ulterno

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[–] ulterno 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

then aren’t you admitting that so far you haven’t known the answer?

That's the point of science. Humility and requestioning yourself everytime someone gives new input, instead of sticking to some old text that some human wrote and multiple other humans over a long period of time, translated; all using lossy translation techniques.

This mentality is similar to what you will see from many people in places of power (no matter how small), trying to evade criticism using the same social power that they need to be responsible about. Just that in case of religion, one has found a scapegoat, so unassailable that it can be reused indefinitely.

You can see, which approach is more desirable by simply considering the following facet of the result that we have when we have a science majority vs a religion majority...

  • In times when religious organisations were in power, those who criticised them were killed and their works destroyed to as much of an extent as possible
  • In times when scientific thought was prevalent (scientific organisations don't get social power owing to their lack of charisma, which stems from the very basic attribute of the modern philosophy of science - that one can be wrong) the religious organisations criticising science are not destroyed until almost extinction, but are allowed to question all results and have the opportunity to aggregate their views.
    • You will always see some kind of religion vs another
    • You might see "science-ism" vs some other religion
    • You will see political orgs (which represent one of the peaks of social power in the current age) vs some politico-religional orgs trying to destroy and silence the other
    • You will not see science trying to silence a religion
    • You will see businessmen trying to use scientific results as a stepladder to social power. You will also see them fail in the long term, simply due to the nature of science.
[–] ulterno 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

According to kittenzrulz123, you need a choker and a skirt to go with the Rust book.
Also, some specific ThinkPad apparently. Guess my R52 won't do.

[–] ulterno 1 points 8 hours ago

security holes

They are called easter eggs and they are a feature.

[–] ulterno 5 points 1 day ago

That one is the real assassin trying hard to disguise as not one.
The others are wannabes

[–] ulterno 1 points 1 day ago

You've got SVG.

But the main +ive point of a PDF is that it is a pain to work with.

[–] ulterno 13 points 1 day ago

Hey, I was never taught how to rotate a PDF.

I just looked for the button in the viewer.

Sometimes, I just rotate the screen instead.

[–] ulterno 5 points 1 day ago
[–] ulterno 6 points 1 day ago

No.

They said do do. That should sound like doo-doo which might be poop.😜

[–] ulterno 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This seems like one of those cases where you don't want to be waiting until benchmarking.

It makes the code simpler anyway.

[–] ulterno 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, one big problem of man I found was the severe lack of explanation of what the command is mainly intended to do. It's as if the user is expected to run the man after knowing what purpose a specific program exists for, which, I guess is what it is intended for. I tend to rely on the package manager's information and other similar sources for that information and man mainly for determining the exact usage.

I don't at all expect man to be useful for someone who can just follow written instructions.
The reason being than man is just supposed to tell the user, what typy stuff needs to be done for specific functionality. And most programs tend to be doing some small thingy and not fulfilling the user's whole requirement in one go.
Meaning, to be happy with just man, one needs to be able to create a solution for themselves by properly fitting little parts and that is already more than half way to being able to do programming.

Your man -a intro example and what followed, made me more confused than before of what you were trying to say, so I am just trying to go with the feel of it for now.

...

Maybe knowing that you can use / and then whatever string of text to find something in the man page (because it uses less to paginate the output) would be useful for some of what you said. So you can do /-a and press Enter to start searching for "-a". And the reason for it being so far is because it is in the "OPTIONS" section.

I now feel like someone who reads a lot of legal documents would be fine with man pages. Was this format made by someone in that field?

[–] ulterno 0 points 2 days ago

That patent is essentially trying to say that if you do anything more than a randomly selected behaviour, based on a database, related to previous user interactions, you are infringing the patent. At the same time, the mechanics in the filed patent also depend upon the creation of a database based on the user's past behaviour.


The implications are just that, if you have more lawyer money than WB, then you can make and sell your game.

 

A person, on the Gnome Issue, suggested that terminals inhibit sleep when there is stuff running in them.

Continuing from that discussion, I am trying to understand, at which point it would be desirable to implement said inhibition - terminal emulator, the shell or the program itself

Additionally:

  • We want to inhibit when running stuff like pacman, wget, cp or mv
  • We don't want to inhibit when running stuff like htop, less, watch
 

Hopefully we can get better input to the discussion here.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ulterno to c/[email protected]
 

I have been thinking of a controller like this, which would be pretty fun to use for space games.

The ellipsoid marked as "Hand Piece", is supposed to be braced to the frame with motion encoders and need to push back the Hand Piece to the 0 position in case the user stops adding force in any direction.

Additionally, the hand piece can also have 5 buttons, 2 placed for the thumb and 3 placed for the 3 longer fingers each, with the button for the middle finger being a scroll wheel.

This should make up for actions like, Primary and Secondary fire, Target lock and cruise control adjustment, hence freeing the second hand for controlling utilities on the keyboard, or eating snacks. Whichever you prefer.

 

I have a multiboot system. One of the installed OS's does not use the NVMe SSD installed on the motherboard at all.
At the time of taking the screenshot, all the SSD partitions are unmounted, so apart from detection, the SSD is mostly unused.

  • I would like the temps to drop down to SYSTIN (≈35°C) levels.
  • I know, it's right next to my GPU, but I am not doing anything GPU intensive, the GPU temps are ~37°C ^[apart from GPU memory, which is 48°C due to the awful AMD 7th gen Zero RPM, which has no workarounds on Linux]

For the unmounted and unused HDDs, I just use hdparm -Y, but there seems to be nothing in terms of that for the SSD. And even though I appreciate the additional heat in winters, this is going to be too expensive for me. I'd rather burn some cheap Nichrome than my data storage device.

I checked out a Debian forum thread and from that, I checked the following:

❯ sudo nvme get-feature /dev/nvme0 -f 2 -H
get-feature:0x02 (Power Management), Current value:0x00000004
        Workload Hint (WH): 0 - No Workload
        Power State   (PS): 4

Showing it is already in the lowest power state.

Update: I probably checked that at the wrong time before. Did so again after Sleep and realised the Power State was 0. So just need to make sure the Power State went back to 4 after wake.

I have no active cooling setup for the SSD from my side. This becomes relevant soon.

  • Checking the SSD temps (using the same widget as in the image), the temperature on Sensor 2 starts out at ~40°C (after a normal reboot) and slowly increases to >50°C as shown at the start of the graph. Power State (PS) is still 4.

  • Running KDE partitionmanager, which probably does some reading to check the partition information, at 50°C stage, causes a temperature drop, as shown in the image.

  • Running KDE partitionmanager right after reboot, when the temperature is increasing very sloowly, seems to do nothing significant.


  • Turns out that after a few minutes of System Standby, the SSD doesn't return to PS: 4, so I have the culprit.
  • Running partitionmanager after that causes it to go back to PS: 4

So we have a solution! All I need to do is run partitionmanager on wake. nlol jk


Motherboard: MSI MAG X570S TORPEDO MAX (MS-7D54)
SSD: Samsung 980 512GB (correct firmware, bought long before the fakes started coming out)

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ulterno to c/programmer_humor
 

Until he actually had to use it.

Took 2 hours of reading through examples just to deploy the site.
Turns out, it is hard to do even just the bash stuff when you can't see the container.

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