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by lloeki 2y ago
> I have no idea how those projects fit together because the actual logic is spread out. There are two kind of mazes: - those that are so tangled up that you can't make out any kind of structure. - those that are so regular that you
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by lloeki 2y ago
We have a literal profession whose sole purpose is to carefully dig dirt over extended periods of time to excavate skeletons and attempt to understand their lives and deaths. I don't think skeletons is a deterrent, quite the opposite.
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by lloeki 2y ago
> I've been using Linux for 28 years now and for a while it improved beyond all recognition, but it's getting very clunky again with all the bloat now. Oh my this rings so true. While some don't like systemd (which is fine
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by lloeki 2y ago
Ruby? It has perlisms and awkisms around, here's a stupid example: echo -e "foo 1\nbar 2\nbaz 3" | ruby -n -e 'BEGIN { puts "===" }; $_ =~ /^b\S+ (.*)/ and puts "#{$_.chomp.upcase} => #{
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by lloeki 2y ago
Mine reliably notices that I woke up and immediately go under when my wife comes home late in the night, which happens basically every day (because bartender) so I get somewhat statistically significant results in that regard. It's acc
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by lloeki 2y ago
> hold a charge for several days That would be an understatement, are you running/cycling a lot outside, or is it a smaller model (thus small battery because physics)? Mine (Fenix 7) holds charge for 15 days minimum and that'
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by lloeki 2y ago
Ha I didn't even count oxygen in the mix; it could hold its breath maybe? j/k, what's for sure is that I don't see how a biological entity could ever achieve escape velocity from self-powered flight, because, well, physi
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by lloeki 2y ago
> anyone who recommends GIMP hasn't really used GIMP. Or they only ever used GIMP but never Acorn/Pixelmator/PS and thus don't understand how they run circles around GIMP. Same about OmniGraffle vs the supposed horde
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Nor literature about AI taking over the world!
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> Stare at sheet music your whole life, and your brain starts to predict sheet music anywhere. Sounds like the Tetris effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
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by lloeki 2y ago
And noisy. VS plug a headset in and stop being interrupted by irate neighbours annoyed by your enthusiastic musical expression, while still enjoying "real piano" dynamics. (or waking the kid that you just put to bed in the adjacen
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Inheritance is a core principle of OOP Of Simula (& descendants) proto-OOP objects, not as it was envisioned by the one who coined the term. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_ka
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by lloeki 2y ago
> That'a separate from software churn though. I'd say that is correct. In a sense it's like part availability for cars or washing machines, and is similarly quite an outrageous situation too: around here law mandates 10y o
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Well, it does obviously have to do with generating sales. I don't think it's that obvious, and I don't think manufacturers count on it ("it" being short length updates) Instead I think it's about handling
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by lloeki 2y ago
If you consider one person in isolation it sure does not make sense to release a new phone every year. If you consider all users though, they most certainly do not buy/upgrade at the same time . So let's say a new generation is r
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by lloeki 2y ago
An analysis of the layout and usage of the so-called tera-keyboard: https://scifiinterfaces.com/2013/07/24/the-secret-of-the-ter... Worth a read, notably the estimated achieved speed in comparison with a huma
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by lloeki 2y ago
Not SAC, the original GitS movie. > I love thinking of this as such a wonderfully naive early 2000's view on HCI — there's no direct-access data API Even in original GitS, both cyborgs and bots have wired neck ports and can als
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by lloeki 2y ago
Sleep starting late + driving to exhaustion + occasional night skipping then catchup sounds almost like DSPD: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder That one sleeps 4-5h per night also sounds like
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by lloeki 2y ago
Arguably even before drones, missiles have some form of "AI" to autonomously make calls, e.g Tomahawk TERCOM and DSMAC (arguably navigation, but hey, for a missile navigation ends in controlled descent into terrain)
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by lloeki 2y ago
> despite the fact that nukes will probably never be launched from aircrafts if at all "if at all": that's deterrence. I don't think any nuke-able aircraft small-country customer intent is to launch, but you gotta hav
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by lloeki 2y ago
Reminder that most picturesque images of butterflies are of dead ones, including the emoji! https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
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by lloeki 2y ago
While grey goo is about matter, this appears to be a grey energy scenario: one where machines run amok eating all possible energy in an exponential feedback loop of uselessness, driving civilisations to oblivion. While the civilisations are
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by lloeki 2y ago
Although due to Poe's law I'm unsure if GP was earnest, I elected to read it with a /s modifier.
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by lloeki 2y ago
It helps that these are all segregated HyperV VMs. Basically like Qubes.
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Over such timescales since you'd aim at another galaxy wholesale you coud bet on Drake equation plus hope a civilisation has survived long enough for a wide enough window to be able to receive the transmission. > probably wouldn&#x2
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by lloeki 2y ago
> The trouble is that MOND is just not worth your time. [...] MOND is just some wild idea Sometimes you gotta be wrong before you get it right. I mean, Newtonian mechanics are "wrong" but served us well at some scales for a whi
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by lloeki 2y ago
Conversely lots of contents is produced on/for less-than-stellar displays and gamma+color-profiles-be-damned overcompensate with more saturated colours at the data level because it's going to show up toned down. When a display is
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by lloeki 2y ago
OLED has had lower peak brightness than IPS. It may not be perceptually so because of no-backlight absolute blacks and higher contrast, but the difference starts to matter in broad daylight where OLED may not be bright enough, irrespective
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by lloeki 2y ago
Indeed I've been liberally using nix-collect-garbage -d after every darwin-rebuild switch without issues for years.
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Its worth using the Determinate Systems installer to avoid reinstalling Nix on every macOS update though. I've had Nix installed from the traditional installer since the very first M1 and never had to reinstall nixpkgs across OS u

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