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Princess Mononoke just has a slow gradual buildup. It builds the world and plays with plot tension and progression in interesting ways. Then saves the climax for the end of the film, with an after scene that gives a sense of finality.

It's easily one of my favourite films for these reasons.

Statins are dangerous... they block cholesterol, which incidentally, is fundamental, crucial, even, to the formation of both cell membranes and innumerable important hormones.

They are no solution at all. Just a fad.

If you want really long battery life and no heat at all, you can downclock all the way to something like 200-400MHz. A recent CPU at that speed is actually quite usable for things like text editing and reading documentation.

Linux does grant the user that flexibility, so if someone actually wants that, they can have it.

The max non-boost frequency is usually the sweet spot for performance and efficiency.

On the other hand, if it's plugged in much of the time, then let it boost as much as it can, with speed only thermally limited. Otherwise you're not getting the true performance you paid for.

If the user wants to live with a potentially reduced laptop lifespan, sure thing. But it's just not worth it for a laptop, frankly, given their limited thermal cooling capacities. That CPU will degrade over time when run at that level of heat.

The real solution for laptops ~ just disable boost! (Granted, you might have to disable it via /sys every boot, but that can be scripted...)

Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyways, because their form factors and CPU coolers just can't handle the heat output.

It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in that:

This is a non-response.

Unlike an algorithm, humans have the faculties of creativity, intelligence and sentience. Furthermore, we have the crucial traits of self-awareness and being able to have experiences. We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps.

Intellectual property concepts in their current form started to appear as soon as prints, so about the 15th century.

Copyright is not the same as intellectual property.

Copyright is not an intellectual property concept.

They're very different things, though often conflated.

Not sure about all its filters being RL. Sometimes it seems to flag its output as inappropriate because of a single word (or none at all). Also it has asymmetric behavior, e.g. it will make a joke about men but refuse to make one about women

Probably because in today's age, making jokes about men is a-okay, but making jokes against women might be perceived as misogynist. Potential misandry is okay, by comparison.

Given some of Intel's shady history, I'm not sure I'd like them to become the ones who take over from TSMC if anything goes south.

They would probably have a monopoly, and with that, too much control, and so, are liable to become lazy and greedy, which will harm everyone involved.

I think it's inevitable given the geopolitical situation in Taiwan that someone eats TSMC's lunch on America's dollar. China will almost certainly invade in the next decade, and getting large volumes of delicate electronics in and out of ports that are subject to a Chinese navy blockade will be very difficult (not to mention the difficulty in manufacturing them amid explosions). The CHIPS act is a big part of preparing for this.

Isn't this why TSMC is creating another foundry in the US, so they can circumvent these issues with China somewhat?

Gnome is the boring, serious, stop-fiddling-and-get-things-done UI.

Gnome these days is the my-way-or-the-highway kind of uncle.

They're actively hostile to user theming, for example, and keep removing features simply because they don't think users need them, like desktop icons.

Their file browser is horrible to use. Their image viewer is anaemic.

They keep finding new ways to dumb their applications down, to make things less "confusing" for the users, I suppose.

They adopted MacOS-style headerbars, but ignored Apple's solution to the lack of functionality that brings ~ their Menu Bar.

Overall, I get the feeling that women have far more confidence issues than men do, sadly.

Women aren't being systematically oppressed ~ but confidence issues might lead them to believe that they are, even if they can't identify any actual causes.

The real systematic issue seems to me to be that women aren't getting help in the confidence apartment, hence they can't easily stay standing in the face of something that may well crush one's self-confidence.

And there may be many, many things in workplace, not just interviews, that can feel defeating... interviewers are there to filter out those who can't handle the strain of the job, those who don't have the qualifications, etc. And even if that's overcome, then the job itself may overtime wear one down.

Burnout and imposter syndrome aren't nice to run into... :/

CS is built on abstractions, which make things more modular and easier to think about.

CS also leads to generally garbage performance with its abstractions, because computers simply don't function according to assumptions of CS...

Better to teach people how computers actually work, and then go from there.

Doesn't feel particularly surprising anymore that software has been getting slower far more quickly than hardware can get faster.

Snap? Yeah, well, containers can be slow beasts, and Canonical's container solution is especially awful.

Compare the Snap version of something to a non-container version, and see how much quicker it is.

My Linux distro has never slowed down for me, except where I've personally done some weird config muckup. And I know exactly who is to blame... insert "of course I know him, he's me" meme here...

Linux file managers manage to be nice and snappy. On my machine, KDE's Dolphin, on an NVME, takes, maybe, 4 seconds to open and scan a folder that has more than 9000 folders and files.

What's Windows' problem? It has no excuse. Maybe, just maybe, the Windows Explorer, plus the stack it runs on, is utter garbage.

They can take it back.

Heard of Betterbird? Yeah, a Thunderbird port.

Even since having tried raw tuna, my personal opinion has been the reverse.

For me, a nice raw tuna can be absolutely amazing.

Something about the flavour and texture just pops in my mouth with delight.

Tastebuds be weird, heh.

Title shamelessly stolen from the Phoronix article also discussing it: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Digit...

Why? I have no originality... -_-

Primarily, I needed a title that fit within the character limit.

That's a pretty awful hot take.

Unless this is some terribly poor trolling, in which case I've taken your bait...

No, it most certainly can't.

The flu, like all viruses like it, mutates quite rapidly.

It'll just mutate in response to the "one shot" to get around it.

So, "one shot" will turn into multiple... oh wait... we do that every flu season, and it's a never-ending game of cat and mouse.

They're relatively smart in that they can quite intelligently navigate their environment to best get at prey that might otherwise kill them.

Really, all animals are relatively smart (ignoring individual differences in a species), in that they have specific skills and abilities that allow them to be most effective for their biological makeup, and purpose in their respective ecosystems.

We humans are no different in that regard ~ we are relatively smart, in that our biological makeups grant us leanings towards skills and abilities that other animals don't have.

So, an appeal to tradition is all you have?

Just because it's a Buddhist practice, and it's ancient, that's all you need...?

The same can be said about any other religious practice.

You sound almost like a Christian preacher who could very well say,

"Well, the 20 centuries of Christianity, and all those priests and laypeople. I'm not sure if you consider all that they've said and written to be evidence, but I think you should."

You need reasons actually grounded in preferably personal practice.

That is, something treated like a scientific experiment performed on yourself, to see if following the steps affects you. Then, you look at the results others have attained.

And then you draw rational and logical conclusions based off of that cumulative data.

Given that all human behavior can (very likely) be reduced to mathematical equations

There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for this very bold claim.

I'll never use Chrome, given the increasingly-worrying directions Google is taking it.

Google has too much influence and power, and has become the new Microsoft in terms of browser monopolization.

At best, we can just hope that Greg has the same resilience as Linus ~ and that Greg's chosen successor also has the same grit

How do you know this? Is there a control group?

Did government and media propaganda tell you this?

It's not nearly so simple as being "tired" of your job.

You obviously have zero idea what burnout is, or what it feels like to be in such a position.

I'd argue that you obviously have the incredible privilege of never having experienced burnout.

So I suppose your solution is for people to just die of cold in the winter, and from the heat in summer?

Of course, because they want to monopolize growing and selling of it, just like they did with tobacco.

That's easily among some of the most disgusting things you could threaten someone with.