Yesterday I heard someone was a “psychologist specialized in disasters” and I was ready to sign up, but turns out they meant she works with victims of natural disasters.

Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.

Mint and Manjaro are two that I’ve personally seen do it.

Not just windows, most linux distros do it too. People just don’t notice it that much because if you’re using Linux you probably let it handle boot already so nothing gets changed when it overwrites stuff.

Watch the Netflix live action.

If you want something that barely ever changes and works today as its gonna work 5 years from now, then Mint. If you want constant compatibility with the shiniest new stuff, then an atomic fedora distro (Bazzite for gaming, aurora/bluefin for general purpose).

This might be a stupid question but I have just some limited experience with sorting algorithms and was wondering something: could some algorithm like this be improved specifically for multi-threaded processing? I mean, an algorithm that is generally NOT the best option with a single thread, become better than other algorithms when it can delegate part of the work to different threads?

Perhaps something that runs the same algorithm on several threads, each starting at a different point of the map, but sharing their findings with the other threads?

Someone went through all the trouble of carefully making everything match, only for others to not care enough to put in 0.1% of that effort and keep it in order when they work on it.

Seems like a great analogy for my work experience these days.

2 and 3 1 and 2 are indistinguishable if you don’t take political alignment into account. What counts as a line or a column in real life? You need to group/sort people by something in order to draw any of those lines.

Edit: somehow I missed the actual numbers in the image and counted them starting from the sample, so when I said 2 and 3 I was thinking of 1 and 2.

Btw I tried to ask the AI to fix those problems on its own code but from that point forward it just kept going farther and farther from a working solution.

Depends on their definition of “working” .

I tried asking an AI to make a basic webrtc client to make audio calls - something that has hundreds of examples on the web about how to do it from the first line of code to the very last. It did generate a complete webrtc client for audio calls I could launch and see working, it just had a couple tiny bugs:

• you needed an user id to call someone and one was only generated when you call (effectively meaning you can only call people if they are calling someone)
• if you fixed the above and managed to make a call between two users, the audio was exchanged but never played.

Technically speaking, all of the small parts worked, they just didn’t work together. I can totally see someone ignoring that fact and treating this as an example of “working code”.

Don’t they also have some disc where the song titles complement each other, forming full sentences, or something similar?

Watch some new term be invented like “underemployed” to represent people who don’t have enough jobs to survive.

Still better than calling it “Others”. How does that even work?

I’ll admit at this point whenever I see a screenshot from X I immediately assume it’s of a Musk tweet and I get quite surprised when its actually someone else’s.

Folks in 2003: “you’re the weirdest person I’ve ever met” Same folks these days: “really? You don’t look autistic”

I had a dream a couple weeks ago where I was reading some news about penguins developing a language to talk to each other. And in the dream I was wondering if we as humans were in any way hindering the penguins’ capacity to evolve into a sentient species - then realized they were already so close to us. They have arms and legs, can use tools, talk with a structured language and everything - what kept them being labeled as plain animals if they did all that?

In the afternoon I suddenly remembered the dream and for a split second was kinda agreeing with my dream’s argument, until I realized the penguins in the dream were closer to Animal Crossing characters than to actually penguins.

“everything after the ? Symbol can be removed without issue” is a bold statement to make. Reminds me when the TV news had a specialist telling people to look at urls before clicking and check if it ends with “.php” as that would mean it is a virus.

So you’d rather stick to the ground, where you can’t dive to avoid an oncoming vehicle?

Back in my day we unlocked characters by pressing a series of buttons in a specific order and at the right moment