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YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%
  • The whole reason I got on YT Premium was because it was free with Google Play Music. I have real issues watch non-Premiun now, because I've always disliked advertising methods. (Not so much th ads, which can be entertaining, but just being shown content I didn't request instead of the content I did request.)

  • In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.
  • Plaid effectively admitted to stealing your transaction history and selling it to the highest bidder in the past. There was a settlement and they agreed to not to that in the future

    Just don't ever share your password, and certainly not your banking password, and definitely not with Plaid.

  • And then they don't stop after I say "I get it" a few times. 💀
  • I am impatient with long descriptions, but I do find that in a minority of cases, the description does lead in to a distinction that I would not have intuited.

    I try to reflect on that during long descriptions, particularly ones that are highly redundant with something I remember.

  • What's your radical opinion?
  • I don't really like buffalo wings. I know boneless wings are basically just "nuggies", but I prefer them, especially if things are getting saucy.

    A dry spice blend can make for acceptable wings, but I actually still prefer something like a spicy breading and a bigger piece of chicken, if I'm going to have to deal with bones.

    But, I will admit that is a good border case, and isn't quite the sin that shrimp w/ tail covered in cream sauce is.

  • What's your radical opinion?
  • Anything I can't eat with my hands, should not be covered in a sauce that I don't want on my hands.

    Fried shrimp with tails = fine. Bone-in chicken legs = fine. Bone-in chicken in biryani = not ordering. Shrimp with tail in pasta = sin against god and crime against humanity.

  • Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the electoral college in latest forecast
  • I do or at least I have in the past. If the caller will answer my Google call screening, I'll answer or call back.

    There's always been a issue of sample not matching population, and a variety of methods to correct for that. But, I will admit there is some limitations to that, and I don't quite understand where the limitations are. (I love math, but I failed statistics once, and barely passed the second time. I prefer symbols and proofs and closed forms...)

  • Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the electoral college in latest forecast
  • He's not an idiot. He is funded by Thiel. He has been politically captured by authoritarian capitalism, so I'd be wary of any models he produced that aren't independently audited for bias.

    I think polls are useful, and the monte carlo simulation approach for turning them into a electorial vote probability is good, but there "too much" magic sauce left over for me to trust the outputs from Silver or 538.

  • Haskell Weekly News: Issue 429
    haskellweekly.news Issue 429

    News about the Haskell programming language from 2024-07-18.

    Issue 429

    cross-posted from https://slippy.xyz/notes/9vujpeyssp

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    GHC 9.10.1 is now available!
    discourse.haskell.org GHC 9.10.1 is now available!

    The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of GHC 9.10.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org and shortly via GHCup. GHC 9.10 brings a number of new features and improvements, including: The introduction of the G...

    GHC 9.10.1 is now available!

    cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/12126221

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    [Meta] (H)Ask Anything Thread?

    On /r/Haskell there was a pinned, monthly thread so that people could ask questions without creating a new top-level post.

    • I'd like to increase traffic to here (or some other Haskell Fediverse threaded-conversation group). Do you think a thread like that might help?
    • Does pinning work here? It's probably not necessary given the posts/month currently, but I suppose it's something to keep in mind.
    • Anyone got a link to Lemmy/KBin/ActivityPub Haskell library that I could use to write a bot, or some other way to schedule a post for yyyy-mm-01T00:00:00Z ?
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    Issue 392 :: Haskell weekly newsletter
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    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-11-02.

    Issue 392

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    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-26.

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    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-19.

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    News about the Haskell programming language from 2023-10-12.

    Issue 389

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