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by lynguist 3y ago
I watched it until he had 300,000 points then skipped to the end. It makes me nostalgic for all the moments I’ve played Tetris before, including back in high school math class on a Voyage 200. (Back then I was so bad at Tetris.)
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by lynguist 3y ago
Wow! There is a whole roster of woman scientists that were denied a Nobel Prize and this one seems to be the most appalling one! And I had never heard about her before. I knew about one other though: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by lynguist 3y ago
If I can also make suggestions: Osaka: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. You can see such shotengai in real life Osaka as well. Also uses exclusively Kansai-ben. Hiroshima: In This Corner of the World. It made me cry 3 times! Fukuoka: Man
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by lynguist 3y ago
What’s the answer? One second user time and one second kernel time? Or something completely different?
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by lynguist 3y ago
Interestingly this one is still up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPodLinux Which is the equivalent project (also on μCLinux) on an iPod.
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by lynguist 3y ago
The mainstream is and was _enamored_ with Ancient Greece. Our Western culture made Ancient Greek into the vocabulary root of our sciences. We have a lineage of philosophy from Ancient Greece to the 19th century. Only in the 19th century wit
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by lynguist 3y ago
Question to the raspberry enthusiasts: Does anyone know if I can reliably extend a Raspberry Pi with an additional Gbit Ethernet port?
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by lynguist 3y ago
Not an issue: You already have two grandfathers and two grandmothers, how do you call them?
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by lynguist 3y ago
As for me Mac did bring programming to me, just with its durable chassis and well working memory management and relatively stable OS. - I can lift a Macbook with one hand creating tension on the chassis. When I do the same on a Lenovo T14 G
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by lynguist 3y ago
What hardware and software would be recommended for a "good quality" local inference with a LLM on: - a Windows or Linux machine - a Mac?
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by lynguist 3y ago
Does each parameter need double the allocation size?
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by lynguist 3y ago
Here you see the complete writeup: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/08/linux_on_the_thinkpad... As of now it barely works. The experience is arguably worse than on Mac M1. But it’s improving fast.
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by lynguist 3y ago
Here is the complete writeup on X13s: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/08/linux_on_the_thinkpad...
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by lynguist 3y ago
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Armbian-23.08-Released The CPU can’t do virtualization. M1 can, but can’t do nested virtualization.
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by lynguist 3y ago
No, not in inscriptions! (Even though inscriptions did in fact use length markers, there’s the superlong I for example.) When we transcribe actual Latin text we make some changes. The actual inscriptions use heavy abbreviations, which we re
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by lynguist 3y ago
Kedi masada. In Turkish if you say kedi you mean the cat. The copula is in the third person is conveyed by an empty word at the end of a sentence. Masada bir kedi var. There is a cat on the table. A cat is on the table. A cat is said as one
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by lynguist 3y ago
They’re length markers. There’s also the rarely used ˘ to show that a vowel be read short instead of long. At least in my gymnasium in Switzerland we had the length markers for all the words, from the very beginning, and in all texts we rea
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by lynguist 3y ago
The available options are: - Thinkpad X13s (barely works Ubuntu/Armbian) - Microsoft Surface Laptop (barely works Fedora) - Macbook Air (works Arch, Fedora, Debian) Macbook Air M1 will provide you with 3x CPU power and will have the be
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by lynguist 3y ago
Ah, thanks for the information! You are right.
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by lynguist 3y ago
Really, was it really seen as shovelware by the publisher? It was heavily promoted on PS2 booths here in Switzerland back when it came out. Katamari and EyeToy were promoted alongside each other as quirky 2000s era aesthetic titles. Somehow
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by lynguist 3y ago
The goal is to print with a computer something like a late 15th century humanist document, a tradition of typography 500 years old, and not to print on a 200x320 screen, which had a tradition of merely a decade. The early computer age of th
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by lynguist 3y ago
Asahi Lina is marcan’s alter ego that works solely on the graphics driver development.
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It is because the writing rules of English were frozen in 1755 with the release of A dictionary of the English language, and that dictionary normed the spellings which were already standardized 100 years prior to that in the mid 17th centur
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by lynguist 3y ago
Summary of the points: and what they mean. 1. Systemd's Complexity and Scope: The increased complexity allows for better integration and coordination of system components. 2. Journal Files in Binary Format: The binary format improves p
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by lynguist 3y ago
Aren’t electronic logbooks for truckers used in Europe since 2006? And no one whines about here?
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by lynguist 3y ago
Could maps.me also be in a similar state? It used to be a good OpenStreetsMaps frontend and it was bought (possibly twice) by some investor firm to generate profit. I don’t know what is the state of this app now. Does anyone know? What is t
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by lynguist 3y ago
The provider gives you 4 billion bytes over 4G/5G plus 50 * 140 bytes = 7000 bytes over SMS. Quite shocking, yes. SMS used to be free in the early 90s until the providers figured out that they can charge for it. They priced the 140 byt
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by lynguist 3y ago
I recently watched a video where someone visits the Hadza, a Tanzanian hunter-gatherer people, and asks them about life and goes on a hunt with them. They say the important things in life are to have meat from hunting and to have honey from
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by lynguist 3y ago
Which one did you get? And don't most 4k 120hz monitors "bloom"? Eg the area where your mouse cursor is brighter and when you move it it moves with a bloom around that area?
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by lynguist 3y ago
Like Surzhyk in Ukraine! Mixed Ukrainian/Russian that is the true mother tongue for many Ukrainians! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surzhyk

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