DiskoHexyl

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by DiskoHexyl 8mo ago
And it mostly happens in government funded and/or commercially viable sports, with public schools where kids train for free, scholarships, numerous competitions etc. To gather those selected elites we take an enormous pool of aspiring
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by DiskoHexyl 8mo ago
3rd party keyboards are frequently banned from some of the bank apps, delivery services and so on. This way you have to keep the default one anyway and make even more typos when yet another app forces you to get back to Apple’s keyboard. I
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by DiskoHexyl 9mo ago
A lot of the apps, not just the banking apps, but food delivery etc, restrict using alternative keyboards, leaving you with a default one, which is especially jarring for a multi-lingual countries where you typically need keyboards for Engl
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by DiskoHexyl 9mo ago
All the great QAs with whom I've worked would have made good developers (and they actually WERE good developers, only with a QA name and salary). The problem is that a great QA earns less than a mediocre developer within the same compa
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by DiskoHexyl 9mo ago
With this recent trend of a license-free or even AI-generated music, I doubt that they even have the incentive to give way to those smaller and less popular bands (the well-knowns are going to be just fine anyway) that were the reason I cam
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by DiskoHexyl 10mo ago
I’d wager that mass layoffs only crystallize the essence of a company, removing everyone who isn’t willing to conform 100%, for better or worse. A giant machine sheds all that slows down its drive (to somewhere), even by thinking too much,
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by DiskoHexyl 10mo ago
That is exactly the issue with incorrectly gauging 1rm- if it’s too low, than the supposed ‘resistance’ training with 70-80% of 1rm isn’t actually that. Is it fair to compare A to B, when the A in question isn’t exactly an A, but rather som
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by DiskoHexyl 10mo ago
This doesn’t look like a particularly charitable interpretation of my comment, although my interpretation of the article isn’t either, so it’s only fair. And no, I am not looking for a personal fitness advice in scientific research anymore
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by DiskoHexyl 10mo ago
Age: 22+-3 AND with that weight to ffbm ratio not only untrained, but at least slightly (I’m being generous here) overweight. With these pre-requisites it almost doesn’t matter what kind of physical activity one does- the muscles will grow
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by DiskoHexyl 10mo ago
Outsourcing your writing to an llm is not the way to get better (at writing)
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by DiskoHexyl 10mo ago
In such case it's okay to not write the thing. Or to write it crudely- with errors and naivete, bursting with emotion and letting whatever it is inside you to flow on paper, like kids do. It's okay too. Or to painstakingly work on
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by DiskoHexyl 10mo ago
On the one hand it is indeed mostly a high school reading list, all very mainstream and relatively popular fiction/sci-fi with a sprinkle of tech literature. Is that really such a bad thing? Most adults barely read at all, or, at the v
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by DiskoHexyl 11mo ago
I'm perfectly fine with paying for software, so the price wasn't a leading factor in my choice (and I have contributed to Jellyfin). It just looks to me that Plex (as a company) isn't really as reliable for self-hosting in th
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by DiskoHexyl 11mo ago
Finally jumped ship to a Jellyfin based home server and couldn't be happier. The ui is surprisingly good and polished (especially for the users who don't have to manage the library), video quality is amazing (with bd source files,
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by DiskoHexyl 11mo ago
...and the more low-trust becomes the society, as if it's not already the case in plenty of places. It's no coincidence that people always judged and shunned such overt manipulators, as well as tried to downplay the underlying mec
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by DiskoHexyl 11mo ago
Hardly a surprise, given the nature of Spark and benchmark prerequisites. Comparing a positively ancient distributed JVM-based compute framework running on a single node, with modern native tools like DuckDB or Polars, and all that on a sel
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by DiskoHexyl 11mo ago
SteamOS has way more appeal to gamers in 2025 than it could have had in, say, 2004. On the surface the lack of popular multiplayer titles that require a kernel-level anti-cheat is a heavy downside, but gaming is extremely fragmented these d
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by DiskoHexyl 1y ago
CC barely manages to follow all of the instructions within a single session in a single well-defined repo. 'You are totally right, it's been 2 whole messages since the last reminder, and I totally forgot that first rule in claude
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by DiskoHexyl 1y ago
More accessible by default than modern electron-based apps
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by DiskoHexyl 1y ago
In every hobby there are 2 groups of people: those who enjoy the actual act of doing the thing, and those who enjoy the tooling (equipment, methodologies, discussions around the thing etc). Not saying that one is inherently more worthy than
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by DiskoHexyl 1y ago
Difference is, AMD wasn't a competitor for ATi. One mostly built CPU's, while another- GPUs. These two, on the other hand, are competing in several major product categories. Overall, not a good look
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by DiskoHexyl 1y ago
Anki helps the best when you are at the beginning of the language journey. With a vocabulary of 0 words you won't be able to read anything at all, and there's nothing to talk to an LLM about yet. Those 'useless' static
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by DiskoHexyl 1y ago
With the number of Steam Decks sold estimated at 3-4 million, and the number of monthly active Steam users being around 130 million, I think it's safe to say that 0.21% does not represent SteamOS install base. As far as I know, SteamOS
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by DiskoHexyl 2y ago
If (and that is a big if. Most people severely underestimate their body fat levels. And with some touting 3% dexa scan results, even such measurements are suspect) you really were at a bmi of 29 (which, BTW, doesn't count as 30+ from m
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by DiskoHexyl 2y ago
Let's put it like this: the probability of an individual to be at a BMI of 30+ AND being very lean, while not using PEDs, is extremely low. So low, in fact, that it doesn't make sense to even look into these outliers from the soc
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by DiskoHexyl 2y ago
That works relatively well until you get injured, which, for people who train seriously, is almost inevitable. Then you have to train around said injury either temporarly or permantently and find great use for various machines. Or you get t
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by DiskoHexyl 2y ago
Tried deploying this in k8s for data analysts and data engineers to use (mostly with pySpark in mind) as a way to provide non-developer crowd with a ready-made environment with batteries included, e.g. all of the database and local s3 conne
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by DiskoHexyl 2y ago
Lack of Vulkan support is just one (small) reason gaming doesn't really exist on Mac. IMO it's more down to Apple's historic view on videogames and software compatibility in general- they are okay with frequently breaking thi
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by DiskoHexyl 3y ago
Cardio toxicity cannot be ignored, especially in the typical context of consuming cocaine- dehydration, high amount of physical activity and sleep deprivation. Any stimulant is potentially harmful, especially one as powerful as this. Even e
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by DiskoHexyl 3y ago
Encrypted data is highly random, and a compression ratio would be close to 1. So yeah- technically you can run a compression algorithm over it, but it won't help much

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