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bort ,

People behind ISO 216 thought of everyting

how to make a good standard:

step 1: copy from DIN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216#History

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so why not copy them?

oh, I totally agree with you.

In fact standards are made to be copied. That's like the entire point of them.

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Why canā€™t anyone study to become a qualified surgeon?

anyone can try

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When you add a new lane to a road, people think that the traffic will be easier there, so they take that route instead of their normal one

so for these people the new lane will create marginal improvement, right?

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But only temporarily

but is it?

I thought the temporal improvement would be for everyone who already used the high way (because they will get to their destination a little bit faster). And for the few extra people, who start to use the highway but didn't use it before, the improvment will stay.

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The Ad sponsored web model is not viable forever.

a thousand times this

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talking to clients

you want him to define features and deadlines?

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yes I know if you look hard enough you can find legacy panels

In some case you have to actively looks for the legacy panel, because the new ones don't allow to change certain settings.

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Thereā€™s a lot to not like here.

the new snipping-tool is neat

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the last time I had to set up a windows-system, I just said fuck-it and bought a key for 2ā‚¬ from on of these shady key-sides.

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most recently I had this with energy-settings, before that with network-settings, and before that with some language settings.

Iā€™ve not actually had this problem ...(aside from [when I had this problem])

lol

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weā€™ll probably get a win 12 that is less good than win 10, but better than win 11,

I wouldn't count on it. MS is moving away from selling desktop-stuff and towards selling cloud stuff (think azure and office356) and consulting. That's why they changed their attitude towards linux (think wsl and c# for linux) and open-source (think github). MS wants companies to use open-source tools (preferably written in c#) and deploy them to azure with the help of MS-consultants.

Enshittifying windows is a step in that direction. For example: The more people have a MS-Account, the easier it is to sell office356. That's why they pressure windows-user into making MS-Accounts.

MS knows that desktop is dying.

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they were lied to by the landparasite

can't you sue the landlord for false advertising in burgerland?

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The best knee-surgery meme is knee-surgery itself.

i.e. knee-surgery is fun, but it is not usefull.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12110735/

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These are not the only two knee surgeries that exist, by any stretch.

If I was talking about every single kind of knee surgery, I would have said so.

This should be the end of it, but you went on and constructed a personal attack from your faulty assumptions. I think that merrits some more "defense" on my part.

When there is a statement without an explicit quantifier, the quantifier becomes ambiguous. Assuming the all-quantifier in this case was your personal decision. Since you construct an insulting argument from this faulty and intentional assumption, I can only assume malice. If the ambiguity was a problem, you could have simple asked. Or better yet: Do what everyone else did and click the link. If you still thought, the ambiguity was an issue, you could have just pointed it out, instead of making an insult out of it.

Please donā€™t spread medical misinformation

Tell that to someone who actually spreads medical misinformation. Not only was my joke correct, I even provided a credible source, which is far beyond what you can expect from a comment on a shitposting community.

itā€™s not helpful

the information, that many knee-surgeries only work through placebo-effect is very helpful. In fact my simplified and sensational (and true) claim probably made many people click on the link, which helped spread the message even further.

Also I think it sets a good example to provide sources for all interesting claims, even if it is on a shitposting sub.

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magic mechsuits

you mean shardplate?

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yes, sure. But I would have counted those as "regular magic".

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KDE on steamdeck, because it came preinstalled

Gnome on work-pc, because it came preinstalled

also gnome on notebook, because the multi-workspace thing works very nice OOTB in gnome

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"sudo MacOS" sounds like a legit way to describe "gnome+ubuntu"

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Oneā€™s an active decision

There are not so many quality notebooks without any brand-logos on them.

Also wearing a brand-logo when you have the choice not to, is kinda cringe.

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I just want to point out, that what you are saying sounds good in an ideal world. But the realitiy looks different. (I actually typed out some points, but then I remembered that I don't want to engage in yet another lengthy internet-debate, that ultimately comes down to personal preferences and philosophy)

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At the ML course at uni they said verbatime that they are plagiarism machines?

Did they not explain how neural networks start generalizing concepts? Or how abstractions emerge during the training?

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https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/452924a0-a88f-4966-a32c-b388244c883f.webp

source

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I think the "Destitute" level should drop the case and replace it with a paperclip (to bridge the power button)

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it's all of them

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EMBRACE

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https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/6215651f-6986-42ec-8341-76f2b8451288.webp

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windows 11 suck ass I especially hate chatgpt

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As usual, the US is already one step ahead: they cut out the middleman by skiping a step.

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snappy it feels versus the official rpi OS

I blame the desktop manager. Once I ditched the default von on the pi, and replaced it with standard gnome, the pi became almost as snappy as my regular notebook.

in general: standard debian should be exactly as light-weight as arch.

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for me it was on a pi5. maybe the amd64 was what made it work for me? idk.

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Tja.

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offtopic: what is the significance of the reblogger in the screenshot? like, why didn't they leave the top third of the picture in?

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thanks

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does that matter? I though only the voltage and wattage would play a role

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thanks!

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the linux-file-deletion is used as a example for good software design. It has a very simple interface with little room for error while doing exactly what the caller intended.

In John Ousterhout's "software design philosophy" a chapter is called "define errors out of existence". In windows "delete" is defined as "the file is gone from the HDD". So it must wait for all processes to release that file. In Linux "unlink" is defined as "the file can't be accessed anymore". So the file is gone from the filesystem immediately and existing file-handles from other processes will life on.

The trade-off here is: "more errors for the caller of delete" vs "more errors due to filehandles to dead files". And as it turns out, the former creates issues for both developers and for users, while the later creates virtually no errors in practice.

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bourgeois = middle class

iirc bourgeois is non-aristocratic upper class. But i guess it depends heavily on the context

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open suse (or was it mandrake? idk) around 2006. I remember trying it, and thinking "wow. This is trash" and then sticking with windows for 10 more years until giving ubuntu a try (and sticking to it). I tried other non-debian linuxes since then, but they all gave me that "wow, trash"-kind of feeling

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I think "lie" should not only refer to "bold-faced lies", but all lies. I also think it's important to distinguish between differnt types of lies.

... If I truly believe that, then itā€™s not a lie

that's an honest lie

you can even say the truth while lying. e.g. lying by omission, or using Weasel word. Wikipedia has a list (because of course they do)

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yes

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if you don't have the time for the entire video, here is a sub 1 minute summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ex_DEhq6C8

bort , (edited )

you may want to try out kagi.

google get worse, because they have a strong incentive to deliver ads, and a weaker incentive to deliver good results (see Cory Doctorow). Kagi is a subscription service, so their only incentive is to deliver good results.

on HN there are regularly good discussions on the topic, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852133

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Simple

it would be "simple", if start->settings wouldn't point me in an completely wrong direction. As it is, you need to know the secret phrase "device manager" (or "control panel" or "management console") to find the hidden settings-dialogs that will actually solve the problem.

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be sure to click on "sounds" an not "open sound settings", because these are obviously total different things.

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I was around cameras all my life, but I only when I bought my first dslr, I started to actually think about how each setting would influence the photo, and I eventually had lots of fun playing around with different settings, motives and eventually photography became an hobby of mine.

What I am trying to say: hobbyists may not need "good" gear, but they still need the "right" gear, i.e. gear that makes the hobby enjoyable.

GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code. (www.pcgamer.com)

GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.::Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.

bort ,

https://www.eigenmagic.com/2010/12/31/why-some-people-hate-microsoft-a-history-lesson/

it's worth the read, but the conclusion at the end is important

Who cares?

Well, everyone who uses a computer should, particularly if we consider what might have happened if Microsoft hadnā€™t abused their market power. When a monopolist abuses their power, customers all lose, because they donā€™t get to enjoy the more rapid improvements that robust competition provides. Itā€™s one of the key reasons we think competition is a good thing.

[...] But lastly, and this is the big one for me, we might not have a monoculture of operating system on the Internet with such a poor security model.

[...] Imagine a world where Symantec didnā€™t exist, because viruses werenā€™t so easy to write and spread to all the worldā€™s computers. Imagine a world where spam didnā€™t constitute 90% of all email because it wasnā€™t so easy to take over a PC and turn it into a botnet zombie. Imagine not having to do impromptu tech-support for family members who accidentally installed a bunch of spyware.

[...]Imagine all the time and money that has been, and continues to be, spent on fixing all of the issues that a better security model 10-15 years ago might have avoided.

In Summary

Microsoft have made (or bought) some excellent products, as they continue to do. There are many wise, capable, and perfectly reasonable people who work there, what with it being a big company and all. This is not a company that is an unrestrained force for evil in the world.

However.

Microsoft have a history of abusing market dominance in order to exclude competitors. Many of the top management running the company at the time are still there, running the company today.

Perhaps there will be no repeat performances, but there are very good reasons for greeting rhetoric from Microsoft regarding their openness with some scepticism.

Inflammatory headline aside, let me be clear that I donā€™t hate Microsoft. But I can understand why there are those who do.

bort ,

is this true?

edit: wikipedia seems to imply, that both were used

an inventory list from the 17th century noted supplies of clover and grass seed from England. New colonists were even urged by their country and companies to bring grass seed with them to North America. By the late 17th century, a new market in imported grass seed had begun in New England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn

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