RegalPotoo @ RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

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git-annex maybe?

Sorry, typo - early check in/late check out

Booked a hotel yesterday that offered early check in and early late checkout options for an additional charge

Doing something you enjoy ✅

Doing something with a community ✅

Doing something different to your normal routine ✅

There is one standard way to cast fireball - it works, it's cheap, it very rarely backfires, it's in all the textbooks, everyone knows how it behaves - but sometimes you sit down in a tavern next to another wizard and you just know before they even open their mouth that they are going to spend the next twenty five minutes telling you about how they learnt this alternative way to cast it and it's taken a bit of practice but they can just about cast it as fast as they could before and how it's so much more ergonomic or whatever

Debugging spells is just as much a dark art as spell crafting itself. When I was a young apprentice we didn't have as sophisticated tools as you do now; you had to make sure you noted down your intermediate runes correctly and use those symbols to divine some meaning from the ashes of your failed spell. One time I mixed up my notes with the symbols of a different spell and when I sprinkled the ashes on the stack I was stuck speaking in tounges for a week.

These days of course you can summon a lesser demon to freeze your spell and ask it about the state, but the demons can be tricky and it's easy for novices to make a mistake and allow the demon to run amok - makes a real mess of the lab.

Idk, why don't we just throw murderers out into the street and let them get lynched by an angry mob?

Cos justice means that people who have done horrible things get treated better by society than they treated their victims. Because the goal of justice is rehabilitation not retribution.

We would like to apologise for any unpleasant experiences or doubts caused by the miscommunication of these terms

We are sorry we got called out

Yeah, they are mostly designed for classification and inference tasks; given a piece of input data, decide which of these categories it belongs to - the sort of things you are going to want to do in near real time, where it isn't really practical to ship off to a data centre somewhere for processing.

Yeah, I was a little surprised - the MMP can do PS1 emulation no issue, but apparently N64 is too much. I would have thought it would be the other way round

Will be interesting to see if this is useful for non-PC platforms as well; I've got a Myioo Mini Plus (basically an ARM SBC in a GameBoy-esque case designed to run RetroArch) - it's not really powerful enough to run a N64 emulator, but if I could recompile the games in my PC and run them natively then maybe that'll work better?

Dealing with this at the moment - in an org that's been pretty lax at writing anything down about what and why as far as internal software goes, trying (with support from C-suite) to get people to actually write up any amount of detail in their requests is like pulling teeth.

I tend to take that position as well; if it's not defined, I get to define it. If I ask for feedback or review and get silence, that means you approve.

Because accountants mostly.

For large businesses, you essentially have two ways to spend money:

• OPEX: "operational expenditure" - this is money that you send on an ongoing basis, things like rent, wages, the 3rd party cleaning company, cloud services etc. The expectation is that when you use OPEX, the money disappears off the books and you don't get a tangible thing back in return. Most departments will have an OPEX budget to spend for the year.
• CAPEX: "capital expenditure" - buying physical stuff, things like buildings, stock, machinery and servers. When you buy a physical thing, it gets listed as an asset on the company accounts, usually being "worth" whatever you paid for it. The problem is that things tend to lose value over time (with the exception of property), so when you buy a thing the accountants will want to know a depreciation rate - how much value it will lose per year. For computer equipment, this is typically ~20%, being "worthless" in 5 years. Departments typically don't have a big CAPEX budget, and big purchases typically need to be approved by the company board.

This leaves companies in a slightly odd spot where from an accounting standpoint, it might look better on the books to spend $3 million/year on cloud stuff than $10 million every 5 years on servers

Seems pretty reasonable. At the end of the day people have to eat, so projects like this either trundle on as hobby-and-spare-time projects for a few years until people get bored and burnt out, or you find a way to make working on the project a paid gig for the core people

I'm in New Zealand and it prompted me to set up my Sony WH-1000XM5s with Find My Device on my Pixel 7a last week, but kept erroring out when I tried to do it

"is not exactly tailored to my specific requirements, aesthetic preferences and built using technology I'm familiar with" = "sucks" apparently

Extractive economies based on production of commodities are unsustainable in the long term!?

(shocked_pikachu.gif)

Yeah, directors should be getting charged with manslaughter. Their negligence caused a death, they should be getting charged with a crime, not given a bill

Yeah, traffic coming from an ASN that isn't assigned to a residential ISP would be a pretty good sign of shenanigans

The problem with a two party system - if you are politically engaged enough that Biden's stance on Israel is enough to change your vote, you probably also don't align with any of Trump's policies.

If you are a Democrat, your choices are:

• Accept that Biden is the lesser of two evils and vote for him regardless
• Somehow decide that all the explicitly stated policies that Trump is proposing are better than Biden's support for Israel, and vote Republican
• Don't vote - unless you live in a very, very blue state this is practically the same as voting Republican
• Vote 3rd party - essentially the same as not voting

America is not a democracy