Valmar

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by Valmar 3y ago
Princess Mononoke just has a slow gradual buildup. It builds the world and plays with plot tension and progression in interesting ways. Then saves the climax for the end of the film, with an after scene that gives a sense of finality. It&#x
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by Valmar 3y ago
Statins are dangerous... they block cholesterol, which incidentally, is fundamental, crucial, even, to the formation of both cell membranes and innumerable important hormones. They are no solution at all. Just a fad.
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by Valmar 4y ago
> If you want really long battery life and no heat at all, you can downclock all the way to something like 200-400MHz. A recent CPU at that speed is actually quite usable for things like text editing and reading documentation. Linux does
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by Valmar 4y ago
The real solution for laptops ~ just disable boost! (Granted, you might have to disable it via /sys every boot, but that can be scripted...) Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyways, because their form factors and CPU coolers just
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by Valmar 4y ago
> It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in that: This is a non-response. Unlike an algorithm, humans
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by Valmar 4y ago
> Intellectual property concepts in their current form started to appear as soon as prints, so about the 15th century. Copyright is not the same as intellectual property. Copyright is not an intellectual property concept. They're ve
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by Valmar 4y ago
> Not sure about all its filters being RL. Sometimes it seems to flag its output as inappropriate because of a single word (or none at all). Also it has asymmetric behavior, e.g. it will make a joke about men but refuse to make one about
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by Valmar 4y ago
Given some of Intel's shady history, I'm not sure I'd like them to become the ones who take over from TSMC if anything goes south. They would probably have a monopoly, and with that, too much control, and so, are liable to be
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by Valmar 4y ago
> I think it's inevitable given the geopolitical situation in Taiwan that someone eats TSMC's lunch on America's dollar. China will almost certainly invade in the next decade, and getting large volumes of delicate electro
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by Valmar 4y ago
> Gnome is the boring, serious, stop-fiddling-and-get-things-done UI. Gnome these days is the my-way-or-the-highway kind of uncle. They're actively hostile to user theming, for example, and keep removing features simply because they
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by Valmar 4y ago
Overall, I get the feeling that women have far more confidence issues than men do, sadly. Women aren't being systematically oppressed ~ but confidence issues might lead them to believe that they are, even if they can't identify an
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by Valmar 4y ago
> CS is built on abstractions, which make things more modular and easier to think about. CS also leads to generally garbage performance with its abstractions, because computers simply don't function according to assumptions of CS...
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by Valmar 4y ago
Snap? Yeah, well, containers can be slow beasts, and Canonical's container solution is especially awful. Compare the Snap version of something to a non-container version, and see how much quicker it is.
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by Valmar 4y ago
My Linux distro has never slowed down for me, except where I've personally done some weird config muckup. And I know exactly who is to blame... insert "of course I know him, he's me" meme here...
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by Valmar 4y ago
Linux file managers manage to be nice and snappy. On my machine, KDE's Dolphin, on an NVME, takes, maybe, 4 seconds to open and scan a folder that has more than 9000 folders and files. What's Windows' problem? It has no excus
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by Valmar 4y ago
They can take it back. Heard of Betterbird? Yeah, a Thunderbird port.
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by Valmar 4y ago
Even since having tried raw tuna, my personal opinion has been the reverse. For me, a nice raw tuna can be absolutely amazing. Something about the flavour and texture just pops in my mouth with delight. Tastebuds be weird, heh.
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by Valmar 5y ago
Title shamelessly stolen from the Phoronix article also discussing it: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Digit... Why? I have no originality... -_- Primarily, I needed a title that fit within the ch
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Qt Launches Digital Advertising Platform to Integrate Ads into App UIs(qt.io)
3 points by Valmar 5y ago|1 comments
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by Valmar 5y ago
That's a pretty awful hot take. Unless this is some terribly poor trolling, in which case I've taken your bait...
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by Valmar 5y ago
No, it most certainly can't. The flu, like all viruses like it, mutates quite rapidly. It'll just mutate in response to the "one shot" to get around it. So, "one shot" will turn into multiple... oh wait... we d
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by Valmar 5y ago
They're relatively smart in that they can quite intelligently navigate their environment to best get at prey that might otherwise kill them. Really, all animals are relatively smart (ignoring individual differences in a species), in th
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by Valmar 5y ago
So, an appeal to tradition is all you have? Just because it's a Buddhist practice, and it's ancient, that's all you need...? The same can be said about any other religious practice. You sound almost like a Christian preacher
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by Valmar 5y ago
> Given that all human behavior can (very likely) be reduced to mathematical equations There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for this very bold claim.
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by Valmar 5y ago
I'll never use Chrome, given the increasingly-worrying directions Google is taking it. Google has too much influence and power, and has become the new Microsoft in terms of browser monopolization.
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by Valmar 5y ago
At best, we can just hope that Greg has the same resilience as Linus ~ and that Greg's chosen successor also has the same grit
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by Valmar 5y ago
How do you know this? Is there a control group? Did government and media propaganda tell you this?
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by Valmar 5y ago
It's not nearly so simple as being "tired" of your job. You obviously have zero idea what burnout is, or what it feels like to be in such a position. I'd argue that you obviously have the incredible privilege of never ha
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by Valmar 5y ago
So I suppose your solution is for people to just die of cold in the winter, and from the heat in summer?
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by Valmar 5y ago
Of course, because they want to monopolize growing and selling of it, just like they did with tobacco.

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