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troyunrau, 5 months ago

This is a marketing trick, part of the shrinkflation treadmill.

(1) Step one, make a box with three rows of cookies.

(2) Step two, make two products, one with two rows (at a slightly lower price than the three rows), and introduce a Family Size/Share Size/etc. with four rows that costs just under double.

(3) Step three, return two step one, but now with a higher price.

Repeat ad nauseum.

The thing is, as a single consumer who is trying to buy at the best price point at any given time, I’ll fall for it repeatedly.

troyunrau, 5 months ago

If you’re as old as I am, you’ll recall software using the term “gamma” release instead of “release candidate” for that phase. ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago

In the web interface, crossposting is handled more cleanly – both in making them, but also collapsing them. Not sure why. Nevertheless, it is one of the few shortcomings of using Connect.

Ideally, it would show the post once, and then show the comment threads for each community, so you can dive into the various comment threads from any/all of the crossposts.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

This is a misapprehension. Springs are on hillsides, not hilltops. Basically, imagine there are two surfaces: the ground, and the water table. In some places, usually on hillsides, the water table will intersect the surface. Where that happens, a spring will exist.

But that water has to be under pressure for this to happen – this is known as the hydrological gradient. Water flows down hill on the surface, and down gradient under ground. In order for there to be pressure on the water, enough to force it out a hillside, the water table somewhere in the hill needs to be physically higher in altitude than the spring.

In other words, it rains on top of the hill, and the rain soaks into the ground. That water wants to flow downhill, so it flows out of the ground on the sides of the hills. But this means a spring will never flow from the top of a hill.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

I’m getting old, it seems. Kids these days probably don’t even have to configure modlines in XFree86. Sheesh. ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Geoscientist here. I concur. The names are punny sometimes (this example in particular), but usually non-descriptive. Exceptions for the super common things (quartz, pyrite) when used in a discussion where the chemistry is irrelevant in that specific context. Conversely, we generally don’t care about the chemistry when talking about “clays” in geophysics, so defining them chemically would become noise to the reader.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Well, the underpants glitch is going to get patched haha.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

I’m all about the leaded solder – but I also use it very infrequently and don’t worry about the motility of my swimmers ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/c572f699-68a2-4a59-95f3-01d2150561a2.png

So just regular structural geology then?

troyunrau, 6 months ago

This bus even has seatbelts. For the HSE committee members of the geo community.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

There’s a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, called “Battery Man”. Which is funny on a lot of levels. They lean into batman symbols a lot. But also, Manitoba is often abbreviated as Man (historically it was our postal abbreviation and such).

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Ooh, I’ve met three of them on this list. Jean-Baptiste was the best though ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago

I’d argue that it fails too much. So much so that it looks constructed to be as funny as possible.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Game reference to Anbennar, a fantasy total conversion for EU4. Highly recommend if you’re an EU4 or Paradox fan.

troyunrau, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I’m a spatial-visual person, so when presented with this problem as a teenager, I instead solved it spatially. If you stack squares like.

█.
██.
███.
…

To the hundredth row, you get a shape that is a half filled square that is 100x100. Except the diagonal is fully filled in, so you need to add another 50.

So the answer was 0.5x100x100 + 0.5x100. Easy to visualize, easy to solve. 5050.

There’s a similar problem in sports – I was a teaching assistant for our rural school’s gym class so this one also popped up for me as a teenager. If you have 100 teams and each team needs to play each other team once… You fill in a similar grid, with the teams on both the x and y axis. The diagonal gets removed in this scenario because a team cannot play itself. So the answer is 0.5x100x100 - 0.5x100. 4950. Anyone who has ever tried to plan any sort of tournament can probably solve this intuitively, but 25 years ago I though I was the smartest gym class teaching assistant ever ;)

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Between it and snakes, I wasted several hours of my childhood.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

What if you’re running KDE stuff on *BSD. Or on Windows, for that matter…

(eg: I use Kate on windows as my primary text editor on my work computer…)

troyunrau, 7 months ago

I actually miss SVN. It had a lot of issues, yes, but the cognitive barrier was so much smaller. When I have a merge error in git, I basically just delete my repo and make a new one…

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Uncle, how do I delete someone else’s meme?

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Are they empty?

troyunrau, 7 months ago

You

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Some of this is correct, and some of it is myth. Source: I was there ;)

Qt way back in version 1 was merely “free for non-commercial use” and shipped with the source code. KDE was founded on that version. This was in like 1996, before KDE even had a stable release. Gnome was founded immediately in response, choosing GTK (the Gimp Toolkit) which wasn’t really ready for use as a full fledged desktop toolkit, but existed and the license was friendly. KDE and Trolltech formed a few agreements – the first was the creation of the QPL, an attempt to create an open-source compatible license for Qt, and the second was the creation of the KDE Free Qt Foundation (it said, effectively, if Qt were to become closed, the most recent version prior to that would be released under the BSD license).

However, the damage was done. Stallman and others would never forgive KDE for choosing a not-free-enough toolkit, and the Gnome devs were associated with redhat. That meant Redhat and Debian, the two biggest distros, defaulted to Gnome. Ubuntu just adopted Debian, ergo Gnome.

Qt would shortly thereafter be released under GPL, GPL3, and LGPL. There’s still a commercial license option, and that pisses a lot of people off for some reason. But it was never a risk to KDE or the community – not since before KDE 1.0.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Try microwaved beets. Mmm.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Depending on where you live, the cost of living and housing makes this the only viable option. Or moving :)

troyunrau, 8 months ago

I decided to fact check. As far as I can tell, the initial stories were all based off of rumour and supposition, amplified by twitter (Elon specifically). I do see stories about the fallout, including a 100M defamation lawsuit. On the balance of probabilities, my factcheck concludes that it is likely a fabricated story.