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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 7 days ago

Why tf is this being downvoted here? 🖕 to liberals.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 7 days ago

Check out LibertyHub @ lemmy.blahaj.zone. Zero tolerance for liberal bullshit over there.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 10 days ago

If your signal looks like f(t) = K•u(t)e^at with u(t) = {1 if t≥0, 0 else}:

• If Real(a) > 0, then your signal will eventually blow up.
• If Real(a) < 0, then you signal will not blow up. In fact, your signal will have a maximum absolute value of |K|, and it will approach zero as time goes on.
• If Real(a) = 0, it is either a complex sinusoid or a constant. In either case, it is bounded with maximum absolute value of |K|. It very much does not blow up.

So e pops up all the time in stable systems and bounded signals because the function e^at solves the common differential equation dx/dt = ax(t) with x(0)=1 regardless of the value of a, particularly regardless of whether or not the real part of a causes the solution to blow up.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 11 days ago

Do most people generally eat the same things all the time?

Yeah. IMO variety is expensive because it's usually cheaper to buy a few things in bulk.

consulting a professional before doing so.

I consulted a nutritionist before doing my first weight loss [1] because I wanted to make sure my diet was nutritionally sound. Surprisingly, it was fine, just too much of everything. Very surprising considering that I'm a picky eater with texture issues, but I'll take it.

In contrast, my sister had to see a nutritionist to go on hormones and apparently her diet was nutritionally whack, so she had to make a bunch of changes.

vegetables

Please God no (at least not raw)

[1] I put it back on when I went to engineering school, but I managed to keep it off for a couple years. Oh well. I'll get around to losing it again soon.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 10 days ago

I don't judge anyone by their weight, but it's sure hard to direct that same acceptance toward myself.

Yeah same here, but I'm at a weight where I'm exceeding weight limits of things like ladders, furniture, etc. And I'm in terrible physical shape on top of all that. It's really more of a "tactical" thing for me at this point. Just gotta get it done.

Sounds like you're doing well, though.

Thank you. Could be better, could be a lot worse. I'm still a social disaster.

And I make my own frozen meals

Me too. The other day I made like half my meals for the entire summer in one giant cook.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 14 days ago

Actually Sonic I am frying chicken

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 18 days ago

Not the ideal way to do it, but I literally just pirated the game [1] and installed it as a Windows application with stock WINE-staging. I then installed Vortex as a Windows application with stock WINE, installed some mods, and played some modded FNV on Linux. It played just as well on Linux as it did on Windows even with all the mods.

Point being, the way that worked best for me was to just treat it and all its mods as a Windows application and let stock WINE handle it for me.

[1] I purchased the game on Steam but I couldn't be arsed to find the Windows executables or get it to work with Steam and Proton.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 17 days ago

9.8 Staging currently. I'm on Debian, but I get WINE from the WineHQ repo.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 18 days ago

• cops

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 20 days ago

Running #define ; anything yields error: macro names must be identifiers for both C and C++ in an online compiler. So I don't think the compiler will let you redefine the semicolon.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 20 days ago

Well I just tried #define int void in C and C++ before a "hello world" program. C++ catches it because main() has to be an int, but C doesn't care. I think it is because C just treats main() as an int by default; older books on C don't even include the "int" part of "int main()" because it's not strictly necessary.

#define int void replaces all ints with type void, which is typically used to write functions with no return value.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 23 days ago

Reddit --> Lemmy

Facebook --> fucking nothing lmao

YouTube --> FreeTube + Invidious [1]

Windows --> Debian [2] with KDE Plasma

Word --> LyX

Microsoft Office --> LibreOffice

Built-in phone music player --> Odyssey [3]

Firefox --> LibreWolf [4]

Adobe Reader --> Okular + Librera on Android

Default phone launcher --> KISS Launcher

[1] I prefer FreeTube on computers where I have it installed, but one of my family's jank 10-year-old work PCs can't handle it, so I'll typically watch videos in Invidious in LibreWolf on that computer.

[2] I can't recommend Debian for absolutely everyone since it prioritizes stability and predictability over new features and ease of use, but it's great for most of my use cases. I typically recommend Linux Mint for complete beginners.

[3] It handles extremely large music libraries (>100 GB of .mp3 files) without constantly taking forever to reload when I add a single new album.

[4] Firefox is pretty good and FOSS, but LibreWolf comes with better defaults and I'm a lazy fucker.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Would be great for me and others who have trouble with body language. I could deepfake a version of myself with neurotypical body language and offload the effort of "acting normal" to the AI for interviews and video calls. Genuinely I'm super pumped for this.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

But like seriously, I have absolutely no idea what is going on with these images. Like bare-minimum context.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

But like...yeah, that's kinda it IMO. None of the distros come out of the box absolutely perfect for me and my use case, but Debian is close enough, well-documented enough, and flexible enough to be configured into a "perfect distro". I haven't really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Understood, although I have had good luck with either using the Flatpak or installing the .deb distributed by the app developer for packages where the Debian version is too old.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Beautiful. Really like this group.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Mandroid Echostar -
Catchy prog metal with clean vocals

Anaal Nathrakh - Grind/black metal with industrial influences

The Arcane Order - Long-form melodic death metal

Arcania - Kinda like a thrashier Gojira

Rivers of Nihil - Proggy death metal

Unfathomable Ruination - Brutal tech death

Thantifaxath - Dissonant black metal

We Lost the Sea - Post-metal. I need to give some context for this one:

Departure Songs is inspired by failed, yet epic and honourable journeys or events throughout history where people have done extraordinary things for the greater good of those around them, and the progress of the human race itself. This is a celebration and a tribute. Each song has it’s own story and is a soundtrack to that story.

This is our 3rd album and our first instrumental album. We’re exploring new ground and exploring ourselves in the past 2 and a bit years since Chris went on his own journey. It’s slightly bleak with shimmers of hope and layers of emotion. It’s a tribute and a catharsis of emotion and honesty.

I.e., their vocalist died and this was their way of grieving. Incredibly deep cut IMO.

Alpinist - "heavylowfastslowdark hardcore"

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

So wtf do you even like?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

I mean if you start a RISCV community on Lemmy I'd show up. I'm sure a bunch of people would; seems like a logical extension of the FOSS movement to the hardware world.

so the only thing I come to Lemmy for ... is memes.

But you're blocking so many cool meme communities.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Faced with threats of ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan and struggling amid a nine-month long blockade, 100,400 ethnic Armenians, representing 99% of the remaining population of Nagorno-Karabakh, fled by the end of September 2023, leaving a couple dozen people within the region.

Fucking hell...

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Yeah my position is really to recommend any FOSS OS in the large over proprietary ones. However, since my experience is primarily with Linux distributions, and I do think that Linux makes sense for a lot of use cases, I usually start by talking about "Linux" first.

But, from my experience, if a "solution" to a problem "forces" the user to make a choice, then they'll stick with what "currently works" over having to make a choice. So when I talk to people about Linux IRL, I typically direct them to Linux Mint directly, even though other distros exist and it actually doesn't fit my use cases. Once they're comfortable in the Linux ecosystem, they can switch to a different distro or OS family if they feel the need to do so.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

But I don't know what I'm doing

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close.

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

For my use cases (audio, programming, engineering school, watching crap on FreeTube) I value stability and predictability over security and shiny new stuff. In the rare cases that things break, they break in ways that are already well-understood, so usually have workarounds or solutions.

In the few cases I do need something newer than the Debian repos provide, I just use Flatpaks or get an updated .deb from the devs of the particular software.

So yeah, zero rush for Plasma 6 for me. It looks nice, but I'll just be chilling on Plasma 5 until it comes out.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

2 years out of date is usually fine for me. When it isn't, I haven't had a problem using the Flatpak or a .deb directly from whoever released the software.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

You are probably a boy. You either have a PP, or are storing PP for later use, or both; only you have this sacred knowledge.

Edit: the person to whom I am responding is literally named PP_BOY.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

I'm a simple man. I see Fisto, I upvote Fisto.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

In the ASCII character encoding, the hexadecimal number 61 is the letter 'a'. (Yes, it is lowercase.) 0x is just a notation that indicates a number is in hexadecimal, as opposed to decimal or binary.

Therefore, 0x6161616161616161 translates to the string "aaaaaaaa" (without the quotes or a null terminator).

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Me lol

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

live spongebob AI youtube stream

Please I need the link

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

So I was going to write a comment about how you actually can adjust weight and mass independently based on W = mg if you can control gravity, and that comment relied on the assumption that kg measures mass and lb measures weight...

Except the latter is not true! In US customary and other systems that use the avoirdupois pound, 1 lbm := 0.45359237 kg exactly. However, there is also a pound-force, which is lbf := (1 lb) × (gravitational acceleration in ft/s^2 ). This gives rise to the slug, yet another unit of mass defined as slug := (1 lbf) ÷ (1 ft/s^2 ) = 32.17404 lbm. I actually used this unit in my differential equations class because my professor was really old-school.

The source of the confusion is that the "pound" as a unit of measurement (really one of several units) predates the distinction between mass and weight.

Moral of the story: if handed US customary units, just convert to metric (SI). And I guess I have to write lbf or lbm now whenever I'm forced to use US customary.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

@Barbarian's comment is great as a short answer. Below is a longer answer that I've tried to write simply.

Kilograms and pounds both measure mass, how much "stuff" is crammed into an object. It is something that every object has, and it doesn't change depending on where you are.

Weight tells you how heavy it feels to lift an object. This can change on other planets or even on Earth if you climb a mountain.

So if you climb a mountain without losing any mass, technically you will lose weight (but not a lot).

I think most of us were taught in school that pounds measure weight, which is mostly wrong. However, if pounds hypothetically did measure weight, then the person in your post would be technically be able to change their weight in pounds without changing their mass in kilograms (by climbing up a mountain).

Additionally, in some sense, a pound is "a smaller version of a kilogram". You can get a pound by cutting off a part of a kilogram. In comparison, you cannot get a foot by cutting a kilogram. They don't measure the same things.

Hope you get some good sleep soon!

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

The comment to which you replied is a heavily-simplified version of a previous comment.

No, pounds in the traditional usage refer to lbf, or weight.

I alluded to that in the more-complex first comment. The thing is that the notion of a "pound" was conceived before the distinction between mass and weight was understood.

However, the pound has been legally defined by the United States and a bunch of other countries that use the avoirdupois pound to be a unit of mass since 1959. It's been 65 years.

If you stand on a scale, it measures the force you're exerting on the scale, which is absolutely distinct from mass because the exact same scale would show a different value on Mt Everest despite you not losing any mass.

That's what I said.

Every practical use will be measuring lbf. Ie PSI, or pounds per square inch, is clearly referring to force over an area, not mass.

As I stated in the more complex comment, I acknowledged that both lbm and lbf exist, but that lbm is the unit both US Customary and British Imperial systems use to define "the" pound. This makes lbf a derived unit in those systems.

So technically, PSI really should be called "pounds-force per square inch".

Engineers are the few types of people that actually use lbm and slugs. Sensible ones will prefer to just use metric.

Actually, the equations of physics in electrical engineering vary more severely with the choice of units than those in other engineering subdisciplines, particularly Maxwell's equations. For that reason, and because exact conversions exist between SI and US customary, I literally always convert US customary or other "weird" units to SI and convert back the SI result if US customary is required. So I basically don't use slugs, lbm (except to weigh myself), or US customary in quantitative work unless I am literally forced to do so like I was in my diff EQ course. I'm just pedantic.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Honestly I doubt it ever will.

I somehow doubt it won't soon.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Okay so I promise you that this will be the only "Linux proselytizing" comment I will make to you, after this I'll shut up forever about Linux lol. I know we can be a bit incessant...

Well, older versions of windows still exist so it would be years before put into the position of having to consider a subscription. Even then? I would rather that than Linux.

Windows 10 was released in 2015. It will be a decade old next year, and support for it will begin to vanish soon. Windows 11 has stringent hardware requirements that means it won't run on most of my devices, so it's not even an option if I wanted it.

Anything before 10 is too old to run a ton of new software. I actually moved to Linux in June because I finally could no longer put off upgrading from Windows 7 on my audio PC. A few programs needed to update but would not do so for Windows 7.

Those being that very little of what I use/am interested in has any Linux support

I feel you there. I have years of old work on Windows, so I still need to keep my Windows partition lying around.

Last time I tried to use the Windows partition on my laptop, a Windows update broke it. According to Microsoft, I basically have to reinstall from scratch. So even when I gave Microsoft a chance to play nice, they burned me.

I recognize that some users cannot fully abandon Windows, myself included, but it might make sense to partially abandon Windows or move new work to a new operating system. Also, WINE allows you to run many Windows programs on Linux. Anecdotally, Fallout New Vegas played better on Linux in WINE than it did on Windows 7 with the same hardware, even with like 100 cursed mods.

At a bare minimum, definitely give it a shot if you have any old computers to revive. I put Debian on my grandmother's 10 year old computer that could barely handle Windows after being factory reset, and it runs like a treat now.

Linux being needlessly complicated for the average/casual user

Short version: it can be as complex or as simple as you need it to be. For a no-fuss option, go for Linux Mint.

My daily experience of using a computer has scarcely changed. It's still "point and click to reach your destination". I do use BASH commands pretty often, but only because I'm trying to do something too technical for a graphical interface on any platform, or because the command is a few seconds faster than doing it in the GUI. The terminal embedded into the file browser I use (Dolphin) makes using BASH commands so much easier, because I'm a very "visual" guy.

IMO unless you're doing something where a program needs serious hardware access, just go with Flatpaks (or a distro with baked-in Flatpak support) for programs. I use KDE Plasma and it has a lot of Windows-like features (actually, it's the other way around—Windows has a lot of Plasma-like features, because Windows "takes inspiration" from Plasma). By default, it has a Start menu and task bar, and it uses the desktop metaphor just like Windows. IMO it's like the Windows desktop with a ton of extra options and telemetry disabled.

I use Debian as my daily driver on all my computers. It was mildly complicated to set up, no more so than Windows, but after about two weeks of acclimating it's been zero drama ever since. In contrast, Windows machines usually failed to boot about twice a year per machine for various reasons in my house. If you need those complex features that Linux has, (1) they're available for you, but you don't have to touch them, and (2) they're not kept secret like many undocumented features in Windows.

I actually wouldn't recommend Debian for most new users, since it's more focused on stability than being new, fresh, easy to use, or basically anything else. It has been there literally longer than I have been alive, and I expect it will be considering how many Linux distros reuse their work as a base. Also, it doesn't come with Flatpak support by default, but it can be enabled in one command. I come from the school of "never update ever" and I'm slowly unlearning I same thing that habit, so Debian works for my use case. Also, some of my applications do need to be tightly integrated with the hardware. However, these applications are inherently technical, and would be difficult on a default Windows setup (i.e., Windows sucks by default for pro audio work, which needs to work fast). I'd recommend Linux Mint if you're really not interested in tinkering.

and it being such an enormous departure from windows

Internally it definitely is different from Windows, but again my experience so far has not been markedly different from Windows other than that it runs with less drama. Actually, Linux is internally more like almost every other OS being a Unix derivative, particularly OSX and the BSDs. It is Windows that is the "odd one out".

And like...yeah, that's kinda the point. As a desktop environment, Windows is fine and usable, but as an operating system it sucks. It has a ton of bloat, it keeps too many secrets, and it doesn't give you the stability you pay for. It's no better than Linux, just better supported because of the network effect. If you like the look and feel of Windows, you can get that with the right choice of desktop environment (IMO KDE Plasma or Cinnamon) without giving your money and data to Microsoft.

IMO if you really want to check if a Linux distro (or any other OS with a live version) is right for you, try out a live USB of a given system for a few days and see if you like it. Most importantly, make sure you can connect to the Internet and you can see your screen. Then the rest should be fixable without an external computer. That's how I got roped into this. I tried it for like a week and I didn't want to go back.

There is literally nothing that Linux offers that I find outweighs the enormous downsides of the OS.

IMO Linux offers freedom, security, privacy, auditability, control, documentation, diversity, and decentralization. Each of these are worth an essay and this comment is already getting long so I'll spare you the details. Freedom alone would make the switch worthwhile IMO, and I wish I understood that sooner.

And now I will shut up about Linux forever to you unless you want to know more.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

I'll take 20

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Actually if the pee is distributed throughout both balls, then it is stored in the union of the balls, i.e. all the space in one or both balls by definition.

Furthermore, the intersection as depicted in the diagram only includes the area common to both balls. If we take the "balls" (sets) to be the testes themselves, then anatomically the pee is stored nowhere because the two testes are physically separated and therefore have an empty intersection.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

If you want to pay for it and can afford to do so, buy it and pay for it. Otherwise, pirate it and pay for it when you can afford to do so. Easy peasy. Publisher gets paid in either case.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Oh whoops I didn't know. Yeah then just pirate that shit.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Yeah, it would be nice if they are accepting donations.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Thankfully all the bootloaders in all my Linux systems are in working order, but the Windows partition on my laptop won't boot and I think it has to do with bootloader corruption. Otherwise I'm all of these.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

My understanding is that GRUB (using the chainloader command) successfully calls the Windows bootloader when I ask it to run Windows, but I think the Windows bootloader is corrupted. It is corrupted to the point that I cannot even use the recovery disk or install disk to fix the system.

I think a Windows update broke it. I have OS probing enabled, and it successfully detected (and booted into) the Windows partition back when I first installed Debian. It still detects the Windows partition, but Windows bluescreens with an error message that I can't remember off the top of my head, but both Microsoft's support forum and other resources basically indicated could only be fixed with a reinstall. Debian, of course, boots just fine.

I ran chkdsk on the Windows partition with the Windows Recovery Disk and I also checked the partition in Gparted, and both processes found no errors. The Windows partition is perfectly readable from Debian.

So I'm inclined to believe that Windows broke itself.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

*Laughs in Debian

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

the formula got completelly messed up

I'm just glad to be included ☺️.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 months ago

Sinusoids have infinite support and therefore never stop 😈.