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[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

This was a cool chapter from so many points of view indeed!

spoilerAlso the Darkshine moment.

And the Serious Series of course!

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Looks like an item from a PC or NPC of the Charlatan class...

It mentions "greyskull", maybe some connection with She-Ra or He-Man as well?

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PS: are the recurring ones per month or per year?

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much! If I understand correctly it's around 80 donors, counting recurring and one-time together?

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Cheers! Then it'd be quite cheap if every user gave their 10c/month. Let's see what they say about actual donor-users.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Thank you for the great job! 🙏 🚀

Let me ask two explicit questions:

  • Considering costs and total number of users, how much should be a user's monthly donation to keep things even or a little on the safe side?

  • Considering costs and total number of donators, how much should be a donator's monthly donation to keep things even or a little on the safe side? This is a more realistic estimate, as there are users (say, students) who can't pay (and of course users who simply don't want to pay).

Many Fediverse initiatives seem too shy to give this kind of information, but I think there's nothing wrong about it. Please tell us in time if the economy were to be going bad, nobody wants another lemm.ee event :) As Impossible Mission for the Commodore 64 used to say:

Stay awhile, stay forever!

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And since EU is effectively not based on democracy, European citizens won't be able to stop this.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m sick of windows, but maybe I should just not risk messing with operating systems I don’t understand? (Also I really hope those screenshots don’t doxx me or something)

It's a little learning curve, but don't give up - I'm happy to see that you aren't! Your understanding is already increasing step by step, and you'll feel a lot of satisfaction because of this too 💪🚀

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

as evidenced by the rise of the Julius Caesar of our time—Donald Trump

Is it the author of the article who writes such idiocies? or the author of the book?

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for respecting the votes from the move poll in the previous instance (note: I voted for sopuli). In some other moving communities the moderators just take the votes as suggestions, but then decide themselves.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

In order of "usability", how would you rank the distros you tried there, from best to worse?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916492

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916423

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916423

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916423

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

 

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/busterkeaton@lemmy.ca
 

There's an old youtube channel by "Avamogal" (apparently "a mom to 7 boys. 10 grandkids 8 boys, 2 girls") which is full of great collages of Buster clips, with interesting music backgrounds. Recommended.

Sadly it seems the channel hasn't been active for 6 years or so...

 

I have read the FAQ of KDE Neon: it is well made and answers ground questions like "Is it a distro?" or "Can I turn Kubuntu into KDE Neon?"

...And yet I'm confused, because I'm just a newbie in the Linux world. For instance, when they say "on top of a stable base" I don't know what's meant as a "base".

I think I understand that it isn't a distro, but it fascinates me that it's meant to be installed from an ISO or similar, just like a distro.

I wonder if any of you can explain:

  • What is it, in different words?
  • Why is it "implemented" as it is?
  • Are there any other "quasi-distros" like KDE Neon out there?
  • Do you use it? how has your experience with it been?

Cheers!

 

If I want to link to a community X on a Lemmy instance Y.zzz, I know I should use the link /c/X@Y.zzz, which will redirect to the copy of the instance on the server where the user has the account.

What is the analogous way to link to a post? For example this post has address lemmy.ca/post/1866360 but what link should I give to users on another instance, so that they can see the post in their instance?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1721793

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1721793

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

 

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2032

 

Some large datasets are pushing memory and some functions I'm writing to the limit. I wanted to ask some questions about subsetting, of matrices and arrays in particular:

  1. Does defining a variable as a subset of another lead to copy? For instance
x <- matrix(rnorm(20*30), nrow=20, ncol=30)
y <- x[, 1:10]

Some exploration with object_size from pryr seems to indicate that a copy is made when y is created, but I'd like to be sure.

  1. If I enter a subset of a matrix/array as argument to a function, does it get copied before the function is started? For instance in
x <- matrix(rnorm(20*30), nrow=20, ncol=30)
y <- dnorm(0, mean=x[,1:10], sd=1)

I wonder if the data in x[,1:10] are copied and then given as input to dnorm.

I've heard that data.table allows one to work with subsets without copies being made (unless necessary), but it seems that one is constrained to two dimensions only – no arrays – that way.

Cheers!

 

There are two kinds of colours that appear in each torrent entry in Nyaa's listings:

  • One for the rectangle in the "Category" column. I see many different colours there: purple, red, dark and light grey, green, orange, dark and light yellow...

  • One for the whole row. Here I've only seen three different colours so far: white, green, red.

Do these colours, especially the second, mean anything?

Nyaa's Help page mentions the meaning of four "torrent colours": green, red, orange, grey. But they don't say where these colours appear. If they mean the row colour, then I've never seen an orange or grey one. So I'm very confused. Maybe the Help page is outdated?

OK, not a life-or-death matter, but I've been curious about this for a long time...

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