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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 days ago

    I find it annoying, because the hype means that if you’re not building a solution that involves AI in some way, you practically can’t get funding. Many vital projects are being cancelled due to a lack of funding and tons of bullshit projects get spun up, where they just slap AI onto a problem for which the current generation of AI is entirely ill-suited.

    Basically, if you don’t care for building useful stuff, if you’re an opportunistic scammer, then the hype is fucking excellent. If you do care, then prepare for pain.






  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzPeas plz
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    14 days ago

    I believe, the problem is mainly white bread, which is what people typically have in mind for feeding ducks.

    As opposed to wholegrain, it only retains the endosperm, which is mostly just carbohydrates without many nutrients:

    I think, the lack of fiber is also particularly problematic. At least, I’ve heard that it gives them diarrhea, which probably means their guts don’t have time to extract the few remaining nutrients.


  • The description in the ticket isn’t too bad:

    allows users to make a window disappear and keep only its title bar visible.

    It really just hides the window contents. In effect, it is similar to minimizing a window, except that it doesn’t spring into your panel and rather stays in place as just the window title bar without the contents.

    It is a niche feature, if you couldn’t tell. But it isn’t some KDE specialty feature; various other desktops and window managers also support it. I think, it was more popular in the early days of graphical user interfaces, when we were still working out, how we want to do panels and such.

    And conversely, I do think it makes more sense as a feature on big screens like you can have today, where your panel might be quite a bit away.
    Don’t think, window shading will make a big comeback just yet, but yeah, probably enough existing users that use it, so that it would be cool to support that workflow.







  • Oh man, these global outages are really getting out of hand. A few days after the recent AWS and Azure outages, I suddenly noticed that I couldn’t reach certain webpages anymore. And I genuinely didn’t even bother trying to debug, because I just assumed that it’s another global outage.

    In the evening, I did look into it and noticed that my router was at fault (presumably DNS got bugged by a recent update). That was just wild to me, that I genuinely deemed it more likely that several major webpages went offline together than that my home setup is fucky.




  • That’s kind of why I never feel great about buying video games. The price is pretty much entirely arbitrary.
    Like yeah, they did an investment, it is fair that they recuperate that. But the actual price they need to ask of each customer entirely depends on how many customers there are.

    And so, they will always start out asking more than what they expect to need to ask of each customer, which just feels like I’m paying too much.
    But even when they do put it on sale, there’s likely going to be sales in the future where they sell it for even less. It’s not like they need to empty out a warehouse or such, where they put up uniquely low prices. So, even when I could get a game on a sale, I’ll feel like I could also just wait longer…


  • She did the math (with some assumptions), but basically 0.25 mL of lemon juice will turn 500 mL of alkaline water into neutral water:

    This is in the video at 13:16.

    The reason is that pH is a logarithmic scale. Alkaline water has a pH of about 8, which means it has a tenth of the hydrogen ions compared to neutral water at pH 7.
    Lemon juice has a pH value of 2, which is 1,000,000 times more hydrogen ions than there are in pH 8. So, you just need a little bit of lemon juice to increase the hydrogen ions in alkaline water tenfold, which makes it neutral.


  • I’m towards the hyperphantasic side of the spectrum and I’ve also noticed that it influences quite a lot of things.
    Perhaps the biggest factor is that I don’t have the same drive to visit places or people. I could travel to a castle to look at it, or I could do so in my mind. I could meet back up with an old friend, but as I think of them, my desire to see them again is satiated. This does mean I’m terrible at maintaining friendships and socializing in general.


  • I agree in general, that a crash is much better than silently failing, but well, to give you some of the nuance I’ve already mostly figured out:

    • In a script or CLI, you may never need to move beyond just crashing.
    • In a GUI application or app, a crash may be good (so long as unsaved data can be recovered), but you likely need to collect additional information for what the program was doing when the crash happened.
    • In a backend service, a crash can be problematic when it isn’t actually necessary, since it can be abused for Denial-of-Service attacks. Still infinitely better than failing silently, but yeah, you gotta invest into logging, monitoring and alerting, so you don’t need to crash to make it visible.
    • In a library, you generally don’t want to trigger a crash, unless an irrecoverable error happens, because you don’t know where it’ll be used.

  • Currently implementing error handling for a library I’m building and the process is basically to just throw all of the information I can find into there. It makes the error handling code quite verbose, but there’s no easy way for me to know whether the underlying errors expose that information already, so this is actually easier to deal with. 🫠



  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlUnderappreciated `top`
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I especially don’t understand it here, because it’s a graphical tool. You don’t have to keep backwards compatibility.

    Even if you’re worried about people depending on the format that’s being piped, you could keep only the piped format stable. We have the technology.