kalenx

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by kalenx 22d ago
I can understand that "advanced" python programs may be difficult to understand for beginners (lots of implicit/hidden behaviors, possibility to change basically everything one should expect, etc). But to _learn_ programming,
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by kalenx 22d ago
I'm all for pragmatism. The issue is that most people claiming pragmatism are usually, in my experience, simply justifying status quo. Sure, I get it, we won't literally _stop_ fossil fuels usage in the near future. I get it, othe
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by kalenx 22d ago
> And how do you propose we do that if we’re not the ones selling the fossils? Because we would be the ones not _buying_ the fossils? There are multiple ways to reduce fossil fuels dependency, and they are known (and no, they do not invo
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by kalenx 22d ago
Well I was trying to go with it for the sake of argument. I don't really think there is a "clean" way to extract fossil fuels, especially in oil sands like in Alberta. My point was that even if that was true, it still doesn&#
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by kalenx 23d ago
Fair enough. I'll expand. > The political criticism in the US (and in Canada where I'm from) against fossil fuel extraction makes no sense. If you _must_ extract fossil fuel, you can arguably say that it's better to do it
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by kalenx 23d ago
I don't understand. Are you making the argument that extracting fossil fuel here is better than extracting it elsewhere? Or, perhaps more to the point, you do see that the issue is the use of fossil fuels and that extracting _more_ is
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by kalenx 2mo ago
Taking the same example as above, if you have any nVidia card pascal or older, you have no other choice than using AUR for your driver; it was literally advertised as such on the Arch Linux home page : >Users with GTX 10xx series and old
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by kalenx 2mo ago
Many packages are _way_ more complex than 3-5 lines to review. To take an example (perhaps a bit extreme, but realistic as many nVidia users _have_ to install it), check nvidia-580xx-dkms Every patch (which runs in kernel space) may of cour
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by kalenx 3mo ago
Well, to some extent, yes. Of course the literal number of works you can write per minute is not, but: - someone with a good understanding will often come to a concise, clear answer while someone struggling will produce a convoluted paragra
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by kalenx 3mo ago
Not sure about that. Outside temperature above 37 were common in many highly populated areas, even before "high temperature summer" (e.g., India, Indonesia, most of Brazil, etc.). If there was an actual selection pressure, we woul
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by kalenx 5mo ago
It wasn't really necessary to have a special lineup of laptop CPUs because the base CPU power consumption was already low. 486 were using around 4-5W, if I recall correctly. Mobile CPUs really became necessary when the megahertz race s
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by kalenx 6mo ago
Good point, I was trying to figure out how I would actually pronounce "féte". My main argument was that in any case, it wouldn't sound close to "fête" (or "fète"), which sound more like "faîte" i
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by kalenx 6mo ago
Ok, so what did I misunderstand in OP sentence "no differences, we pronounce them all é and we don't care."? "them" is not referring at all possible accentuation of the letter e?
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by kalenx 6mo ago
You pronounce "fête" as "féte" (basically, equivalent to the English "faith" without the "h" sound at the end)? To my hear these two sound very different.
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by kalenx 6mo ago
Or "est" (he is) and "est" (the East) although English also has plenty of such "non-homophonic homographs"...
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by kalenx 7mo ago
Considering air resistance is proportional to the cube of the speed, it would be highly surprising to not be the case.
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by kalenx 8mo ago
Since when? I sincerely do not understand that point about snow. I've lived in Canada (not southern Ontario) for most of my life and everyone had (and still mostly has) FWD. 4x4 was only for people actually going off road... I don&#x27
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by kalenx 1y ago
Nitpicking, but I don't see your four-letter word example as convincing. Thinking is the very process from which we form words or sentences, so it is by definition impossible to _not_ think about a word we must avoid. However, in your
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by kalenx 1y ago
Yes. On a plane which is designed to be a good glider. I highly doubt a 767 is designed to be a glider. It's definitely not impossible (after all, it was done successfully!), but certainly a very difficult (and undocumented) one on suc
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by kalenx 1y ago
You're not arguing in good faith here. Which is fine, but then please stop insulting others.
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by kalenx 1y ago
They do not say it was hard. There is a difference between being hard and requiring 0.5 second more of thinking, which can and does disrupt the reading flow.
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by kalenx 1y ago
This, I absolutely agree with. Yes, there are small things you can do which (collectively) _can_ have an impact. I'm arguing against : "So you know you are killing us in so many ways, and you can't be arsed to eat less meat?
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by kalenx 1y ago
The thing is, I'm not arguing against the fact (yes, the fact) that doing this would beneficial. I'm saying that stating how "simple" and "reasonable" are these actions is missing the point. Again, not a person
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by kalenx 1y ago
By this logic, having a car in 2025 is "just completely unreasonable". Taking plane in 2025 is "just completely unreasonable". Use of AC unless life threatening circumstances is "just completely unreasonable".
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by kalenx 2y ago
In Canada, I see the "new" name along with Gulf of Mexico. Seems like a weird take. Every sovereign island should start naming it a different way, I'd like to see if Google would display 27 names for the same Gulf...
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by kalenx 2y ago
That's not the same thing. A more adequate comparison would be to say that you promised 30 people they can have a burger, but can only produce 5 burgers per minute. If everyone show up at exactly the same time, you won't be able t
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by kalenx 2y ago
It is trivial and they've done it for ages. It's called reinsurance. Basically (_very_ basically, there's more to it) the insurance company insures itself against large claims.
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by kalenx 3y ago
To be fair, there are actually two grocery stores at walking distance, but I'm nitpicking here. I know this argument very well: "when you have a car, you can spot rebates week after week and reduce your grocery bill!" That&#x
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by kalenx 3y ago
You know, that's the funny thing, it doesn't have to be like a Judge Dredd world. I live in what we can describe as a suburb: large streets with parking on both sides, 2000 m² single-family properties, ample space for trees, etc.
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by kalenx 4y ago
The only issue with this comment is that it is _not_ what AP means for object detection... https://www.v7labs.com/blog/mean-average-precision This is definitely not a coin flip, actually somehow close to what a human w

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