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>daughters

Was it only daughters that attempted suicide? What about sons?

With this language, you are implying the life of a woman is worth more than a man's. Why?

This is the same Python that you can't even use for any projects at all.

Python dependencies break if you even so much as rub two brain cells together wrong. I have wasted weeks of my life trying to get x python library to work with y and I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible. I have no idea how people use this god forsaken programming language. I guess they just keep everything in one monolithic .py file and pray to God that python doesn't do some shit in the background that makes even that fail (which it has done to me).

It's no surprise that this amount of bureaucracy goes on behind the scenes as well. The entire language is held together with duct tape and Van der Waals forces.

Forgive my ignorance as I'm not a kernel dev.

It seems like a change this massive would have the possibility of introducing a bunch of security holes, would it not?

So what the Canadian government is they would rather kill you with blood clots than let you take a 1/1000 chance of dying from a terror weapon made by the Chinese.

So this is where all the chips are going during the shortage. Good to know we finally get some answers to that.

Hey, Microsoft, it's not your fucking job to serve ads. It is not your fucking job to be the middleman for payment transactions. Your only job is to provide an operating system.

Not a single thing about it is intuitive if its UI changes every month.

I cannot understand Blender's inanely arcane interface

Every tutorial out there seems to be for a drastically different version where half the shit no longer works in the current one without delving into more and more hidden menus

Every feature is its own labyrinth of menus, every model downloaded seems to be customized to a unique version with nothing similar to another

It is massively disheartening to try to comprehend video tutorials when they're pressing keyboard shortcuts at 20k wpm without explaining them and scouring over every detail trying to understand what they're doing turning an hour long tutorial into a day of confusion

I made a shitty donut and don't even know how I did, that's it

Okay, so now there is no way for me to tell if a video is a waste of my time or not.

Fuck Youtube. they need a competitor.

I am convinced that the relationship between American universities and its public are entirely untenable. There is no reason to give them any money as their goals are not to educate people. I have no sympathy for anybody that goes to a university and accrues a massive amount of debt anymore. The general assumption now is that people who went to these toxic places did so fully knowing that they will be lied to about economic prospects and brainwashed into believing a certain brand of racist wokeism.

I do not offer any solutions to this. The only solution I can see involves some form of violent and total destruction of these institutions. It would also require a building of new that absolutely forbid all parties involved with the old institions from even contacting the people involved with the new ones. I do not know what this will entail. There is no means of peaceful transfer of power away from these virtue signalling sycophants and toxic soulless wretches.

You will have to demonstrate how a social media platform that hasn't even launched yet has "discriminated againt marginalized communities". They haven't.

Just in recent memory:

Anything relating to the scam MMO known as Dreamworld that Y combinator funded, and how its funding was possibly due to nepotism.

Anything relating to the admin of KiwiFarm's rebuttal [1] of Byuu's attacks on his forum or how her suicide was proven fake.

[1] https://kiwifarms.net/threads/my-response-regarding-byuu-nea...

There are others but either I can't remember them right now or I don't have adequate sources to them.

There are also a ton of ongoing news stories and stories in that past which were completely censored off HN. I cannot talk about them or link them here, but please know that they exist.

>well made

They are made from the floor sweepings in Sony's factory.

You don't hear about the failures because most people just buy them and throw them away. I would venture to guess that about 60% of their customers are one-time buyers that try to power it on once and throw it away because it doesn't work. The other 40% either won the lottery or put up with its constant stream of shit because they have a near monopoly. The same is true for 3d printers.

I tried multiple power supplies. I even tried bench power supplies and overvolting them. Nothing worked. It fails for the same reason power strips fail if you plug too much into them. The Pi needs ~110% of what the input can even supply (that's ignoring the spec that says it should be 2.5 amps) and anything plugged in down-stream will need to take pieces out of that.

>Pi 4 has 2 HDMI outputs!

Two full-sized HDMI ports could fit on the board. At least, I could fit them. I question the competency of all the engineers working there.

>Most likely your power adaptor would not be able to maintain stable voltage when your lights flickered.

No. It was due to the wifi/bluetooth tranceiver not being potted and it would hard-reset if disturbed too much by the photoelectric effect.

>Anyway, have been running ...

Anecdotal evidence. They are built like absolute trash and it's a miracle anybody says they work for any reason.

> more well-behaved SBCs

Wake me up when someone makes one with ECC ram. I will not entertain using one unless it does.

That is all anecdotal evidence. All four that I have tried using have failed catastrophically for different reasons. See my reply to a different comment on the same thread.

My experiences with raspberry pis has been exclusively and extremely negative.

The first one I owned had some kind of electrical fault that bricked and destroyed my TV.

The second one I owned had a fault where a few of the capacitors on the back fell off upon me plugging it in for the first time.

The third one I tried had a fault where it would spontaneously shut down if I had any USB devices plugged into it for any reason at all (in this case it was a mouse and a flash drive).

The fourth one I owned had the same problem, and the way I fixed it was desoldering its onboard wifi receiver running it at an absurd underclock and overvolting the USB2 input with my bench power supply.

With that said, let me talk about their hardware.

The USB-C implementation on the raspberry pi 4 violates the USB spec. When this was brought up to the engineers over there, they completely memory holed the problem, saying it works on USB2 chargers through an adapter. I call bullshit because during normal use it will draw more than 12.5 watts (which exceeds power limits on USB2 cables).

I have never seen the micro HDMI port on anything made before 2013 so the adapters required to make it work with modern TVs may as well be proprietary ones sold by RPi.

The camera input connector is encrypted for some reason, so if you wanted to use a camera through there it has to be one of raspberry pi's.

Despite them claiming it's opensource, it really isn't. The only thing that they have made opensource is the schematics which are largely useless for integrating into your own designs. The main processor onboard (and a handful of other ICs) isn't even commercially available. They claim it is, but that's only if you order it in minimum quantities of a few hundred thousand or something.

So in order to use the RPi4's most basic features, you need a proprietary charger, a proprietary camera, and a proprietary video output dongle. These things are more locked down than most laptops.

And that's just the problems with the RPi4. That has absolutely nothing to do with the litany of problems the past versions have had, which I don't feel like listing here. One of the issues that comes to mind is that the RPi 3 had a problem where it would spontaneously shut down if the lights in the room flickered wrong.

Worst of all, because these clowns have mindshare it means that other more well-behaved SBCs will never get any form of community tech support or large enough marketshare to make any notable change.

That is surprising. I guess it's still economical for them to use these horrible computers despite the fact the mean time between failures is at best three weeks.

A homepage is what appears when you launch the browser. A new tab page is the page that appears when you open a new tab. I want a custom new tab page, which is a feature Firefox disabled. I personally do not care if the homepage and the new tab page are different as I never use the homepage (I always choose to restore from previous session).

Your homepage is not your New Tab Page.

I used to be able to set the New Tab Page to an arbitrary URL. Now I have to use a browser extension to do that. Moreover, it used to be possible to have that point to an HTML file that was stored locally, which they have disabled from even allowing browser extensions to point to. I used to have a really cool new tab page that I hand wrote with custom CSS and everything. Firefox killed that overnight.

Here's an article about the ads in the new tab page: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-640-is-now-showing-a-boo...

That is a ridiculous strawman if I have ever seen one. There are MANY reasons to be critical of Firefox's development.

What about them putting ads in the URL bar suggestions? What about them (temporarily) putting ads into the new tab page that you couldn't opt out of? What about them removing the ability to customize the new tab page? What about them making it all but impossible to install your own (unsigned) browser extensions?

The complaints about the UI are that they also made it impossible to customize, not that the defaults are asinine (which they are).

What are you going on about?

This is good advice given that Twitter should be violently shut down. It will make things significantly easier to archive.

Every imageboard besides 4chan functions just fine and has perfectly good discussions on things. You can blame 4chan's moderation and administration for its failure.

I am an engineer. I do Arduino programming on the side. In my experience every attempt at a code-based CAD system has been totally useless. At every step of designing something, it feels like the scripting language is actively working against anything and everything I try to do with it. Everything feels as though it takes about ten times as long as it should. So far I've tried OpenSCAD and JSCAD.

I pirated SolidWorks last week and it is an absolute joy to use. It is like night and day compared to any scripting based CAD system out there.

CAD and code absolutely do not, and should not mix.

There are fundamental differences between the sexes and the representation of those sexes in any given field are a reflection of that.

Yes. that's what happens when you have an institutional bias against men. Why is anybody surprised about it? Why is there no discussion about it?

Anything China touches is automatically discredited.

Absolutely fucking disgusting. Something needs to be done to these greedy psychopathic fucks. I don't know what that would be, but something absolutely needs to be done.