ulterno

@ulterno@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porca miseria!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You show me the picture of a shoe (with a map in the background) and ask if it looks like a boot.
  Well, it looks like a shoe. Also, why have you placed it on a map?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, without cooking, if you eat too many pieces, they give a weird pain in the chest, which can be stronger than onions, if you have a good quality radish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that claim is pretty dubious.
  If it has almost no calories, then it has almost no mass.
  To get the approximate amount of calories in a piece, just measure its weight to get the mass (M in kg) and use the formula M * c * c * 0.2390057, where c is the speed of light in m/s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We also have very little in the way of error correction, since it’s mostly not human readable

  This is the main point.
  Most well working OCR systems have a dictionary-check pass, which goes a long way into fixing the errors.

  On the other hand, if all those files are the same font and size, it should be possible to tune the OCR to better match the requirements. Also reduce the possibilities to the character set used by the encoding.

  ---

  I was recently using OCR for an unrelated project and it was totally unusable as is, because unlike what it expected (plain text documents), it got text on top of pictures. So now I have to find ways to preprocess and single out the text, removing the graphic lines that might be behind it, to make it readable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So either way, it make it better to support Linux over MS Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s Draconic_MEO when you asked for it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Although the map seems wrong altogether, simply because you will find different areas in the same country having different ways, this is one part that makes quite a bit of difference.
  More urban areas might have a shoes on culture, specially depending upon how the room is designed.

  I mean there are schools having outdoor and indoor shoes, both of which are proper shoes, so going just by the word meaning would make it wrong too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But also Linux, where it’s typical to upstream hardware support and rely on existing ecosystems rather than release addon drivers or niche supporting apps.

  Still possible though, right?
  It does afterall support out of tree device drivers now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but now I’m not wearing slippers either so…
  Is it really the same!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So I suppose you are not doing pacman -S endless-sky endless-sky-high-dpi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And what of those cases when I go barefoot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoes off inside the house is only really useful when one has shoes on, when outside.
  Get your dogs some shoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I switch to slippers when inside.
  What does that count as?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because the checkout page gets revenue ⇒ the bottom line.

  The points you say are the things Valve is doing extra to provide value to the customer.
  The point I am saying, is the first thing that anyone working for money needs to care about.

  steampowered checkout page:

  • loads in a reasonable time
  • has the same colour theme as the rest of the website

  Epic checkout page:

  • even the in-app checkout page is slower than the Steam web checkout page
    • is slow not only before loading but also after clicking the ‘place order’ button
  • White colour on dark theme website/app
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While EGS increases its minimum Windows # requirements, Steam client is already available on Linux.
  Although I would prefer being able to build it myself rather than keeping it in Firejail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic would charge Steam’s fees if they had Steam’s marketshare.

  while at the same time providing worse service.
  Ever noticed the difference between Epic checkout vs Steam checkout? And that is the part one would want to make the best, because that’s what gets the money in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get I am not the average gamer, but even if I find a game on Steam, I tend to check their website too.
  Specially for games I like, I try getting the GoG version despite Steam providing regional pricing, which tends to be 0.2x

  Now if any of Steam’s contracts is preventing GoG or others from providing regional pricing, that’s a point worth considering.
  But Steam is providing a much better game finding experience than Epic and others (although GoG seems to be doing well too, recently), so despite me not being affected by the network effect, I do see some value in Steam.

  From what I see, Steam does give value to gamers. Whether it’s 30% of the game’s price or lesser, depends upon information that I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an easier way to put this:
  “Question everything.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  recycling the heat from AI data centers

  I’d say the govts should make it mandatory for anyone making a large enough data centre, to create a heat transfer infrastructure to nearby localities. The locals can then buy hot water (metered) via pipelines from the local govt and that can go towards paying for the power extension tax that the data centre has to pay.
  Oh yes, there needs to be a power extension tax first, which is levied on anyone using data centres for wasteful stuff like AI, Crypto-mining etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All heat transfer is radiative if you zoom in enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask for cremation for the fastest weight loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a ton

  I think someone forgot to update the article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pick up a 1lb bottle of water and drop it once a day, every day, for 50 days.
  You might be able to take a few days off, since you have more time remaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Used it. Got yelled at.

  At this point, if you don’t feel comfortable to tell them why and the consequences of doing what they ask of you, then you might want to start finding another place, because the subsequent events are inevitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care. It stinks from 10m away. I’m not pouring it into my mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This explains the increasing attempts to popularise alcohol in children’s cartoons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and that’s why crypto is not catching up well.
  Kind of a chicken and egg thing.

  But in case of Gold and Silver, there had to be some initial driving factor for when it was first popularised (before people just started mentally defaulting to it).
  Even though archaeology suggests that there were some civilisations did use notational currency in times before the relatively modern, well known history, enough of them did go with Gold. And since this was during the time when long distance trade was way slower, I won’t consider the case of some single power influencing everyone else without any other driving force behind Gold itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is OpenAI dead yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Price of NAS HDD I am monitoring, went up 1% in past week in ongoing trend (over 20% over the past ~4 months).
  I’d say BIG AI is still steaming.

  No idea about OpenAI, specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even so, in a scenario where all the currencies fall apart, Gold and Silver are very probable to become the basis of wealth.
  Nowadays, stuff like SiIicon and Copper are pretty high value (and similarly, Germanium), but they really depend a lot upon hard to measure purity which goes with high-technology.
  So Gold and Silver, which are easier to determine with lower technology (unless someone uses high-technology to spoof them) and also easier to make into useful products, will tend to hold intrinsic value.

  Value of iron and others, break down due to abundance, while steel depends upon technology and expertise.