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The Naturalist Club

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At first I felt this wasn’t right, and then I flashed back to Whomp’s Fortress and scrambling to pick up coins from stomping on Whomps (and then picking up the 100 coin star).

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If you believe multiplication goes before division then 1. 8 / (2 * 4)

If you believe multiplication and division are of equal importance 16. 8 / 2 * 4

SQL, Google, and I believe C++ and HLSL would say the latter: (16)

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According to Route Note, which appears to offer a middle-man service for artists, their ranking, as of November 2023, is:

  • Napster
  • Tidal
  • Apple
  • YouTube Music
  • Deezer
  • YouTube (official content)
  • Amazon
  • Spotify
  • Pandora
  • YouTube (ContentID)
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SNL Sketch

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Complain today about fewer options.

Complain tomorrow about Führer options.

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Say gigantic. Now what you’re going to do next is stop with your ANTICs and enunciate the gig the same way.

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All English is based on etymology which is why it’s such a hard language to learn. Looking at how a word is spelled always takes second place to where it comes from.

GIF was pronounced with soft g since it came out, back in the 80s/90s when it was shared on AOL and CompuServe. Year, decades, later it came back into social media with Reddit and Twitter, and people pronounced it based on what it looked like it would sound like, which is most similar to hard g like gift.

That doesn’t mean GIF never had a soft g. It just shows how old you are or when you discovered it when you use the hard g.

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www.olsenhome.com/gif/compuserve-big.jpg

Since it was announced in 1987, if they mentioned the pronunciation it was soft G. The inventor and CompuServe would tell you it was soft G. CompuServe’s applications would tell you if soft G in their docs.

It’s even in the documentation of PNG which came out 7 years later that says soft G is correct in GIF, and they wanted people to pronounce PNG as “ping”, not “pinj”. (Yes, really)

See www.olsenhome.com/gif/ for more examples.

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The joke is the person uploading a picture that is akin to a failed upload attempt.

Cue people desperate for a second upload attempt.

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In Tyler we trust.

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Lemmy may have fewer people, but Reddit has lesser people.

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It’s fine as long as you don’t say “on accident”.

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Just one decade? Screensavers were literally invented for this.

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I use an LG C1 as my primary display now. After Rtings video and data on burn in there’s no need for FUD.

Even if I were to use my display for 6 hours a day for 3 years only watching CNN, which is a crazy test, the burn in is minimal. Rtings results. And the LG C2 basically has none, which shows how much better tech has gotten.

Unlike CRTs, OLEDs don’t burn in. They burn out. So you can even out the wear and mitigate it. As long as you run compensation cycles for TFT layer retention it’s fine. You can notice the whole screen shifts a pixel at times, but it’s not often (once every hour?). I use an all-black screensaver that kicks in after 5 minutes.

I wouldn’t trust Samsung’s code though. They don’t run maintenance cycles sometimes. Maybe you can fix it by being on top of when Samsung fails to do it manually, but it’s good knowing this LG will probably last me yet another couple of years. And by then, I’ll probably want a better TV/monitor anyway.

Phones don’t have all these features IIRC. TVs are built for longer use. Maybe that’s intentional.

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twitter.com/biya1024/status/1556646432077381632?s…

Had to break out, I think. I don’t remember right now, but this is the source.

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That’s the original source.

See also weibo.com/5357699078/M08Vu4Xdq

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Good ol’ Alt+1``3``0.

I guess Beyonce has no love for Extended ASCII.

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The TL;DR is now pixels get tracked for how long they’ve been lit. Then the device can evenly burn out the other pixels so the usage is uniform. The trade off is you are going to lose max brightness in the name of screen uniformity.

The other point is a shifting of the TFT layer that people think is burn-in, but it’s actually image retention. But, it is solved by these TV maintenance cycles. Just hope that this compensation cycle actually runs since some panels just fail to run them.

Checkout this RTings video for a good overview of lots of different TV brands and how they perform.

PS: Burn-in is actually a misnomer from the CRT era. There’s nothing burning in; the pixels are burning (wearing) out.

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I have both:

  • an 85" TCL R655 with a bunch of dimming zones that works great in my sunlight-heavy living room for both daytime viewing and family movie night.
  • a 55" LG C1 in my gaming/home-office/theater room with blackout curtains that is great for PC gaming and awesome theater experience.

I would say it depends on your viewing environment. The inability of an OLED to get bright can ruin the experience. But my game room has blackout curtains and it’s enclosed.

I just recently moved from 34" Ultrawide to just mounting the 55" onto my desk. It’s oversized for my viewing distance, but 4K resolution is 8million pixels so I rarely run apps in or near fullscreen anymore. I think a 42" LG OLED is perfect for PC. (Great out of the box calibration and 120hz G-Sync). Though QD-OLED on Samsung are technically better, I don’t trust them to run compensation cycles.

If you’re worried about burn-in on PC, just set a screensaver to black your screen in 2 to 5 minutes. That’s why they were invented anyway (CRT era). For regular media consumption it’s a non-issue. Rtings set a static image for 120 hours on a Sony OLED and it basically went away with one compensation cycle.

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NU7400 has a peak of 337 nits and that’s with the poorer contrast ratio of LCD. My LG C1 is 780 nits. I still find it a bit weak with the lights on so I can’t imagine 330 on LCD.

Yeah, HDR is meant to be watched in a 5-nit environment, but sometimes that’s just not reasonable. While my LG is technically better, bright TV shows like Rings of Power are more enjoyable with the 1500 nits my TCL can output. Once that ABL (Automatic Brightness Limiter) kicks in for the OLED, you absolutely need the blackout curtains.

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Finally upgraded my MIL’s Pixel 2 to a Pixel 4 5G for $150 on Amazon. It supports Android 14.

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It’s more because they’ll let you pay for the phone in two years with 0% APR, but you can’t just leave, not pay, and use the phone on another provider.

Before it used to be free or heavily discounted, but now it’s just a 0% APR credit service.

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Densely populated areas buy the cheapest candy.

The size/price ratio probably beats most other candies.

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Texas?

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They’re the cheapest snacks you can use to fill up buckets. When was the last time you saw Twizzlers that weren’t given out for free? Nobody pays money to actually eat Twizzlers.

Disney says DeSantis-appointed district is dragging feet in providing documents for lawsuit (apnews.com)

Walt Disney World’s governing district made up of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees is dragging its feet in providing requested documents to Disney in a lawsuit over who has design and construction powers over the company’s sprawling theme park resort in central Florida, Disney said in court papers....

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Eh. They’re being paid 6-figures. They don’t care to win.

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I think he’s referring to Romans 13:1.

Of course, it’s his interpretation that it’s them and the US specifically that God has given special favor. That citation is missing.

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This is actually true in Porter/Duff.

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The overhead lights are a nice extra.

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Are you sure you don’t want to switch your long-distance provider?

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You’re mostly right, if not completely right. VPN is encrypted with SSL so the ISPs only see that you exchanged information with a VPN, but not what is being exchanged.

You may consider that maybe the ISPs can also figure out who else connects to the VPN and maybe deduce some information that way, but they can’t know everyone who uses the VPN, only those on their ISP that use it. So you can exchange information with somebody in Antarctica and the ISP has no way of knowing if it’s somebody outside or inside their ISP.

Also, on the point of services that are not HTTPS, don’t confuse encrypted protocols with the SSL of the VPN. Your ISP will not see your unencrypted packets either if you tunnel it through your VPN. They can’t see your DNS or ping requests (assuming you are using an IP based proxy, not using a SOCKS proxy). But your VPN provider can see those unencrypted requests. So you’re choosing to trust the VPN provider with those opaque requests over your ISP.

And last, about DNS-over-HTTP, a reverse DNS is enough for your ISP to know what domain you’re connecting to in a lot of the cases, regardless if you hide the domain name resolution. Of course, sites using shared CDNs mitigate this, but not all do.

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NGL, I’d believe it if it said Pumpkin Spice Hot Dogs.

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That should be a slider pop-up, like this:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dc1ff2c1-7a52-4fd0-bd39-d235909a1c22.png

Probably best to widen it for better control.

I built this myself, and this stuff is already built into Android.

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Barq’s has bite!

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It’s really the walls being that color. A more neutral gray or white could work. Heck, even a pale pink or orange. Anything but brown.

Edit: Is that a freaking fish on the wall!?

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And yet…

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Accessibility is horrible without JS. You should be modifying ARIA tags heavily as the user interacts with the page. I tried to write pages with no JS and realized the needs of the a11y group heavily outweighs the noScript group.

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C’mon, what’s not to like about bonding every UI action against a remote server? What’s a few milliseconds anyway? I’m sure it works fine over cellular networks. I mean, it works great on my dev machine! /s

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That’s a strawman. I don’t need 1000s of lines of JS to swap a UI. I can do it in 1 line with Web Components: oldElement.replaceWith(newElement). And those modules can be lazy loaded like anything else.

This is just DX in name of UX, which is almost never a good idea.

And maybe you’re fine with throwing a server computation for every single UI change, but I’m not made of money and I much rather have stuff on a CDN.

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PascalCase default exports for Classes

camelCase named exports for functions

ALL_CAPS named exports for constants

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Packet loss really, and the latency and jitter said loss can contribute to.

Radio waves go faster (speed of light) than through a medium (copper). Not that it matters at such a small scale, but it’s helpful to have a good picture of the elements at work here. The further you are from the receiving point, the more obstacles (matter) that can obstruct it. But in ideal conditions WiFi is better than most people think. Replicating those ideal conditions though…

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6 family members for $15 a month and no YouTube ads. Also that money was basically paid for by Google Rewards. The Web App is good too. I don’t have to deal with CEF/Electron or any install really.

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Yeah, sorry that was bumped up recently though I was grandfathered for a long while. But that was the impetus for getting it back when it was just GPM.

It’s 6 actually (1+ 5 other members). My uncle basically paid for half of it.

It’s $22.99 for me now which includes YouTube Premium. Just YouTube Music (for 6) is $16.99. Individual $10.99 and Student $5.49.

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I just recently worked on fixed point 8.8 and basically the way fractional values work, you take an integer and say that integer is then divided by another one. So you represent the number in question with two numbers not one. 0.3 can be presented in a number of ways, like 30 % 10, or 6 % 20.

The problem is the way 0.1 is represented and 0.2 represented don’t jive when you add them, so the compiler makes a fractional representation of 0.3 based on how 0.1 and 0.2 were expressed that just comes out weird.

That’s also why 0.3 + 0.3 is fine. When you wrote 0.3, the compiler/runtime already knew how to express 0.3 without rounding errors.

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We’re kinda getting it back with the Accessibility tree

In theory, if the page is compiled right, you can read everything right from there. You could also interact with it.

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You can use Dev Tools to see a page’s full accessibility tree:

Chrome: developer.chrome.com/…/full-accessibility-tree/#f…

Firefox: …mozilla.org/…/accessibility_inspector/-…

I haven’t really looked for anything that will present that to you as an Add-On/Extension but it’s theoretically possible.

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Outside of PWA shortcomings, I believe there’s a way to have a .NET application run a WebView with Edge (Chromium). I believe Windows 11 has both pre-installed now.

I don’t even want to run NodeJS anymore. I would run all my server apps on headless Chromium if I could.

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