tomxor

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by tomxor 1y ago
> Dial-up internet speeds average about 56 kilobytes a second Nope, that would be considered crazy fast back in the day, it was 56 kilo bits per second. That's about 6.8 kilobytes, but realistically and with overhead it was usually
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by tomxor 1y ago
Meat especially grass fed beef, is not just protein, it's an incredibly dense source of nutritients. You have to eat far higher quantities and ranges of plant based alternatives to acquire the same nutritional value, and they are usual
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by tomxor 1y ago
> The underlying mechanisms (reduced inflammation, improved fat distribution, better metabolic health) aren't unique to that group Those are causes , you can't just invert it (again) and call them mechanisms for anti-aging...
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by tomxor 1y ago
I find it amusing that a pretty large group of people need to believe it's some kind of elixir of youth. Did you read the abstract? It "reduces aging" in a highly selective group of people with accelerated aging from secondar
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by tomxor 1y ago
> Whether in 2 decades or 10, billions of human beings are going to die from the direct or indirect effects of climate change. And that is... Incomprehensible. Just for some perspective... at the current global death rate, 2.4 billion di
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by tomxor 1y ago
Actually I couldn't fit Pluto, I sacrificed everything I could, but to fit it would require sacrificing the precision of Mars, Earth and Mercury (dropping the decimal), but I wanted to maintain enough precision to be able to tell them
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by tomxor 1y ago
You mean technically? I should have posted the beta dwitter link which has the "compress" toggle, because most dweets are unicode packed. https://beta.dwitter.net/d/26521 Here's the js anyway: for(i=
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by tomxor 1y ago
Shameless plug: Accurate solar system in 192 Bytes: https://www.dwitter.net/d/26521 The red bit is the sun. 1000 kilometers per pixel, and 1000 seconds per second. They all fit onto the screen by looking through the or
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by tomxor 1y ago
Except 1. It's neither a human nor a qualified therapist. 2. It is superhuman only in scale, not intelligence. 3. If they truly believed they could fly "with every ounce of their soul", they wouldn't be seeking someone e
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by tomxor 1y ago
Yup, once you've used snapshots for backups once, doing any kind of filesystem level backup just seems absurd. I now use it as the basis for every piece of infrastructure I add that holds valuable data. The only place it doesn't r
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by tomxor 1y ago
Gitea, i can't recommend it enough. Lightening fast compared to the proprietary offerings, clean simple UI like an older Github, and super simple to self host.
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by tomxor 1y ago
One of the many reasons I moved to self hosting. I use ZFS to backup every 15 minutes, ... could do it even more frequently but that seems a little pointless. Also moved away from Gitlab because it's so damn slow.
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by tomxor 1y ago
> EM radiation is either reflected or absorbed By interfaces yes, but it can also be cancelled out through destructive interference as a side effect of reflection, which is my theory of how a "big ball of crumply aluminium" is
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by tomxor 1y ago
> wrap that in aluminium foil, making sure that the ends are folded over and pressed down hard to provide good inter-layer contact I've tried this many times, it's impossible to prevent gaps without welding it shut. Obviously I
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by tomxor 1y ago
Yup, I found a shortcut to determining this is to use the audio option, which will instantly admit you are blocked due to "suspicious network activity" rather than make you solve stuff - i guess because of accessibility?
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by tomxor 1y ago
Yes, it only works better because the obscurity to IP ratio is good. It could easily be as bad as mullvad if they became more popular. But as I understand it the really popular VPNs address this with huge pools of servers and IP cycling? On
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by tomxor 1y ago
I had to switch to iVPN last year (similar ethos), because Mullvad became pretty much unusable due to blacklisting and laggy DNS servers. I'm assuming it has something to do with the push in recent years to expand their userbase, but t
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by tomxor 1y ago
Splashy complicated water is an accurate but imprecise description, which is exactly what you want for an introduction. It's a complex chaotic system. Computers are a terrible analogy for this type of minimal explanation of natural phe
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by tomxor 1y ago
> So it's a bunch of complicated splashy water that is excited by the moon moving past This explanation is so much better. If people want to use big words they can say fluid dynamics, but yeah, it's a complex system with a bi
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by tomxor 1y ago
Similar to how people will read a temporary hand written sign on a door, but filter out a (newly placed) professionally made sign, because the latter looks too permanent. If something has changed , using something out of place or temporary
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by tomxor 1y ago
> Not everyone's work life revolves around GUIs just because yours does. FTFY They both have their place, pros and cons, that fit different purposes differently. The mistake is in trying to assign superlatives. Two things can be tru
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by tomxor 2y ago
> I think the issue is that it's so tempting to lean on AI. This is not the root cause, it's a side effect. Student's cheat because of anxiety. Anxiety is driven by grades, because grades affect failure. To detect cheati
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by tomxor 2y ago
> I'm trained on K though I hear you, have an hard to overcome ctrl-d muscle memory from back in my sublime-text days. Which unfortunately conflicts a little with vim's default ctrl-d in some modes. But for the most part I was
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by tomxor 2y ago
Expanding on pjmlp's comment [0] buried in this thread: export MANPAGER="nvim +Man!" Using Vim's built in ft-man-plugin [1] as the default man pager seems to go pretty far towards resolving what the author is co
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by tomxor 2y ago
> In Vim, you can use K to open a man page for the word under the cursor Holy crap! TIL, and I've been using vim for a decade.
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by tomxor 2y ago
This can only end one way... In an animated tv show depicting middle-aged man battles by community-service-dance-off. May include flashing images.
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by tomxor 2y ago
> Were the text written today, they would claim emojis belong in unicode as well. Not sure what you mean, unicode does contain emojis. That's what most platform use for emojis now,
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by tomxor 2y ago
Pretty stupid to label something "not real" just because it's not a pure spectral colour. I guess white isn't "real" either.
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by tomxor 2y ago
It's a stupid question, the whole point of this article is to point out it's not in our control. Sure it's technically in our control but in reality most of us don't seem interested in filling all the necessary jobs to r
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by tomxor 2y ago
Yes, it would be a supernematode, but that ultimately is limited by it's base directive to repetitively spasm and lay it's eggs in you... wait.

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