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  1. Comment on Not all Norwegian folk tales are friendly stories of trolls turning to stone or gnomes stirring porridge – the story of ‘Draugen’ in ~books

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    There are a few draug stories in this collection of Jonas Lie stories.

    There are a few draug stories in this collection of Jonas Lie stories.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on How Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre in ~food

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    Yeah granny smith is the only constantly good apple to me, for both eating fresh and baking.

    Yeah granny smith is the only constantly good apple to me, for both eating fresh and baking.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Five major misfires that derailed Russell T Davies' second Doctor Who era in ~tv

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    Yeah, actually I've thought before that another hiatus would be good

    Yeah, actually I've thought before that another hiatus would be good

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Five major misfires that derailed Russell T Davies' second Doctor Who era in ~tv

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    I swear the fandom watches a completely different show to me. I've quite enjoyed the last couple of seasons shrug

    I swear the fandom watches a completely different show to me. I've quite enjoyed the last couple of seasons shrug

    4 votes

  6. Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success in ~comp

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    I use and advocate openrc. It's reliable and stable. It's easy to write init scripts for - in the simplest case they can be written declaratively, but they can be arbitrarily complex. This means...

    I use and advocate openrc. It's reliable and stable. It's easy to write init scripts for - in the simplest case they can be written declaratively, but they can be arbitrarily complex. This means e.g. you can handle complex cleanup requirments. You can write you're own functions (beyond start, stop, restart, which is super handy - consider functions like monitor, logs, cleanup, or other runtime abilities). It's very nicely documented too.

    9 votes

  8. Comment on Unveiling the endBOX in ~tech

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    Well, as you say you could just run an optimised Linux distro on a pi, and boot into Emacs for example. What interests me here is recapturing something like qbasic (which is what I started with)....

    Well, as you say you could just run an optimised Linux distro on a pi, and boot into Emacs for example.

    What interests me here is recapturing something like qbasic (which is what I started with). Qbasic wasn't just an editor which booted quickly - it also had an advanced debugger, and you could graphics, and it didn't need the internet. It was really easy just to focus on learning code, without getting bogged down in setting everything up.

    If you could preconfigured a local crates.io cache, and some sample Cargo.tomls, I think that would be a nice experience. Emacs enables some graphics too. Or otherwise use kitty or something and neovim. Try and hide X/ Wayland if that makes sense

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Don't trust Firefox to backup your session in ~tech

  12. Comment on My sixteen-month theanine self-experiment in ~health

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    This is fake science. No point reading past the description of how stress was "measured". This is not scientific; you cannot do statistics on made up numbers. Plotting made up numbers gives a...

    This is fake science. No point reading past the description of how stress was "measured". This is not scientific; you cannot do statistics on made up numbers. Plotting made up numbers gives a misleading picture that the author is doing an experiment, when they are not.

    The authors heart is in the right spot, but they should actually do real measurements - record heart rate, body temperature, hormone levels etc. Any sort of objective measurement would be better than guessing numbers.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on The future is Niri in ~comp

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    The description of "cognitive load" of traditional tiling window managers is very foreign to me. I switched to tiling years ago because stacking wms require so much busy work, in arranging...

    The description of "cognitive load" of traditional tiling window managers is very foreign to me. I switched to tiling years ago because stacking wms require so much busy work, in arranging windows. I use awesome and windows...just go where they're supposed to. No extra work.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11billion investor-state dispute settlement. in ~enviro

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    If a government wants to build some infrastructure,and something's in the way, there's a process of compulsory acquisition in which e.g. a coffee shop in the way would be bought out. On the other...

    If a government wants to build some infrastructure,and something's in the way, there's a process of compulsory acquisition in which e.g. a coffee shop in the way would be bought out.

    On the other hand, if you start a coffee Roastery and then later it turns out that roasting coffee causes cancer and the government decides to ban roasting coffee - well, tough.

    Businesses should include in their risk analysis the possibility that their business model could be subject to future regulation. Especially when the business model has a huge environmental impact.

    Suing for potential losses is perverse. Regulating business becomes impossible.

    7 votes

  16. Comment on Willow - Google's latest quantum chip in ~tech

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    It's neat, but Google are (naturally) very overselling this. Crypto cracking isn't going to happen till we have at least distance 17 surface codes. And claims of quantum supremacy are sure...

    It's neat, but Google are (naturally) very overselling this. Crypto cracking isn't going to happen till we have at least distance 17 surface codes. And claims of quantum supremacy are sure technically true. But their benchmark is a pointless computation, so no-one has bothered to optimise for classical computers. This is where classical computers have a huge advantage - decades (centuries, in some cases) of optimising algorithms. Which is how tensor networks are beating NISQ

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s with world-first law in ~tech

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    Apparently it's up to the social media sites to figure out. But, justifiably imo, there are fears it will turn into mandatory digital id

    Apparently it's up to the social media sites to figure out. But, justifiably imo, there are fears it will turn into mandatory digital id

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Mudita Kompakt e-ink phone in ~tech

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    Fuck I hope this isn't vapourware. I love how eink looks, and the possible battery life. I don't actually need much out of a phone, but I can't go full dumb phone because there are a whooooole...

    Fuck I hope this isn't vapourware. I love how eink looks, and the possible battery life. I don't actually need much out of a phone, but I can't go full dumb phone because there are a whooooole lotta essential (e.g., id, banking) apps where i live (which also need a camera, for qr codes). So an android-based eink phone like this is very appealing.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on ‘Terrifier 3’ takes over box office as ‘Joker 2’ suffers 82% 2nd weekend drop in ~movies

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    I like extreme art. Maybe I'm just a bit fucked in the head, but I like being shocked, and the boundaries of my senses pushed. The first one is a reimagining of 80s slashers - brooding, tense,...

    I like extreme art. Maybe I'm just a bit fucked in the head, but I like being shocked, and the boundaries of my senses pushed.

    The first one is a reimagining of 80s slashers - brooding, tense, slow, but with a great payoff and some nice twists. The second one is more fantasy action - lore building, more polished, faster paced. The sfx/vfx has probably the best payoff vs budget ratio I've ever seen - it's really impressive to see.

    Finally, David Howard Thornton fucken kills it as art. The silence, the miming, the near-inhumanity - terrifying and fun somehow blended.

    4 votes