At work we somehow landed on the topic of how many holes a human has, which then evolved into a heated discussion on the classic question of how many holes does a straw have....
None. Colloquially, we use "hole" in all kinds of weird ways. As others have pointed out, topologically a straw is no different to a torus (donut) that clearly has one "hole"... but I'd like to focus instead on the linguistic definition of "hole", not the colloquial or mathematic definitions.
A hole can either mean:
a perforation ("a hole in my shirt", "a bullet hole", etc) - which is, specifically, "a hole or pattern made by or as if by piercing or boring"
a gap ("a hole in your reasoning", "a hole in my heart", etc)
a hollowed out or burrowed place ("a hole in the road", "a fox hole", etc)
i think we're not talking about 2. It seems to require some larger uniform structure or set of items in which an item is missing. 1 and 3 seem really similar to me: both seem to require some active removal of matter to qualify. All of these definitions point towards a subtractive process, where something of a larger whole (heh) is removed or absent.
Most straws, I'll venture a guess, are not manufactured solid and then bored out.. so I don't think it applies here. So I don't think a straw matches a fitting definition of "hole". A straw is created additively by assembling the "shell" by some means, not subtractively. Donuts, by comparison, had holes punched in them. A subtractive operation. Rubber bands have not had holes punched in them... they're additive. Not holes.
Similarly (because I see a lot of talk about buttholes and mouths here too), your esophagus and digestive tract (and veins and all kinds of other things) were formed in a similar additive manner, not by forming a mass of meat and boring through the passage, and thus would similarly not qualify as "holes" (in my opinion).
Imagine if the straw started life as a solid cylinder and you had to bore out the inside to turn it into a straw
This would mean a straw has a hole, yes. It would be like a donut indeed - donuts are first whole, then have the hole punched out of them. This meets a dictionary definition of a hole (a perforation). A subtractive process has removed an area, leaving a hole.
But straws aren't manufactured this way, their solid bits are additively formed around the empty area. I personally don't think this meets the definition.
Your topological argument is strong though - both a donut and straw share the same topological feature, but when we use these math abstractions, things can be a bit weird. For instance, a hollow torus (imagine a creme-filled donut that has not yet had its shell penetrated to fill it) has two holes. One might not expect this since it looks like it still only obviously has one, but the "inner torus" consisting of negative space (that represents the hollow) is itself a valid topological hole as well.
It's rare I say this about a game, but this is even worth full price, so definitely pick this up if it even looks vaguely relevant to your interests. It's positional chess-like turn-based rogue-lite full-information gameplay. It's awesome. They dropped a massive completely free content expansion out of the blue after years of being released that just made it all even better.
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
I've been playing through Control, which has been pretty fun, but... I just came out of TotK and every other game so far feels a bit... shallower. I don't know how to explain it. I've also been taking breaks into Infinifactory again to finally finish it. Been a while since I've felt the itch for Zachtronics, and it feels good. The mechanical intricacy overshadows that hollow feeling.
What should I play next if TotK has set my bar so high? Will it just fade in time?
In a video by @Techconnectify, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them....
I'm here for this. Fuck these societal leeches, they're privatizing the profits and leaving the losses and damage for us to deal with.
These lawsuits are counterproductive distractions from advancing international policy solutions.
This is what some Chevron slimeball lawyer says about it. Is this not just a thinly veiled threat? "if you sue us for destroying your environment, we might just decide to not stop destroying it."
a few years ago I used to balk at this with my friends and family: "would you tip at McDonald's? Starbucks is fast-food."
but I have since been to a McDonald's with an in-use tip jar. so, I guess they would.
tipping a local establishment feels like supporting local workers and businesses. tipping underpaid major corporation workers is being co-opted into a business' payroll cost mitigation scheme.
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
Wow, I should think it should be some kind of regulatory concern that Reddit is artifically inflating traffic counts as they're approaching an IPO, no? For a company whose revenue comes from advertising and user impressions, lying about user traffic is lying about profitability.
lmao. taking bets on how long it is until spez has reddit legal try futily to sue departing and banned mods for some weird mixture of illegal striking and knowingly causing damages by loss of revenue.
I have complicated feelings on the idea of instances doing this defederation. I'm new to all this, so maybe this is natural. I mean, I've been peripherally aware of the fediverse for a few years. It was hard to miss after Twitter, but even before then I was keeping an eye on Matrix and PeerTube especially. But, never dipped my toe in until now.
On the one hand, I really resent the idea that my instance owner could simply be hiding part of the world from me over their personal opinions. Not just that, but silencing my voice in some corners, too. I know I could register accounts elsewhere but I don't want more accounts, and how am I supposed to be knowing what I'm missing if it's invisible to me already? I thought this is what federation was supposed to do: let me participate in anything from anywhere.
But as I've been watching some of this reddit stuff unfold, I guess it makes a lot of sense. Our current modern internet culture is inherently very insular. For any given person, there are bright beacons of strong attraction to those who think and feel like you do, and there are also dark areas of repulsion from communities whose ideals represent something that oppose yours. Online, like attracts like, and most people seem to really enjoy that. I think that most people are actually into social media for the entertainment value, and we all usually like to watch what we can relate with.
So for most users, this kind of thing probably really does improve their corners of the fediverse. It doesn't have to be the end for people who want the freedom to read and write to any corner of any niche community or ideology. My wariness for being informationally controlled (fostered by recent commercial social media blowups) manifests in the fediverse as wanting my own instance, I think. There are a fair number of very small instances it seems like, and I'm assuming it's because of people like me who felt the same pressure.
This puts me at ease, I think. I still have a way to remain independent, I just need to take responsibility for it. I'll learn a bit more about how it all works, and maybe help improve it along the way to make it easier for others to achieve, too. I wonder if this isn't a good thing for internet culture, really - encouraging the establishment of these new kinds of little lagrangian independence points people can be drawn to, between the extremes of the rest of the internet's social attractors and repulsors, which we can leave for the people who really want that.
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Yup. If I see an ad for a thing, it means they spent more money trying to trick me into buying the thing than just making the thing better in the first place. An ad for a thing means the thing is shit!
i'm here with popcorn for the big subs that get their mod team stripped and new mods lazily installed by reddit that are absolute power tripping maniacs who chart the whole subreddit into an extremist political course. it's happened before with mod 'takeovers', it will happen again.
@Karb_Derg My HP Spectre x360 13 (with those sexy, sexy gem cut corners) allegedly came with Windows 10 but it got the Arch ISO treatment on its first boot before it got to the Windows bootloader. I can't even be 100% sure Windows ever really existed on it! lmao
The College Board released a letter Thursday putting its foot down on further demands from Florida to change any of its Advanced Placement (AP) classes, the latest development in the ongoing feud b…
all the more fuel for the people voting for these people to claim persecution over
the more they intentionally shoot themselves in the foot, the more they present their bleeding foot as justification for playing "no more mr. nice guy"
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I used to run a PCI-passthrough/VFIO Windows virtual machine for gaming, but I haven't started it up or used Windows on my own machines in almost a year now.
I got a Steam Deck and it proved to me that Linux gaming was ready. My main beefy desktop now just runs Linux and uses Proton to do it all, and I'm extremely happy with it. I deleted my Windows VM's partition recently. It's run everything I want to play just fine! I play a fair mix of stuff... Indie and AAA, new and old, single-player and multi-player.
Every problem I've had so far is related to my own system or choices, not Steam, Proton, or the game. (eg, had a bad stick of RAM, did an incomplete upgrade, etc.)
No hun, it's not "another unfinished project", it's a failed branch prediction and I think we can all agree that the benefits of speculative execution far outweigh the occasional waste of effort.
I find ChatGPT to be less useful for code and more useful for generating boilerplate more in the 'configuration' realm. Ansible playbooks or tasks, Nginx configs, Dockerfiles, docker-compose files, etc. Well-bounded things with an abundance of clear documentation.
I generate a lot of first-draft Dockerfiles and docker-compose files through ChatGPT now with a short description of what I want. It's always worth reviewing it because sometimes it just invents things that look like a Dockerfile, but it can save a lot of the boring boilerplate writing of volumes and networks and depends_ons and obvious env vars you need to override.
I do use Codeium in my VS Code instance, though. It's like a free more ethical Github Copilot, and I've been really really happy with it. Not so much to make a whole program, but I use it a lot more as a kind of super-autocomplete.
I'll go in to a class and go to a method that needs a change and I'll just type a comment like the following and it will basically spit out the authentication logicc that I do a quick review on.
// check the request authentication header against the user service to verify we're allowed to do this
It's also an amazing "static" debugger - I can highlight particularly convoluted segments of math or recursion or iteration and ask it to explain it. Then I can ask follow-up questions like "Is there any scenario in which totalFound remains at 0" and it will tell me yes or no and why it thinks that, which is really nice. I tend to save it for instances where I'm reasonably certain that it was all correct, but I wanted to check it instead. Now instead of breaking out the paper and pen and reasoning it out, I can ask it for a second opinion, and if it has no doubts, my paranoid mind is put at ease a bit.
I've been unimpressed with the ability of any of these "AI" systems to spit out larger volumes of good code. They're more like ADHD, eager-to-please little interns. They'll spit out the first answer that comes to their mind even if it's wrong, and they fall for all kinds of well-known development pitfalls.
peer-programming with an overly confident CS grad
I love this, and agree. I've always said that for all tasks, it's like you're working with an ADHD eager-to-please intern.
This would really be extremely helpful, absolutely agree. A mode with less of a view on the details of the code and more with the architecture of it. I wonder if an extension like Codeium could be extended so that only the method signatures and comments and such could be sent in as context so it can reason more generally about your project...
I’ve been lightly eyeing it for a few months now since Nintendo 64 and Gameboy Advance games are available through the expansion, but wanted to see if people here have the expansion and like it.
I have a ridiculous fully-scraped fairly complete emulation set-up on my Steam Deck plugged in right next to my NS so it's really hard for me to justify the expansion pack when it actually results in a reduction of features and options for the games I'd be playing.
If it had a useful feature in it like easily hosting your screenshots/videos on a webpage for sharing/download I'd pull the trigger in a second because I'm sick as hell of the smartphone copy thing. I just got a Mirabox capture device so I can use OBS on my PC to record stuff instead of the build in NS system in an attempt to circumvent this hassle...
Can we settle this: how many holes does a straw have?
At work we somehow landed on the topic of how many holes a human has, which then evolved into a heated discussion on the classic question of how many holes does a straw have....
Steam Summer Sale 2023 Recommendations Thread
Dishonored (2012) $2.49 at -75%...
If you use firefox, check out these 55 single-function addons to improve life (all same dev; not me)
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
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White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding (www.theverge.com)
States will receive at least $100 million
Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour (youtu.be)
In a video by @Techconnectify, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them....
Anybody else have a cat that likes belly rubs? (lemmy.world)
This is Possum. I'm glad she lets me rub her belly because she's so soft.
Multnomah County goes after big oil for heat dome deaths, files lawsuit (www.koin.com)
"Tipflation" may be causing tipping backlash as more digital prompts ask for tips (www.cbsnews.com)
Reddit Admins Deny Subreddit Users the Right to Vote for Further Blackouts (teddit.net)
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
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Wake Me Up When September Ends
Reddit Was a Good Business...
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen (www.theverge.com)
College Board says it won’t alter AP courses to comply with Florida’s laws (thehill.com)
The College Board released a letter Thursday putting its foot down on further demands from Florida to change any of its Advanced Placement (AP) classes, the latest development in the ongoing feud b…
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How big is gaming in linux?
Are there hardcore gamers there or is it mostly for coders?
cache (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
AI and Coding.
How reliable is AI lke ChatGPT in giving you code that you request?
Do you have the Nintendo Switch Online expansion pack? Do you like it?
I’ve been lightly eyeing it for a few months now since Nintendo 64 and Gameboy Advance games are available through the expansion, but wanted to see if people here have the expansion and like it.