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Personal opinion from a brit:

US series are too long.

It is a psychological thing I guess - sitting down and perusing netflix, see something you like but then realise it is 24 hour-long episodes just in the first season. It is a turn off - I can't commit upfront to that amount of time to something entirely unknown to me.

Especially since in a lot of series I've watched, they often lose their way and 99 times out 100 the last 2 or 3 seasons inevitably decay into a "will-they-wont-they" thing about two characters falling in love or whatever, and the rest of the cast and whatever made the series good originally is mostly ignored. Then they're cancelled. So e.g. Lost, US Office, that 70s show and many more all went on way too long while dancing around with romance between two characters etc etc while ignoring what made the first season or two appealing.

Don't get me wrong, I love binge watching something good and I am disappointed when I run out of episodes or whatever, but it is good for people to know when to end a show and leave people with good memories, rather than turning it into a death march where people are relieved to just have finished the show.

Give me 8 to 10 good episodes per season, and please don't string it out for 7, 8, 9 seasons when there is only enough ideas for 2 or maybe rarely 3 seasons's worth of episodes.
I read this as self congratulatory virtue signaling. At the end of the day this argument could be broadened to “consumption culture is unethical and toxic” as buying anything has these same pitfalls. But this article (and comments here) fall into the “consuming this thing I don’t value is bad because consumption is bad” while overlooking all the other things they consume that they do value. I’ve been lectured about upgrading my TV from an SUV owner who most certainly leases.
Yeah I would be very surprised it the body has no methods of cold adaptation frankly.
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Because "raise the question" doesn't have the same connotation as the commonly-understood meaning of "beg the question".

Begging the question means (to most people, I think) that there is an obvious question in response to the statement. The statement itself is "begging" for this question to be asked.

Raising the question means that one's response to the statement is to ask a question. It may not be obvious, and it's not an attribute of the statement itself that implies this response.

I think that's a useful distinction.
Well actually, the only patent prescription drug is a bit elastic since insurance/PBMs negotiate on price. In referring to the particular case of a formerly on patent brand name drug that goes off patent that spikes in price.

You'll notice that even over the counter non patented brand name drugs are more expensive than the generics - brand loyalty breeds inelasticity
Yes, why is this weird to you?

If a supermarket were out there promoting… I dunno, their range of confederate flags or something, I’d probably choose not to shop there.
You have to agree to not export state malware for your university? Seems a bit intense to me; I don't remember doing anything like that for my university. It's nice that they have English translations of the laws, though.
You mean once a year?
> Maybe it makes sense to shoot single seasons, with multiple seasons being a rare circumstance thing. Just tell a story that fits in 6-12 hours.

This actually would be a perfect fit for me - I noticed that it became off-putting for me when I see that show has more than two-three seasons. I'm not sure what changed because it wasn't like this before - probably it's just my increasing age and number of accumulated experiences from books etc.
Pulseaudio has been on freeze for v14 for about 10 months now, and there's no real activity or progress being made as on the project as a whole.
> You are picking a small population of males and generlizing to all of them.

Ironically enough, that is what you are doing.

There's a whole wide world (both historically and right now) of men/masculine culture beyond the weird bland repression certain parts of the West currently have going on. Even in the Western world, I don't know how one would go about telling e.g. Black American men that they have no interest in dancing.
My nephews were mostly playing Battle Royale-type shooters 24/7 well before COVID. Now they don't even have to leave the house.

The 18 year old was multi-tasking his Eve Online account + school Zoom meetings. I've been remote like ~5 years and was impressed.
> There’s a certain level of curiosity for a show that has survived, say, six seasons.

Not really. Some shows just get milked dry and pass their expiration dates. For example Walking Dead or even The Simpsons. There’s value to an artist who can tell a story in 1-2 seasons.
Ha, I actually thought the headline was really clever because "in deep water" is also an idiom for "in trouble", "doomed", etc. So I thought it was quite clever that the article means actual water, with a lot of depth, but leads you to maybe think the opposite when you start reading.
If I understand correctly from the various articles on this topic, there is a theory (with some evidence) that the lack of difficult chewing in childhood while the jaw is developing, leads to smaller mouths and tooth or breathing issues. Nestor's book does not make the claim that chewing tough foods as an adult makes a difference. What he does refer to extensively is a doctor that has an expander device to enlarge the jaw (which does work in adulthood).
But it is not like every single female group had massive bullying problem. Just like there are plenty of boy groups who don't bully each other.

This is like saying "I had no idea how severely boys beat or insult each other". It is absolutely true that such problem exists among boys. But you still have a lot of groups where boys don't beat each other.
Not really, it's a bunch of tightly connected non-networked components (the OS and userland stack--even with dbus increasingly in the mix, the reliability/failure domains are really different than those of web services).
There's a lot of judging in this comment that makes me uncomfortable ("think of them as a different species" has a very nasty history in human society).

But what you're talking about is essentially the innovator's dilemma. Following the available data can lead to short-term optimizations, but also getting caught in a local minima. The silver lining is that this creates room for new competitors who can skip around that neighborhood in the business model and find a new kind of success.

So my question is the same whenever this sort of criticism comes up: if the current companies are screwing up so badly, who are the innovators that will go around those mistakes and out-compete them?
I thought if mentioning that. On the other hand, many of those will remain as scrap So I’m less sure how that balances out. The burned carbon is just gone.

And makes the atmosphere less hospitable to boot. So any new civilization with 1800 era tech would have headwinds.
I've decided to remove bad word filtering and all other censoring. Let's see how it goes.
Mocks for your own code, fakes for external dependencies but in both cases only where you can’t rework your most of your code to consume the outputs of dependencies instead of soliciting them. Fixtures trump mocks and fakes.

Having multiple tests fail for the same reason is a waste of effort, either now or in the future (when new features are added or the constraints otherwise change).

Sometimes you have to depend on transitive properties to keep your test sizes down. If a function received the data, and the function has been tested thoroughly, why test it again while testing the callers?
God forbid someone has an opinion different from you

Spotify hosting Joe Rogan is free speech.
People choosing NOT to support spotify is ALSO free speech.

God forbid we have a single standard.
> if I write it the way that I understand you're suggesting, I would have to consider the behavior of all of the ICartDiscountStrategy implementations.

No, you would need to consider only the business requirements.

> Some time later, I implement a new AcmeCorpDiscountStrategy which results in a different discount being returned.

Why did you implement that? Is it a business requirement change, that "existing customers should get this different discount"? If yes, then your tests break - but for a good reason. If it's not about existing customers, but new sort of customers, then your tests should be unaffected and you just need to write new tests that target these new sorts of customers and validate that the new discount strategy is applied.
> how inherently sexist it is

Something is sexist when you create sex criteria. So the whole sport is sexist since you have distinguish between men and women categories in most of the disciplines.
Not in every situation & not if you're not good enough to understand the explanation.
I love the quote (I first read on here a few weeks ago) that English is actually three languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be a single language.
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> When Netflix comes out with a new show I won't watch it until it gets into a third season.

Why can't you just enjoy a one or two well done seasons? Season 1 of Barry on HBO was basically a perfect story. Season 2 wasn't terrible, but it was stretched and didn't really add to what had been a perfect capsule. Patriot on Amazon, was also a brilliantly plotted two season arc, and though I love the characters I admit to push it to another season would be to take away from it not to add.
Feeling that a platform invests in or promotes dangerous or harmful content is a totally valid reason to want to use that platform less, or to stop giving them money. Really super strange that you don’t immediately see that.
In my country this wouldn't surprise me at all.

School system here is basically hell, they picked the worst parts of USA and EU styles of education and mixed them into some kind of unholy beast designed to break children.

Here many schools have the building literally designed after prisons, something that kids DO pick up (the most important school in my town had the nickname when I was teenager, of "Cadeião", that means "big jail", a nickname also used to refer to supermax prisons).

Although we don't get a ton of mass shootings like USA, non-mass shootings are normal (and mind you, in a country where guns are banned... people still find a way to get guns anyway, also axes, knives, etc... we had a "mass axing" here...), violence between not just students, but students and teachers.

Much of this I suspect is because my country is one of the few ones in the world where homeschooling is 100% illegal, with no exceptions, attempting homeschool here is a serious crime that results in the parents being arrested and the kids sent to orphanage, so you have schools full of kids that DO NOT want to be there, ever, so they focus their time on making life hell for everybody around them, hoping that maybe someday, people will kick them out of the system (but they won't, because it is illegal).

About EU vs USA vs Brazil schooling system:

I lost the excellent article I read about it years ago, but basically in USA the students can choose what classes they want, this including theoretically let them switch what classes their are going if they want to avoid a certain student. Meanwhile in Europe the classes are fixed, everyone go to same classes, but in many places you can choose the curriculum, so if you want to be an engineer for example you can pick an engineering focused curriculum, classes will be fixed, and all students you see every day won't chance, but you will learn more about what you want.

In Brazil the government decided somehow, that the best path was not choose anything, all schools have same curriculum, all university entry exams are obligated to ask some mininum about subjects even if they are irrelevant (ie: if you are offering a physics course, you still need to ask literature questions in your entry exam), you can't choose time, can't choose curriculum, nothing. Basically you go to school when it opens, stick with same students even if they hate your guts, see the same subjects as everyone else, even if they are completely irrelevant, and then you go home, and you keep repeating this until you have to get into a university, when you then have to take a government-ran test (that often includes propaganda) and whatever test that the universities you want to enter have, such test must ask along whatever the university wants to know, also some questions about subjects the government wants all universities to ask to all students, no matter if it is completely irrelevant or useless for their lives.
My main use case for this is: I get some random data file thrown at me. Could be json, csv, xlsx anything that has data that can somehow be interpreted somewhat tabular and I want to find out quickly what's going on.

You can really go from not knowing what's in a file to a decent understanding in less than a minute.
Netflix has done similar stuff with Ascension, The Witcher, Altered Carbon and others.

I do prefer quality over quantity, and more episodes per season isn't IMO a good thing. Having tight focus, telling a complete story from beginning to end, is more important than adding a lot of unnecessary filler.

I wasn't the biggest fan of Altered Carbon, but thought Ascension was exemplary. While it finished with an ending that could have set it up for a second series, the story it told was complete, and leaving some mystery is no bad thing. I'm currently reading the Witcher books, and the series was a reasonable adaption of the content of the first two books of short stories. There's plenty more material for the future, but what was done in eight episodes was decent and self-contained. Way better value than a movie ticket.

What I like about these short series is that they are free to take risks and make niche stuff that doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator. There's plenty of stuff on Netflix that doesn't appeal to me, and that's OK. There's also stuff that would appeal were it not poorly-written and produced dross. I would really prefer their "data driven" decision making to bear in mind the lasting appeal of these productions within their niche interest, rather than only using the initial response as an indicator of long-term success. Some of the best productions took years to develop a good following, and yet were successful beyond expectations.
Betteridge's law of headlines claims that no, the future is not in deep water.
Cyprus scraps 'golden passport' scheme
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Netflix is sowing its own demise through shitty content and the worst fucking content discovery system ever.

First Netflix UI is anti-consumer and regularly hides things or makes them difficult/impossible to find. Worst algorithm driven interface after Amazon. It’s truly awful for discovery as you can’t ever be sure what you’re seeing is all that’s available. I fucking hate it.

This wouldn’t be such a problem if they didn’t grade shows success on their initial views... but they do. So things are hard to discover so I don’t watch them immediately or can’t find them again if I wait a week or two.

I have stopped watching any and all Netflix originals because they will be judiciously cancelled save animated titles because it seems cheap enough for them to produce or something like the Witcher where they hopefully can’t fuck it up so badly it gets canceled before a decent run.

Then again I wait and save the last few episodes shows I really like instead of binging them but that only hurts them more and hastens their cancellations. So then I don’t watch them, this too hastens their cancellations.

So when watching Netflix shows you have two options:

1.) Is the show epically well funded AND staring big name actors from cinema? Okay, maybe won’t be canceled. E.g. the Witcher.

2.) Is the show so cheap to make they’ll do it just because they need to add content? E.g. Castlevania

IMHO, Netflix is willfully creating the rope from which it will hang itself.
Then again, boys had more social interactions during lockdown due to online gaming being way more prevalent among boys. For many boys, they kept gaming and thus socializing largely as before. Girls social was more in person or composed of general "keeping in touch" and not much was happening to talk about.

I purposefully shown some online games to my daughters so they can socialize with friends. But looking around, it was quite exceptional move for parent of girls. They had more schoolmate boys playing with them although they normally socialize more with girls. And some of those girls were the ones I told the parents about the option. I did not asked single boy to join, they were already gaming.
Same here. I'm canceling my Spotify subscription right now and am moving to iTunes (back again). Spotify doesn't seem to support the newly announced home pods as well, which was another reason to quit my subscription, but mainly the somewhat enforced lock in from Spotify concerned me as well.
Wow, this is extremely impressive. Usually when I run a WebGL demo, my fans start blasting, but my machine seemed to handle this fine.
That's really neat, it worked great on my desktop drawing tablet. I've been looking for something to sculpt with on an iPad while sitting on the couch in front of the TV, I'll have to try that out.
I much prefer single season series or series that weren't confident in their renewals. The writing is just completely different. A single series season can tell a coherent story that makes real progress and drives it's characters to change and resolution. It's satisfying in the way that watching LOTR extended edition can be.

A series planning on being on the air forever can start with a clever premise, meander on and on in no rush to get anywhere. It endlessly teases to reveal secrets, change characters, or resolve plot. But the princess is always in another castle.
I totally agree with you. I have a friend who is entirely the opposite. She's really into Masterpiece Treater type stuff and she's constantly complaining about 5 episode seasons and series that only last a few of those seasons.

>please don't string it out for 7, 8, 9 seasons

Especially historically on broadcast TV, there were a lot of incentives all around to continue to milk a cash cow with a core audience who would watch it for the next 20 years given the opportunity. In addition to the networks, I'm sure many of the actors and others involved in a long-running show realize they'll probably never have as good a meal ticket again. So screw artistic vision.
I think in Japan you could probably go to a different restaurant serving a different type of Japanese food (e.g. ramen, sushi, soba, tempura, steak... even the US has the more famous ones) and continue on for weeks before exhausting the possible options for different restaurant types, all of which count as "local" food. At least local to the country.
Portland cement production, not concrete which consists of aggregate as well. There must be many trade offs in this design and one can imagine pure sand as ballast so the concrete plays some structural role. The sea floor anchor design and high voltage underwater cables also seem like hard engineering problems.
FWIW Wikipedia suggests TNG had very strong viewership numbers for every season.
> The stated goal of Buddhism is lack of desire.

No, actually not as that is totally and utterly physically and mentally impossible. Your body and your mind are _made_ to desire and act, there is no sense in denying this and Buddha sure as hell did not.

What you're looking for is lack of attachment. Desire is no problem, it's the attachment to it (and it's the same with everything). The belief in an I that is doing the desiring, that is what is causing trouble, not desire itself. It is nature doing its thing, there is no problem there.
You can accept the science that a quarantine prevents disease from spreading. You can also take the stance that the quarantine isn't worth it. Not mutually exclusive ideas.
During COVID I've been watching all of TNG. Sadly, after months, I'm now on the last season.
I'm not sure a strong magnet is a great thing to put next to a PC
> the never ending marvel material that gets released.

I dunno, now that Endgame completed the movie storyline that had been building for a decade, and their spearhead TV show Agents of SHIELD is over, I've almost completely lost all interest in the MCU. I've seen similar sentiments pretty regularly elsewhere, and wouldn't be surprised if its prominence also fades despite continued releases.
Santé et social main dans la main auprès des femmes SDF
À Paris, la Cité des dames propose aux femmes SDF une mise à l'abri dans un espace dédié. Mais aussi de faire un point sanitaire et social complet, grâce à son équipe pluriprofessionnelle, qui les oriente et/ou les accompagne vers les services de droit commun.

Précision
Ce reportage a été réalisé en janvier 2020. La crise sanitaire est passée par là entre-temps, induisant des changements. Juste avant le confinement, la Cité a fermé les portes de son accueil de jour et a réorganisé ses espaces en trois lieux distincts pour limiter les risques de diffusion du virus et permettre aux femmes accueillies, vulnérables au plan sanitaire, d'y séjourner de la façon la plus sécure possible.

Quelques chambres supplémentaires ont pu être mises à la disposition de la Cité, par l'ADSF, située dans le même immeuble. Ainsi qu'une salle de sport réaménagée en salle de confinement. Les effectifs ont aussi été augmentés pour répondre à ces enjeux. Le volet santé mentale de la structure a été développé pour tenir compte de la hausse des troubles liés à l'anxiété.

Au début du confinement, les dames étaient au nombre de 47, et suite à différents départs et orientations, elles étaient 33 au 11 mai. La structure souhaite pour l'heure limiter son accueil de nuit à 40 femmes, toujours dans un souci de sécurité sanitaire. Début octobre l'accueil de jour avait toutefois rouvert, selon des modalités adaptées.

Encore un après-midi bien rempli à la Cité des dames. Une vingtaine de femmes sans domicile fixe sont installées dans la grande pièce principale, les unes papotent, d'autres semblent souffler un peu, silencieuses, un sac plein de produits d'hygiène posé devant elles, certaines se servent un café ou un thé à côté de la machine à laver.
i made a minesweeper clone recently, was fun to make
https://minesweeper.space/
Self-publishing platforms, like lulu.com
People looking at data often ignore that every user uses a specific subset of the total subset of features or content.

Just as a simplistic example, user set A wants content `x` and `y`, user set B wants content `y` and `z` - data shows that `y` is popular, but by removing `x` or `z` they make those users very reluctant to continue using the service.

I've seen it multiple times with services I use where only the common set is kept and then people start loathing and leaving the service.
You can get a pretty good csv dump of your play music profile through Google's general data export tool. Their migration to YouTube music is a good opportunity to see what else is out there. I'm leaning towards prime music, since they're a buck cheaper if you have prime (who doesn't?)
It's acclimation. Since the 70s, the BBC has produced series for a particular number of episodes and then dropped them. There are some exceptions, like Doctor Who, but that has been the practice. In the US, historically, we just keep running until the ratings tell us to quit.
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Any github repositories and code which provide Spotify playlist->txt/csv/json/xml ?

ANSWER to myself: Seems there is at least a simple drag&drop solution with the select all on desktop app -> LibreOffice https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-export-my-Spotify-playlist-as...