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  • Does anyone know how the amount of information is actually derived? The article just says “researchers calculated”

  • Every once in a while, you can refresh your memory by reading the man page.

    Or if, like me, you use Emacs, Magit exposes everything quite clearly.

  • I'd argue that if they put up a Palestinian flag, it's clear that Palestine is being referred to.

    In principle, though, I agree with your first point

  • That’s an invalid (strikethrough: dictionary) etymology argument, and you know it. To clarify, when I said “antisemitism” I meant “a discriminatory attitude towards Jews” or something along those lines.

    Edit: this is an etymology argument, not a dictionary one; most dictionaries probably agree with me. I don't know how or why the word antisemitism came to be used to refer to Jews specifically, but surely it's been this way for most of its history.
    Either way, the most authoritative meaning of a word is that which was intended by the one who uttered it.

  • Antisemitism to Palestinian support is like misandry to feminism. Yeah, some people might be guilty of it (and those who are, misunderstand the latter ideologies), but it's way overrepresented in opposing media, who is often guilty of such issues itself.

  • emacs

    On my own system, but usually for remote work I use Vim as it’s easier to make usable

  • Perhaps you can encode them as computation (i.e. a function of arbitrary precision)

  • We need laws mandating respect of robots.txt. This is what happens when you don’t codify stuff

  • Everything is reverse-engineered, and different people work on different stuff. It’s not like the resources devoted to OpenGL could be diverted to microphone support, that’s a completely different skill set.

  • You need to find an image to install, but I think there shouldn’t be any technical issues beyond that

  • A good password manager encrypts your passwords with your own master password (and if you don’t trust them, use an open source one like Bitwarden)—so, even if it gets hacked, your passwords are not immediately compromised. You should take even more measures, like using 2FA such as your phone or a physical key, which basically makes you invincible. Way better than remembering passwords.

  • About that last point, you don’t really need to. Internet people like to show off their customized desktops and systems, but in reality using a “just works” distribution requires very little headache and time. Except for the time spent choosing it, that is

  • Mailing list! (/s... unless?)
    And Lemmy/kbin obviously

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    YTG123 @feddit.ch

    What is "feddit", really?

    Many Lemmy instances have "feddit" in their name. Is that just "federated reddit" or am I missing something?

  • Didn’t it only recently get generics? How was stuff even done before then?

  • Not Welsh, but I think it’s a compound with successive elements ending and starting with ll

  • Why would anyone identify by their political ideology? Or worse, by a single party??

  • Look up function pointer types to make this language seem even more insane

  • Have you read Discworld?

  • Cosmere @sffa.community
    YTG123 @feddit.ch

    Questions about Shards, vessels, the metallic arts

    I wanted to ask everything in one post instead of multiple, so I divide this one.

    Shards and Vessels

    It's known that a Shard's Intent eventually overpowers the agency of the vessel. It's mentioned in the Stormlight epigraphs that Ati, the vessel of Ruin, was once a kind man.

    I've been wondering about this process. Does the amount of time it takes for the vessel to lose agency depend on the shard and the vessel? For example:

    • If the new vessel is already a sliver of the same shard, will they lose agency faster?
    • If the new vessel is already a sliver of a shard with opposing intent, will they lose agency slower?
    • If a vessel (as in the case of Sazed) holds two shards with opposing intents, are they able to maintain their personality forever, the different intents "cancelling out"?
    • Do shards that seek change (Ruin, Endowment, Cultivation) in the most general way influence their vessel faster than the more passive intents (Preservation, Honor) who want to maintain?

    Do the 16 sh