounts and live an unplugged life.
And now you have an option to get all the upsides of social media minus the downsides of being tracked/advertised for less than the price of a pizza
New EU regulation is forcing Meta to offer users an ad-free alternative. That’s why they are doing this.
Meta’s revenue per user is around 40 USD iirc.
Tbf, as much as people like whining they definitely get 12 bucks a month worth of entertainment off of Facebook and Instagram. People will easily spend 4-6h on social media daily.
The reality is that this move will just prove that people like to talk but they are not willing to pay for their “freedom”.
> Were women more likely to be junior, and therefore more likely to be cut? It's almost as if NPR just wants to parrot a narrative.
That last point read like BS to me. I’m willing to bet that number includes a good chunk of tech recruiters (which tend to be female). And yeah a lot of recruiters got laid off in the last year
I thought it was something that focused on women in tech but men were allowed to join.
If the organizers don’t want men attending it they should verify peoples sex before handing out tickets.
Personally I don’t see the point of segregation. It’s not like shunning men will make women’s lives any better. Your best bet to improve things is to make the one side understand the other. You do that by socializing them.
Another thing this event shows is that men tend to be more competitive and will be more aggressive towards their goals. Like it or not companies reward that behavior
Like the other commenter said, you’re falling prey to the “appeal to nature” fallacy.
There are plenty of natural things that are bad for you and plenty of synthetic things that are good for you.
And there absolutely are reasons to feed yourself artificial sweeteners.
Sugar-free soda is awesome for people trying to lose weight. The carbonated drink keeps you satiated and you don’t ingest any of the calories in regular soda.
Maybe for whatever work you do your IDE works better for you.
In my case, I mostly code in C++. I've tried JetBrains' IDEs and it drives me insane how slow they are to index and I often get freezes when working on really large codebases.
The same applies to Visual Studio (not vscode).
vscode drives me insane with the amount of dumb notifications it keeps popping up. But I can concede that for most people it works well enough. It also doesn't perform nearly as well as Sublime Text. Working on really large codebases is a PITA with vscode.
If I need autocomplete (which I actually don't like that much), LSP works well for my needs.
You literally proved my point. It’s not generally auditable.
Even if you ignore the fact that the audit window is restricted and that the software is developed behind closed doors, just the first step in the process is absurd if you want this to be practical for anyone to audit:
> A Justiça Eleitoral prepara uma sala segura para deixar os sistemas a serem utilizados na eleição vindoura à disposição das entidades fiscalizadoras interessadas. As entidades podem utilizar ferramentas automatizadas e solicitar os esclarecimentos que julgarem necessários. Caso encontrem alguma inconformidade, deverão apresentá-la ao TSE, que deverá corrigi-la e apresentar o ajuste realizado. É importante destacar que todas as alterações realizadas nos sistemas são rastreáveis e ficam disponíveis para verificação das entidades fiscalizadoras.