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  • Riskable@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlWE'RE BANNING TIKTOK!
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    4 days ago

    Nobody is learning Mandarin. Not even the Chinese! LOL

    They’re all relying on automatic translation and even the Chinese are using speech recognition to enter characters on their phones. The written language is rapidly being forgotten.

    …which is the destiny of all pictographic and logographic languages so it shouldn’t be seen as a bad thing, necessarily 🤷


  • Says the guy that won’t allow Meta Quest developers the same level of access to their own hardware. Example: How would someone develop a 3rd party controller for the Quest VR headsets? You can’t. They haven’t exposed that API (or the cameras fully!).

    They don’t even let you set the clock on your Quest headset! Need to change timezones? Factory Reset












  • If a treatment relies on advertising then it probably isn’t very effective. In fact, there’s boatloads of treatments that get approved by the FDA because they meet the minimum standard of “not going to kill someone right away and some folks showed a minor improvement.” It doesn’t mean they’re any good or worth trying just because you heard about them in an ad.

    Not only that but doctors know about all the treatments for the things they specialize in. You think they’re living under a rock‽ They know about that treatment X that’s being advertised everywhere but they also know that it didn’t show an efficacy at all at treating your specific condition(s) or they’ll know that the risk it carries outweighs the potential benefits.

    Doctors know 10,000 times more than you (or health insurers!) do about what’s medically necessary and/or effective. If a patient suggests a treatment don’t be surprised if the doctor’s eyes roll. “Here we go again.”

    Ads for prescription medications are a huge waste of money and they also waste doctors time explaining why they’re not a good idea for all the zillions of patients that “ask their doctor” about them.



  • Could be a bug in Nautilus though it’s so mature now that would be strange. I’d report it to their repo (don’t have the link and I’m on my phone but it should be easy to find).

    ext4 supports various filename encodings (simultaneously, even!) but sometimes when you copy a file from one destination to another in a batch with mixed encodings you can end up with situations like this. Especially from within a GUI.

    Does the problem occur when you copy each file one by one or only in batch?