HamsterRage 5h ago • 100%
Take a look at this:
This is in the Museum of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome, and it comes from an ancient Roman Villa in Rome. Probably painted in the first or second century CE. There's walls of this stuff in the museum.
It's not realism, but minimalistic sketches that, in many ways, outdo realism in artistic quality. To me, this looks more like something that you might find in Leonardo's sketchbook than on the wall of on ancient Roman Villa from 1200 years earlier.
HamsterRage 11h ago • 100%
The reason for leaving in the password.trim()
would be one of the few things that I would ever document with a comment.
HamsterRage 1d ago • 100%
I was there a month ago. It wasn't windy at all.
HamsterRage 1w ago • 67%
Isn't the one on the left Samus from Metroid?
A female character!
HamsterRage 2w ago • 100%
What about the Nutria? Literally named like it's food!
HamsterRage 2w ago • 55%
This is true, but.....
Moore's Law can be thought of as an observation about the exponential growth of technology power per $ over time. So yeah, not Moore's Law, but something like it that ordinary people can see evolving right in front of their eyes.
So a $40 Raspberry Pi today runs benchmarks 4.76 times faster than a multimillion dollar Cray supercomputer from 1978. Is that Moore's Law? No, but the bang/$ curve probably looks similar to it over those 30 years.
You can see a similar curve when you look at data transmission speed and volume per $ over the same time span.
And then for storage. Going from 5 1/4" floppy disks, or effing cassette drives, back on the earliest home computers. Or the round tapes we used to cart around when I started working in the 80's which had a capacity of around 64KB. To micro SD cards with multi-terabyte capacity today.
Same curve.
Does anybody care whether the storage is a tape, or a platter, or 8 platters, or circuitry? Not for this purpose.
The implication of, "That's not Moore's Law", is that the observation isn't valid. Which is BS. Everyone understands that that the true wonderment is how your Bang/$ goes up exponentially over time.
Even if you're technical you have to understand that this factor drives the applications.
Why aren't we all still walking around with Sony Walkmans? Because small, cheap hard drives enabled the iPod. Why aren't we all still walking around with iPods? Because cheap data volume and speed enabled streaming services.
While none of this involves counting transistors per inch on a chip, it's actually more important/interesting than Moore's Law. Because it speaks to how to the power of the technology available for everyday uses is exploding over time.
HamsterRage 2w ago • 87%
"Happy Days" initially aired about 15 years after the time in which it was set.
HamsterRage 3w ago • 100%
I used KDE Connect on Ubuntu with Gnome. No issues.
HamsterRage 3w ago • 100%
Old school Unix guy here...vi,awk and sed are all that you need.
HamsterRage 3w ago • 100%
For spaghetti, perhaps?
HamsterRage 4w ago • 100%
You might want to think about it a bit more before putting it to work. The comment with the streams example is far, far better.
HamsterRage 4w ago • 100%
You're not going to split hairs out of this one. Trying to say that these are not Evangelicals because no true Evangelical would do this is pretty much the "No True Scotsman " evasion. When people say, "Evangelicals", this is exactly the group to which they are referring.
The one or two "True Evangelicals" in the US can consider themselves exempt from this thread.
HamsterRage 4w ago • 90%
There's a bit of "No True Scotsman", going on here I think. You cannot deny what we all see every day, Evangelicals working every day to suppress LGBTQ and women's rights. That's what they do, that's what they are.
[Edit for typo]
HamsterRage 4w ago • 100%
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HamsterRage 4w ago • 66%
You should try a Halifax Donair.
HamsterRage 1mo ago • 100%
I think that the idea is that more Dems use mail-in ballots than Reps. Hand in hand with tactics like restricting the number of polling stations in minority neighborhoods, it's just another component of putting their thumb on the scale.
HamsterRage 1mo ago • 100%
Back in the 70's and 80's there were "Travesty Generators". You pushed some text into them and they developed linguistic rules based on probabilities determined by the text. Then you could have them generate brand new text randomly created by applying the linguistic rules developed from the source text.
Surprisingly, they would generate "brand new" words that weren't in the original text, but were real words. And the output matched stylistically to the input text. So you put in Shakespeare and you got out something that sounded like Shakespeare. You get the idea.
I built one and tried running some TS Eliot through it, because stuff is, IMHO, close to gibberish to begin with. The results were disappointing. Basically because it couldn't get any more gibberishy that the source.
I strongly suspect that the same would happen with Trump's gibberish. There used to be a bunch of Travesty Generators online, and you could probably try one out to see.
HamsterRage 1mo ago • 100%
Don't say, "against their students", say, "against their customers". Which makes it sound even more ridiculous.
HamsterRage 1mo ago • 100%
My question is how much "likely" translates to "voted". It seems easy to respond, "Yes", when asked on the phone, but requires a bit more enthusiasm to actually go stand in line and cast a vote.
HamsterRage 1mo ago • 100%
Actually...yes. At least for the "war criminal". I think the point is that you can't hide your inner feelings from the feather. So if you genuinely, in the deepest depths of your heart, have no qualms about bombing civilians then you're fine.
I think this points out the fundamental relativistic nature of morality and how the feather copes with it. Everyone has some sort of moral compass, and the feather measures how true you were to it. And really, what more can you ask of anyone? Decide, for yourself, what is right and what is wrong and stick to it.
Putting aside the fact that a toddler probably lacks the intellectual or emotional development to have a truely personal morality, I cannot imagine that someone who "broods" all their life over kicking a kitten when they were three is anything other than the nicest most moral person you'll ever meet. I don't think that have any trouble with Anubis and Thoth.
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For some reason, the wife decided to pull out all of the amigurumi critters that she's made since she started doing this at the beginning of the year. So, here you go, the group shot: ![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/136d1292-66ad-4ac8-818e-e8b21590880a.jpeg)
![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b012b78a-ac9a-4376-9eb1-aa66ebc672c5.jpeg) She said that the pattern was awful and that she had fudge all kinds of stuff to make it work. The hat needed to be completely redesigned.
I'm beginning to think that this sub will never be ready. What's the hold-up????
The wife has started to make these amigurumi creatures. Here's her latest two. She uses worsted weight wool (she tells me) which generally results in bigger creatures.
I wanted one of these back in 1980 when I was 16. I remember that they were $1,200, but they might as well have been $1,200,000 as far as I was concerned. Many years later I had the $$$ to buy one, and this one is a beauty. Koa, with Bill Lawrence pickups. Look at all the knobs and switches!!!
This is the beside the time since the post was created. I cannot figure it out.
I live in Canada, where we are graced with the most expensive cell phone plans in the developed world. One of the "features" of my plan is something they call "Roam Like Home". With this feature, I can use my data and time from my plan just like I haven't gone anywhere, for the low, low price of $15 a day!!! This is activated automatically the moment that they detect that I am roaming. I cannot opt out of this "feature", and the only way to avoid it is to put the phone in airplane mode and then activate wifi. There is a cap to the number of days you can be charged, but runs on a calendar month basis, so if you are away across the end of the month, you can get charged more than that maximum. For me, the answer came in the form of eSIMs. I ditched my old Galaxy S9, and bought a Pixel 7 in May. Then I purchased an eSIM for France for both data and talk (30GB for 30 days for around €45) and went to France for 24 days. I was really pleased with the Pixel 7 in the week or two that I had it before we left on vacation. The battery life was way better than the S9, and 2 hours at the gym, with YouTube Music on Bluetooth and "Strong" running to track sets and timing left me with close to 90% battery left. It would be closer to 50% on the S9. No heat issues here in Canada. When the plane landed in France, the eSIM automatically activated, and I turned it on for both data and voice/SMS. Nothing could be easier, and it works like a charm. At around this time, the issue with hot Pixels started, and eventually Google found the issue with their servers that was causing this. Hot Pixels with short battery life faded from the news. But not for me. Ok, so battery life was still better than my old S9, but not by much. And it got hot, too. It seemed to be particularly bad when I set up a hotspot for my wife - as this was the plan, she would use wifi off the Pixel hotspot since her phone doesn't support eSIMs. Out and about, I could expect to lose up to 15% in the first hour, and then it would maybe go even faster after it was down below 70%. Taking pictures seemed to be especially hard on the battery, too. Not surprising, really, as the new camera features use a lot of computing power. We had Android Auto in our rental car, and Google Maps would drain the battery at almost the same rate that the car would charge it. I was waiting for the new updates to drop, hoping that might have a fix, but as of June 13, we still haven't seen it. In the meantime, we've returned to Canada and I've turned off the eSIM. And now the battery life is back to where it was before we left. I haven't once noticed the phone getting hot either. So there you go. Has anyone else noticed this kind of issue with eSIMs?