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Jackson Crawford's youtube channel is very helpful academic source.

For those that don't know, Futhark is comes from the first 6 letters of the runic alphabet (F, U, Þ, A, R, K)

https://www.youtube.com/@JacksonCrawford

A barbarous Floydian slip.

YES! Snap drove me to debian sid and haven't looked back. Snap is probably fine, but don't force me to use it.

I had used ubuntu back in the day, and when I came back to linux a bit ago I immediately installed it again.

I don't remember all of my frustrations, but I remember having a lot of trouble with snap. Specifically, it really annoyed me that the default install of firefox was the snap version instead of native. I want that to be an opt-in kind of thing. I found that flatpak just worked better anyway.

I almost tried making the switch to arch, but I've been pretty happy running debian sid (unstable) since. The debian installer is just more friendly to me for getting encrypted drives and partitions set up how I want.

It's not for everyone, but I like the structured rolling updates of sid and having access to the debian ecosystem too much to switch to something else at this point.

I use sway with a radeon card for my primary and have a secondary nvidia card for games and AI stuff.

It has its warts, but I love my debian+sway setup

Was pretty effective using as a propaganda tool to get a candidate of the owner's choice elected. I don't see any reason to assume that wasn't the intended goal from the beginning. No reason to assume that won't be how it is used in the future.

I was pretty flabbergasted when I realized that if not logged in, I could no longer search a repository for code references.

You're really going to make me clone a project locally to do a search. I just end up using google to search github. It's so stupid.

The WARN act website lists the number at 1,985 employees.

https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employe...

I believe there was a bill that addressed this, but if failed shortly before the TikTok stuff.

The company said it would cost between $20 million and $30 million to fix these issues and decided to cut about 6% of its staff.

Spence, in October, had acknowledged mistakes surrounding the app's release and said that he and seven other company leaders would forgo their bonuses.

People out of a job because of you and you're gonna forgo your bonuses.

Spence, whose total compensation was $5.19 million in fiscal 2023, took a roughly $72,000 cash bonus.

I thought a reddit comment on this article had an interesting point:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1d3b356/my_new_favori...

[–]Timzhy0 3 points 7 months ago

Btw I think one can go a step further than the author, there is no need to keep two explicit ExprRef baked in a binary node (lhs, rhs). You can exploit locality, basically the AST, seen it the LISP way, is just an arbitrarily nestable list, where elements are atoms or other lists. Hence all you need to know is where each list ends (and if it's an atom you can assume it spans one node) and actually one bit to know if it is the last entry in the list is quite ergonomic as well (because then you can distinguish whether moving next slot in the AST means there is a sibling). Basically it's easier to keep it sync while constructing and takes up less memory per node. I pay 40 bits per node, stored interleaved for best cache locality (some unaligned accesses but I think it's still worthwhile), 8 bits for the tag, 32 for the data, if data is bigger, 32 is an index into some auxiliary segment (basically a ptr).

I don't think you should feel any pressure to change it. The Solar System belongs to the writers just as much as it does to the physicists and unless your target audience is specifically physicists, then the average visitor of your site will be more likely a consumer of sci-fi than a practitioner of physics.

The argument is rather pedantic to me since the word Sun comes from the old English, Germanic, and European, whereas Sol comes from the Latin, Helios from the Greek, svár Sanskrit, etc. They are all valid names for our local star.

Astrologically, Gemini is associated with Communication. Specifically social, superficial, quick, back and forth communication. The sign is ruled by Mercury which is associated with Intelligence and being the messenger of the Gods. Mercury is often depicted with winged shoes as the planet itself is the fastest moving planet, orbiting the sun every 88 days. Mercury is considered to be dualistic (The Twins) and also rules the sign of Virgo, an earth sign that is associated with more deep cold analytical categorization.

I paid off my entire college debt with my first paycheck. I lived at home and got my associates from a community college in Appalachia. I did well enough to get a small transfer scholarship at a state college to finish up my BS.

You get what you put into it no matter where you go.

And they should have never did this publicly.

"Contemplate the twelfth figure of the Tarot-Keys, remember the grand symbol of Prometheus, and be silent. All those Magi who divulged their works died violently, and many were driven to suicide." -Éliphas Lévi

"In gaming we have one goal: which is to bring more games to more gamers on all platforms" - Satya Nadella (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdo0elQI_8)

How does xbox-exclusive releases fit in with this goal? Are are just playing word games where you mean you'll release a bunch of indie and old games to more platforms while restricting new games?

I am not making a judgement whether or not the merger should go through, but I would love that the result to be the end of deliberate platform exclusive titles

I WONDER WHY

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/-thursday...

Every civilization starts building a tower.

Those at the bottom bring supplies to the top and maintain it.

Those at the top are tasked with seeing what is coming and making Wise decisions.

Those at the top forget about the needs of the bottom and instead focus only on vertical expansion.

Eventually the summit grows taller than what the base can sustain.

Then the workers at the bottom abandon the base.

The tower left unmaintained, collapses.

I think this comment is actually very insightful.

If you assume that 'nothing' is what cannot exist, then everything becomes a matter of scale and instrument sensitivity

Therein lies the True eternal distinction between Reason and Faith.

Reason is that which can be known and where it ceases becomes Faith. They are separate parallel structures, to mistake one for the other is folly.

We know that everything we can see originated as a single point of one uniformly distributed substance.

We know that everything we can see will return into one uniformly distributed substance (Heat and red-shifted light).

Belief is Necessary to fill in the gaps between creation cycles (Or its rejection entirely).

"When the sun goes down, the stars come out."

A beautiful way of signing off reminds me of Bowie's Blackstar album.

"Something happened on the day he died. Spirit rose a metre, then stepped aside. Somebody else took his place and bravely cried, "I'm a black star, I’m a star’s star, I’m a blackstar"

-David Bowie

I find myself uncomfortably on your side of the argument, against the popular sentiment here.

Russia is bombing Ukrainian communication towers, spreading malware, coordinating attacks, in an active unprovoked invasion.

From my perspective, I see one country invading another country saying "If you try and stop us then we'll nuke the world."

That is not how nuclear deterrence has worked in the past and if it not challenged then it will become the norm. Call their bluff. Hope that it is a bluff, because if it isn't, then it only will delay the inevitable until we are all in a worse bargaining place.

To let evil flourish while you sit and do nothing is the same as doing evil. If we all die, then let us die doing what is right, in good conscience, protecting the vulnerable, upholding civilized order.

Adblock will be the first thing I install if usable AR-glasses ever become actually practical.

When I want to set a timer I have to walk over to the device and unmute it because I refuse to leave it unmuted at this point. It is partially due to the fact that I have Sonos speakers with alexa built in and it just wasn't well done. Leaving it unmuted leads to it constantly activating from normal conversations.

After being prompted by one of these 'new features' when I physically turned it on and spoke to it only to set a timer is a really big turn off for me. No I do not want your advertisements while I am trying to manage the stove and oven. You've made the ONE feature that I actually use more inconvenient than just doing it manually.

The real reason I only use it for timers though is because it has been completely useless for anything else. Asking it questions never yields anything useful even when it is able to actually understand what I've said correctly.

In the villa of Ormen, Stands a solitary candle.

In the centre of it all, Your eyes

Relevant: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/beauty-in-physics/

I don't really understand how we can see the universe another way

It has been eye opening to me to view the universe as a dualism. It will certainty strike you down without a second thought, but at the same time we are provided a space in this time to flourish. If we act good, then good gets multiplied. This is the Egyptian idea of holding a whip in one hand and shepherd's crook in the other. The universe is both a punisher and a Sheppard king.

Which is very apt considering your solution to take care of others.

I can only speak from personal experience, but yes, it was pretty crushing. I knew interacting with people would be required, but I did not foresee the full on panic attacks in the bathroom, trying to calm down so I wouldn't just run out the front door and never come back.

I'll be that guy and say for completeness that while local hidden variables are ruled out, global variables are not via something like Bohmian mechanics.

Thanks for this. I felt myself reaching for the pitchfork. There are too many unknowns here. No one really wins in situations like these.

Unless proprietary tech is used, I think I would advocate for laws protecting people from being restricted working on projects that provides such a public good... but that is another argument entirely.

This is what I would assume too. I remember sitting next to a manager's cubicle at GE and hearing him discuss candidates. He would say things like, "Wow, this guy applying for this entry position has a PhD, he definitely would get bored and leave quickly." These places just want to fill seats at max capacity and turn over just means more work.