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beebeepka··on According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates
The intro theme was pretty good as well. One of HBO's greatest for sure.
beebeepka··on From 486 to Vue.js: Evan You's Full-Time Gamble on Open Source
A lot of that criticism was nonsense. People heavily invested in the old ways are resisting change.

I am in the middle of a massive Vue 2.6 (yea, they didn't even try 2.7 because change is hard) to Vue 3 migration and most of my problems have nothing to do with Vue and everything to do with an army of very opinionated people making all the wrong choices in the name of conformity.

beebeepka··on Tampermonkey: Dev Mode will become mandatory for running userscripts in Chromium
It's surprisingly hard to steer tech literate users off this cancer. They complain and complain, yet refuse to go back to FF for all sorts of nonsensical reasons which clearly boil down to "I don't want to".

Well, then stick with watching ads and don't ever cry on my shoulder again. I don't care.

beebeepka··on Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?
Since I almost never sleep for more than 5-6 hours, in my early 20s I wanted the cycle to be more like 32 hours, or at least 28. Now, 20 years later, I think 32 would be too much but 28 is still looking attractive to me, especially with an afternoon nap just after lunch.
beebeepka··on Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
Child obesity? Maybe where you live
beebeepka··on Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
Following this brilliant logic, almost everyone involved in education does not work with kids because "it is impossible".

I know exactly what OP meant and it was just grandpa talk. Grumpy sweeping generalisations are pretty common with certain demographics.

beebeepka··on Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
Not OP but I'd rather work than attend school.
beebeepka··on The weirdest bug I've seen yet
I've seen people do this on the same week as mandatory trainings featuring this exact scenario. At multiple companies
beebeepka··on Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons
Firefox mobile is the only reason I barely use my laptop for browsing anymore. I only need noscript and ublock origin keeping the modern web bearable.

Now, if only there was a powerful computer device with the physical dimensions of my Kobo Libra 2. Almost got a Lenovo Legion Go but it's 3x the weight of my reader - more than 600 grams without the joypads

beebeepka··on How to ripen and store avocados
Also Europe. Stopped eating meat long time ago. I also don't drive. Can I have an avocado and some fancy nuts, please? Do you really want to compare footprints?
beebeepka··on Transistor first reported as "little brain cell"
I mean, I'm not a doctor... or, a roboticist, but 80 billion sounds like a really low number. The brain is physically much bigger than a GPU, even a fat one
beebeepka··on MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers
If it's faster to generate? I don't know, that's what I am asking
beebeepka··on MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers
Games and pretty much any other experience being generated by AI is obvious to anyone paying attention at this point. But how would it work. Are current ai generated images and videos using rasterisation? Will they use rasterisation, path tracing or any other traditional rendering technique, or is will it be an entirely different thing.
beebeepka··on Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown
Pianola Bot: Delilah runs a house of ill repute in back.

Fry: "Ill"? You mean a hospital?

Pianola Bot: I mean a cathouse.

Fry: A pet store?

Pianola Bot: A brothel.

Fry: A soup kitchen?!

Pianola Bot: Yeah... A soup kitchen.

beebeepka··on Amazon's $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes
Price is outrageous for the junk they are trying to sell. It's outright insulting. I don't really understand the mentality of these scammers. Will they not do anything (to others) for money?
beebeepka··on Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In
That's good to know. I really liked what I saw last time I played with it but it's hard to find many job listings where people are using svelte. Almost everything is react and surprisingly, at from what I can tell, it's getting even bigger share in job postings I used to see. Hooray for uniformity, I guess.
beebeepka··on Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice
I think it was just a short version of "eating both kinds of food"
beebeepka··on Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death
I haven't even been to America and it's the weekend, so please, indulge us.
beebeepka··on Some observations on the final text of the European Digital Identity framework
Tracking cookies. It's always been about tracking cookies, you liar.
beebeepka··on Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future
Too bad your lies have been upvoted. I am also on Linux - had to boot it up just to make sure I am not spreading bs - and what do you know, dragging tabs between windows works just fine, like it always has.
beebeepka··on Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper
Hah, a friend of mine was swearing it wouldn't work. How's performance and latency?
beebeepka··on Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper
Indeed there isn't. I bought an OEM license for gaming and decided to unplug my ethernet just in case. Wasn't asked to create an account. Not sure if this is the only way to avoid it short of installing one of those cool corporate builds.

I read things will improve next year thanks to the EU, though: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/europeans-can-soon-s...

beebeepka··on Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper
My experience does not match your assertions. The Linux desktop has never been more accessible.

My mother in law has been happily running manjaro with gnome for a while. Now, truth to be told, she was navigating gnome 2 Ubuntu more than a decade ago but things were mostly not working back then. Upgrading versions was a minefield with mostly terrible results.

Maybe the state of things suited you better somehow. I just can't imagine how.

beebeepka··on Belgrade's kafana pub culture
I haven't been to Serbia in like 15 years but it is my experience that this particular behaviour is reserved strictly for the biggest, most obnoxious degenerates our Balkan societies have to offer. Balkan rednecks, if you will.

It's beyond me why this sort of person has to be celebrated even more.

beebeepka··on Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
Or the Crysis 2 ocean designed to slow down and GPUs at the time because they did not overdo tesselation. Good old nvidia and crytek.
beebeepka··on Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
Can't watch the video right now. Is it Sonic 3D Blast (always loved this game) or some different, newer title? Time for another replay!
beebeepka··on Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats
You are right. It's not unreasonable to ask, however it wouldn't hurt to demonstrate some basic acknowledgement that things do seem to be strongly correlated. Even the biggest idiots understand the concept.

You are also right that not everyone (human or different animal) reacts the same. Some turn the other cheek, some will break your nose. The scars will always be there, though.

beebeepka··on Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats
If you're old enough to be here, you've already seen all the evidence you need.

And not just humans. Pretty easy to tell if an animal has been mistreated. Kittens raised on the street, where they compete with each other for food, are nothing like those born and raised indoors.

Do you really need "hard science" for this kind of stuff?

beebeepka··on Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
Too much work, and you have to pay. Why not just install it on local VM?
beebeepka··on Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
What do you mean?
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