zurohki @ zurohki @aussie.zone

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I mean, where I work we've hired every female applicant we've ever had and we're still at around 98% male. I'm not sure what we could even do about it.

I remember hearing during lockdown that sales of business pants had tanked, but sales of business shirts hadn't.

It was originally one computer that everyone connected to, it wasn't a fleet of separate computers like Windows PCs.

• No existing nuclear industry. We can't just send the people who built our last nuclear power plant to build another one, we don't have any of those people.
• Massive amounts of space and tons of sun year-round for solar

We do have a huge coal and gas industry looking to pay politicians to slow down the shift away from fossil fuels though, so the party that was trying to build new coal power plants last time they were in power is talking about nuclear while they're in opposition. It isn't about taking action, it's about delaying renewables.

12% of humans believe we aren’t apes

All humans are apes, those people more so than most.

We'll soon know if trans people in sport are a real problem or a made up problem - if there's anything to it, the next Chinese Olympics team will be 90% trans people.

A lot of writers apparently have no idea how to write interesting female characters. Some of the pushback from viewers / readers to increasing the number of female characters isn't about the characters being female, it's about them being bad characters. Boring, annoying, quippy, etc.

Nobody wants to admit that their movie flopped because it wasn't very good, so they blame sexism. Or piracy, that one's always popular.

it’s a good beginner distro because getting thrown into deep water is how one learns to swim

That's... not how it works, for distros or for actual swimming. Usually when someone who can't swim is thrown into deep water, they drown and/or reinstall Windows which is much the same thing.

Depends - would you be okay with it focusing on white history?

Isn't this the guy who got called out for trying to use social media brigading to force Linux kernel rust patches through? There's a good chance those stalkers are fictional.

No, altering the personality by adding bumps is retrophrenology.

It's not 2024, and the inability to hide things has apparently just made it more blatant when we decide to ignore genocide.

Struggling with a tough foe? Remember, just keep your Health above 0 while lowering your enemy's Health to 0. Works every time!

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Going along is easy until it ends with shit like the Holocaust.

Have you seen the reactions every time someone suggests it'd be nice if Israel stopped shooting people and taking their land? We're pro-genocide now.

Obligatory reminder that the Third-of-a-Pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder, since it had a three in it instead of a four.

If you ever want to make a greybeard feel old, find a floppy disk in his cupboard, hold it up and say, "Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!"

For games that aren't fast moving, you don't need 240fps in the first place.

I played an MMO at 40 FPS for years. With a freesync screen that matches the frame rate instead of stuttering or tearing, it still feels fine.

The benchmarks are against vanilla Wine. A lot of people are using the fsync patches, so ntsync is more about accuracy - things that didn't work under fsync should work under ntsync.

Instead of choosing between accuracy and performance hacks, ntsync should do it properly.

• Try to log in to my ISP's website. "Username not found."
• Try the password reset link and put in the username just to see what happens. "Password reset email sent."
• Email turns up. Click the link. Type a password. "Password reset successfully."
• Try to log in to my ISP's website. "Username not found."

Edit: to be clear, I didn't put in my email address, I only put in the username. The system looked up the username and found the email address by itself.