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  • Do you agree?

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  • I feel the same way. I've always assumed it's because scientific information doesn't change with time unless it was wrong to begin with. It somehow always ends up sticking to already existing information very well and getting the label "permanent".

    Where are my keys? What did I have for dinner this week? Those have the "ethereal" label on it so it's get thrown out at the first opportunity.

  • Is this you?

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  • It really depends. When I'm doing something I don't like it's the butt lazer but when I do things I do like it's the single eye lazer.

  • 🐑🥁🐍

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  • It's based on usage. R word is tainted now, this might change in the future or not. Language doesn't care about etymology, only about usage. If the usage is generally negative and implies inferiority of a minority it's a slur.

    Calling someone an idiot doesn't imply that disabled people are inferior, which makes it ok to use.

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • That the four good emperors of Rome, namely Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pious and Marcus Aurelius had a good thing going until Marcus by deciding to pass the empire to their adopted sons. Nerva was also there with his excellent decision to adapt Trajan out of everyone.

    This is portrayed as an altruistic non-nepotism move when in reality they were all childless. Nerva and Antoninus specifically selected because they were old and childless and Hadrian was just straight up gay. They probably would have passed on the empire to their sons if they had them.

  • Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver

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  • I think Qualcomm drivers are the least of our problems. Getting all the other drivers for 5G, GPS, gyro, accelerometer, compass, WiFi etc is going to be an issue since they're all vendor loaded blobs now.

  • functions

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  • Turns out you can, by using () instead of {} in the function declaration you can run the function in a subshell where changes to variables are scoped to the subshell and functions are local.

  • This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos.

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  • functions

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  • You're not forced into global forced variables, but they're the default. Use the local keyword in front of the variable declaration for nicely scoped variable.

    It's not that cumbersome to do things like

     
        
local date=`date`
echo "$date"

    but in all honesty the syntax sucks ass because it's not intuitive. If statements suck ass, passing variables has to be done via command line arguments sucks ass, switch statements suck ass, making structured data sucks ass (jq is nice though).

    I agree with you that bash really sucks when you get to anything more than 10 lines and at that point I'd take literally prefer Dreamberd.

  • Feeling that groove

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  • It's true that the ears receive stereo input, but brain postprocesses it to make surround sound. It uses the time difference from sound hitting your right and left ear to do some black magic and figure out at which angle the sound is coming from.

    Another interesting part on this is that the brain is pretty bad at detecting whether a sound is coming from the front or back of the head so it uses visual cues and combines it with the processed sound to make it seem like it's coming from either the front or the back.

  • Feeling that groove

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  • That's the neat part, the brain does that using some black magic. You just have to add all the sounds individual waves together and the brain deciphers it.

  • to my expierence

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  • Yeah, it's like bing but actually anonymous.

  • to my expierence

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  • Tech savvy people like Duckduckgo, Duckduckgo uses Bing under the hood

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • It's pretty simple actually. Mine runs the program as it would normally and whenever the program reaches out to say "create this file" or "load this font" for example Wine will grab that call and translate it into a Linux OS command. As long as the program gets all their Windows API calls and windows specific files requests satisfied it will happily continue.

    This is why ARM support is such a hassle for wine since the processor is with a different architecture so the compiled binary needs to be translated as well with all the nuances.

  • Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'

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  • If you're willing to spend some money on cheating there's no way to prevent people from just aimbotting based on video output and feeding it as USB mouse commands. These anti-cheat systems are just shit solutions compared to server-side culling, superhuman reflex detection and report/review systems with premium servers and bans. Just give people in-game currency for correctly agreeing with the consensus and some people will go nuts on it for less than $1 per hour of in-game items.

    Anti-cheat systems basically fuck with the kernel so if a game has it there's a case for not playing it.

  • Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians?

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  • One potential organisation type to do this would be a labor union. If multiple unions pool their resources they could make a super PAC and lobby hard.

  • Dutch agro firms still active in Russia despite Ukraine invasion

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  • "Companies still want to make money despite ethical issues" is not really surprising.

  • Deep Thoughts - 6x7=42

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  • Now let's prove that 7x6 is also the answer to the ultimate question.

  • WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding

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  • Honestly, foreign aid was a miniscule amount of money that yielded massive amount of soft power. Trump is a waste of oxygen.

  • Spill

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