@kalisz79 @wariat @mkljczk @blotosmetek @siwa ta propagacja faszyzmu fajnie podsumowuje internetowe środowiska lewicowe i całkiem dobrze tłumaczy jak funkcjonują. Siedzi 10 ludzi, przysiada się 1 faktyczny faszysta, mamy 11 faszystów. Każdy z nich odchodzi potem od stołu, następnego dnia przysiada się do innego gdzie jest 10 osób i oni teraz też są faszystami bo go tolerują. Powtórz kilka razy i okazuje się, że grupa A jest literalnie faszystami bo paru członków czasem zadaje się z paroma członkami grupy B, która jest literalnie faszystami bo jej innych paru członków czasem zadaje się z paroma członkami grupy C, która jest literalnie faszystami bo…

Taki "fascism by association" propaguje się szybciej niż nawet ludzie tak traktujący sprawę są w stanie nadążyć, więc co jakiś czas leci callout i mnóstwo osób nagle musi porzucić fajną grupę w której było im dobrze i żadnego faszyzmu nigdzie nie było bo się dowiadują że przez ten cały czas siedzieli z faszystami, a przecież nie mogą na to pozwolić, nie?Jedynymi "nie faszystami" zostaje kilka oblężonych wysepek absolutnych radykalnych purystów idei, i one wzajemnie też się wyzywają of faszystów.

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Throughout the day, the aspect ratio of the OnePlus Pad 3 has been stuck in the back of my mind. Considering the 3392x2400 resolution. There had to be some reason for the seemingly arbitrary 3392 when it's an even 2400 in the other direction.

It's not quite 3:2, which would be 3600x2400
Definitely not 4:3, but it's not an in-between 5:4 ratio either.
Spec sheet says, 7:5, but that's not quite right either.

Turns out it's a √2 aspect ratio (~1.41). The exact same as a sheet of A4 paper.

@fribbledom It was only when learning Julia and discovering that it's C FFI's Cint type maps to Int32 on x86_64 that I came upon the cursed knowledge that despite everything C did to make `int` "the processor word" type, it was still so ingrained as a 32-bit type that it remained so even on 64-bit architectures.

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Debugging skill level:

🟢 Beginner: print statements
🟡 Intermediate: debugger
🔵 Expert: taking a shower

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Got unreasonably excited about this new, incredibly straightforward count-distinct algorithm. The CVM algorithm is a direct replacement for HyperLogLog, it nerd-sniped Donald Knuth for weeks, *and* it can easily be taught in an entry-level CS course.

quantamagazine.org/computer-sc

@icedquinn the problem is that a lot of these users aren't 100% clowns, but just don the wig and nose occasionally. That's why I'd like to mark specific posts.

Browser / fedi extension idea:
ability to mark clown posts. A clown post would display with a clown wig and nose on the avatar, helping with both immediate mood and future identification at a glance.

Idea inspired by this week's "how dare this objectively good for open source community project support this other objectively good for open source community project whose author I just called a nazi because I don't like some of his views" situation.

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@mkljczk teraz zabierzemy ci paszport i już nie uciekniesz!

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also if I ever reuse this code for anything ("this code" being the reused code from the juggling keyboard), I'll have to remember that it currently loads all images upside down, unless they're of Doom

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@Convention_T @jonmsterling that's a difference between speeding up your HDD twice and using an SSD. Seek time is the biggest bottleneck, I relate with Jon heavily as I can find relevant information in a page of text I can see at once, in a video I have to jump around and hope.

Speeding up playback helps, it's better than nothing, but a video is still horribly inefficient as a medium for passing information to someone capable of moderately fast reading, not to mention someone with ADHD lol

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This is a very cool talk by Nicholas Matsakis about editor-friendly compiler architecture: youtube.com/watch?v=N6b44kMS6OM

At the risk of asking a very strange question, does anyone know of a WRITTEN source that has similar information?

I am sorry, but I can read about three thousand times faster than I can watch a video. Videos for me are like looking for needles in haystacks...

@mkljczk now make it possible to give GPS coordinates and calculate truly local time :blobcathyper:

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Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?

phishyurl.com/

Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links

#infosec

@bremner oh yeah, the SEO spam apocalypse got serious around 2020, when the main new thing for luddites to be angry about was still crypto.

AI was more of an attempted solution to this problem, via summaries making it that you don't have to sift through garbage to get a simple answer to your simple question, not its cause.

Now it's more of an arms race between whether AI SEO spam can beat AI summaries. This is not how I imagined the first AI wars would go, but it could've been worse lol

@taylan @fribbledom @thatbrickster so, there may be a timeline where a major operating system has random stutters whenever the GC its kernel was programmed with decides to clean up? I'm happy it's not this one.

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