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- Comment on What did I forget? 15 hours ago:
Hmm. It seems weird that any tricolour flags would have different entropies, but I don’t know how you would otherwise do a multichannel entropy.
I was imagining a kolmogorov-esque doodad
- Comment on He really made things worse smh my head 1 day ago:
You ever drink from the leaded gasoline hose? Hoo boy!
- Comment on What did I forget? 1 day ago:
How are you defining the entropy of a flag?
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
Do you want to trim my hedge with that non-secuteur?
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
If you think your chosen OS doesn’t have irritations of a similar magnitude either you’re looking past them or they just don’t irritate you.
My Linux laptop has a problem where, when unsuspended while docked, tends to lose the dock in such a way that the USB devices attached to it become unusable - even if they are then plugged in directly; the USB stack just gets completely broken until reboot. It’s really annoying - but I put up with it, because there are other things about Linux I like. If I had switched from Windows to Linux because of a nag screen that I could just click to get rid of and this was what I got in return, I’d be back to Windows in a flash.
At this point I’ve been using Linux for multiple decades and would never go back. Not even if Windows became genuinely better. I mean, it has improved a lot since when I switched away, but I’m used to Linux now and it’s comfortable.
And that’s what people don’t get: Windows, for most people, is comfortable. Comfortable and good enough. There are many reasons why it’s not good enough for me, but most people don’t share the mindset behind those reasons, so they don’t apply to them.
So hopefully that explains “why stick with Microsoft”.
- Comment on I've always said this 2 days ago:
No, but to me it’s a stereotype of Tumblr users that they go fucking nuts for any of that kind of “counter-cultural secret knowledge” stuff even if it’s straight up lies.
So I’m not saying “Tumblr version” to mean they invented it but to mean they love it and (helped) popularise it.
- Comment on I've always said this 3 days ago:
There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it
If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I’m saying it’s bollocks.
- Comment on I've always said this 3 days ago:
No it isn’t, someone on Tumblr just made that up
- Comment on I've always said this 3 days ago:
That’s not the full quote and before internet smart arses decided that every single idiom needed a fake “original full version” it didn’t exist.
The point of the phrase is not literal though. Customer service means pleasing the customer, which means you sometimes have to act like they’re right even if they’re wrong.
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 3 days ago:
I feel it’s unfair that bussy is already taken and this has to get the frankly third-rate “bunussy”
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 3 days ago:
Where I live hot dog buns are not pre-cut.
- Comment on The Cellussy 3 days ago:
Don’t fuck a cello
- Comment on Usually 13. 3 days ago:
I was just thinking so that’s where DRG got the design!
- Comment on Why are you sad? 4 days ago:
Because Imgur decided to block the country I live in
- Comment on Parking police 4 days ago:
This is a conspiracy theory as nuts as fake moon landings
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 4 days ago:
In grad school your institution should be paying for fees like that. If the school itself isn’t paying, then doesn’t the supervisor have a grant they can file it under?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 4 days ago:
I get all my air accident info from Mentour Pilot these days :)
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 5 days ago:
The very last words are often relevant to explaining the sequence. They are often “oh shit!” or equivalent as the ground appears in front of them. It can help tell the difference between a flight crew that knew what was going on but couldn’t fix it and one which lost situational awareness
- Comment on Zero Chull 5 days ago:
For some purposes, I’m sure they do. But I dunno if that’s what’s going on here.
- Comment on Zero Chull 5 days ago:
Good luck running iOS that way
- Comment on revenge 6 days ago:
The people doing this are not behaving rationally. Asking “why…” is fundamentally misunderstanding
- Comment on It's always about dat math 6 days ago:
I think what’s missing from the discussion is that virtually no-one is getting food delivery every day.
- Comment on Following your dreams 6 days ago:
I’m sure they’re very excited about their Lemmy metrics
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 1 week ago:
Kerosene is still a non-polar solvent, why wouldn’t it dissolve styrofoam?
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Take it back. How does the vibrating air equate to all that? It’s not like there’s a drums bit of air and a vocals bit of air - the vibration is all smushed together. Your brain separates it back out again. That’s why it can take training to separately hear some bits of music, or why you can’t usually pick out individual voices in a choir.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
But all sounds are vibration. If you capture the vibration, you capture all of the sound. The “different sounds” are all a single pattern of vibration; it’s the brain and inner ear that decodes the vibration into separate sounds. And hence it can also be difficult to do, depending on what the sounds are.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
No, because flattening the layers is a lossy operation but this is reversible.
- Comment on Pioneer species 1 week ago:
Sorry, but it’s spelled “harbinger” and originally meant someone who goes ahead to arrange lodgings.
- Comment on Avocado 1 week ago:
Pretty sure this image is older than ai image generation.
- Comment on Euler's Meme 1 week ago:
We define a function f’:P(M)->M such that f’(A) is a meme simultaneously making fun of all memes in the set A.
We extend F transfinitely by defining F(l) where l is a limit ordinal to be f’(A) where A is the union of F(a) for a < l.