kersplomp

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[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To say it's "completely incorrect" is an exaggeration at best. The paper you cited is far more nuanced than that.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 146 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

We should always add a mental asterisk to the names of male researchers who discovered things while women were oppressed.

That said, this meme is playing loose and fast with the specifics, which undermines that important message.


Just picking the first one:

Payne's work was her Ph.D. thesis and Russell did not tell her not to publish it, her advisor did. The advisor told her not to rock the boat in her thesis. This is good advice that even Einstein was given. Payne, badass, declined.

When Russell later reproduced her research, he cited her thesis as the "most important research" he'd seen on the subject.

The real snub with Payne is that her title was "Technical Advisor" for 20 years despite being well regarded as a full time professor. It wasn't until the 50's she was recognized as a professor, when she was also made chair of the department.

Source: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

You’ve never done ecommerce logistics

I literally have. Go climb up a tree.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Did 39 people really believe this enough to upvote this? This is easily proven false. Amazon is convoluted because it's old as heck and they hire subpar engineers. Like me. I used to work on the team that made the search page. It sucks because most of us were fresh out of college and had never made a website in our lives.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Have you tried buying from aliexpress? It's the same products as on Amazon, but directly from the supplier. Imagine Amazon, but everything's 50% off.

Source: I'm cheap as heck and buy random trash from them

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Meta's emissions were 3000x higher than they reported?! What the heck are they doing over there

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes. Supplier markup is 50% above cost, so set up a price watch and wait for it to go on clearance. You'll get it 50% off.

I got mine new at Best Buy last year when they were clearing out M1 stock.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This post was maybe true 5 years ago, but PC laptops have really started to suck. My macbook air was only $300 and it's way better than my work's $1k+ Dell laptop in terms of performance and battery life.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The government had a warrant, read the article.

It's just made confusing by the fact that the thief had signed into the victim's phone, so it makes for a good clickbait story "police got the wrong guy's data"

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If by "when asked" you mean "given a search warrant with very clear evidence that this man had stolen a car", then... Yes? I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here.

The ex-boyfriend had signed into the guy's phone. It's not like the police just cast a wide net and randomly got his data.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Look I never said I disagree. My point to OP is just please don't make up shit that straight up isn't true. Pick a real issue, not some made up paranoia.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Re 1: People keep lumping Google with Amazon and Meta, but Google does not sell your private data and alerts you if it finds out the government to accessed your data. People keep assuming that because the general tech community sells data that Google does it too, but check their privacy policy or just ask anyone who's worked there. They don't.

User data at Google is locked up tighter than fort knox. That's why the Snowden leak was such a huge deal, because the NSA was taking advantage of a security flaw that Google didn't know it had to scrape user data. Google patched it immediately after they found out.

Amazon, Meta, and Uber, are much less scrupulous.

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