syklemil

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where's the Orphan Crushing Machine community here anyway

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Smells a bit Scandinavian to me. In Norwegian we also use "ur" that way, including "urspråk" (Ursprache, ur-language). We have a different word for origin (opphav), so ur remains a prefix that's difficult for us to translate.

Going by Wikipedia however, the English translation for Norwegian urspråk and German Ursprache is proto-language.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Astral is already a Rust shop; uv and ruff are written in Rust, and it makes sense for them to expand on what's already considered very successful.

Rust can enable a lot of speed and "fearless concurrency"; it also has a pretty good type system and a focus on correctness. They'd rather be correct than fast (C made the other choice, but is also from another age), but also show that that extra correctness comes with little runtime speed cost (compilation is another story).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had to figure out how to do the factory reset at the gym after I got the blue triangle of death when leaving work. Oddly enough it synced the gym plan I wanted and leaving it connected to the phone didn't seem to produce any other ill effects, but I stayed away from anything using GPS.

But yeah, the general advice for Garmins just now seems to be "just don't" and hope it doesn't triangle itself until the fix is out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, same. Post-metal or thereabouts towards jazz can work too IME. Stuff like Russian Circles, Earthless, Elephant9. But stuff like Waveshaper and Amynedd are often safer bets.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

They're stuck in a reboot loop, but not bricked. A factory reset works (but the problem may reappear on update).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh and as for raingear goes, I'll wear it in colder seasons, but my favorite is summer rain. Just put on some wicking material and treat it as free sweat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It varies. IME you can't combine them with something like a respro mask in winter, you have to choose whether to expose your lungs or your eyes. In some weather you might feel like you need wipers, at that point you kinda just gotta use your fingers.

(I used to wear a respro in winter here in Oslo, but between replacing diesels with EVs, some route changes and generally mild auto traffic here, I haven't bothered this winter. Used to develop this kind of mild, sporadic but chronic cough, but now I think I'm free, apart from when I actually get close to a diesel with their rancid winter fumes.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Seconding the use of protective glasses as a sort of windshield. I use clear ones in the winter and tinted ones in the summer.

Here in the sub-arctic we get some heavy showers but likely nothing like what you get if you have monsoon seasons or the like. But snow and sleet and the like can be surprisingly unpleasant to get on the eyes anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Idunno, might just have ended up as an even more terrifying variant of cassowary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how deep in my bubble I am as I'm reminded that 3 Fonteinen and Cantillon actually aren't the best known Belgian breweries

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's ultimately up to oneself to decide these things for oneself, but there is literature on the topic. Part of it you can just frame like the stories themselves: Is it worthwhile to read or watch a story unfold, rather than just read a summary? Is there any point to anything that ends? You know a good meal with your loved ones is going to end before you sit down—but you still choose the meal over going hungry and alone. Because the experience has value even if it ends. Some experiences are even valuable because they only existed a brief moment in time.

There are, ultimately, some stories that are so mired in despair and suffering that anyone would close the book early, but most of the stories are kind of trudging along, with their own motivations, hopes, fears and joys.

To quote another work on the topic: One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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