AVincentInSpace 3h ago • 100%
Well, that's stupid.
AVincentInSpace 1d ago • 25%
Considering it's me in the picture, and thus my reputation on the line if it gets misused, I think I should have some say.
Thanks for strawmanning me though.
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 40%
Yeah, but if I then want to put that picture of me on my social media page or a website or the back of a cheaply-manufactured wristwatch or what have you, why is the photographer allowed to tell me no?
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
My bad -- looks like I misread the Google summary. A healthy turd is 75% water, and of what's left, around 25-50% is made up of microbes.
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
why is it so easy to read that in her voice
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
E. Coli reproduces so fast that a population can double in size in half an hour, and human feces is 50% bacteria by weight.
If your gut microbiome got snapped it'd be back so fast you wouldn't even notice. Bacteria are kinda scary.
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
You know what? I'm gonna Sonarr and Jellyfin even harder
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
The movie Scoob!
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
Wait, since when does Steam only allow one concurrent login?
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
i'll give you another hint: a roughly spherical human and his army of robots
if you need one more hint, google what animals are in the eulipotyphlan family
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
does the rest of gen z not know how to torrent? i thought everyone did
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
sword art online?
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
AVincentInSpace 2d ago • 100%
The only thing that's coming to mind is Warhammer but I'm pretty sure that's wrong
AVincentInSpace 3d ago • 100%
Is Sam & Max actually as good as the YouTube clip compilations make it look? Cause if so I might have to get it
AVincentInSpace 3d ago • 100%
here's an easy one: anthropomorphic eulipotyphlan runs around beating the crap out of a roughly spherical human
AVincentInSpace 3d ago • 100%
AVincentInSpace 3d ago • 92%
can't help but notice this is the only entry on this page. and that all but one of the words are correctly spelled.
i'm calling untrustworthy poptarts on this one i'm sorry
AVincentInSpace 3d ago • 100%
90% of the knowledge here came from looooooong rabbit holes on https://nesdev.org as well as some YouTube videos by The Gaming Historian. If you're interested in the inner workings of 8-bit systems that aren't the NES, The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube has some great visual walkthroughs. Also Connections Museum has some really cool in-depth looks of old-school electromechanical telephone switching equipment and the stuff that engineers in the 1930s cooked up to make telephone switching automatic before the concept of an electronic computer was a twinkle in IBM's eye. Also also, if you haven't discovered Technology Connections yet, I cannot recommend it enough.
Also unrelated, but I mentioned in that massive comment that the dual-bus architecture allows the NES to never show a loading screen but didn't elaborate on how, and I wanna do that. Loading data is the process of copying it from some slow storage medium, like a cartridge, hard drive, or (horror of horrors) optical media into RAM, and loading screens arise from the fact that said storage mediums often take quite a while to spit out all that data and the user needs something to let them know the program isn't just frozen. Since all data on the NES is read directly from the cartridge as it's needed, it never has to load anything. All the data for the game is always right there. Unfortunately, this technique is all but useless today -- the NES's CPU was very slow (1.79 megahertz -- for reference, no CPU slower than 1000 megahertz has been manufactured in over a decade), allowing it to get away with reading directly from the storage medium. Modern CPUs need to access data orders of magnitude faster than the fastest flash chips available, and actual mask-ROM like the NES used is so expensive to manufacture nowadays that they're basically never seen outside of the firmware powering your CPU. Besides, never ever ever having even one microsecond of loading time is not really necessary anyway, and there are techniques that work on modern CPUs to get something like that without actually having it. As an example, here's some more modern trivia for you: virtually all modern operating systems use a techique called memory mapped files to launch their local equivalent of an .exe file. Essentially, all modern CPUs (at least, the ones intended to run an operating system as opposed to a single gigantic firmware program) have a memory mapper unit, which essentially allows the CPU to pretend that it has more RAM than it does. Whenever a program tries to access a block of memory that doesn't actually exist, it will trigger what's called a page fault, where it will stop that application for a while, run a special function in the operating system to figure out what data is supposed to be there, put that data somewhere in physical memory where the program can access it, and then resume the program. Memory-mapping a file is when you connect a file to this system, essentially asking the operating system to pretend like it has the entire contents of the file loaded into an area of RAM, but only when someone actually goes to access that RAM does the operating system pause the application that asked for it, open the file, load just the portion it needs right at that minute, and resume the application again. This can lead to major speedups: most programs don't need the entire contents of their EXE file right when they start up -- they don't need the code that finds out what text you have highlighted and copies it to the clipboard, for example, before you press Ctrl+C. Memory-mapping the EXE file allows the operating system to wait to load the code that does that off the hard disk until the program actually needs it, and thus have the whole program running before it's finished loading the EXE file. If the user closes the application before ever pressing Ctrl+C, that portion of the EXE file might never get loaded! (Which bits get loaded is often not that granular, and the code for Ctrl+C specifically is small enough that it's likely to get loaded anyway along with something else, but you get the idea.)
Programs can use this technique to "lazy-load" their internal data files (or files you create yourself) too, but this unfortunately doesn't have as broad an application as you'd think. It only really helps when you don't need the entire file at once, and when the file is large enough that loading it into RAM all at once isn't feasible. I'm currently working on one such program: a desktop client for a furry imageboard. I wasn't satisfied with the search features the site had, so I built my own search algorithm that supported more granular tag constraints and rigged it up to the full database dump available from the site. Loading the entire database into RAM uses over a gigabyte of RAM, and that's not going to fly if I want to port it to mobile devices, so I'm currently working on setting up memory mapping so I can only have the database loaded while I'm doing a search and let the OS swap it out when my app isn't running.
AVincentInSpace 3d ago • 100%
A quick browse through that subreddit's comment section shows a good 80% of commenters (and virtually all comment voters) are left-of-center. What did you have to do to get them to ban you, cause it sounds pretty difficult
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26738673
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26763464 > Pro-tip: Asking permission to interrupt to say your bit goes down much much better than just interjecting
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16695440 > Thesis writing
Whenever Reddit hosted r/place, it got instantly dominated by streamers and massive clans covering the canvas in their insignia, anybody else who wanted to draw be damned. I remember in 2022 I was working with a smaller subreddit to try to put a 16x16 graphic somewhere unobtrusive and could scarcely put 3 pixels down before getting overwritten by the German flag that was already taking up 1/3 of the canvas. On Canvas yesterday, somebody put up a ~50 pixels wide drawing of Princess Celestia fighting Nightmare Moon (something that wouldn't have survived 20 seconds on Reddit before being vandalized) and the people drawing the osu! logo went behind it! I'm just kind of amazed and stunned and glad that we seem to be infinitely better at silently collaborating and not stepping on each other than the people on That Other Site who are obsessed with pointless internet clout.
Reddit users are called Redditors, Tumblr has Tumblrinas, Lemmy has Lemmings, ~~Twitter has Twits~~... I feel like Beehaw is separate enough from the rest of the Fediverse both in terms of ideals and the space you're trying to create and in terms of actually being separate (defederated) from many of the most popular Lemmy instances to deserve its own demonym. Beehaw users aren't just any old Lemmings. We should have our own word. What do you think it should be?
I recently tried switching from Arch to NixOS and the experience I had can best be described as apalling. I have not had a new user experience this bad since my first dip into Ubuntu dependency hell back in 2016. I'd like to preface this by saying I've been a Linux user in one form or another for almost half my life at this point, and in that time this may well be the most I've struggled to get things to work. Apparently they have this thing called home-manager which looks pretty cool. I'd like to give that a shot. Apparently I have to enable a new Nix channel before I can install it. I'm guessing that's the equivalent of a PPA? Well, alright. `nix-channel --add ...`, `nix-channel --update` (oh, so it waits until now to tell me I typo'd the URL. Alright), and now to run the installation command and... couldn't find home-manager? Huh?? I just installed it. I google the error message and apparently you have to reboot after adding a new nix-channel and doing `nix-channel --update` before it will actually take effect, and the home-manager guide didn't tell me that. Ah well, at least it works now. I didn't want to wait for KDE and its 6 morbillion dependencies to download, so I opted for Weston. It wasn't a thing in configuration.nix (`programs.weston.enable=true;` threw an error and there was no page for it on the NixOS wiki), but it was available in nix-env (side note: why does `nix-env -i` take upwards of 30 seconds just to locate a package?), so I installed it, tried to run it, and promptly got an inscrutable "Permission denied" error with one Google result that had gone unresolved. Oh well, that's alright, I guess that's not supported just yet -- I'll install Sway instead. Great, now I have a GUI and all I need is a browser. `nix-env -i firefox` gave me the `firefox-beta` binary which displayed the crash reporter before even opening a browser window. Okay, note to self: always use configuration.nix. One `programs.firefox.enable=true;` and one `nixos-rebuild switch` later, I'm off to the races. Browser is up and running. Success! Now I'd like to install a Rust development environment so I can get back to work. According to NixOS wiki, I can copy paste this incantation into a shell.nix file and have rustup in there. Cool. After resolving a few minor hangups regarding compiler version, manually telling rustc where the linker is, and telling nix-shell that I also need cmake (which was thankfully pretty easy), I'm met with a "missing pkg-config file for openssl" error that I have absolutely no idea how to begin to resolve. I'm trying to stick with it, I really am -- I love the idea that I can just copy my entire configuration to a brand new install by copying one file and the contents of my home directory and have it be effectively the same machine -- but I'm really struggling here. Surely people wouldn't rave about NixOS as much as they do if it was really this bad? What am I doing wrong? Also unrelated but am I correct in assuming that I cannot install KDE without also installing the X server?
I've been seeing a worrying number of these people on Lemmy lately, sharing enlightened takes including but not limited to "voting for Biden is tantamount to fascism" and "the concept of an assigned gender, or even an assigned name, at birth is transphobic" and none of them seem to be interested in reading more than the first sentence of any of my comments before writing a reply. More often than not they reply with a concern I addressed in the comment they're replying to, without any explanation of why my argument was invalid. Some of them cannot even state their own position, instead simply repeatedly calling mine oppressive in some way. It occurred to me just now that these interactions reminded me of nothing so much as an evangelical Christian I got into an argument with on Matrix a while ago, in which I met him 95% of the way, conceded that God might well be real and that being trans was sinful and tried to convince him not to tell that to every trans person he passed, and failed. I am 100% convinced he was trolling -- in retrospect I'm pretty sure I could've built a municipal transport system by letting people ride on top of his goalposts (that's what I get for picking a fight with a Christian at 2AM) -- and the only reason I'm not convinced these leftists on Lemmy are trolls is the sheer fucking number of them. I made [this post](https://pawb.social/post/8333814?scrollToComments=true) and what felt like half the responses fell into this category. Am I going insane?
c/dragonsthatwonthavejobsforlong lmao Source: https://dragonchat.org/@talon/112236857715128464
I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home. Not voting isn't going to stop the genocide in Gaza. The US will continue to funnel them arms no matter which candidate wins this November. Trump practically campaigns on how much he hates the Jews and he's publicly told Israel to ["finish up their war"](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/25/trump-says-israel-should-finish-up-gaza-war-00148910). He'll also make life a living hell for anyone who isn't a straight cisgender male back here at home. A vote for a candidate is not an endorsement of them or their policies, it's a statement that you like their policies more than the other guy's, and "sticking it to liberals" and "refusing to support genocide" (that's not what voting for Biden is doing, by the way -- a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide and a vote for neither is an endorsement of both) is not more important than keeping the furthest right politician America has ever seen out of office. How incredibly privileged do you have to be to see an entire national election as what will happen in the Middle East and ignore Trump's campaign promises to wipe transgender Americans off the map, and further, to not realize that the same thing will happen in the Middle East regardless of which candidate wins? I hate Biden as much as every other leftist here. But I'll still vote for him because Trump is worse. If there's a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too. 
[Sauce (Nitter link)](https://nitter.moomoo.me/YateWilliams/status/1750321887878447399) is \@YateWilliams on B*rdapp
no but seriously how am i supposed to find enough funny memes in the specific 196 genre to post one every time before i leave
Source: https://xcancel.com/Jay%5C_RGonzales/status/1746217816158789849
https://beehaw.org/post/10662062
nothing could possibly have prepared me to read those words on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ussy
64.media.tumblr.com
source is a deactivated tumblr blog :(