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Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
  • Well, that says more about you, who broke your btrfs?

    Seriously tho, it's fine, why would you even tell me ?

  • Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography
  • You're no fun, orange turnip was merely an example of a bad actor getting control (going Reagan would be confusingly amusing) and it's not about anyone in particular, more so the entire worlds' dirty laundry out to dry

  • "Stupid things you have done" - Part 3
  • Thanks mate, keep it up, much kek :)

  • ... Space!
  • Glorious!

  • Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”
  • Yup, call the virtue signalling bitches out, open weights is fine, which is not to say I don't appreciate local LLMs being given out, even if it's just for the free research on their models, but open source it is not.

  • Boo
  • Well, anything over a non-continuous x for example off the top of my head (and, yes for well-defined forms you can do the integral), still I have no idea what the cartoonist is on about and haven't heard 'anti-derivative' for a donkey's age, guess it's poorly defined grade school stuff.

  • Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography
  • And everyone thinks about real time implications, what about historical ? Seems pretty likely that the NSA has been storing an appreciable fraction of the internet for a long damn while. Come Q-Day that all gets opened and searchable. What would Trump do ?

  • Conrroversial
  • It’s my headcannon, but I give Gandalf points for forcing the fighter jet into a helicopter arena.

    Gold

  • Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
  • Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

    Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

  • Best FOSS RSS reader for Linux?
  • I like FreshRSS in a container, works great from a browser, and you can hit it from your phone on the loo...

  • Yet another "What distro should I use?" post, but at least I did some homework.
  • Bazzite (ublue fedora kinoite derivative). Distrobox lets you install containerized alternate OSes, so you install stuff there, isolated from the main OS. If something breaks, you can just blow it away and start again without affecting bootability etc. Such is the beauty of immutable operating systems.

  • Oh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.
  • Yeah, I was younger then, perhaps less disciplined, and as always, given enough work you can decompile or regenerate anything. Still, I contend, the nature of Perl, powerful as it was, lent itself to unmaintainable messes, and I'm not talking regex's, which is why it has faded, no amount of get gud withstanding.

  • Daybreak - Maxfield Parrish (1922)
  • Very nice, love it, most evocative. Thanks for the heads-up...

  • Oh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.
  • I upvoted you because I consider Perl write only (used to know it, now it inspires readable code as a high priority)

  • We've entered an area of instability in the space-time continuum.
  • Damn, well done on the photo manipulation...

  • About 90% of all problems
  • Eh, that moment when you get a different error message tho ;)

  • Yet another "What distro should I use?" post, but at least I did some homework.
  • Your use case seems fine, all of that works (in flatpak). FWIW wouldn't consider bazzite particularly gaming-centric, although it's good at it, it's immutable fedora with add-ons, so it has all of fedora behind it. The ublue project also has non-gaming variants. I'm a dev, but I have it on my desktop as I game, still develop on it (in distroboxes (basically containers with an OS, I mostly dev in Arch for AI stuff for example, but my main OS doesn't get touched by my random mucking about)). Have a poke around in my history, I've said a bit on it, I find it good...Feel free to question later.

  • How to know if you're asking the wrong question ?

    What's that principle where you don't know you're asking the wrong question because you've got this idea in your head on how to do something, so you search frustratingly. If you could step up a level and find the right question, you'd find a well established, efficient solution.

    Related to unknown unknowns I guess, but I came across a phrase or word encapsulating it, and now I can't remember or (ironically) find it.

    ETA: It's the XY Problem, thanks Bophades@midwest.social.

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    Blood pressure watches anyone?
    www.caltech.edu Caltech Team Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure True Blood Pressure

    Device uses sound waves to gather blood pressure data from blood vessels, monitoring the response with ultrasound.

    Caltech Team Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure True Blood Pressure

    Seems very interesting, pr burble aside. Wonder how close this is to a micro-sonogram if generalised ? Star Trek medical tricorder component material by my reckoning.

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    Best VPN exit node country in SE Asia ?

    Wanting to torrent in a country other than my own, I've been exiting via Singapore as it has the most direct path I believe. Any reason not to ? Any superior choices for whatever reason ? Couldn't find this discussed anywhere. TIA.

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    Private Facebook Marketplace ?

    I'm one of those oddballs who's never joined, but I'm in the market for a new to me bike, and it seems like all the action is on marketplace. Am I screwed, or is there an effective workaround ?

    Edit: Not US. There are local alternatives that I know about, but they are worse, please answer question as asked ! Basically I'm thinking of alternative software ala FreeTube, or a way of spoofing facebook to make a dummy account only to be used for this and if so what precautions to take...

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    Psychological truths like Skinner vs Pavlov Conditioning

    Something I find fascinating is that being consistent (and trustworthy) is less effective than being 80/20% consistent (classical vs operant conditioning) at training dogs where there are contextual/environmental cues at play. It's personally counter-intuitive, but I've seen it work and am convinced (I attribute it to evolutionary mechanisms, my goto in biology).

    I'm wondering what other psychology as a science results have solid statistics behind them that I'm unaware of (I'm compsci with a physics/maths background, so it's probably most), and are interesting...

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    On the obnoxiousness of WebP

    Here we are with a community celebrating art, some of us might like to archive it. But no, inevitably it's google 'owned' transcoded, WebP. I have an extension to re-encode back to an old format, but that's lossy-lossy transcoding, not good. I suspect it's a Lemmy thing, but what would it take to get non-lossy here?

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    The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?
    theconversation.com The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?

    The lack of an inner monologue seems linked to a lower ability to recall words and predict their sound.

    The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?

    How does this play for you ? I identify as spectrum, what used to be Asperger's, and have to work really hard to get to visual phantasia, but I can. Also worked hard to remove aural phantasia? via meditation because of negative self talk. Do you see 'aphant' as a useful designation? Thoughts, Ideas?

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    Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride
    michaelwest.com.au Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride - Michael West

    Report on leadership failures in Afghan war was given to the Richard Males in November 2023, but not published until McBride was sentenced.

    Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride - Michael West

    A report critical of Australian generals’ leadership in Afghanistan was given to the Defence Minister Richard Marles in November 2023, but was not published until after the McBride sentencing. Stuart McCarthy on a travesty of justice.

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    Rewild the Internet!
    www.noemamag.com We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

    The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

    We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

    This needs (IMO) more attention, seems to fit here...

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