turkalino

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the concentration of assholes is always going up

True, but this isn't a natural phenomenon, it's a result of engagement-based ranking algorithms. Assholes attract engagement by starting flame wars and the like, so front page algorithms push them to the top.

Before social media, forums were popular and their sorting was simply by most recently updated. I think this is part of what made the internet more fun: instead of websites trying to guess what you would like most, you were given a practically random, diverse view of everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Can anyone recommend a documentary on the history of colonialism in Ireland and their fight for independence? We didn't learn about this stuff in American public school since we were busy covering our revolutionary era 8 times over

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lots of people ITT complaining that Lemmy is blanket anti-business, meanwhile I’m just surprised that something involving Nintendo isn’t being downvoted into oblivion

This place is getting more diverse, I like it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sort of, if you’re writing a research paper or presentation or something like that with a lot of math in it, you can use Latex (for the whole thing, not just the formulas). It’s 10000X better than writing the same stuff in Word, especially if you know how to code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, even in that sense… the irony

Ok I’ll stop being a prick 😂 if you haven’t used Latex before, you do write source code that gets compiled into PDF/PPT/whatever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You don’t compile a book

The irony

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Idk if this has been proven, but I'm certain that the current desktop versions of Office apps are just Electron-style wrappers for the web versions. I switched from Windows to Linux about a year ago and have found the web apps to be perfectly sufficient

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The amount of downvotes this has makes me worried about Lemmy’s sense of humor

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

There are different kinds of infinity

"Countably infinite" means an infinitely-large set of numbers that could be generated by infinitely following an algorithm with a finite number of steps. For example, natural (positive whole) numbers are countably infinite because they could be generated by following this simple algorithm:

  1. Start with the number 1
  2. Add 1 to your number
  3. Repeat step 2

The set of real numbers, on the other hand, is uncountably infinite because you can have an infinite number of digits after the decimal place. You can't define a finite generation algorithm like the one above simply because any precision you use wouldn't cover the full range. In other words, if you wanted to modify the above algorithm, and chose 0.1 as your starting number, your algorithm would miss 0.01. If you chose to start at 0.01, you would miss 0.001, and so on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm also amazed at how the Neon QA team (if one exists?) missed the fact that the update broke the Shut Down button. No worries, I can just shutdown via KRunner - oops, that doesn't work either anymore

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely, v1 is the easiest Switch version to jailbreak. You could do it with a piece of foil or a $5 jig from amazon.

Not sure if you mean Switch ROMS or retro console ROMs, but a jailbroken Switch plays both, you'll just need to install RetroArch for retro games.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (10 children)

You sound like you're a bit new to software engineering/computer science, so I would stick to MacOS. Linux as a Desktop OS is not quite a pain-free experience and you'd likely run into issues that would get in the way of you learning programming.

What people mean by MacOS and Linux being similar is that they are both Unix-based, which basically means that the command-line experience in both OS's is pretty much the same.

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