udon 1 week ago • 98%
Ubuntu's role in the ecosystem is important. They are good at first luring people into using linux. Then the users get pissed off of Ubuntu, because of Snap, ads, or whatever random crap they know from Windows. Finally, they move on to better options, be it Arch, Debian, or Puppy. Ubuntu ensures they don't all stick to the same
udon 3 weeks ago • 75%
Thought the same but with Queen
udon 4 weeks ago • 100%
"I know, they all seem braindead and not entirely trustworthy, and they don't know how to articulate themselves. But I talked with them, and they told me they want something good. Also, YOU trust ME, right? So trust me bro, even if they seem weird and what they say doesn't make sense, I think they are good!"
udon 4 weeks ago • 100%
He would probably have died of natural causes anyway by now. But just disappearing for a few decades might be a sign someone wasn't happy with his bodily integrity? Maybe he chills below one of the Miami skyscrapers now or whatever people in his business do in such cases.
udon 4 weeks ago • 100%
Slightly late, but I currently rewatch the lecture I talked about in my other comment. The interesting part starts roughly here:
https://youtu.be/T3-VlQu3iRM?feature=shared&t=2550
But really, the entire lecture series is quite worth a watch.
udon 1 month ago • 100%
I think this entire "the Americans" and "the Germans" and "the Japanese" thing in this post is probably super productive and leads us somewhere useful!
udon 1 month ago • 91%
Americans are also known for being really direct
Maybe in America. They are also known for saying "this is the best XYZ I've ever had in my entire life!!!" for every XYZ they ever have in their entire lives.
udon 1 month ago • 100%
I got 600$ in the bank motherfucker
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Are those the Results of the Search of the Rise of the Return of the Planet of the Apes?
udon 1 month ago • 100%
For politicians: Gesturing that you "do something" against the "rampant crime" happening everywhere, which makes you appear as if you care about citizens. On the other hand, actually doing something (e.g., preventative measures) is too expensive and doesn't make you look cool as a politician. If you introduce the new surveillance 'AI' 2000 (tm) by Future Corp., you represent safety, power, future, even if there is nothing meaningful behind it.
For Future Corp.: Sell a lot of shit to politicians and profit.
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Wrong question. "I have a solution ('AI'), what's the problem it should solve?" This is the path towards micromanaging stuff that's not core to the enterprise.
Instead, try to identify specific problems in the specific context, or factors that are most relevant for success. Then see what the solution could be. That solution might be "AI", or a bunch of sticky notes, or whatever else.
Other than that: Wherever you use a new tech like 'AI', also consider the risks. For example, do you really want to outsource part of your customer relations to an unpredictable thing that sends them the implicit message that you don't care to directly communicate with them? Etc.
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Deadpool vs. (and?) Wolverine. Meh. They try to be funny by making fun of the megacorps that produce such movies (how witty indeed!) while being the same thing you've watched 1000 times before.
udon 1 month ago • 80%
Many reasons on many levels. One of them: Browser developers and the companies behind them benefit from a system where we have basically 2 options that reliably work. They have a stronger interest in keeping this expensive, rather than making it easy and cheap. So making sure other people can also develop a different browser is not on the agenda of anyone relevant.
udon 1 month ago • 100%
this burns twice
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Crowdstrike strikes crowd
udon 1 month ago • 100%
joke needs explanation
udon 1 month ago • 100%
it's a glimpse into a sad life
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Aufenthaltserlaubnisverlängerungsantragsfrist verpasst.
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Tight couch, ouch!
udon 1 month ago • 96%
Actually, it's GNU/Linux
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Yes, and he also makes the point quite clearly that drugs don't make you super productive as a writer. If anything, they make your writing worse. But it's a good excuse to live that "drugged artist" lifestyle, telling oneself that, sadly, that's how you have to do it (while opening the next beer can).
udon 1 month ago • 100%
some people... let's hope this mood swing lasts for a couple of months!
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Looking at the majority of the replies I see some meme potential (no offense):
Dude irl: "I only carry the minimal"
Dude in games: "This is my 5000 ton backpack with 50 health potions, a bunch of plant leaves, 2 axes, 3 bows, 4 swords (1 of them cursed), a few scrolls and runestones; some bread, cheese, milk, apples, glasses of beer; and a map"
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Don't underestimate the weather, though. It's terrible in summer, unless you're up on some mountain or at the Russian border. Spring and fall are great, though.
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Not sure where you live, but weather differs around this big bol we're on. Days with 38°C during lunch break and massive rain during evening commute are not uncommon in Tokyo
udon 1 month ago • 100%
I guess it's local, it only became so apparent to me some time after moving to Japan. It's also interesting how the types of things to prepare for change. In Japan, I think it's mostly about weather. No need for safety measures, food and drinks everywhere and cheap, clean and reliable infrastructure (toilets, trains, everything, basically). People are also mindful about the noise they make, so even earplugs are not necessary.
In Germany it's different. Weather is not so much of a concern, but I used to carry a basic pack of stuff with me in case I crashed at a friend's place. This doesn't happen here very often, and cheap hotels or manga cafes often have basics like toothbrushes etc.
I got annoyed recently when I wanted to leave the house and noticed my bag was half full just with stuff to deal with weather. In Tokyo, I usually carry an umbrella with me, maybe sunscreen, sunglasses, a mini towel etc. Others have fans, "neck fans" (not sure how they are called). Maybe a water bottle also counts. All of this is "weather stuff" for me. I asked a friend what she carries around, and we started to think about some other categories as well. So I wondered how much of the stuff we carry around is actually about the thing we want to do wherever we go, and how much is just to cope with the environment? Also, I would be curious how this looks like in other places around the world. Things probably vary by gender, age, season as well. Some categories are: - weather stuff - personal hygiene stuff - safety stuff - not being annoyed by others stuff - infrastructure fail stuff (e.g., preparing for when trains get delayed)
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Not convinced that is any proof. Any tattoo artists here who can confirm? My trust in anyone being an actual tattoo artist is entirely based on their nickname
udon 1 month ago • 100%
Fucking Star Wars fans...
udon 1 month ago • 100%
I was sure it's Steve Jobs
udon 1 month ago • 88%
I sincerely hope that is what's going to happen and Mozilla gets severely fucked over for how they have been running their shit. Break their business and rethink from scratch how we run and finance the development of one of the most important pieces of software around. Hint: You're not going to be competitive with big tech by copying their practices, marketing "AI" bullshit and pocket and all that crap. You can't compete with google there, they can always outspend you.
As a Linux user, such a break would also be very timely, now that we have survived the painful surgeries of systemd and wayland. Those problems are mostly fixed, so we need another dysfunctional troublemaker - Firefox it is!
But seriously: The official story is always that google gives Mozilla the money to be the default search engine. But really, they don't need to care. Google needs Firefox so they can pretend they don't have a browser monopoly. For similar reasons, google used to employed 10000s of people who were doing very much non-essential stuff that is entirely irrelevant for their business. They could have fired them all long ago, and massively increased their profitability. But those would have looked obscene and raises regulators' attention. So just hiring a bunch of expensive engineers who build google chat 23.0 and whatever makes them appear more like a "normal" company.
udon 2 months ago • 100%
What should also probably matter though is the existence of the sun 😉 Otherwise, how can it be a day?
To be fair though, I gave that point in time a day-like notation
udon 2 months ago • 100%
And the industrial robot asks: "Why does a bartender need geophysical survey data?"
udon 2 months ago • 100%
A ship, a Linux server, and an industrial robot enter a bar.
udon 2 months ago • 100%
There are some pitfalls to be aware of that may not be very intuitive for someone who is not a scientist and even tricky if you are one:
- the place where something is published matters and it can be hard to tell what is good and what is bad. If you work in a certain field for a few years and talk with your peers, you will get an idea how to read certain types of articles, depending on where they are published. Each field has their top journals/conferences and lower quality ones. If you conduct an amazing new experiment, you will try to get it published in the better ones. This doesn't mean that the other ones are complete crap, but there may be some problems with the research that you as an outsider won't see. The problem is, they are all called something like "International Top Conference/Journal for A Field With A Cool Sounding Name".
There were some embarrassing cases during the Covid pandemic where professors from different fields like economics tried to pose as virus experts because they also know statistics. So they tried to give critical comments about the virologists. But if you have never been in an actual lab where people work with viruses, you have no clue whether things like reasons for excluding certain cases from an analysis are legitimate. You also don't know which key variables you need to know (e.g., is temperature important for vaccine effectiveness? I don't know, but if it is, a virologist can tell you and an economist can't).
A proxy measure for this quality of conference/journal is the number of people who have cited an article. But this doesn't always help and can also be misleading, and some fields in the social sciences and humanities don't care about this at all. And even if it counts, it strongly varies by field. For example, medicine has really high citation counts (thus many of the top journals across disciplines) and mathematics has really low citation counts.
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don't rely on only a single study. If you look for the light therapy example, one study is better than no study, but usually it helps if you have the time to read a few more studies. Even if one study finds an effect, it is not uncommon that was just due to pure randomness or bad practices during data analysis ("p hacking", "HARKing" etc. This is the best pathway, but very time intense. Even many scientists fail to read their literature properly to stay up to date (because you have tons of other stuff to do as well and the reality is that writing, not reading, keeps you in your job).
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if you don't have a lot of time to read 10-20 articles, you might still be lucky and find a summary article about the topic. They are sometimes called "literature synthesis", "literature review", "systematic review", or "meta analysis" (good search terms, btw). If you find one that was published in a good journal/conference (or has let's say more than 100 citations if it was published at least 5 years ago - again, take this with a grain of salt), chances are high that's the gold nugget you are looking for. Read this thing properly and you either have a good overview or at least found more interesting studies to read.
Btw: If you can't download an article from for example google scholar, there are search engines where you can get almost anything for free (a good one is maintained by Alexandra Elbakyan). If that doesn't help, write to the authors directly. If it's a field of practical relevance, maybe you can even include the exact question you have and they may share their expertise and a few more sources with you.
udon 2 months ago • 100%
Someone forgets the existence of other countries where people speak German
udon 2 months ago • 100%
Is Quebec part of latin america?
Hi all! I think the title says it - I would like to build an adjustable height desk out of wood and currently think of ideas to do that. The standard options online tend to be sort of ugly imho, really expensive, and/or have various electronic components that can fail and are hard to repair. Some features that would be great to have: - adjusting height doesn't take too long. It should be feasible on a daily basis, e.g., for standing in the morning and then sitting down, standing up after lunch again etc. - adjusting should also be feasible by one person alone - at least 2 different heights (standing and sitting), but it doesn't need to be super flexible otherwise. - it can't be attached to the ceiling for example, because I'm not allowed to drill holes here - robust enough to hold the weight of a monitor and things office workers have on their desk (maybe a water bottle, coffee mug, 2-3 books, their arms, ...) My first thought was [this table template by Enzo Mari](https://jordisanz.persona.co/Enzo-Mari). It allows you to adjust height, even different heights for the front and back of the table. But it seems difficult to adjust on your own and I don't need the added front/back flexibility. However, in combination with a magnet or spring mechanism to fixate the height, this could be nice. I don't know how to build such a mechanism though and would be grateful for pointers! Another thought was to extend the legs above the height of the surface and pull the surface up with a pulley mechanism. [This guy](https://piped.video/watch?v=DFmgvjie2rA&t=1) built a nice table, but has the same problem with changing height. But I'm really open to other ideas as well. Any ideas/pointers/suggestions are very appreciated!
I would also be curious to hear how you eventually found it again! One to start: Conquest for paradise by vangelis. Just randomly woke up one morning with the song plus title in my head
Tell me all the trash music/artists you know from around the 50s to 70s.
Whatever use cases they try to push for social settings, I think Google Glass was still the better solution. Nobody uses their Vision Pro outside, and it's way too expensive as just another VR headset to use at home.
My dearest, I just got myself a lil' HP Elitedesk 800 G2 mini and am all set to run my home server on there. But I have troubles entering the UEFI menu. I don't know what they did with Windows 10, but I can't get there the usual way (i.e., hitting random f-buttons or esc during startup). I checked out the online Windows support and found this link with options to access the UEFI menu from within Windows: https://www.isunshare.com/windows-password/four-methods-to-access-uefi-bios-setup.html However, even when the computer is supposed to reboot into UEFI, it always sends me back to the normal login screen. By now, I ran out of ideas what to try. Did anyone experience similar problems? Edit: Got it working with different keyboard/display combination. The reboot from within Windows thing still didn't work, but starting from powered off and hitting f10 a few times did it this time. I think the main problem was with my displayport to HDMI converter at home, which apparently caused some delays - and maybe the fact that it's connected to a TV at home, not a regular display. Also, if you don't stop hitting f10 at some point, apparently you get sent back to normal booting. I didn't investigate that problem further though.
Back in my days, we had tons of memes for the mac pro. They went like: You could buy a Mac Pro with these specs (...) or you could buy: - another computer with better specs - a house - Russia - a Cybertruck - and green_day.mp3 ... and still pay less.
Dear cozy little Lemmy World Japan Life community, I made a random small self-observation recently and would be curious about y'all's opinions. Where I'm from people casually talk about being super busy. A conversation can go like: "Hey, how are you doing?" "I'm fine, just drowning a bit in work. I have these 5 projects in parallel, 3 families to feed, and do some sports on top, but yeah, nothing exceptional". I don't understand this as "bragging" in most cases, just a casual conversation item and most people really are super busy these days. In Japan however, I noticed the dynamics around this are a bit different. I feel like I *am* quite busy here as well. But when I say something similar the conversation often becomes a bit awkward. For example, a friend recently asked me for a translation job as a favor. In a later conversation, I casually mentioned that I'm quite busy, so they felt bad for burdening me with even more work and directly addressed this ("I'm sorry that I asked for this, I can try to ask someone else" - "no, no, that's fine! That translation is not so much work actually! In fact I enjoy it even!". In my mind this was not really connected, but after saying it, there was this little awkward moment and I needed to do some conversational repair work. I had similar experiences with other friends, but now I thought that's an interesting small cultural difference. Here, I feel people would rather appreciate and talk about how much other people do (as manifested e.g. in お疲れ様). I know, it sounds a bit cliche ("Japan is so awesome, wow!!!"), but I was actually more curious if you had similar experiences/thoughts about this?
Hi all, I hope you are doing fine recently. I need to go buy clothes and I was wondering if anyone knows of some second hand shops in Tokyo or nearby that have a bit taller sizes as well? I'm 183cm, male, so pretty standard in Europe but last time I checked (few years ago) that was way out the range and I gave up on it.
... about a few minutes BC.
Banana bread is 1,50$ a piece, cheese cake 2,50$, and an apple crumble is 2,70$. Those are the pie rates of the car I be in.
I was thinking about going for the trail or at least a part of it by bike at some point, but I wondered if anyone here has done something similar before? I'm not religious and would rather do it for the experience and to get to know Shikoku better. I'm not sure whether this would be considered offensive to practicing buddhists in any way and I don't want to disturb people in their religious activities. But it seems like some people have done this by bike before, so maybe it's ok (looking at the paywall of a Japan Times article)? I'm a moderately fit cyclist, I've done multi-day tours before years ago but not in Japan. So I'm also a bit unsure about steepness and weather conditions. Roads are probably in a decent condition (?) My options are an urban foldable bike (I kind of like that idea) or renting a decent one (probably better in reality).
Before coming to Japan I heard from other foreigners that it's best to choose one spelling for your name in Katakana and stick to it. I made sure to follow this advice. But I just noticed that my name is spelled differently in an official document (年金手帳). I guess someone in some public office just had to come up with their own spelling. It also looks like a reasonable transcription, but it's different. Do you think this causes problems down the road? If so, how could I change this? Any experiences also with other official documents welcome.