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  • Difference between Github, Gitlab, Forgejo ?

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  • @dengtav@lemmy.ml

    This answer is probably the best here. It's concise and answers your questions in a reasonably unbiased way.

    A lot of the other answers are dripping with personal bias and a few verging on conspiracy.

  • Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems'

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  • Then why do you want to see it broken up? Monopoly seemed a pretty reasonable assumption.

  • Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems'

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  • Steam is hardly a monopoly.

    There are plenty of successfully competing stores. The only real thing Steam has going for it is network effect that every gamer has an account therefore it's decent for socialising, but even that is being challenged by Discord and a multitude of others.

    GamePass is probably the closest we're seeing to a potential monopoly. The purchase of activation should never have been permitted.

  • Esperanto II - The unnecessary sequel to everyone's favorite artificial language

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  • Everyone likes the idea of Esperanto but nobody can be fucked with learning a language nobody else presently uses.

    Especially since we English have somehow managed to blunder and bludgeon our language so widely across the world that it's just accepted as a default.

  • RFC: "kicking" posts instead of removing them

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  • Yes.

    It has always been a pet peeve of mine that I would find an interesting topic while browsing all on reddit, with a healthy number of upvotes and comments but regardless mods will bluster in and lock it because it's not quite on topic.

    Back in the early days of Internet forums when moderators found an off topic post they would move it to the relevant sub , and there would typically be an "Other", "Off-Topic" or "Random" as a catch all.

    I've never understood why threaded social media is missing such a basic moderation function.

  • This a new one: Banned for abbreviating New York Times to NYT in a comment.

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  • The difference is the BBC is the name of the organisation, same for the NHS.

  • Featured

    I created a Lemmy instance and the future of this community.

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  • For name ideas:

    !prattle@dullsters.net

    prattle: idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

    It evokes the spirit of doddering, dull, old fashioned men but without being specifically gendered or referring to any other brand.

    Or,

    !leagueofextraordinarydullness@dullsters.net

    Perhaps a little long and I've never seen the League of Extraordinary Gentleman so I don't even know if it's irrelevant or deeply inappropriate but it has a pleasant ring to it

    Or,

    !mildydull@dullsters.net

    Follows in the spirit of mildy... communities which is generic and not tied to any specific brand

  • Compostable dishes vs washing dishes

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  • Erm. ChatGPT reckons it's closer to 20-40 cups for the same embodied energy. So my recollection was well off the mark.

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    New Intel Processor and 192 GB/256 GB RAM

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  • OP wants to store all of their porn collection in RAM

  • 2 killed in crash of small plane near municipal airport east of Atlanta, authorities say

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  • 24.83 fatalities in 2019 and 25.95 in 2018 per 100 million miles ridden on motorcycle according to the source of the other article: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812979.pdf

    If we take the value for personal flights:

    21.1 fatal accidents per million flight hours

    I'm going to assume 125 mph as I'm skeptical of your 145 mph figure.

    = 21.1 fatal per 125 million miles

    = 16.88 fatal per 100 million miles of personal flights

    I'd basically conclude that personal flights and motorbike are in the same ballpark whether you're looking at hours or miles.

  • 2 killed in crash of small plane near municipal airport east of Atlanta, authorities say

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  • Motorcycle:

    16 to 18 fatal motorcycle accidents per million hours ridden

    Personal flights:

    21.1 fatal accidents per million flight hours

    I'm really surprised at that.

    Thinking about it though most bikers I know are young, have good reflexes and are mostly using a motorbike for commuting or travelling which is probably lower risk than the cliche teenage fool on a superbike my mind jumped to.

    By contrast, the vast majority of light aircraft pilots I know are 60+, many 70+ with extensive health issues, heart problems and likely comparatively poor reflexes.

    corporate aviation – the world of bizjets – is relatively safe. This sector only saw 0.48 fatal accidents per million flight hours from 2012 to 2021

    General aviation overall:

    9.5 fatal crashes per million flight hours

  • 2 killed in crash of small plane near municipal airport east of Atlanta, authorities say

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  • No, I would agree that comparing by hour is reasonable. Most light aircraft use (in my area at least) is generally recreational. People are flying because they enjoy the hobby rather than because they have a destination in mind, therefore they'll fly for a long duration but the distance travelled might not be far

  • Compostable dishes vs washing dishes

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  • I seem to recall many years ago it was reported that a ceramic mug had such a high embodied energy that it was equivalent to 1000+ paper cups.

    This definitely needs fact checking but it's an interesting consideration when you're considering the impact on the planet

  • 2 killed in crash of small plane near municipal airport east of Atlanta, authorities say

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  • Plus planes are checked before every use, and very few people are flying light aircraft in a reckless manner.

    I'd be very surprised if there were any stats to backup a claim that light aircraft are as dangerous as motorcycles.

  • You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.

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  • I'm honestly surprised it hasn't already become rampant.

  • SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show.

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  • I somehow replied to the wrong post. Here's what I meant to say:

    But calling wait lists pointless is also pointless.

    This is going to be ultra pedantic but in case I was misunderstood: I'm saying that using wait times as a target is pointless. Obvs we do need wait lists themselves...

    What would you propose as a method for measuring NHS effectivness.

    First I know I'm not qualified in any way to answer this and there will be people with knowledge who can provide a far better answer. But if you do want my opinion then I'd say a reasonable place to start would be to simply ask the patient. The written answers will be subjective but you can collate all the [yes/no] answers together to see objective patterns of whether patient satisfaction is improving or getting worse.

    How long were you waiting? [Number of weeks] (Would be very interesting to compare this subjective answer to the actual recorded data)

    Was the wait time acceptable? [Yes/No/I don't know]

    -> Did your condition deteriorate as a result of the delay? [Yes/No/I don't know]

    -> How did you condition deteriorate? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]

    Did you receive treatment? [Yes/No/I don't know]

    -> Did the treatment improve your condition? [Yes/No/I don't know]

    -> Why didn't the treatment help with your condition? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]

    Were you referred to another service? [Yes/No/I don't know]

    -> Do you agree with the decision to refer you elsewhere? [Yes/No/I don't know]

    -> Why don't you believe the referral is correct? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]

    Overall how satisfied were you satisfied? [0-10]

    -> How could we improve? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]

  • Do you know of a DRM-free music app with an algorithm?

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  • If you don't want to maintain your own library why does it matter whether it has DRM?

  • WSB Mod claims to have met with reddit for Beta on new paywall. Refused.

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  • I love how people under NDA always feel the need to announce they're party to information you don't have.

    It's such a weird human instinct to loudly assert that you know something but you're not going to share what it is.

  • Cops of lemmy, what's it like marijuana being not a big deal then all the sudden a really big deal then back to being like probably not a big deal to it probably becoming a really big deal again?

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  • That's basically what OP said isn't it?

    You see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.

    You see a black dude in a car so you put your hand on your holster, immediately your training tells you that you should sense the smell of weed, you approach aggressively make multiple conflicting demands in rapid succession, draw your weapon etc etc.

    Later that day you see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.