ulterno

@ulterno@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  around
  Maybe ± 70 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If by streaming, you mean using a client-server architecture to get a sound signal to the aux port, then yes, I use mpv with pipewire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  playable

  as in “it does not work on Win 10”?
  Because I found it playable, myself. It was on Win 7, if I remember correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  better specs to run it than Mankind Divided

  Guess I’ll stay content with the old one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were just a little wrong, “Flu shots give you a flu”.

  There are 2 types of these shots essentially:

  1. the pathogen is put into some other thing that creates stuff that fights against said pathogen. That stuff is then extracted and given in the shot.
  2. the pathogen itself is processed and given to you. This causes your body to make stuff that fights against the pathogens. Your body then vaguely remembers how the pathogen felt and hence, increases the reaction your body does to any attack from a similar pathogen that comes the next time. This is the one corresponding to the above quote.

  Of course, if your immune system is weak, the processed pathogen can be enough to give you quite a bit of a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertisement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you make sure to spray WD40 into those tubes before turning on that water?
  They only said no for drinking water, not for eye cleaning water. Get all the rust out of your eye sockets and lubricate them for grater eye-rolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah.
  I use KCharSelect for it and have been considering making a plasmoid for it for a while now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of things are easier to learn when you have a base foundation.

  Also, a lot of skills have interrelated mental pathways, so once you have enough exp with one, learning the other means, you are actually plasticising your brain, less than what you would have, had you learnt the other skill without knowing the first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I’m late, but you can also use:
  R² = 0.11

  Someone said it messes with screen-readers, but when I tried, everything messed with screen-readers, so I don’t see much of a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suspicion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drywall is primarily made of gypsum, which is a mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, sandwiched between layers of paper or fiberglass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suspicion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, it could also mean:

  • Number of “me” = 1
  • Number of “voices” = 0

  Perhaps the voices went away, after getting rid of that pesky concealment, now that the wall is in debugging mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suspicion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  C. It’s very likely the context given in the caption is a joke anyway and you’re taking things way too seriously.

  You gotta take bokeh-ing seriously.
  Did you know, the neighbour’s child go an A+ in their last joke-test?
  Now stop lazing around and get back to joking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suspicion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that “me-1”? You just destroyed your wallpaper and found nothing.
  Oh, it’s “-1” as in “minus one”. Makes sense.

  Next time, perhaps try checking what is on the other side of the wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, really a lot of components in calculation of work.
  And every component can be a separate research paper.
  Good that I didn’t try to articulate all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only going to affect me if I am reading something particularly boring and don’t really want to read it.
  But if that were the case, I wouldn’t be reading it in the first place.

  I don’t feel the need to rid myself of distractions, because when I am not in the mood to read a book, I don’t read it.

  Also, this “distracted by functionality” logic is what parents seem to use to get rid of stuff with a screen.
  I can say for sure, that people being loud in another room is a much bigger distraction.
  If your OS is distracting you, you have installed the wrong one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like being able to Ctrl+F through my book.
  But there just seems to be some kind of feel to flipping a page that makes me feel more focussed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call it “woke”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to say this. You worded it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering that
  Power = WorkDone / TimeTaken
  and lets just say for this instance that WorkDone is same for the jet and for the teleporter^[because calculating work done in such a scenario is kinda hard], which is kinda wrong, but won’t matter anyway as you see further.

  Then,
  Power~teleporter~ = Power~jet~ × TimeTaken~jet~ / TimeTaken~teleporter~

  then going with “instantaneous”

  With limit(TimeTaken~teleporter~ ⟶ 0)

  Power~teleporter~ ⟶ ∞

  Now, someone will ask, what if WorkDone in case of teleportation is actually close to 0.
  But that won’t happen, simply because the minimum value for WorkDone in that case would be equivalent to the change in gravitational potential, making it a significant amount as compared to the other limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh, then it would be teleportation costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To advertising companies, maybe yes.
  But to the ones making the advertisement, we are the wall between them and their money, which just needs to be gotten out of the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, when I first got a link to a whitepaper in the newsletter, I expected it to be a… a whitepaper (I read the meaning it had back then).
  After reading it properly, as if I would an academic paper, I thought it was weird that I didn’t feel like I learnt anything useful.

  It would take a while (and a few other whitepapers) for me to realise what it had become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess that’s why the big guys want people to be neurotypical.
  To make it easier to sell them stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom!!!! Can we pls???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is before tax.
  You might have to consider interstate duties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom!!!! Can we pls???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will match at Layer 0 but not at Layer 1.
  Some DIY would be required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  nimbus

  Ah man too many variants to keep track of.

  When I got COVID, it luckily wasn’t too bad. None of the “loss of senses” stuff.
  Just had some weakness and reduced metabolism (ok, I did get pretty slim in the wrong places) for ~ a month and was then kinda fine.
  The second time I got it, only a little weakness. I even walked over to the clinic for testing, alone.

  And I’d call that very lucky, considering that the common flu, the next year, ended up being worse on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a cartoon on it too, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple:

  1. Drink water
  2. I Clear the snot in the wash basin every 30 minutes
  3. I Don’t drink the snot that comes in backwards from your my nose, no matter how lazy you are I am feeling
     • spit it out in the wash basin
     • this way you I don’t get cough
  4. I don’t take paracetamol or symptomatic relief medicine, instead keep 2-3 handkerchiefs to keep it clean
  5. Sinuses blocked and blowing nose is not enough, there is a medicine for it. But if you can, try some mace and nutmeg powder instead.
  6. Fever? Yes. I Sleep with it.
     • Feeling weak, I take some ORS (the one with sugar in it)

  And the most important part, don’t go around coughing/snorting it at other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because then it won’t be creamed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I can buy a GPS map device. Cash payments are not much of a problem until the Govt. starts adding that extra tax on cash withdrawal from ATMs. I will need to wait for companies to grow a brain and stop using WhatsApp for work.

  For all else, I use my computer anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “can be” ⇏ “has to be”

  And it’s not fiction that sets high standards, but the people watching it, that are doing so.

  Now you may say that the people are setting those standards only because they are watching said stuff.
  But that is just rephrasing, “the people watching fiction are incapable of having their own imagination”.

  Back in school, I had a classmate that had a much greater height than others, due to steroid usage.
  Now if you say that his parents did that because they watched “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure”, I’ll say it was not released yet and I have no reason to believe that they bought comic strips from another country and went ahead and made a ‘gag’ piece a basis for their standards.