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- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 19 hours ago:
One of the main level designers for original Doom “Sandy of Cthulu” was a pretty serious mormon christian.
“I have no problems with the demons in the game. They’re just cartoons. And, anyway, they’re the bad guys.”
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 2 days ago:
Ongo Gablonion
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 1 week ago:
There’s a less popular name “Jago” in English that would fit. I think that also comes from Jacob or Iago.
So I reckon “Saint Jago”
- Comment on frenly warnin 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they emphasise “children” to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves. And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.
- Comment on A squirrel-inspired robot that can leap from limb to limb. 2 weeks ago:
Looks a wee bit like Calculon, facially at least; a bit skinnier in the torso.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
it’s a pointless statement to say if everyone did anything
I was agreeing with this part, except that I think OP statement was ‘hyperbolic’ not ‘pointless’; an exageration for rhetorical effect.
What I think is pointless is taking hyperbole (and most rhetoric) at face value and arguing about it. It is better to try to determine the underlying point being made (there probably is one if you look hard enough or enquire about it) and think about some more realistic scenarios.
I don’t think the original point was about <hyperbole> the vulnerability of the economy of mauritius due to overconcentration of the dodo industry </hyperbole>; or, the sustainability of a street entirely owned by landlords. Maybe someone wants to <hyperbole> make some Ronald Coase type speculation about how property rights could have saved the dodo </hyperbole>.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
ok, nice and realistic. No hyperbole here.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Are you’re saying that if an economy has an increse the concentration of farming activity then economic ouput will deteriorate as fast as if it were to have instead had the same increase the concentration of parasitic activity? Very interesting idea.
Maybe I’m dense but the only way I can see that working is if the parasites become super-effective livestock and can be turned into food that is either more nutrious or has a longer shelflife than the feedstock.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 weeks ago:
And those from the fucking UK apparently.
Very similar though - just waiting for them to elect farage to gut UK public services.
- Comment on The upside of the cyberpunk dystopia 4 weeks ago:
The Three Stigmata of Palm . . . Dick
- Comment on The upside of the cyberpunk dystopia 4 weeks ago:
Martian Time Dick
- Comment on How do people doctor shop? Don't all doctors pass info on all their patients between each other? And in this day and age how do they do it.? 5 weeks ago:
They can’t if if they’re “difficult”.
- Comment on smort 5 weeks ago:
That’s why scientists ( I assume they’re supposed to be the right hand side) claiming to measure “intelligence” should pick a more specific term for what they’re measuring.
If they use the word “intelligence” I’d be extremely suspicious about why they’ve chosen that word. I would assume they have a decent understanding of how the word is likely be interpreted by the other 97.5%, if not they need to get out and do some fieldwork.
- Comment on How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ? 1 month ago:
You dont even need 2 languages, just a bottle of whisky.
‘Loch Lochy’ in Scotland.
- Comment on Before they hired me THIS was part of the process. Had to submit an answer as to what she was holding 1 month ago:
Chicken?
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 1 month ago:
Can I get the icon in cornflower blue? https://youtu.be/4NomQYQK1bE
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 months ago:
"Hey, there’s Evan. "He’s a young guy. “He likes the Stereophonics.”
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 2 months ago:
I only use my Erin Friar these days.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 2 months ago:
Thanks.
I’ll have a look if I can sandbox in lineage first, then maybe apply for the beta test if it looks possible.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 2 months ago:
When you say “android” does it depend on any google services? Or will it run on lineageOS with no(minimal) google stuff?
- Comment on Horse denier 4 months ago:
neigh
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 months ago:
How do they if you dont plug them in to the network, do they have cellular, or some sort of PLC? Can they hack WPA? maybe they’re more powerful than i’d creditt them for.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 months ago:
Linux doesnt “force” chip makers. It tries to collaborate , that’s the point of what Linus has been saying and doing for several years. I don’t know which market you’re talking about though, embedded - which is relevant here, or consumer PC. I don’t even think MS gives a shit about consumer PC, it’s worth next to nothing to anyone - maybe apple does.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 months ago:
I’d think most people woud go for a cheap used ultra Small Form Factor pc or raspberry pi set up as an htpc. Plug in to either tv screen (via hdmi ) or monitor / projector directly. Never connect the tv to the internet - or even to your LAN if you’re really paranoid. You can arse around with a remote control a bit bodgy, or just use wireless Keyboard/mouse.
I cant imagine spending the time to jailbreak a tv to get less functionality for more hassle - but i’m sure some crazy will have done it - good luck finding them though.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 months ago:
I think he needs to work with HW manufacturers and chip designers/manufacturers to get drivers. They’re always going to have some proprietary HW and FW and communication protocols somewhere in their stuff. I think if he pisses them off too much he has to to bit-bash or reverse engineer all drivers for loads of stuff - which is never going to happen.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 4 months ago:
Thanks I was looking at the answer and thinking it didn’t fit my memory. i’m sure most of mine were ACs. TBF with things like VPAM coming in the late 90s, you did have backspace and all sorts of stuff like that.
I still remember doing linear regression in a stats exam on i think a casio fx-115W something like that . Excellent calculator - but just no, it was time for some things to be on a real computer.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 5 months ago:
Best replacement for excel is: anything that doesn’t rape your data whilst pouring sugar in you gas tank. /s
TLDR - R, Python, mariaDB, for real data analysis stuff + minor role for whatever spreadsheet package.
For hobbies / analysis / data manipulation , storage , graphs and general stats fuckery here’s my advice; as someone who does this stuff - “badly I might add” - for a shitty public sector organisation that just can’t decide whether to bend over M$ barrel or Oracle’s barrel:
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use R (via R-studio if you need an “environment”) for more statsy stuff and easier graphs.
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Python for more general mathsy / programmy / web scrapy stuff - can do decent graphs with libraries like plotly and matplotlib stuff like that, scipy, numpy, and pandas are the other basic libraries for analysis and maths and large datasets. peopl like using ‘jupyter notebooks’ - I don’t get it personally - but 50 Phil Ochs fans cant be that wrong.
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Set up a mariadb or something if you need databasey stuff, I doubt you need to look at more hardcore stuff like postgresql for “hobbying” ; my personal (1 user) databases were built several years ago and mariadb is just fine for that. but some of the high vol transactional DB at work do use postgresql.
These are all good to learn in my experience, even if you think they’re harder than excel; ( are they tho’? array formlae!?). They’re sort of interoperable - subject to learning. They - naturally - have their open-source annoyances.: a million ways to do everything, and versioning issues. (Excel still has fucking vlookup() tho’ - talk abut legacy baggage - but no it’s not as bad as the open souce maelstroms).
You can still ouput data into a spreadsheet for viewing formatting and messing with stuff - but there are other ways.
Footnote: Yes I do still use excel, but normally mostly for final formatted report for customer who wants it. Having R/python directly write data into excel is so much better than letting excel open anything. Excel just can’t let an innocent SNOMED code go unmolested; you have to be on high alert if you let excel actually do anything.
Also spreadsheet for messy data cleansing - for looking at mess, to help refine the R/python cleansing script. I’d happily use libre/ods for any of these but I don’t fancy putting the request in to IT and . . . having to speak to IT about it.
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- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 5 months ago:
oh “online community” , sorry I think I’ve misunderstood this whole thing. I mean, I don’t even know what a GenZ are. Is that, like, doing the emails? https://youtu.be/jK-ZRxeJIiU?t=14
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 5 months ago:
I’d call that a “webpage” though, one with an ill-fitting name. One person with a sandwich board and a megaphone yelling at a few passers by who at best smile, give a half-hearted thumbs up, then walk away.
To me, for it to live up to the name “community” that implies several people sharing stuff and a bit of reciprocity.
Of course that might take time, the first poster might be one of those proverbial people planting those trees that they’re never going benefit fron the shade of. Theres no harm in just creating it making a few posts and leaving them there- it might become active eventually. But it could be never and it will inevitably take a lot longer if the platform only has a million users a day total than if it had a billion.
You can probably do some sort of critical-mass / chain-reaction / markov chain type model to get a handle on the chances of a niche community becoming active in small population. Like that ‘Drake equation’ for trying to stop people wasting resources on SETI.
- Comment on Can’t forget terrormisu 🤌🏼 5 months ago:
torturelini spookghetti penne arra-bat-a Pizza Morguerita
and you can serve Vampolicella or Mortepulciano