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ObscureScience··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
I assume 'USian' is not a commonly use term and could be interpreted as "American of Asian decent" or similar.

But from your clarification it seem you simply meant American without any further qualifications.

ObscureScience··on Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops
I got kind of annoyed that the headings are not part of the color schemes, and for me they always stay dark red, which is pretty unreadable in dark themes and looks bad in many light ones.

Using the flatpak version.

ObscureScience··on Intel Core i9-13900T CPU benchmarks show faster than 12900K 125W performance
It's not vim, but the OS/graphical system that you are most likely using underneath. While having Firefox/Chromium open for reference to what you are working on.
ObscureScience··on BIOS-Mods.com – An entire website and forum dedicated to BIOS modification
What are you talking about? The BIOS has very little to do with the OS. Sure the flasher may be OS specific, but there are often alternative methods for eg. for Linux.

What exactly are you calling "their product"?

ObscureScience··on Removing Python2 from the Repositories
That's a funny coincidence. I've generally not needed python2 many times in the last years, but today I had to fight a bit to get Frets on Fire working on Arch. It worked pyenv, but I settled for the flatpak.
ObscureScience··on Gnome 43 Released
I'm always disapointedly reminded of the lack of thumbnails when I need to pick the correct image when occasionally using Gnome. Imported photos are not yet automatically named by image content.
ObscureScience··on Why Haskell Is Interesting? (2005)
I actually think it has a lot to do with the runtime and perhaps a little with compilation time.

Compared to the JVM languages I would choose Haskell any time (if given the choice), but for most native tasks the "burden" of Haskell's type system and mediocre performance makes it hard to pass the "value return" threshold compared to Go, Nim, Rust or even C++.

I'm sure that Haskell's performance is plenty for most applications, and the low level/unpure escape hatches are there, but they also raise the complexity significantly from that I have seen.

To me Haskell still has an aura of language research.

This may be a prejudice assumption, I have not done anything more than toys with it.

ObscureScience··on Was Vincent van Gogh color blind? (2012)
I overlayed them in Gimp as layers and did A/B comparison with other people and neither could detect a change.
ObscureScience··on Was Vincent van Gogh color blind? (2012)
They are identical to me. I have never showed signs of color blindness in such tests.
ObscureScience··on I like Odin
I don't think so. I think it's just the way Rob et al. used the term from their previous experience.

It's not meant to mean operating systems language, nor embedded systems language.

Rather for writing parts of a systems, such as servers. I would say that the definition is not that far away for Java or C#, but the expectation is simply that it would be "lower level" components of a system, including unix like utilities.

ObscureScience··on YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating
I'm not really an uploader so I haven't seen the feature. Is it a "three way switch": "for kids", "not for kids" or unspecified, or just "for kids" or unspecified?
ObscureScience··on Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
I somehow doubt he represented Amazon inc's interests.
ObscureScience··on Too much screen time linked to ADHD, aggression, anxiety in children
The problem I have with this idea is that while that demographic may fit that pattern, this should only constitute the expected portion of the population that "naturally" exhibit these issues.

The article likely ties into the hypothesis that the occurence of the symptoms are increasing in the population. I don't know if this is true, but anecdotally as a parent I'm seeing these behaviors as more or less the norm in 4-13 year olds that I interact with, and those who don't fit this are the ones you are surprised by.

ObscureScience··on The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
Wow.

But it's also quite surprising considering HP (and HPE which I understand is not very related) usually provides FreeDOS based firmware update and configurarion ISOs on their product download pages.

ObscureScience··on New blog about my journey to develop a Common Lisp 3D software
Reminds me of Wings3d in that it's written in a less common language for this domain.
ObscureScience··on Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18
I've not been in the loop, what was this?
ObscureScience··on Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)
I guess the combination is the holy grail, but the effort may not be worth it in alot of cases.

What I'm referring to would be a caching view which both hides latency, batches communication for efficiency and perhaps even does some actions on the client-side buffer if it's deemed appropriate.

ObscureScience··on Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
I agree that it's hard to compare people's intellect, especially dead vs living. However Newton and Einstein were humen as well, and not unlikely had their importance subject to exaggeration, misrepresentation and misunderstanding. When you become a celebrity other factors than significance comes into play, sometimes out of the control of the person.
ObscureScience··on Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war?
If you take away what someone else deserve you are immoral.

Morality can be complex, but I would start there.

ObscureScience··on Nim 1.6.2
What language are you talking about?
ObscureScience··on E-Shotgun
What is this tagline supposed to mean? "Fully electrified new energy near defense equipment, more a black technology fever product."
ObscureScience··on Alpine Linux 3.15
I never read anywhere that it was designed for desktop, but they've always included the packages. Firefox was pretty much the only browser available and was unusable for years because of some math issues with font rendering if I remember correctly. ( I have attempted to daily drive it from time to time). In this regards it's pretty obvious Void Linux is more desktop focused.

Alpine is supposed to be a small, stable and secure general purpose base.

ObscureScience··on SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review
I would say that the premise of those are quite different. While both are hobby OSes at this point, my impression is that Haiku is more of a "product" something that the developers want to provide to a general public. Serenity is written just to tickle to itches of the contributors, accepted by the judgement of Andreas. At least from the inception, I suspect that the OS was not meant to be used by people who also don't want to work on the code. But ofcourse motivations may change.

From a development perspective I think this leads to Serenity building just enough of a foundation for the application/feature someone want. When the ad-hoc code starts to smell, clean up and abstract. Then repeat.

ObscureScience··on “Static Linking Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful
I think there are only experiments. From what I know Oasis Linux is furthest along https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

Another resources is https://sta.li/ I thought there was a Archlinux-based attempt, but can't find references to that.

ObscureScience··on Speech Synthesis on Linux (2020)
How do you think Readspeakers voices compare? https://www.readspeaker.com
ObscureScience··on Helio Project: libre music composition software
I actually found out about this software a couple of ways ago, when searching for sequencing software for Android, preferably with midi support. Though it seem quite capable and polished, the Android version was a bit annoying to use.
ObscureScience··on Google's New AI Photo Upscaling Tech Is Jaw-Dropping
I'm not sure what you mean, but that is pretty much what generative neural systems do. If by information you mean data that correspond to reality? Than sure. I guess you can say that the data is a correlated to reality by a certain probability, and the better the model the higher the probability?
ObscureScience··on Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
From the description I understood it as better quality audio stream.
ObscureScience··on HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
What's wrong with it? It seems reasonable to protect yourself from header-injections allowed by a downgrade?

Am I misunderstanding?

ObscureScience··on MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows
I don't agree with that. I think it's pretty clearly about preference. On non retina displays, MacOSX really is blurry, and my preference is clear lines, preferbly without antialiasing, an certainly without subpixel AA. I think pre cleartype Windows, Classic MacOS, or X11 with bitmap fonts looked the best, but was not flexible enough for modern requirements.
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