PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 14 hours ago

Yes.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 day ago

Maybe TMI but hygiene. When I’m too sad to clean up then obviously I don’t do it, but when I’m doing really good I get so caught up in my work that I forget to clean up.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 days ago

Tbh if you just want to get started making music, you can hack it without theory. Theory will make you a more creative composer, but IMO don’t make it a strict prerequisite.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 days ago

Me reading about nonlinear dynamical systems 💀

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 days ago

Broke: Saying ‘completely turned my life around’

Woke: Saying ‘completely turned my life around 360°’

Bespoke: Saying ‘completely turned my life around 2π radians’

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 days ago

Stop funding a genocide

Abolish the police

Abolish prisons

Abolish the military

Reverse course on climate change

Open up the borders

Drop all student loans, pay back previous loans with interest

Free college

Drop the TikTok ban and replace it with a data privacy law

Cancel all defense contracts

Do any one of these for real and I’ll vote for him. But I have my doubts…

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 days ago

Look closely at the map: the water is in the country labeled Atlantic Ocean.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 4 days ago

What is a QAZWSX keyboard (couldn’t figure it out by web search), and what does keyboard layout have to do with machine learning? I’m genuinely curious.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 3 days ago

Thanks for replying. It sounds like you basically get two (or some number well below one keys per character) keys and the set of possible characters gets somehow distributed between the two “real” keys, then the keyboard uses a predictive algorithm based on previous input to guess which keys were meant to be pressed.

IMO I’d be willing to try out an implementation of such an idea so long as I could run the predictive algorithm locally on my phone. I do think that current autocorrect + predicting which keys were pressed would require a lot more training data than just a generic autocorrect to get it working sensibly, and I think it would take a lot longer to converge to the user’s “style” if it ever does.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 6 days ago

Running #define ; anything yields error: macro names must be identifiers for both C and C++ in an online compiler. So I don’t think the compiler will let you redefine the semicolon.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 6 days ago

Well I just tried #define int void in C and C++ before a “hello world” program. C++ catches it because main() has to be an int, but C doesn’t care. I think it is because it just treats main() as an int by default; older books on C don’t even include the “int” part of “int main()” because it’s not strictly necessary.

#define int void replaces all ints with type void, which is typically used to write functions with no return value.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 9 days ago

Reddit --> Lemmy

Facebook --> fucking nothing lmao

YouTube --> FreeTube + Invidious [1]

Windows --> Debian [2] with KDE Plasma

Word --> LyX

Microsoft Office --> LibreOffice

Built-in phone music player --> Odyssey [3]

Firefox --> LibreWolf [4]

Adobe Reader --> Okular + Librera on Android

Default phone launcher --> KISS Launcher

[1] I prefer FreeTube on computers where I have it installed, but one of my family’s jank 10-year-old work PCs can’t handle it, so I’ll typically watch videos in Invidious in LibreWolf on that computer.

[2] I can’t recommend Debian for absolutely everyone since it prioritizes stability and predictability over new features and ease of use, but it’s great for most of my use cases. I typically recommend Linux Mint for complete beginners.

[3] It handles extremely large music libraries (>100 GB of .mp3 files) without constantly taking forever to reload when I add a single new album.

[4] Firefox is pretty good and FOSS, but LibreWolf comes with better defaults and I’m a lazy fucker.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 9 days ago

b2e03cvtxpm41

RIP in spaghetti, never forgetti

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 10 days ago

Only one way to find out

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 12 days ago

For anyone wondering, this is from /r/photoshopbattles. Excellent shitpost.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 12 days ago

I mean how else are you supposed to unclog your cock?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 17 days ago

Would be great for me and others who have trouble with body language. I could deepfake a version of myself with neurotypical body language and offload the effort of “acting normal” to the AI for interviews and video calls. Genuinely I’m super pumped for this.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Brown pill so that I can force any set to be compact and make math like 69% easier.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

But like…yeah, that’s kinda it IMO. None of the distros come out of the box absolutely perfect for me and my use case, but Debian is close enough, well-documented enough, and flexible enough to be configured into a “perfect distro”. I haven’t really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Understood, although I have had good luck with either using the Flatpak or installing the .deb distributed by the app developer for packages where the Debian version is too old.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

E followed by B obviously

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Mandroid Echostar - Catchy prog metal with clean vocals

Anaal Nathrakh - Grind/black metal with industrial influences

The Arcane Order - Long-form melodic death metal

Arcania - Kinda like a thrashier Gojira

Rivers of Nihil - Proggy death metal

Unfathomable Ruination - Brutal tech death

Thantifaxath - Dissonant black metal

We Lost the Sea - Post-metal. I need to give some context for this one:

Departure Songs is inspired by failed, yet epic and honourable journeys or events throughout history where people have done extraordinary things for the greater good of those around them, and the progress of the human race itself. This is a celebration and a tribute. Each song has it’s own story and is a soundtrack to that story.

This is our 3rd album and our first instrumental album. We’re exploring new ground and exploring ourselves in the past 2 and a bit years since Chris went on his own journey. It’s slightly bleak with shimmers of hope and layers of emotion. It’s a tribute and a catharsis of emotion and honesty.

I.e., their vocalist died and this was their way of grieving. Incredibly deep cut IMO.

Alpinist - “heavylowfastslowdark hardcore”

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Catholics are Christians, but Christians are not necessarily Catholic. For example, Orthodox Christians are not Catholic. Being Catholic requires, at the bare minimum, agreement with the Holy See and implicitly the dogma he endorses. Even this “minor” difference can be used to find non-Catholic Christians.

Precisely, Catholic ⊊ Christian.

The reason why this is the case has to do with the history of Christianity, specifically the various schisms throughout the ages as the Christian faith evolved. That’s an incredibly complicated topic which I’m not qualified to discuss.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

One kinda emphasizes, if not “otherizes” the other… usually in a not good way…

Yeah. People have been killed over being Catholic in a non-Catholic Christian society and people have also been killed over being a non-Catholic Christian in a Catholic society.

But that doesn’t mean that we can’t or shouldn’t differentiate at all between the dogmas of Catholics and the wider practice of Christianity.

(orientalize or occidentalize)

I mean there are lots of non-Catholic Churches with European origins, for example Lutheranism and Anglicanism. So I think it’s a bit more complicated than “otherizing” with respect to that specific dichotomy.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

I like how the tail goes through the chair but that right below that there’s another disembodied tail.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

So wtf do you even like?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

I mean if you start a RISCV community on Lemmy I’d show up. I’m sure a bunch of people would; seems like a logical extension of the FOSS movement to the hardware world.

so the only thing I come to Lemmy for … is memes.

But you’re blocking so many cool meme communities.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Yeah my position is really to recommend any FOSS OS in the large over proprietary ones. However, since my experience is primarily with Linux distributions, and I do think that Linux makes sense for a lot of use cases, I usually start by talking about “Linux” first.

But, from my experience, if a “solution” to a problem “forces” the user to make a choice, then they’ll stick with what “currently works” over having to make a choice. So when I talk to people about Linux IRL, I typically direct them to Linux Mint directly, even though other distros exist and it actually doesn’t fit my use cases. Once they’re comfortable in the Linux ecosystem, they can switch to a different distro or OS family if they feel the need to do so.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

But I don’t know what I’m doing

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

Typically Linux. While my systems (Debian) absolutely are GNU/Linux, you can now find Linux distros without GNU tools.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

I’m a full-time Linux user now.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

They aren’t “stranded”, they’re addicted to or rather emotionally reliant on these platforms. It is a choice, you can pull the plug.

From the article:

If you’re a Gen Z kid on Tiktok, you experience the same enshittification as your Millennial elders. But you also experience an additional cost to staying: as late-arriving adult authority figures become more fluent in the platform, they are more able to observe your use of it, and punish you for conduct that you used to get away with.

And if you’re a Millennial who isn’t leaving Tiktok, it’s not just that you experience the same enshittification as those departing Gen Z kids – you also face higher switching costs if you go. The older you get, the more complex your social connections grow. A Gen Z kid in middle school doesn’t have to worry about losing touch with their high-school buddies if they switch platforms (they haven’t gone to high school yet – and they see their middle school friends in person all the time, giving them a side-channel to share information about who’s leaving Tiktok and where they’re headed to next). Middle-schoolers don’t have to worry about coordinating little league car-pools or losing access to a rare disease support group.

In other words: younger people leave old platforms earlier because they have more to gain by leaving; and older people leave old platforms later because they have more to lose by leaving.

And as a young millennial/old gen Z guy, I can switch networks with ease because I just don’t personally have any network to lose! I didn’t have any friends on Reddit when I left! And when I left Facebook, I only ever kept in close contact with two people.

Considering the history of the world and the fact that our species is a social one, I don’t think that people clinging to their social network is worth classifying to be an addictive or emotionally reliant behavior. I can tell you from personal experience: not having a social network is a fast-track to a difficult life.

There’s a world out there.

Right, so people leaving a social network would have to reintegrate into some in-person social network. That is seen as a cost to leave their current network.

Literally unless you want to just be alone all your life (which is fine and frankly I sympathize, hence why I’m not making friends on enshittified social networks), you need to go where the people are, even if it sucks, even and especially to do real things in the real world.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 1 month ago

{ s | s is a song }

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

I mean we have RISC-V and Linux (and other FOSS OS’s). IMO the big challenge is to get designers to actually choose these options over the proprietary options that they already know, and then to demonstrate to consumers that free systems can work for them.

Also, obligatory “America bad” segment:

*Insert various fellatory quotes pushing American exceptionalism with respect to creating a free and open-source computer

By its very design, the United States stands against freedom and equality. If they ever claim to want to bring those things to software (or any other field of endeavor), it should be treated as an obvious lie. For this reason, the American government and the capitalists they serve are the last people on Earth I want involved in the design of my future computer, free or otherwise.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

There will be people cheating the hell out of this, because let’s face it. What people need is not a free computer. They need food and money.

While I’m not personally at all against giving out free computers … that’s not really what is meant here.

I think we’re talking about free as in “speech”, not necessarily “beer”. In the case of hardware, this would mean that the design is “open” to be viewed, copied, or derived from. For example, if you develop a processor using the ARM architecture, you have to pay ARM royalties.

Stable income is a sure way road to decrease in crinimal activity and a more safe society. THEN you can consider providing free stuff, when there’s no reason to abuse it.

I mean as long as the capitalists are the ones footing the bill I got no problem scamming them out of free computers or whatever. They scammed you and everyone you know out of your environment, your freedom, your privacy, your future, so fuck’em. Whatever you take from them is in better hands in yours than theirs.

More generally, I don’t agree that we need to wait for stable incomes to do other things.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Awesome!

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Engineering student. I typically use whatever number of digits the calculator gives me in calculator computations, but that’s unnecessary. IMO for a design, an engineer should use at least as many digits of pi as needed to not lose any significance due to truncating pi specifically. Practically, this means: keep as many significant digits as your best measurement. In my experience, measurements have usually been good for 3 significant digits.

For back-of-the-envelope or order-of-magnitude calculations where I only need to get in the ballpark of correctness, I’ll use 3 (i.e., one significant digit). For example, if I order a pizza with a diameter of 12 inches, A ≈ 36 * 3 in^2 = 108 in^2 is a fine ballpark approximation that I can do in my head to the real area A = 36π in^2 ≈ 113.097… in^2 that my calculator gives me.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Gotten on antidepressants immediately after high school. I would have had my shit completely together by the time I graduated from community college and either succeeded in my original field (music recording) or gone to engineering school and finished before the pandemic.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Tired, worried, irritated.

I have an exam literally next Sunday night and another one the following day. Professor doesn’t fucking know what’s going to be on the exam (so there’s an hour of my life I’m never getting back) which is literally the only fucking good a professor can do other than grade the homework (which she doesn’t) or answer questions about course expectations (she’s a terrible listener and doesn’t give straightforward answers) for someone with my particular set of neuroses like me. I.e., test topics and what they’re expecting us to put on the piece of paper are the only things I can’t fucking find elsewhere, usually in far better quality than what I’m paying thousands of fucking dollars to sit through.

I also got a bunch of work due this week from another professor that there was absolutely no way to work on before last Friday.

This week was supposed to be my fucking spring break, but people my age don’t fucking get a moment of rest I guess. I’ve had to explain to my parents like 69 times that even though this week is de jure spring break, I’m going to be a lot more busy this week than usual.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

I don’t like furry textures, so I would not pay any amount of money to pet the cat. Actually, I’m more likely to pay money to not have to pet the cat. However, I would accept $800 to pet the cat.

I love cats, just, like, not touching me lol.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

But they’re so fluffy

Yeah that’s kinda the “problem.” Unfortunately my brain doesn’t have the tools to deal with those kinds of textures.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

I mean I’m 100% not above chewing literal plastic if I’m bored enough.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Thanos Shaq

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Bingo along the first column

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

If you want to pay for it and can afford to do so, buy it and pay for it. Otherwise, pirate it and pay for it when you can afford to do so. Easy peasy. Publisher gets paid in either case.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Oh whoops I didn’t know. Yeah then just pirate that shit.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S , 2 months ago

Yeah, it would be nice if they are accepting donations.