be_excellent_to_each_other

be_excellent_to_each_other , 5 months ago

It's hard for me to imagine 2024 not being the year they do.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 5 months ago

I didn't realize that. That's disheartening.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 7 months ago

I am so glad that nothing I do in life will ever cause this problem to matter to me.

The way I was taught in school, the answer is clearly 1, but I did read the blog post and I understand why that's actually ambiguous.

Fortunately, I don't have to care, so will sleep well knowing the answer is 1, and that I'm as correct as anyone else. :-p

be_excellent_to_each_other , 5 months ago

Someone somewhere is already planning how they will get people to work around the clock this way, and someone else somewhere is probably desperate enough to feed themselves or their family that they'll take it when offered.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 7 months ago

I’m gonna stop you there, because I’ve been using the format for about 30 years, and people only started using the new pronunciation in the last 10-15.

I've been using the word since the mid 90s and it's always been hard G for me.

I don't say that to suggest that you or anyone else are wrong to say it with a soft G (although my brain cringes each time I hear it), but since I don't think I invented the hard G pronunciation I think claiming it's a recent thing is a fallacious argument against the hard G.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 7 months ago

This is my only point:

I think claiming it's a recent thing is a fallacious argument against the hard G.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 8 months ago

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/big-pharma-research-and-development-new-drugs-buybacks-biden-medicare-negotiation

Last year, the three largest US-listed pharmaceutical companies by revenues, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck, spent a combined $39.6 billion on R&D. That is, admittedly, a lot of money. But less than Medicare is currently paying on just ten drugs

While Big Pharma holds vast portfolios of existing patents for prescription drugs, the innovation pipeline for new drugs actually has very little to do with Big Pharma. In reality, public sources — especially the NIH — fund the basic research that makes scientific breakthroughs. Then small, boutique biotech and pharmaceutical firms take that publicly generated knowledge and do the final stages of research, like running clinical trials, that get the drugs to market. The share of small companies in the supply of new drugs is huge, and it’s still growing. Fully two-thirds of new drugs now come from these small companies, up from one-third twenty years ago. It is not the research labs of Pfizer that are developing new drugs.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 11 months ago

Just wanted to agree and add that it's not my DE's job to tell me the best way to work. That's why I use KDE even though I like some things about the GNOME environment. Let me get there in my own time, let me set the things up how I want. My work isn't your work, and your workflow shouldn't be forced onto mine.

GNOME devs care about their vision, KDE devs care about their users. This has been plain since the early days of GNOME 3.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 11 months ago

I have to admit there's a dimension to this I don't get. I absolutely agree that whatever makeup you choose to apply is your business and no one else's. But every single woman in my life, from my mother, to girlfriends, cousins, platonic friends, and my wife has expressed their opinion to me (often disapprovingly) at one time or another about my decisions with regard to my clothing, facial hair, regular hair, etc. I feel very sure this is an experience many other men have also had. It annoys me, but I don't see it as an issue in my life.

What makes this any different?

be_excellent_to_each_other , 11 months ago

Alright - that's 100% a reasonable and true answer. Thanks! :-)

be_excellent_to_each_other , 11 months ago

Eh, I'm in my 50s, it's not like I had all these experiences in six months. :-)

be_excellent_to_each_other , 11 months ago

Thanks, I'd already received a less snarky sounding answer though.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 11 months ago

Yes, my post history screams bad-faith troll-baiting. I've no idea how I pissed in your cheerios, but really I thought this sort of thing was being mostly left behind at reddit.