Nice to see Frank Howarth there. Those video are pure relaxation. Setting YouTube to Wellness-Mode even. And technology connections of course.

I think his films are just very specific in taste. If you fall into his specific target demographoc the movie is amazing. But it can also depend on the day or it depends strongly on things one has heard about it beforehand. When I first watched Eternal Sunshine I was incredibly awake. There were so many things and strange details that didn’t make sense that my brain was working hard to make sense of it. Later everything clicked and fell into place in an awesome way. I absolutely loved it.

But I know so many people who didn’t like it one bit.

His other movies are also that way. My other favourite: Adaptation. I didn’t like the Netflix one. Or didn’t understand it or didn’t care. Don’t know.

💸 (and control) is the reason.

I find that so crazy. I’m German and for us Italy is always the sunny south where it gets much too hot for us. The USA iseems more like us climate-wise. I’d always thought New York would be a little like Berlin. Crazy to see how far south most of the US actually is.

Stephen Wolf? Love that band!

😂😂😂 great Point!

I hate that every known company has to suddenly exploit their “brand recognition” and expand into unrelated areas. It’s completely logical from a short-term-profits-from-uninterested-in-anything-besides-profits shareholders but destroys the value people ascribe to a certain brand in the long run. My favourite example: Marshall. They’ve been known for loud and DISTORTED guitar amplifiers for decades. They shaped the sound of so many famous bands. Their amps would last a lifetime and sound great! So someone thought "Hey let’s make shitty headphones and Bluetooth speakers that will - by nature - not be durable, will have to excell in an area that Marshall never was interested in: amplifiers that do not distort the source material and that sound neutral. They had to rely on completely new technology like Bluetooth (which changes it’s standard over time) or be dependent on shitty Internet companies like Spotify (who decide suddenly to brick devices by not supporting them anymore). It’s almost the complete opposite of everything Marshall stood for IMHO. The only thing they have in common is that they make sound. The effect is that people buy products that break, decay or deteriorate on timescales much much shorter than the original brand would be expected. The thing that Marshal will be known for in the future is these speakers or breaking headphones with OK-sound quality. But a few management people will have made a lot of money of course.

Thanks! Yeah I prefer the gnome one. I think it’s heavier resource-wise but for people expecting an OS to look “like an OS” (people who prefer not to use a terminal) it’s great. I think I’ve used KDE Like 10 years ago but I am not sure if it was KDE.

Just a question: why fedora KDE? I’ve used fedora for a few years but always with gnome. Really liked it. What would be the advantage with KDE? Or what actually is the difference ?

Es gab jede Menge Unterteilungen. Die relativen Unterschiede waren halt deutlich größer. Von 200g konnten die Hersteller halt nur auf 150g oder so runtergehen. Das fällt halt sofort auf. Wenn die von 200 auf 195, dann 187, 183, usw stück für stück runter gehen blickt es halt niemand mehr.

Ich weiß noch genau, wie das damals verkauft wurde - wie immer: “Mehr Auswahl für die Verbraucher”. Wir waren damals ja alle total unglücklich unter diesem Diktat der wenigen packungsgrößenauswahl. Immer die gleiche Lobbyscheisse .

25 years ago Dave Barry wrote about “smart appliences” and said everything there is to say. His foresight was impressive - and extremely funny, like all his columns.

https://www.deseret.com/2005/9/18/19912434/smart-appliances-are-a-bad-buy-for-half-wits/

It also has the coolest abreviation/name out of most image formats.

.jxl sounds a lot nicer than web-pee or avif.

Also Junkie XL made that famous remix of Elvis’ “A Little Less Conversation” which is a banger.

Thank you! Nice to know I’m not crazy :-)

Regarding windows. Does NTFS support this? Like COW and other advanced stuff? Or am I doomed if the underlying FS is NTFS?

At work I have to use windows (11) and i always have the feeling file-related stuff (copying, moving, doing stuff in large git repos) takes a loong time compared to my own devices thst run linux with btrfs.

Ladegerät

That matchstick look. Classic.

Isn’t a tensor the generalization of scalar, vector matrix and so on? (PLUS the invariance under coordinate transforms?)

A box would be 3-dimensional indicating that tensors have 3 indices when in reality they have n-indices. Ir am i reading it wrong?

The big difference that I see is that they investes in people for a long while now. They did what they can so people can get a decent education. That’s also the reason why they don’t allow kids to use tiktok and so on - it’s hindering the next generation’s ability to think. They know that you need many intelligent people to drive whatever other innovation you want to have later. That’s why they’re pulling ahead so fast while we are collapsing. I am not even living in the US, but even here the education system is crumbling.

The west has trapped itself in the thought of technology without people. The idea that few clever people can design perfect systems that drive everything for us. That we just need to support those few individuals to get maximum return. China is supporting the broad masses. It’s like creating a fertile soil.

Who knows what all the asterisks are causing in the future. But at the moment it’s just no comparison. We’ve gone backwards, while they’re so far ahead we barely see them.

https://youtube.com/shorts/h_byvgxSB0s

I get the meme (though why was this single unstable point - imagemagick in the original xkcd - removed? To make the left side seem more stable clmpared to the original idea?), it might be trueish atm. But with rust I feel that a lot of projects that are rewritten in rust are quicker arriving at a “finished” (or almost finished) state where they are more or less just tools being used without much discussion anymore. I guess a lot of commonly used tools already use Rust in some way, but i rarely is an issue which makes this discussion-worthy or generates enough conflict in order to raise awareness outside.

I have a hunch that open-source rust-devopment is less of a hassle as a lot of discussion about code or the quality therof is simply avoided by a stricter compiler. If the code committed compiles with rustc there’s less possibility of it breaking other things in the codebase or containing hidden dangers that need to be discussed. Overall less friction, less overhead and distruction from the actual coding.