PotatoPancakes

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by PotatoPancakes 9mo ago
Is this the origin of the classic analogy that Windows is a station wagon, Mac OS is a European luxury sedan, and Linux is a free tank? I had no idea that the author Neal Stephenson came up with that. The analogy is definitely a bit outdate
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What is the difference between science and pseudoscience? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by PotatoPancakes 10mo ago|0 comments
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by PotatoPancakes 10mo ago
If you don't like it, that's fine, I won't argue over taste. But your other descriptions of Bach's life deserve to be fact-checked. > He was a nepo baby with a big purse. His brothers, his family, all musicians of not
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by PotatoPancakes 10mo ago
Bach's most approachable music might be his cello suites. But also, I think there are two camps of fans of "classical music" (by which I mean music in the styles: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, etc). There are t
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by PotatoPancakes 1y ago
> I'm reading a strong implication that the French are the true holders of the history I interpreted this more as "don't forget to check out the French-language Wikipedia articles too, since they might have contents that
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Why did Framework build a desktop? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by PotatoPancakes 2y ago|0 comments
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by PotatoPancakes 2y ago
Bazzite is a good distro alternative to Holo ISO, that might be better suited for a laptop or desktop.
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by PotatoPancakes 2y ago
Thankfully, we can now do this ourselves. The Steam Deck hardware to compete with is: - A custom CPU with integrated GPU that's somewhere between an AMD 6600U and 6800U, underclocked for battery life and thermals - 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM
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by PotatoPancakes 2y ago
Full text: https://archive.is/YbPek
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Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and Eleven Other Memory Safety Approaches(verdagon.dev)
184 points by PotatoPancakes 2y ago|140 comments
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by PotatoPancakes 2y ago
Try this page, called "Rust's problems and concerns": https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:rust_i... In short, the Rust Foundation does not permit users to redistribute modified versions of R
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by PotatoPancakes 2y ago
I want to second the recommendation of MyNoise.net. It's phenomenal. Especially at work, it's perfect for getting in the zone. I pay for it even though I mostly stick to the free ones. If you're working at a computer, I recom
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by PotatoPancakes 2y ago
Full article here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240711173851/https://www.theat...
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Why Everyone Hears This TikTok Song Differently [video](youtube.com)
1 points by PotatoPancakes 2y ago|0 comments
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by PotatoPancakes 3y ago
I feel incredibly called out, and I'm not even an SRE.
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by PotatoPancakes 3y ago
Look on page 117 of the PDF (the paper says 113): > Vader: You're very good, Luke. But I'm twenty years older and stronger than you in the use of the Force. You haven't a chance with me... any more than your father had. Th
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by PotatoPancakes 3y ago
They focus on business users. - Yahoo Finance is the big one. It has few competitors, and is probably their primary revenue stream. - Yahoo News is still doing well. - Yahoo Answers helped Yahoo stay relevant for a very long time, but it is
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Why Dr. Gabor Maté Is Worse Than Wrong About ADHD [video](youtube.com)
4 points by PotatoPancakes 3y ago|4 comments
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by PotatoPancakes 3y ago
For context: Dr. Gabor Maté is a world-renowned medical doctor, who runs a family practice (as a GP) and a specialist in childhood development and trauma. He has written multiple best-selling books on the topic. However, his views on ADHD (
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by PotatoPancakes 3y ago
Possibly, but literally no other laptops sound anywhere near as good as Macbooks.[0] Apple has done some real magic in the laptop speaker space, and they've kept their secrets to themselves. Shame I always wear headphones. [0] https:&
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by PotatoPancakes 3y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by PotatoPancakes 3y ago
Actual summary: > Shawn Rosemarin, VP R&D within the Customer Engineering unit at Pure, told B&F: “The ultimate trigger here is power. It’s just fundamentally coming down to the cost of electricity.” Not the declining cost of SSD
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Potential versus Actual Infinity (Joel David Hamkins)(joeldavidhamkins.substack.com)
1 points by PotatoPancakes 3y ago|0 comments
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by PotatoPancakes 4y ago
> I remain unconvinced that skiplists cannot be better replaced in most cases with a good hash table/dictionary implementation. Skiplists are ordered. Perhaps without much advantage compared to, say, a balanced BST. But Hash tables
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by PotatoPancakes 4y ago
> The “discursive hygiene” picture of fallacy theory sees fallacies as mistakes that a good arguer will avoid. Indeed, armed with a new toolbox of Latin names for fallacies, eager students all too often delight in spotting fallacies in t
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by PotatoPancakes 4y ago
It's certainly not the worst, but I take issue with how overconfident de Botton is, and consequently, how convincing his work can seem to many viewers who take it at face-value without more critical thinking. He's academically inc
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by PotatoPancakes 4y ago
He does a lot of media analysis, especially of other YouTube channels. His views are definitely not unbiased, but in this case he provides a counterpoint that people interested in The School of Life might benefit from hearing. If you'r
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by PotatoPancakes 4y ago
Alain de Botton's School of life is... honestly weird. It's really confident and tries to give good advice; but so much of that advice is quite bad, and the channel might overall do more harm than good (for more people than fewer)
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Making Sense of VRChat, the “Metaverse” People Like [video](youtube.com)
5 points by PotatoPancakes 4y ago|0 comments
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by PotatoPancakes 4y ago
Also, "Advocating for a resigned alienation from one's work is advocating for living one's life for other people." I agree with that. I'm not advocating for resigned alienation. That's a very extreme interpreta

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