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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thus just feels like a lazy LLM-generated article.

Here are some secrets of Linux that many people may not be aware of. *Proceeds to list things that Linux is famous for*

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Speaking of stores, there's also Obtainium if you like living on the edge. It can pull directly from GitHub releases, which may or may not be desirable for different people.

Another obvious one is Firefox or its siblings Mull & Fennec, with their add-on support for a better browsing experience.

There's also system-wide ad/tracker blocking solutions. I don't actually have a recommendation on this as most of them share each other's blocklist anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just pulled 500 randomly. I don't know how long it would take me to throw the gamepad and reach for the mouse. 50 might be more realistic. The point is just to prevent accidental bumps.

I also came in with that comment fully expecting younger and much faster players with their 240Hz monitors to disagree profusely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ideal for me is auto-switching with a debounce time.

There's been a few incidents where I'm using my gamepad and accidentally bumped my desk/mouse and completely lose my orientation in game. With a debounce, one form of input needs to have completely stopped for a certain period (say 500ms) before starting to register movements on the other input device.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

some kind of hobby (especially one with a social component)

Okay, I just joined a guild in WoW and started doing 40-man raids. What's the next step?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Dirk Gently S1 is still the most glorious thing I've seen on TV.
Triple murder. In the living room. With a... shark?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

25MB.. Is that a lot?

Depends, I guess. For a Godot app? Probably about average.

For a quick and dirty native app? This timer app I use is 160kB. Less than 1% in size.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or, short of that.. If you're whistleblowing on Boeing, you should go to Airbus and Lockheed and tell them, "it's in your best interest that I stay breathing".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For the uninitiated

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah. He'll just claim the trophy for himself. And second and third place while he's at it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, I'm all for whatever medium would allow science communication be more effective. And for certain demographics, videos are the only thing they could digest, even for things that don't need visuals. It is what it is, and I'm not in a position to judge.

But yeah, for people like us with one foot on the grave, every minute counts. And nothing beats the efficiency of skim-reading through text.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 11 months ago (5 children)

For the older people like myself that don't understand why everything needs to be a 5-minute video, here's a 15-second read:

Classical conditioning (also Pavlovian conditioning) is a type of learning that happens subconsciously.

Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) was the first to show the way in which it works. He did this in an experiment using dogs. Pavlov noticed that the dogs naturally salivated when they saw food. He paired this unconditioned stimulus (showing food to the dogs) with another, neutral stimulus: the ringing of a bell. Pavlov discovered that, if the two stimuli are presented together again and again, the organism learns that they belong together.

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