zagaberoo

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zagaberoo,

And the whole human body, brain and all, can run on ~100 watts. Truly astounding.

zagaberoo,

Oxygen ravages electrons all day at the end of the electron transport chain and nobody bats an eye, but you steal one pair off some DNA and everybody loses their minds!

zagaberoo,

Fountain pen writing may look nicer in most scenarios, but in terms of practicality they’re awful compared to ballpoints.

zagaberoo,

Don’t give Java the credit of inventing bytecode, it’s a much cooler concept than that

zagaberoo,

A masterpiece.

zagaberoo,

Nothing but flavor 😎

zagaberoo,

Sign language is speech, it’s just non-verbal speech.

zagaberoo,

Cheap cars definitely are more reliable if you pick the right brands. On all the other points it just doesn’t make enough of a difference to me to justify the enormous cost increase.

Our $10k used Camry is still kicking ass over ten years later and hasn’t ever needed work more extensive than replacing leaking struts. The reliability truly is astounding.

EDIT: But, let’s not talk about my camera-buying habits lol

zagaberoo,

Plus creators get paid more per premium view than per ad-supported view.

The subtlety that people fall into with the YT hate wagon is that yes, Google is shitty and needs to be held accountable for it, but running a video site on that scale like some loving small community simply is not possible.

I love Nebula, the online video ecosystem is much richer for it, but every time I hear people hoping it can materially compete with YT I have to laugh. Not only do their quality controls not scale at all, but YT having such a low barrier to entry for anyone makes it inclusive in a way no curated community can be, especially over the long term. Nebula is literally an offshoot of YT, it won’t be the last, and that’s part of what’s great about YT.

Now, if only we could convince some other conglomerate to light piles of cash on fire for over a decade to bootstrap a proper direct competitor, then Google would be forced to be somewhat less shitty.

zagaberoo,

PiHole is the most common way I hear of network-level ad blocking these days.

zagaberoo,

Liquid coolers are by definition just an extra heat exchange step unless you’re venting heat into the ocean or something like a nuclear plant. Otherwise, the atmosphere is your final heat sink either way.

Unless a liquid cooling radiator is significantly larger than the air cooler that would fit directly on the CPU there’s no point whatsoever.

zagaberoo,

Entitlement seems to be a fundamemtal human condition. Look at how much traditional women’s work is looked down upon. Society is simply not possible without child rearing, yet it is seen as incomparable to wage-generating work.

zagaberoo,

You mean enhances the episode with her peerless villainy.

zagaberoo,

I don’t buy that it’s the vast majority. None of the sports fans I’ve ever known have had any interest in it.

zagaberoo,

Horga’hn!

zagaberoo,

I feel like part of the impetus for the name change, and perhaps the extreme hype to some extent, came from trying to distance themselves from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

zagaberoo,

I just saw an OwO scrawled in a cargo bin on a commercial flight last week myself.

zagaberoo,

One thing I haven’t heard others mention is fun. The better I get with vim, the more fun I have applying my skills to work efficiently.

I also love that I can use it with a phone keyboard and still remain highly efficient. Being able to SSH into my server on the go and not be terribly hampered in my admin and editing is pretty amazing.

Ubiquitous, powerful, flexible, lightweight, fun: it’s a pretty good mix of positives in the tradeoff for vim.

zagaberoo,

Then you lose the benefit of tabs: you can’t adjust the tab width without destroying alignment. So you end up with a confusing mix of characters for no benefit.

Mixing them is the worst option.

zagaberoo,

They did as a side product, but that’s not at all the same thing as dropping the concept entirely.

zagaberoo,

Whether they need it to federate or not, it’s still reasonable to not want an entity as large and powerful as Meta to consume this data. Fuck Meta because it’s Meta, which has a history of being particularly heinous with user data.

zagaberoo,

LFS doesn’t give you a usable system in practice though. A distribution is nothing without package management.

Gentoo gives you a thorough course in Linux fundamentals, and has lots of other benefits. Forget the mild gains of compiling for your specific CPU, it’s really all about the incredible flexibility of Portage.

Opinion: Distributions that only change non-system pre-installed software or desktop environment should instead be packages or scripts

The majority of Linux distributions out there seem to be over-engineering their method of distribution. They are not giving us a new distribution of Linux. They are giving us an existing distribution of Linux, but with a different distribution of non-system software (like a different desktop environment or configuration of it)...

zagaberoo,

I don’t think they’d be so popular if they weren’t useful.

Why should the user be required to reinstall their whole OS? I don’t think they are: it seems relatively straightforward to change DEs on Ubuntu at least.

On the other hand, if someone knows they want Ubuntu with KDE, why should they have to go through a regular Ubuntu install just to do the post configuration themselves? Plus, maintainers of these offshoot distros can potentially more deeply remove dependency on the default DE.

I think focusing on differences in system software is less illustrative than looking at the out-of-the-box user experience and capabilities. A changed DE is a pretty huge practical difference.

This line of thought does really underscore how nebulous the definition of an operating system really is. Pour one out for GNU being totally subsumed culturally by a Kernel that everyone sees as an OS.

zagaberoo,

I wonder whether they really are over. I have to imagine there will be future surges once negative sentiment fades and just the right novelty comes along.

zagaberoo,

Wait, Lower Decks? LD captures the spirit of Trek better than any official property in a long time. No soap-opera-style parade of cataclysms, just exploring humanity by exploring space.

I was put off by it being a comedy initially, but the framework the comedy happens within does a lot of great examination of Trek and of life. Plus lots of great characters with growth.

What kinds of contradictions do you mean?

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