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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world -2 points 6 hours ago

It should be Neovim and Lua. Nobody should be subjected to the curse and torment of writing Elisp.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 56 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

as early as the 1960s [...] as a subgenre of erotic slash (same-sex) fan fiction, as a fusion of elements of werewolf fiction and the mpreg subgenre.

That whole article is a fucking trip down the self-lubricating rabbit hole.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago

I haven't played Death Stranding, but I fully believe that this is factual, don't correct me.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I think you're confusing it with Manjaro, which has had several.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Proxmox is a great starting point. I use it in my home server and at work. It's built on Debian, with a web interface to manage your virtual machines and containers, the virtual network (trivial unless you need advanced features), virtual disks, and installer images. There are advanced options like clustering and high availability, but you really don't have to interact with those unless you need them.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago

"The feudal overlords are humans just like you and I."

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well that's not true. I live in a Soviet era house that had an entire second floor built on top of it. We've had to drill through the brick walls to replace the natural gas pipes with pipes that run outside the walls, we've had to dig under the foundation when we got connected to the city's sewer system (again, Soviet-built), and again when the main water pipe burst and threatened to wash out the foundation. If the load-bearing walls had been constructed to the same "it works" standard as the things we've had to fix, we wouldn't have a house anymore.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Not even the man RMS himself uses GNU/Hurd or Guix, which is hilarious.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I pray every day to gods I don't believe in.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

some Internet walked out

I know it's meant to say "intern", but the mental image of the biblically accurate incarnation of the Internet randomly handing you one of two CDs like a red pill/blue pill offer is hilarious.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Mythbusters did it! They couldn't even get up to speed to begin the first experiment because the traffic jam formed naturally.

 

I've been reading a lot about massive stellar objects, degenerate matter, and how the Pauli exclusion principle works at that scale. One thing I don't understand is what it means for two particles to occupy the same quantum state, or what a quantum state really is.

My background in computers probably isn't helping either. When I think of what "state" means, I imagine a class or a structure. It has a spin field, an energy_level field, and whatever else is required by the model. Two such instances would be indistinguishable if all of their properties were equal. Is this in any way relevant to what a quantum state is, or should I completely abandon this idea?

How many properties does it take to describe, for example, an electron? What kind of precision does it take to tell whether the two states are identical?

Is it even possible to explain it in an intuitive manner?

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This may be useful. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
 

I'm getting this error that says Error. I can't tell if I fat-fingered the community name in the URL, or it got removed, or it doesn't exist in the first place, or maybe there's a legitimate issue with the software, but I hope it's useful!

I need to clarify because some people apparently never encountered the error page: it used to show the actual error. It was later changed to not do that.

(apologies for the atrocious aspect ratio)

 

Minecraft and Factorio ain't shit next to Conway's Game Of Life.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Low effort meme while flatpak update finishes.

I understand why having eight very specific versions of the same library is important. Doesn't mean it isn't annoying.

TranscriptFLATPAK EMPLOYEE: what would u like?
ME: one flatpak update please
FPE: so u want "a whole bag of updates?"
ME: no, just a "flatp-"
FPE: I definitely heard "more updates than u could ever handle"
ME: please, no--
FPE: JERRY, FOIST UPON THIS MAN "A FUCKASS LOAD AMOUNT OF UPDATES"

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

This image is no longer available on nasa.gov.

 

It's a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it's still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 -- I don't know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone.

It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can easily drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB... my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.

Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched for a decade and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing.

P.s. A Lifetime Of Adventure is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k

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My Deer Friend Bajirao (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/nokotan@ani.social
 

LED lights are great, but I miss having a mini hot plate on my desk to mindlessly touch and burn my hand.

(Do kids even watch cartoons these days, or do they go into scrolling withdrawal before the first commercial break?)

 

I just tossed a fistful of pistachio shells into my mouth.

 

INTERFACING [Trivial: failed] - The umbrella bounces off the side of the bin with a clang and a clatter. It comes to rest on the cold concrete, in the middle of a puddle of trash juice. It is no more pitiful a sight than before.

 

Clipped from Josh Strife Hayes' "Dark Swoles" stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwKE9XpvBs

Textless version: https://files.catbox.moe/6kd0wi.mp4

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Philip Rebohle, DXVK's founding developer, stated in an interview that he started the project "to get one specific game to work". Later, he explained in a forum post that he was a bit of a Nier fanboy, and that it was a relatively simple game to use as a test subject for DXVK.

Rebohle was later contacted and hired by Valve. Wine already had a D3D11 compatibility layer, but it wasn't nearly as far ahead as DXVK at the time. It's fair to say that Linux gaming wouldn't exist in its current form if not for one guy's appreciation for Nier Automata. Rebohle still works at Valve, currently conributing to VKD3D-Proton.

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