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anArbitraryOne

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Anti-MacOS activist
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anArbitraryOne··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
It's great how apple makes everything so customizable
anArbitraryOne··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
If only they'd round the edges/corners of the body instead of the screen and the UI
anArbitraryOne··on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
I love it. I mean I hate MacOS, but great project
anArbitraryOne··on Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
Absolutely. I went through great lengths to install Asahi on my work M1, only to have most things not work (RTFM). So when one is forced to use MacOS, may it round corners in hell, for work…
anArbitraryOne··on Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
Now if we could switch MacOS to use Win/Linux keyboard commands, MacOS wouldn't be so insufferable
anArbitraryOne··on Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)
I love dithering in a platonic way
anArbitraryOne··on Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
I can't believe there's an easy way to revert - that's just bigotry toward MacOS
anArbitraryOne··on AirPods Max 2
still can't play doom on them
anArbitraryOne··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Cool, make me one without MacOS
anArbitraryOne··on From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease
I'm glad consumers have a choice. Unlike the ultraprocessed crap they fed us in school.
anArbitraryOne··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
Not to mention much of long island and the bronx
anArbitraryOne··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
Nice. But it deters people like me who aren't totally confident in sending reports, trading false positives for false negatives
anArbitraryOne··on You need a kitchen slide rule
I improved everything by converting to metric first if the recipe happens to be otherwise, and using metric measuring tools
anArbitraryOne··on Are two heads better than one?
It would be more straightforward to remove the permutations and just display the combinations and the symmetry between heads and tails. And solve it analytically Eg: if p is the probability that the NPC is correct

  P(A|AAAA) = p^4 
  P(A|BBBB) = (1-p)^4
Anyway, the apparent strangeness of the tie case comes from the fact that the binomial PMF is symmetric with respect to n (the number of participants) and n-k.

  PMF = (n choose k) * p^k * (1-p)^(n-k)
So when k = n/2, the symmetry means that the likelihood is identical under p and 1-p, so we're not gaining any information. This is a really good illustration of that; interesting post! (edit: apparently i suck at formatting)
anArbitraryOne··on Garbage collection is contrarian
I clicked on this hoping is was about physical garbage collection
anArbitraryOne··on Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
Shear with one component always in the y direction
anArbitraryOne··on Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
"...sum of squared distances to the line" would be a better description. But it also depends entirely on how covariance is estimated
anArbitraryOne··on Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
I learned about turning energy into useful work and having heat as a byproduct, but never thought about turning it into useless work
anArbitraryOne··on Explaining the widening divides in us midlife mortality: Is there a smoking gun?
So it's basically saying that smoking is a proximal cause of mortality, and locale is a distal cause of smoking, intensified by not having a college degree?
anArbitraryOne··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
"They were always looking for beautiful children with white skin." But most of the children in the video appear to be non-white. So they're not even good at anti-affirmative-action?
anArbitraryOne··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
Now's the time to get on board so that, when they launch the social network, you can be a top influencer just like Scout
anArbitraryOne··on The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)
The 'Curious Droid' video on this engine is fascinating. If I were more helpful, I'd leave a link to it
anArbitraryOne··on Boring is what we wanted
Steve Jobs is controlling us from beyond the grave
anArbitraryOne··on Boring is what we wanted
Exactly. I might even pay them for the opportunity cost of not harvesting my data
anArbitraryOne··on Boring is what we wanted
I wouldn't call the old software good either
anArbitraryOne··on SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR”
I want to write my own metering algorithms in the pursuit of ETTR instead of using the current garbage leftover from film cameras
anArbitraryOne··on SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR”
Ooh that's funny. And I say that as an EVF lover
anArbitraryOne··on Rescuer at Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash Says Car Doors Wouldn't Open
Surely Elon would leave a backdoor open for himself
anArbitraryOne··on How many elephants?
1 Electron volts = 29.8 x the energy released Tsar bomba 69.5 x the energy released by convert 1 Kg of mass to energy. Something is way off, and it's not just the singular/plural of "volt"
anArbitraryOne··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
It comes back to my fundamental philosophy that apple is the problem and we should abandon it until it shapes up
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