rincewind

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by rincewind 2mo ago
I'm not sure how I feel about "Entangled Life" on the first page of books in "science". Isn't that slop? I mean, it's pop-science bullshit, and it's based on feelgood extrapolation from a thin evidenc
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by rincewind 4y ago
I was asking myself: Why? Isn't this in bad taste? Isn't this continuing a meme long after it has turned from funny to sad? I am sure the answer is just because we can, just for fun, to make it more accessible. But I kind of wish
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by rincewind 4y ago
hand-held laser speed measuring
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by rincewind 4y ago
Wayland will stop sucking when distros and Wayland developers stop dismissing these concerns by comparing them to people who didn't want to adopt systemd. The worst part of this mindset is pointing to Xwayland. In my experience, Xwayla
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by rincewind 4y ago
It's really hard to figure out how the system differs from PeopleMover. Is this new tech, or just a new vendor for basically the same design they have at Disney? Wait, is this a MagLev peoplemover?
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by rincewind 4y ago
Gnome is the worst of the wayland compositors in terms of spec compliance. KDE and sway are much better in this regard. What good is having protocol specifications when the reference implementation does not implement it, and Gnome, the bigg
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by rincewind 5y ago
Open source is the "development model", free software is the license. I thought this was common knowledge.
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by rincewind 5y ago
There is a difference between free software and open source, and this may be the former, but is not the latter
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by rincewind 5y ago
This might be controversial, but I honestly think it's important to recognise and counteract his in content moderation. When people deliberately give bad info they should be banned, and posters in good standing who exercise insufficien
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by rincewind 5y ago
But if you want to move the heat away from a CPU, wouldn't you want to pump more electricity into the Peliter element to move heat away faster?
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by rincewind 5y ago
Yeah, this is the version that is not true
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by rincewind 5y ago
I have tried to find the roots of this "pizza effect" myth, but all I could find is somebody making a point about mindfulness meditation and yoga, and I am not even sure how it holds up WRT yoga, because Indian yogis who do not-We
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by rincewind 5y ago
No, it's not about the "optimal way", it's about the oft-cited the factoid "90% of people are haptic learners, 30% are visual learners, 15% are auditory learners, 25% are text-based learners". Somebody did an e
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by rincewind 5y ago
I want this guy to duke it out with the developers of chicken scheme
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by rincewind 5y ago
People who say "electric cars are good enough now, the median distance driven is just 20km anyway" act as if that's a good thing. If you use an electric car only for a commute, why not commute by bicycle or by bus? Why buy an
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by rincewind 5y ago
Is this a parody? Is this deliberately designed flame bait? It reminds me of adequacy.org back in the day. I don't think I should discuss this post on its merits, because (I suspect) that's exactly what they want you to do.
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by rincewind 5y ago
Canon? Isn't Turing being canonised the problem in the first place?
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by rincewind 5y ago
I use json schema. I used to understand what it is and what it does. Now I don't.
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by rincewind 5y ago
The last time I evaluated these for use in my app, I found that the "consistent" and "minimalist" visual style makes it really difficult to recognise object/plant/food emoji from one another by shape or at a di
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by rincewind 5y ago
That doesn't seem right. Does that mean when I buy any proprietary software and then reverse engineer and leak the source code, they can't sue me?
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by rincewind 5y ago
It would not be correct in German either (source: Native speaker, went to Grammar School). This is just another instance of North Americans (I haven't really seen this in British English speakers) placing their commata not at the bound
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by rincewind 5y ago
Sometimes I think anti-recommendations (e.g. asyncio) are far more useful. You don't learn a lot from many open source libraries or standard library modules if you try to imitate them. You must understand that this code is a compromise
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by rincewind 6y ago
This comes to mind: https://store.steampowered.com/app/951360
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by rincewind 6y ago
pygame team member here There's an important caveat: We provide an API for the SDL2 render system, and some functionality for up-scaling pixel art games on the GPU, but existing pygame 1.x games won't magically become faster by
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by rincewind 6y ago
It's true. Source: I benchmarked some PyGame pixel pushing. HPy might alleviate that in the future, but C extensions need to switch to HPy for that.
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by rincewind 10y ago
Conclusion: even native speakers can't tell if typo, pun or dead metaphor. I wish I could turn back time, make an edit to the article, ask again, compare results.
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by rincewind 10y ago
I can't tell if palate is a typo/autocorrect or a clever wordplay. Not a native speaker here.
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by rincewind 11y ago
Is the zero bit the computer happy bit?
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by rincewind 11y ago
Can you try it with the lenna benchmark image and post the results please?
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by rincewind 13y ago
There are lots of programs to get girls more interested in science. The Government is intervening. Careers in science do not pay well. http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

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