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Magister, 6 months ago to asklemmy in How do you explain to yourself the existence of this Universe or the existence of anything at all?

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Magister, 6 months ago to asklemmy in Who is a fictional character you most identified with?

Fry ?

Magister, 6 months ago to asklemmy in What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?

I agree, it was a good movie, hopefully it does not get destroyed with sequels

Magister, 7 months ago to linux in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?

absolutely, xrdp and remmina, what’s the problem with remote desktop?!?

Magister, 7 months ago to programmerhumor in advanced

this is what I’m doing too, so at least it’s not compiled and better than a /* */ as you can keep all the code intact in your #if 0

Magister, 7 months ago to linux in Applications to reduce mouse usage

to reduce usage of the mouse?

a keyboard?

Magister, 7 months ago to memes in My brain will forever be broken in this way

I can confirm, I am born in 1970 and I am 33 years old (even if I always say 29 to everybody, every year is my 29yo again)

Magister, 7 months ago to programmerhumor in Brought to you by the ocaml gang

I remember learning Caml in (French) university in 1996, it was brand new and from INRIA guys, I understood about nothing about it :)

Magister, 7 months ago to nostupidquestions in At which scale (real world day to day life situation) when each extra digit of pi become necessary?

you have to remember 11 33 55 and put the bar in the middle. It is mainly small MCU like ATMEGA and co. lacking FPU, and yes old stuff like Z80 ,6502, etc.

Magister, 7 months ago to nostupidquestions in At which scale (real world day to day life situation) when each extra digit of pi become necessary?

Not a lot, and this is why to speedup thing on some architecture, when working with (unsigned)integer you multiply by 355 then divide by 113 (it’s like 3.14159292035)

Magister, 7 months ago to asklemmy in what are some phrases that you use in your hobby or work that would make no sense to outsiders?

Spawn as a daemon, and be sure to kill the child before

Magister, 7 months ago to nostupidquestions in Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere?

What do you define as nuclear power? Because something like Pioneer 10 which is in space since 1972, is using a nuclear reactor to provide its power, and it is still working.

Magister, 7 months ago to linux in What has been your experience with Flatpak?

Never used them, maybe I’m old, but I only use app from the mx/debian repo. Everything is here and up-to-date. I prefer raw native.

Magister, 7 months ago to canada in Tax avoidance: Canadian companies transferred $120B to Luxembourg, study says

Perfectly legal, they wrote the laws for themselves, there’s nothing you can do.

Magister, 7 months ago to technology in Facebook Puts a Price on Privacy in EU, EEA and Switzerland: It’s 9.99€ a Month + 6€ for Each Extra Account

Absolutely, the $10/month is just to disable ads, like if you are running a free uBlock. Meta will still collect all your data from every cookies/sites and sell all your info to 3rd party for $$$.