ytg 6 months ago • 100%
Does anyone know how the amount of information is actually derived? The article just says “researchers calculated”
ytg 7 months ago • 92%
Every once in a while, you can refresh your memory by reading the man page.
Or if, like me, you use Emacs, Magit exposes everything quite clearly.
ytg 7 months ago • 85%
I'd argue that if they put up a Palestinian flag, it's clear that Palestine is being referred to.
In principle, though, I agree with your first point
ytg 7 months ago • 90%
That’s an invalid (strikethrough: dictionary) etymology argument, and you know it. To clarify, when I said “antisemitism” I meant “a discriminatory attitude towards Jews” or something along those lines.
Edit: this is an etymology argument, not a dictionary one; most dictionaries probably agree with me. I don't know how or why the word antisemitism
came to be used to refer to Jews specifically, but surely it's been this way for most of its history.
Either way, the most authoritative meaning of a word is that which was intended by the one who uttered it.
ytg 7 months ago • 97%
Antisemitism to Palestinian support is like misandry to feminism. Yeah, some people might be guilty of it (and those who are, misunderstand the latter ideologies), but it's way overrepresented in opposing media, who is often guilty of such issues itself.
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
emacs
On my own system, but usually for remote work I use Vim as it’s easier to make usable
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
Perhaps you can encode them as computation (i.e. a function of arbitrary precision)
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
And “get”!
ytg 7 months ago • 91%
We need laws mandating respect of robots.txt
. This is what happens when you don’t codify stuff
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
Everything is reverse-engineered, and different people work on different stuff. It’s not like the resources devoted to OpenGL could be diverted to microphone support, that’s a completely different skill set.
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
You need to find an image to install, but I think there shouldn’t be any technical issues beyond that
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
Slowly?
(Don’t forget Israel!)
ytg 7 months ago • 75%
A good password manager encrypts your passwords with your own master password (and if you don’t trust them, use an open source one like Bitwarden)—so, even if it gets hacked, your passwords are not immediately compromised. You should take even more measures, like using 2FA such as your phone or a physical key, which basically makes you invincible. Way better than remembering passwords.
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
About that last point, you don’t really need to. Internet people like to show off their customized desktops and systems, but in reality using a “just works” distribution requires very little headache and time. Except for the time spent choosing it, that is
ytg 7 months ago • 100%
Mailing list! (/s... unless?)
And Lemmy/kbin obviously
Many Lemmy instances have "feddit" in their name. Is that just "federated reddit" or am I missing something?
ytg 8 months ago • 100%
Didn’t it only recently get generics? How was stuff even done before then?
ytg 8 months ago • 100%
Not Welsh, but I think it’s a compound with successive elements ending and starting with ll
ytg 8 months ago • 84%
Why would anyone identify by their political ideology? Or worse, by a single party??
ytg 8 months ago • 83%
Look up function pointer types to make this language seem even more insane
ytg 8 months ago • 100%
Have you read Discworld?
ytg 9 months ago • 100%
...while some other people get it wrong in exactly the opposite way (you know, the Khazar nonsense)
ytg 9 months ago • 100%
Not really, they're based on gematria like Hebrew numerals. α = 1, β = 2, γ = 3 and so on
ytg 9 months ago • 100%
This isn't a new discovery, is it? People already know about this, it's been like this for years. This has always been one of Netanyahu's many criticisms, even at home.
ytg 10 months ago • 100%
Use double n, that’s the archaic way of spelling that (tilde derives from n on top of another n)
ytg 10 months ago • 100%
I’ve never tried NixOS, but it looks really promising.
I usually use Fedora or OpenSUSE, which have good software availability (unfortunately not as good as the AUR). Fedora provides selinux by default, and has profiles for basically everything. SUSE uses AppArmor, but Arch doesn’t provide convenient configuration for either, and only supports x86_64 (which is why I switched away from it).
ytg 10 months ago • 60%
Not really, because of accent differences. The best you could do is account for all phonemes distinguished across standardized varieties, regardless of their phonetic realization. Of course, you couldn't possibly account for all of them (e.g. distinguishing the Australian /æ/ vs /æː/ would be troublesome for British and American speakers).
Hīr'z æn icsperimentăl sistăm ðæt s̄ūd würc ăcros SSBI (SSBE) ænd DĂ (GAmerican). Æz jū cæn sī, homăfounz ār spelt aidenticăly, wīc fōrmz ārn't rităn æt ōl, ænd plein vauălz ār dz̄enărăly jūz'd wið ðēr Roumæns saundz.
Strüt-Fut-Gūs-Cjur-Für Cit-Flīs-Nīr-Fir-Hæpy Dres-Feis-Scwēr-Fern Træp-Mauþ-Prais-Baþ-Pām-Stārt Cloþ-Ts̄ois-Löt-Þōt-Nōrþ Cömă-Letăr (tuc ðæt wün from Roumeiniăn)
ytg 10 months ago • 100%
Sorry, I'm just still used to Reddit, where people say stuff like this completely seriously.
ytg 10 months ago • 100%
Different languages have different conventions. For example, the standardized variety of my language allows 11/(0)9/2001, 11/(0)9/01, 11.(0)9.2001, 11.(0)9.01, 2001-09-11, 2001/09/11, 2001.09.11 (personally I usually use 11/09 without the year and 2001-09-11 with the year).
ytg 11 months ago • 100%
Not sure if they have that kind of processing power. Also, couldn’t you modify the player to skip them?
ytg 11 months ago • 100%
People have different opinions on how packages should be managed. Of course, there are some package managers which are very similar to each other (DNF and zypper have the same backend), but they can also get really different (Nix/Guix and pacman are basically completely opposite in philosophy). It comes down to preference, and you can't force anything.
ytg 11 months ago • 88%
ytg 11 months ago • 71%
Look up "American Folk Religion"
ytg 11 months ago • 90%
This war really makes you hate Britain (and possibly France) for causing unrest in the first place
ytg 1 year ago • 70%
Isn't the Windows exe also a renamed zip?
ytg 1 year ago • 94%
The Israeli government doesn't even represent all Israelis, let alone all Jews. Does represent the vast majority unfortunately
ytg 1 year ago • 25%
"They're pushing"? Who's "they"? As far as I could see, it's an unchecked option.
In any case, what's the historical reason for mouse wheels actually working like they do?
I wanted to ask everything in one post instead of multiple, so I divide this one. ## Shards and Vessels It's known that a Shard's Intent eventually overpowers the agency of the vessel. It's mentioned in the Stormlight epigraphs that Ati, the vessel of Ruin, was once a kind man. I've been wondering about this process. Does the amount of time it takes for the vessel to lose agency depend on the shard and the vessel? For example: - If the new vessel is already a sliver of the same shard, will they lose agency faster? - If the new vessel is already a sliver of a shard with opposing intent, will they lose agency slower? - If a vessel (as in the case of Sazed) holds two shards with opposing intents, are they able to maintain their personality forever, the different intents "cancelling out"? - Do shards that seek change (Ruin, Endowment, Cultivation) in the most general way influence their vessel faster than the more passive intents (Preservation, Honor) who want to maintain? Do the 16 shards divide neatly into eight pairs of opposing shards? I think we've only seen Ruin and Preservation as complete opposites, though it could be argued that Devotion/Dominion also works. If a person held all the shards (assuming the Splintered ones are somehow fixed, and that no one managed to stop them in the process), what would happen? How about holding all the dawnshards as well? Would any mortal being be able to handle such a great amount of investiture? What level of control, if any, does a shard have over their associated magic system? Could Sazed decide to "turn off" allomancy for the day? Related somewhat, what shards is surgebinding associated with? It looks like it can be performed with any one of Stormlight, Voidlight and Lifelight. Does surgebinding with one of these constitute a separate magic system? If so, what actually are the Surges? If not, what's common to Honor, Cultivation, and Odium? ## The Metallic Arts In Allomancy, the metal that is burned is not the actual source of the power (investiture), but rather a key which determines which kind of investiture is drawn from Preservation. :::spoiler The Lost Metal We've seen in era 2 that Allomancers can also draw upon alternative sources of investiture, such as the Dor and whatever Autonomy's portal is made out of. This is all fine for Mistings, but how can Mistborn (or Hemalurgists) decide which ability they want, if they have no metals? ::: In Allomancy, even non-Allomancers can burn the God Metals, whereas in Feruchemy, unkeyed nicrosil seems to be the only kind of metalmind that non-Feruchemists can access. Why is this? And, when saying that anyone can burn God Metals, what does "anyone" mean? Is it any living creature who can digest them? Or do they have to be Scadrians, having some of Preservation's own investiture in themselves? Ditto for Feruchemical nicrosil. Can a Rosharan human (the species existed before the Shattering) burn lerasium or drain nicrosil? Why :::spoiler The Lost Metal did Harmony make Wax and Wayne burn some lerasium instead of making them Mistborn directly, as with Spook ::: ? And lastly, is the cosmere-wide story arc just Autonomy and Odium being jerks to everyone?
ytg 1 year ago • 91%
Fine, but, like, don't recommend Vivaldi. Also, if you disable the Brave ads, you're not really supporting them, while still getting the benefits.
— Sent from Librewolf
ytg 1 year ago • 100%
It's funny because trains are both the past and the future.
ytg 1 year ago • 100%
Use whatever you want. But do consider if you want to contribute to Google's monopoly, and if you want to use an open-source browser.
- Vivaldi Browser is not open source. Better use Brave than that…
- If you still really hate Firefox, Ungoogled Chromium which is basically Chrome with all the Google stuff removed.
- All of the above do still contribute to Google's monopoly, so I would really encourage Firefox or a fork.
- Barring that, you could also get away with a WebKit browser (like GNOME web, Nyxt). Although WebKit is developed by Apple, it's still open source and doesn't look particularly bad. If you're on a Mac, Safari is an option, but it's closed source.
ytg 1 year ago • 87%
Stick to one of the major distros, not some little-known derivative. Also, please avoid Manjaro, it's horribly broken, and Ubuntu, because snap. It essentially just comes down to how you want to manage your packages.
Edit: VirtualBox is fully supported on Linux, but QEMU/KVM is better.