thevoidzero

@thevoidzero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐇 🐇 🐇⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest opinion programming is easy and fun when you learn it and it saves you time and allows you to test your ideas. Creating something gives you dopamine.

  Problem is before people even try any programming for themselves, they are introduced to it through school or work where they have to do it for homeworks or analysis while also learning new things. And they hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Warm as in heated water, yes. Room temperature or lukewarm water from the pipes, NO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait people don’t like drinking water? Drinking water (not warm) when you’re thirsty is a really good feeling. I only struggled with forgetting to drink water when I’m not thirsty, but once I am I drink.

  Seeing the sugar addiction and soda problem maybe it was because I didn’t drink those regularly growing up. They were just treats. Also as a child we had fun eating certain fruits that were sour/bitter and then drink water after that, it makes the water taste sweet.

  Maybe you can try eating/licking lemon/lime a bit and drink water later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine out of ten dentists approve!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  $4/month for this article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine out of ten dentists approve!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I think about so many home/traditional cure. Maybe it works for those people due to placebo effect, and I’ve lost that magic because I’m too critical of everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem with MS word is you can’t really put vector images in it externally without it being weird. I think that’s why people are used to drawing it in the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You cannot learn without failing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll keep saying it. Let’s have a journal system for negative results and replication studies. Give partial credits for it relative to journal papers with novelty.

  So if you have an idea you can search there, see if someone has tried it and failed, and how they failed. You can also search a certain paper and see if people have replicated the study.

  It’ll help everyone immensely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s inkscape plugin to make barplots and piecharts. Why don’t we add for more? Honestly we could even make it just take r code or python code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨light pollution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t need that complex algorithm here because streetlight is static (the walkways don’t change), so all you need is just a different light design for each. Or maybe a modular source you can change while installing.

  Honestly a great idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunning-Kruger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you don’t know people with PhD that don’t tell you they have one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course we’d rather it stays pest free. For if you have black mold, would you stay there and have health consequences for rest of your life, your children and all. Or would you just think I’ll abandon this, it’s gonna cost a lot to give up the furniture and everything that you have build up over the years but it’s not important than your life. Specifically as a non-white person where even your residence status isn’t protecting you anymore.

  And this current thing isn’t the problem it’s a symptom of a problem so deep, I don’t really see us getting back to normal anytime soon. We might mitigate it, or maybe it’ll get so bad people will realize the actual problems and work towards solving it. I just don’t have energy to be that optimistic. I really wish people would be more empathetic, think about the community and be altruistic enough to address the bigger problem. But I don’t see that happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a meme about me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup simlink is so nice. I sometimes use it for color vs monocrome plots. Change simlink and compile. Although I learned you can also use if statements in latex, I use that now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a meme about me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. When I rerun my things, in latex I just overwrite the plots file (pdf/png) and compile latex. In word I have to find where it was and replace it there. It’s way easier on latex if you make your code just write plot files in the same location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a meme about me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the ease with which you can generate hundreds of lines of page with a simple text template and code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep them guessing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this idea that we should have server dedicated to people just putting their research. Other people can review and get responses/improve it. People new to science and students can reproduce the results and validate them. And of course we can have upvotes system (i worry about this as everyone have same weight of vote seems dumb, so maybe everyone gets points for contributions and votes are based on the person’s credibility/points).

  Our current system is too expensive and only profitable to journal systems. We could make a system where people can donate when they submit a paper and the money goes to reviewer/server/papers they cited, etc. and we lack reproducing results because there’s no credit, giving credit for that would encourage learning and make sure papers are reproducible. If a lot of people tried and can’t reproduce it, we can doubt the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches anime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He doesn’t actually. Only her sister knows. He can’t recognize her sister now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans included*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This simply means the only reason we search life in other places is to take those places for ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do linux users have wives?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need more information to reach people. So far I’ve only seen people be into Linux when they have less social life growing up so they spend time online (not in tiktoks or such like now).

  Since most people hearing about Linux from class or other people only hear about the bad aspects or how hard it is if they even hear about it. When I came to US university, I was so surprised noone knew about linux or cared enough except handful of people. And most people did it for work (super computer people, grad students) that didn’t like it and express their opinions openly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an author, I’m a scientist. So I don’t know what the through process of authors are. But I it probably would take long time to actually find alternative ways to do the things same as us but underwater. The civilization won’t be like us, they would not have same technology, they wouldn’t have same values. Authors are probably trying to capture general population’s interests by making things they understand.

  And do you think “hey I haven’t heard anyone say something to me about earth rotating sun” would have been a good counter argument in the past.

  Water is incredible, we don’t know all the ways we can use it. Sometimes it takes hours to simulate what water does in seconds. Unlike other materials like metals, which are lot easier to predict. And if we’re talking about aliens, don’t even have to think water, it could be something else as flexible as water, while having properties that makes it easier to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does your glasses need electricity to function? Before electronics came and we started making everything need electricity do you think we were not advanced civilization because we only used mechanical power? If you had come that far and suppose had limitations like “can’t use electricity coz I said so”, the development would have stopped? They would have found other ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, that’s because you are human, and you think your way is the only way.

  To make hydraulics you need metal

  How does your arm work? How does octopus move? You think you can’t make an structure like human arm, or octopus tentacles without metal, and then have a tube going through it in a way the water in it can move them. Look up soft robots. There isn’t just one way to tap into mechanical energy and move things. We did what we found first, improved on it. But thinking that’s the only way just shows narrow mindedness.

  You need to heat metal

  You don’t. You know aluminum used to be so expensive because you couldn’t really extract it from the ores like iron. Wasn’t found in pure form like gold. Then someone found you can use electrolysis to get aluminum from its ore. Then it became so cheap.

  You don’t just heat metal and put it in mold for every type of metal work. In micro scale there are 3d printing methods similar to electroplating, it’s very precise.

  And even if there is a need of heat, how can you say ocean doesn’t have it. A species could find out a way to tap into volcanic vents. Similarly how we use groundwater and rivers. They could use volcanos and geothermal energy. We do many many manufacturing processes under water in a tank containing water. They could make air tank and do things there too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech needs electricity and fire is not universal. That is what we use.

  Our brain is lot more complicated and efficient than the computers we make and it uses ions, in liquid media. So something that lives in water could definitely be able to make something that would be able to use similar things to do processing. Water is also really good with doing things, it’s flexible but doesn’t compress/expand like air does. Think about hydraulic systems. You can make them smaller and smaller as your tech progresses. Mechanical things using metals and such would work in water as well. Think about gold and such that can be used for electricity as well, we don’t use it because it’s valuable, but an alien world could have abundance of gold for them to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Click here?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, for printing configure footnote for links.

  For example in latex, if I’m printing something I redefine \href as \fn so the text is the same but the link is on footnote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And is harmful for people like me, who like to copy paste the pdf into a markdown file write answers there and send a rendered pdf to professors. While I keep the markdowns as my notes for everything. I’d read the text I copied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asian Beauty⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The subtitle could have been not literal translation. The dialogue could have been “this is kanji for japan” or characters for japan. But the subtitle wrote Chinese for japan, because the movie/speaker was Chinese… Maybe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just semantics. PDFs doesn’t even have segmentations like spaces/lines/paragraph. It’s just text drawn at locations the text processor/any other softwares inserted into. Many pdf editor softwares just detect the closeness of the characters to group them together.

  And one step further is you can convert text to path, which basically won’t even have glyph (characters) info and font info, all characters will just be geometric shapes. In that case you can’t even copy the text. OCR is your only choice.

  PDF is for finalizing something and printing/sharing without the ability to edit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeky⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cap is a genZ term. That’s cap = that’s a joke/lie/ something along that. I’m not fluent in the language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeky⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting both sneezing or trying to hold back is dangerous? What are we supposed to do half-ass it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallileo⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, and no one will believe me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off-Topic Friday⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those topics seems a little advanced for a Linux user without cyber security knowledge though. I personally don’t understand any of them lol. I know what hardening is, what CVEs are; but except for few anecdotes like the logj4, xz, etc, I don’t think I’d know enough to talk about the cyber security side of linux.

  I was thinking more along the side of daily life things. Like how programmer like linux because it’s easier to develop things and manage environments and cross program compatibility.