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  • I’m not familiar with how womens rights developed in Hungary, but even from the Wikipedia page it says:

    The series satirizes and parodies sexism, with many of the strips involving Jucika navigating unwanted attention from men and her efforts to get the better of it.

    To me that’s a strong indication that the strips are supposed to be critiquing sexism, which means there is a message. Maybe Hungary was more progressive at the time, but in most of the world in the 1950s women had a rough time of things. Showing a strong female character who frequently outwits the men (and sometimes women) around her would definitely be seen by many in that time period as being pro-women/women’s rights.

    Just some timelines to support my stance:

    Edit: My main point being, just cause it doesn’t feel progressive today doesn’t mean it wasn’t back then.



  • jacksilvertoFuck CarsBatteries are expensive
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    I recently did similar math to determine if I should get an electric bike vs drive to work.

    The trip is about 2.5 miles, meaning 5 miles round trip. The cheapest ebike I felt good about cost about $500. At the time gas was about $3.50 a gallon and my car got ~30mpg on that route.

    So basically $3.50 / 6 trips. That means I’d need to ride the bike roughly 800 times to make back the investment. Given I don’t go into the office every day, it would take me around 5 years to make back the investment in the bike.

    This math only works out this way though because I already own the car, and that little bit or mileage wouldn’t be too noticeable for wear and tear, so it’s really a cost of gas issue.

    However, I did get the bike and ride it for a little bit of exercise, an excuse to be outside, and cause using less gas is overall a good goal.


  • Yeah, the article only compares “all occupations” and their flagged “AI sensitive - healthcare” which is a terrible comparison. Anyone paying attention to the job market knows that Healthcare has been basically carrying the job market recently. A fair comparison would exclude Healthcare on both sides. I suspect without Healthcare in the “all occupations” we’d see low to negative growth too.

    Basically, the job market has been stagnant and/or shrinking in everything except Healthcare. When everyone is tightening their belt, sales/secrataries/assistant roles will probably feel it first.




  • I would take any sweeping claims made here with a grain of salt.I’ve known a number of places that were just python shops. I personally primarily use python, but I work in the data science/ML space where python is sorta the default language.

    The nice thing about python is it’s easy to jump into (with the REPL and Jupyter Notebooks) and can be used for scripting without needing to learn too much.

    The person above is right though that many software development teams will use more structured/rigid languages, but that’s going to vary a lot. For instance I’ve worked at places where the primary language used was Kotlin (Java “compatible”), C#, PHP, or Python. Rust is a big up and coming language, but that depends on the type of software you want to write. And generally once you understand “programming” jumojng between languages isn’t as hard.

    In summary, my opinion is that python can be a good starter language for self learners as it’s more approachable and widely used/popular. However more structured languages can teach you better fundamentals which could carry you further if you’re looking to make a career out of programming.






  • jacksilvertoFuturama@adultswim.fanFuturama sets August 3rd return on Hulu
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    3 days ago

    Hmm, 2010 does put it earlier than I thought, although I’m still not sure if that makes it prescient.

    That being said, if you watch the episode a lot of the jokes aren’t just dated, but fail to land at all due to be so tied to pop culture. That’s not even counting the very bizzare, somewhat rude, Susan Boyle/Susan Boil bit.

    That’s not even mentioning that it’s structure/concept are mirrored in the Hulu/Bitcoin/Amazon/Covid episodes of the first Hulu season. Where they just take a current thing from pop culture and build an episode around it. Unlike the earlier episodes, the entire plot (and most of the humor) revolve around a concept that won’t be relevant in the future (like how Twitter doesn’t even exist anymore).



  • jacksilvertoFuturama@adultswim.fanFuturama sets August 3rd return on Hulu
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    Yeah, I didn’t even finish the first Hulu season. Seems like I made a good choice.

    Once they started leaning more heavily on current events/pop culture it was clear the show had run its course.

    I like that the Hulu seasons saw the terrible “eye-phone” episode, Attack of the Killer App, and thought they should use that premise for every episode.