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thevoidzero

@ thevoidzero @lemmy.world

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  • That's what Xmas is for. Being asked what I want by family is frustrating because I don't really want things, and few things I do, I just buy.

    So anything I might like but can't justify buying goes into the Xmas list for other's to buy.

  • Ellen DeGeneres says she moved to Britain because of Trump

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  • Good to know that. If we move countries, we're thinking of moving a bit permanently, so it needs to be stable for at least a few decades. It's hard to predict things in this current climate. And every time you move you lose a lot of your assets and your social circle is reset, so it's stressful.

  • Ellen DeGeneres says she moved to Britain because of Trump

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  • Finland seems like a great country. But it's right next to Russia, and things aren't looking too good there.

  • you don't know me

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  • Wow I have opposite problem. I don't like reading papers that much. And while I do write I don't like to spend too much time there either, so I just end up procrastinating by making new things with plots, analysis, codes, helper scripts and such.

  • Do dams pregame?

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  • Flood control is very close to my area of research. My research involves effect of dams on river water and I don't get to talk about it often, so it was fun. But I haven't actually worked on a dam control or made policies, so my work is more theoretical what ifs.

  • Do dams pregame?

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  • As others have mentioned they already do that to a degree they can with the uncertainty of forcast. It's called Forcast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO).

    Important thing is that the forecast is uncertain farther you go in future, and smaller the area you're looking at. So the policies will have to take that into account, you can't simply empty your reservoir because if your forcast is wrong and you don't get enough rain, then you don't have the precious water anymore for dry season. But if you're wrong on the other side you get flood issue.

    Satellite data and a lot of ground sensors are in place that help us better forcast the future storms along with improved computation and technology, but nothing is sure, and it might get worse with current situation. We already have problems because of previous funding cuts causing us to lose so many sensors.

    Also a fun fact, we've had dams for so long that we don't know the natural flows for so many rivers so we can't calibrate our models well. Basically we built dams long before we started measuring the rivers. I've been meaning to publish this, but it's just stuck in a draft for almost a year now :(

  • The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

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  • As someone who has been working on a project involving a network (directed graph) with nodes that need references on both sides, I do agree with many points in the article. And yeah the burrow checker isn't perfect, as someone who came from C I do get to points where the logic is fine, but burrow checker doesn't get it and I'm like "C would let me just do it".

    But I think I don't agree with the parts about it not getting better. Author said he's using it intermittently for a few years, I also have been using it for last few years and now I just write things the way rust expects it. And I think it has helped me not worry about a lot of runtime bugs. I just worry about the logical bugs and that's about it.

    Not perfect, but I think it's pretty good. Also if you really want to force rust to do things, sometimes a little unsafe rust gets you there.

  • DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists

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  • Problem I think is the API from the IRS being closed. You could still maybe use it generate pdfs and send it, but the tool allowed you to just click send. And also, no more updates from the official source could mean they get to change a few rules and make it obsolete. We could keep it up with a bunch of volunteers, but unlike other open source projects, this has a serious legal aspect that people might not be willing to take a risk.

  • KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI

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  • Game controller works fine in the computer. It's the applications that need to support it. Problem is finding normal applications (not games) support it. I could map the controller to keyboard keys, but it'd be nice to have it work directly.

  • KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI

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  • I am just using Firefox to open web sites for most things. For games I open them directly. And I have kdeconnect to control it from my phone.

    Ideally I'd love a launcher that just stays on there forever, with some virtual desktop options where I can open different apps. If it can support game controller to choose apps along side kdeconnect it'd be the best.

  • KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI

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  • I want it to be run as a desktop environment. Is that possible? I already have laptop connected to tv with hdmi. I just use it like a normal computer. But I don't have any applications that can work well with that setup with TV like UI.

  • What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?

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  • Internet looks very different without it.

  • How to find small programming related tasks in the USA

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  • I do have a career, I am a specialist of (kinda) GIS and data analysis related to hydrology. I'm currently on the path to complete my PhD within the next year. I have been really successful at pitching my programming ideas on non-programming domain. Solve problems for clients, make applications/algorithms that can outperform what they had before. It does sometimes make me feel like I'm a bit too wide on my skillsets related to others in my field, but at least in my immediate circles, I am still as good in the core aspects of my field. But there are so many people that are better specialist than me if I search around.

    But now, due to the current climate, and situation in the USA, I have been thinking I might have to move to another country before I finish PhD, and I might not be able to find a job in another country immediately, so I'm thinking of finding some small gigs I could do for some side income.

  • How to find small programming related tasks in the USA

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  • Thank you, something like this would work well, if they are small tasks that help the main contributor because they don't have the time. I do have experience working on those for free :D

    I don't know about the big examples like the one in wiki though

  • How to find small programming related tasks in the USA

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  • I had upwork account since a long time, last time I tried (was a few years back), it just said "we have a lot of people with your skill, so no" lol

  • How to find small programming related tasks in the USA

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  • Thank you. I looked into it. I did make a profile, let's see how it goes.

  • How to find small programming related tasks in the USA

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  • I feel like there should be something like that for sure. But I don't really know how to find it or convince people to hire me for a problem they don't know they have. It's be great if I knew owners personally, but I'm not really outgoing type (who reason I got good with programming lol)

  • Arch Linux error /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ exists in filesystem

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  • Interesting. I've never had anything serious than updating keyring and removing before reinstalling packages. Pacman hasn't failed me enough to need more than

    • error msg is obvious (like keyring), conflicts, fix it
    • if not check archlinux.org, follow fix from there,
    • new problem I need to search, mostly happens because I haven't learned about it. Like first time I came across keyring problem.

  • Why can’t they think normally?

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  • I don't use ios. And I'm not that into my phone customization.

    But the main reason I love using computers over phone is this. I don't use chatgpt either, but for things I do use, I can easily add options to run what I want (right click, shortcuts, custom scripts that can read selection/clipboard).

    Why don't phones have something like that? Maybe an app you can install that can give you quick way to run small scripts systemwide. And you can just make things.