Yardy Sardley

GNOME spawning 3 new DEs every time they have a major version update

I’d rather have a New Deal 2

Not just mp3, all lossy audio formats use psychoacoustic analysis. That’s how they figure out which data to throw out.

We’re trying that in Canada right now, and it’s making a lot of people very angry.

Those people are ignorant and wrong, but they’re loud enough that even parties on the left are saying “maybe we should try something else.”

It is really interesting to think about how we built our entire society around gas being insanely cheap. You can buy a gallon of it for $3, which is as much as you would pay for a large cup of coffee in most places, something which we have essentially an infinite supply of.

I tend to think about it as density. Smaller chunks can be more tightly packed together, and are therfore more dense. As long as there is a way for the stuff to flow (i.e. shaking the bag), gravity will pull denser stuff to the bottom.

We probably could, but I think it would be a lot of effort for a relatively small gain. If you’re concerned about saturated fat intake, the most effective thing to do would be to cut back on meat and dairy products, since those are much more potent sources.

I’m no dietician, but I can’t imagine cooking oil makes up a significant portion of saturated fat intake for most people, when you consider the popularity of dairy in all its forms in western cuisine.

Since we’re on the topic, does anyone know if there’s a Fargo community in existence somewhere on Lemmy?

I never really thought about it before, but it seems obvious now. Trekkies and open source tech folks would have a massive overlap, and Lemmy kind of exists perfectly within that intersection of utilitarian principles. So of course we would all find each other here.

For the past couple weeks it’s been Flower Moon by Dooms Children

And the data harvesting app is nothing more than a stripped-down browser with the company’s color scheme slapped on it.

creation of the phony companies was necessary to prevent entities like Spamhaus from interfering with his business going forward

So his business is spam, then.

The act of consciously and deliberately contributing to the proliferation of spam is anti-human behaviour. The fraud penalties are a mere pittance compared to what this sociopath deserves.

If Russia is drafting foreigners who would otherwise not be there if not for Unilever, then this would be a profoundly evil thing. If they’re actually just drafting Russian citizens who happen to work at Unilever, then this might be a misleading headline. The article doesn’t specify.

(Unilever still sucks for paying Russian taxes and supporting their war effort)

The best days are the ones where there’s a new climate town video

Spicy chicken sandwich. It’s the only thing on the menu as far as I’m concerned. Except at McDonald’s, theirs is prodigiously mid.

I would highly recommend python. It’s fairly simple syntactically, which makes it less overwhelming someone who’s just looking at code for the first time. It doesn’t force you to learn about functions and classes right away, like other languages would, so you can focus on the real basics until you’re ready to tackle the more abstract stuff.

The fact that it’s on the ‘simpler’ side doesn’t make it any less powerful, either. It’s one of the top languages used for neural net AI and data science. It’s also really great for throwing together a spur of the moment script when inspiration strikes, to automate a really boring task, for example. And yes, you can also make games with it.

Plus, the fundamental concepts that you use to solve problems with python are mostly the same in every language, so once you get proficient in one language, you’ll be able to pick up other languages much easier.

Whichever language you do end up choosing, good luck on your journey!

“Safer than [notoriously dangerous activity]” seems pretty on-brand with this guy

Gotta love the feedback loop of uninsured drivers causing insurance premiums to rise, leading to more uninsured drivers. If only there was a way to stop people from zipping around in giant steel murder boxes without having insurance…

I can still barely believe it’s real. The Titanic is a living monument to the importance of safety regulations, slowly dissolving at the bottom of the ocean because its builders and operators were a little too presumtuous with their risk assessment. With that in mind, why wouldn’t you name your rickety deathtrap of a submarine “Titan” of all fucking things, plot a course to the wreckage, and proceed with a similarly cavalier attitude towards safety and a considerable lack of contingency planning? It’s like they wanted to see exactly how much temptation fate was capable of resisting.