gbuttersnaps

joined 2 years ago

Totally agree. Saying that "any criticism of the Chinese government is sinophobic" is the same as saying that "any criticism of Israel's government is antisemitic."

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I needed a better organization tool to keep track of tasks and todos, and I read about org mode on lemmy. I ended up following this tutorial and then building my own templates once I understood everything. It's fantastic now that I have it a little customized, makes it so quick and easy to keep notes.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I switched from vim to emacs a couple weeks ago specifically for org mode and it has legit changed the way I work.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

It's how we did it for $10 in 2012 as well

Nature really showed me their downstairs mixup.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just for the sake of information, the two common ways to put this in English are "How it feels" and "What it feels like". The former phrase is just descriptive, so it doesn't need the "like" at the end. The latter phrase is comparative to another thing, so it needs the like. Also this is something that native speakers mix up all the time, so don't worry too much; your English is great!

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

My first thought is that maybe because women's chests have been sexualized, men are more hesitant to perform cpr on women in a public place. Not saying that either piece of that puzzle is right or rational, by the way. I'd be interested to see the numbers on the gender ratios of people giving cpr to women in public places to see if that lines up.

No, the number comes from a macroeconomics text book written by Gregory Mankiw and its based on research by Harvey Brennan studying the correlation since the 1950s.

Economic instability has been found to increase overall mortality, infant deaths, fatalities from cardiovascular disease, cirrhosis, suicide, and homicide as well as morbidities, alcoholism and admissions to mental hospitals. M Harvey Brenner has publications studying the phenomenon going all the way back to the 50s if you're interested in the scientific literature.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

For everyone saying "A 50% increase in unemployment would only take us from 3.8% to 5.7%, that's not bad" keep in mind that 37,000 people die for every 1% increase in unemployment. This man is essentially wishing for the deaths of 70,000 americans.

Edit: just realized he's probably talking about Australia from his accent. Not sure about the numbers for Australia on unemployment deaths, but I imagine the point should still stand.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having worked for a state government which maintained data for federal submissions in 15 different versions of the same giant excel file on 15 different computers, it's scary how accurate this is.

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