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vithigar,

I only saw a long corporate speak “we will do better” video.

Do you mean the one which contained a direct apology?

vithigar,

So you didn’t watch the video, or pay attention to the part I linked to.

Finally I want to apologise to Billet Labs for auctioning off their monoblock at LTX 2023.

Literally verbatim from that video, followed by some further explanation about what happened.

Is it a sufficient apology? Maybe not. But to say they didn’t apologise is completely false.

vithigar,

Both can be true.

When you’re cultivating a relationship with a real person their wants and desires also factor into your choices, assuming you aren’t a psychopath. They will want different things from you, and keeping that to themselves and never pushing back just makes them miserable and builds resentment. Similarly, you don’t want to impose unreasonable expectations on them. Whether that’s related to their behaviour or their appearance, no one can reasonably expect to get exactly what they want 100% of the time, and that’s part of a healthy relationship.

…but if you’re constructing an artificial partner from a blank slate that’s completely bespoke to you, to choose anything other than an idealized match for all your desires is frankly insane, and to pretend otherwise is simply disingenuous.

vithigar,

In a world where magic exists and anti-magic countermeasures are a thing do you think any reasonably powerful person wouldn’t have them in place? It seems like you’re trying to come across as ridiculous but all of those sounds like pretty reasonable precautions in a magical world.

vithigar,

…he literally used the ÷ operator in the top screenshot. WolframAlpha interprets it as synonymous with /.

vithigar,

What’s especially wild to me is that even the position of “it’s ambiguous” gets almost as much pushback as trying to argue that one of them is universally correct.

Last time this came up it was my position that it was ambiguous and needed clarification and had someone accuse me of taking a prescriptive stance and imposing rules contrary to how things were actually being done. How asking a person what they mean or seeking clarification could possibly be prescriptive is beyond me.

Bonus points, the guy telling me I was being prescriptive was arguing vehemently that implicit multiplication having precedence was correct and to do otherwise was wrong, full stop.

vithigar,

Right. I’m saying both / and ÷ are ambiguous in that context. WA interprets both symbols as having equivalent meaning.

vithigar,

Star Trek: The Next Generation, season one, episode eight, “Justice”.

vithigar,

An actual mathematician or physicist would probably ask you to clarify because they don’t typically write division inline like that.

That said, Wolfram-Alpha interprets “1/2x” as 0.5x. But if you want to argue that Wolfram-Alpha’s equation parser is wrong go ahead.

www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1%2F2x

vithigar,

To be clear, I’m not saying 1/2x being 1/(2x) rather than 0.5x is wrong. But it’s not right either. I’m just pretty firmly in the “inline formulae are ambiguous” camp. Whichever rule you pick, try to apply it consistently, but use some other notation or parenthesis when you want to be clearly understood.

The very fact that this conversation even happens is proof enough that the ambiguity exists. You can be prescriptive about which rules are the correct ones all you like, but that’s not going to stop people from misunderstanding. If your goal is to communicate clearly, then you use a more explicit notation.

Even Wolfram Alpha makes a point of restating your input to show how it’s being interpreted, and renders “1/2x” as something more like


<span style="color:#323232;">1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- x
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2
</span>

to make very clear what it’s doing.

vithigar,

Linguists would tell you the job of a dictionary should be to describe how the word is used, not rigidly stick to some theoretical ideal. I think calculators and tools like Wolfram Alpha should do the same with maths.

You’re literally arguing that what you consider the ideal should be rigidly adhered to, though.

“How mathematicians do it is correct” is a fine enough sentiment, but conveniently ignores that mathematicians do, in fact, work at WolframAlpha, and many other places that likely do it “wrong”.

The examples in the video showing inline formulae that use implicit priority have two things in common that make their usage unambiguous.
First, they all are either restating, or are derived from, formulae earlier in the page that are notated unambiguously, meaning that in context there is a single correct interpretation of any ambiguity.

Second, being a published paper it has to adhere to the style guide of whatever body its published under, and as pointed out in that video, the American Mathematical Society’s style guide specifies implicit priority, making it unambiguous in any of their published works. The author’s preference is irrelevant.

Also, if it’s universally correct and there was no ambiguity in its use among mathematicians, why specify it in the style guide at all?

vithigar,

Same. The need for an account meant I never gave Plex a second glance.

vithigar,

To expand on this a bit more, bits are used for data transmission rates because various types of encoding, padding, and parity means that data on the wire isn’t always 8 bits per byte. Dial up modems were very frequently 9 bits per byte (8-n-1 signalling), and for something more modern PCIe uses 8b/10b encoding, which is 10 bits on the line for each 8 bits of actual payload.

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vithigar,

You’re completely correct, but I want to explore it a bit more.

It’s not like YouTube didn’t also need to do these things, but they had the advantage of being more or less the first to even try, therefore had the fairly substantial benefit of being able to grow gradually as their traffic volume increased from the late 00s into the early 10s.

Any YouTube competitor entering the scene needed to hit the ground running and didn’t have the luxury of being able to gradually scale up. They need to match YouTube immediately, or be considered an inferior platform.

YouTube was first, and everyone else needed to play catch-up with a headwind.

vithigar,

Using ad blockers is piracy, insofar as you’re avoiding paying the price the content provider has set for that content. The price is watching the ads, rather than being something directly monetary, and you’re not paying it.

That said, neither that nor piracy are theft, and in both cases I gladly pirate because the prices in most instances have gotten away too high for what you get. Either in terms of subscription cost, or the time and quantity of ads delivered.

vithigar,

What? That piracy is fine and people should be honest with themselves about doing it?

vithigar,

It can certainly be both. A worse service might be worth a cheaper price. And people will pay extra for good service. That’s literally the airline ticket business model.

It was also 100% a payment issue back when I was a broke student and paying for things simply wasn’t an option. The fact that Steam offered a more convenient service than the pirates at the time was irrelevant because I couldn’t afford it.

vithigar,

I’d also offer that it allows you to dump all the heat outside the case and avoid warming other components (assuming you put the radiator on an exhaust fan). This is a benefit with any size of radiator.

vithigar,

Pretty easy given that the Oopma Loompas literally just throw in nonsense words to make rhymes. The real issue is that it’s so many syllables that it would occupy almost an entire line of the song on its own.

vithigar,

I have a weird relationship with The IT Crowd. I haven’t watched a lot of it, and didn’t really enjoy it when I watched it, hence why I stopped.

…but having watched it, I find myself really enjoying when people made references to it. Like it was more enjoyable referentially than it was to actually watch.

vithigar,

I don’t mind the prefixed punctuation at all and don’t think it hurts readability in the slightest.

Your inexplicable decision to capitalize the final letters is awful though, and definitely makes it less readable.

vithigar,

The answer to “does anyone” questions is almost always “yes.”

github.com/ultramsg/vbnet-whatsapp-chatbot

vithigar,

Depends what you mean by “use”. I’d be shocked if there aren’t any retro-computing hobbyist groups that still dabble in it.

vithigar,

And asking for a picture resolves any of these questions… how?

vithigar,

I’m fine with a woman choosing not to change her name, but banning the practice altogether seems a bit weird.

vithigar,

No? There are lots of online only games that don’t have any way to access their content in a single player mode.

That said, this was part of Star Citizen from the beginning, and if anyone ever told you otherwise they are mistaken. The “MMO” part was actually their first stretch goal, it was a single player campaign first.

vithigar,

So perfect for this image then.

vithigar,

So what? It’s the property the owes the tax, is the point. Someone has to pay it. In this case it would be whatever the proxy is.

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vithigar,

He’s also Mr. Hands in Cyberpunk 2077, which is hugely relevant currently and a much bigger role than “breathy sex guy”. The people who wrote that headline are insane.

vithigar,

“Pieces continuously break away and reattach to the whole. Some shrink away into nowhere while giving the impression of getting closer. Others boil into existence and join themselves together. All give the sense that they belong to a single being, but you cannot find the connections between them. You feel heat radiating from the closeness of its flesh, from a direction with which you are not familiar.”

vithigar,

I think a lot of people say they like Lovecraftian horror without fully grasping what makes a creature Lovecraftian rather than just “a monster”. Like in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG where having enough Int to understand what you just experienced makes it worse. If you can look at a thing and it makes rational sense in the physical world, like a giant humanoid with tentacles on its face, then it isn’t Lovecraftian. It’s not just that it’s unknown, it’s incomprehensible in the context of our reality. In Lovecraft’s own words, “The Thing can not be described—there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order.”

The way they’re presented in a lot of RPGs don’t really help this. Giving any kind of Mythos being a stat block inherently violates the idea of it being some kind of incomprehensible horror, because now it’s rigidly defined with numbers and words within the rules and context of the game.

vithigar,

Can you be more specific? The only thing close to this I can think of is an issue with dual booting decks losing the SteamOS entry in their bootloader.

vithigar,

As games get bigger and become more cinematic (and more expensive), there will be studios that grow and grow and then make big layoffs in a lull.

Do you think this doesn’t already happen?

vithigar,

You can’t just say “perchance”!

vithigar,

It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.

Streaming services don’t do this. They have carved up the market and “compete” by making you choose which products you want more.

Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.

vithigar,

I’m the only person I know who cancelled. Like you said everyone else just complains about it.

vithigar,

The Last Unicorn.

The fact that magic is inherently uncontrollable and has a will of its own is central to the plot.

vithigar,

Pretty sure the being called out part isn’t the bit he was confused about.

vithigar,

I have never seen a normal conversation that address any of the conserns that parents and people who have conservative values would have.

Because their concerns are delusional.

You can’t have a “normal conversation” about kitty litter boxes being placed in schools for students who are furries. It never happened, but someone told them it did and now they’re angry about it. Try to tell them it’s not happening and they fell for a hoax and then they accuse you of being blind to the truth and hurting children.

Constructive discourse is impossible. All you can hope to do is limit their influence by appealing to people who have not already fallen for their fear mongering. Engaging directly is a trap.

vithigar,

Plus there are plenty of people, like myself, who live in areas where the electricity comes from mostly renewable sources.

vithigar,

Not familiar with Code Lyoko, but the premise of the new ReBoot reminded me strongly of Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad.

vithigar,

I like this idea in theory, but some combinations of fingers are very awkward to extend without the others, and one particular combination is very rude.

vithigar,

Nothing, and they don’t claim it is, they just use ambiguous wording.

“Enhanced ad privacy features”. The ads are enhanced. Privacy is just involved.

vithigar,

If you physically hold the breaker switch, sure. If you just short them with copper wire not so much.

vithigar,

Every command that isn’t fully expanded PowerShell commands is an alias. dir and ls are both aliases for Get-ChildItem.

vithigar,

Because the idea of it being a punishment, rather than remediation or simply mitigation, looms over all North American discussions about sentencing.

If they aren’t miserable then it’s not a punishment.

vithigar,

All systems stable!

vithigar,

Can’t speak for other devices, but on my Samsung it’s a network level setting in the “view more” section of the wifi network configuration.

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