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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.

That’s interesting. I went through that book not that long ago and I found it fascinating. I had a hard time putting it down.

I found that the concepts he covers in that book can even be applied for good software API design.

Also, he did spoil doors for me. Pretty much every building I go into now annoys me because of the stupid door handles they pick.

I’m not saying I believe $12 is good value. It’s not a matter of opinion. It’s just a fact.

Similar forms of entertainment cost the same.

You’re the one with the subjective opinion here because you personally don’t see value in it and make the assumption that is the absolute truth

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”.

macOS already uses (at least on ARM chips) device trees. I don’t see why they would go back to ACPI as long as they keep their SoC model.

I wonder how this compares to the Hisense Reader Pro. I’ve been eyeing it for a while

> 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

Is the conference explicitly only for women?

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

The main thing io_uring gives you is avoiding multiple syscalls.

With a pipe you can’t really avoid that. With a shared memory queue/ring buffer you can write to the memory without any syscalls.

But you need to build synchronisation yourself (e.g., using semaphores for example). You don’t necessarily need to poll.

Man that’s just sad.

I remember a while ago Lex Fridman had a girl on his podcast talking about the changes in academia and self-censorship.