WalnutLum @ WalnutLum @lemmy.ml

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I think I remember a site like that existing in the 2010s, where you had to apply to join and it only let in equal numbers of genders.

It was the 2010s so the waiting list for dudes joining was way longer than the one for women. It was like trying to get in a dance club.

How do you do this with a tablet? Can you buy like a wheel sensor or something?

Unless something has changed recently you still have to submit builds to Nvidia to have them train the DLSS kernel for you, so FSR is substantially easier to integrate.

This is why I think eventually FSR will win over DLSS in the end, despite DLSS having better performance.

Isn't that the carrier they were using as a theme park

Not to rain on your parade but:

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-scientists-oceans-mars-deep.html

Using seismic activity to probe the interior of Mars, geophysicists have found evidence for a large underground reservoir of liquid water—enough to fill oceans on the planet's surface.

It's located in tiny cracks and pores in rock in the middle of the Martian crust, between 11.5 and 20 kilometers below the surface. Even on Earth, drilling a hole a kilometer deep is a challenge.

Ain't nobody getting to that water anytime soon.

For the usability of the clock, likely nothing.

I did mention In another comment that there are a number of advantages a round clockface provides to the creation of the clock, however.

Yea that's kind of what I was thinking when I said eventually handwriting will go the same way.

If people never encounter it and do all their writing on keyboards, it'll eventually be a useless skill as well.

From a practicality standpoint, a round clockface is easier to create a mechanical drive system for.

You can create a digital mechanical face (see: Flipboard style numerical displays) but they usually require more gears and are more susceptible to wear and tear than the gears of a round clock face.

The simplest designs for mechanical digital displays actually just take 24 hour and 60 minute/second circular displays and hide the other numerals as the clock face spins around. Technically this I suppose counts as both analog and digital?

Example:

As for electronic displays? Nah not much of a reason to use a round display unless again, you have an electric-mechanical drive and want to save on gears and parts.

It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.

But I'm of the opinion that there's no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I'm not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people...

How so?

I genuinely don't understand the clock-face-reading-is-a-useless-skill opinion so both seem equally important to me.

There's nothing stopping an analog clock face from representing 24h time:

I wonder how many people feel this way about writing when everyone just types/texts everything.

You can use nix alongside guix, it'll just double-up the dependencies on disk:

    
services (append (list (service nix-service-type))
                    %base-services)))

  

Services are, in guix terms, any configuration change to a computer, so creating your own service 99% of the time is just extending etc-service-type and creating a variable interface to fill in the config file text yourself

Creating a service as in a daemon of some kind uses shepherd and involves extending shepherd-service-type or home-shepherd-service-type with your service description, depending on whether the service runs in root or user space.

Shepherd service configurations aren't actually part of the guix spec(https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/shepherd.html#Defining-Services), but still use Guile, so you can interoperate them super easily.

It's important in guix to understand lisp pretty thoroughly, and knowing how to program lisp is still a very useful skill to have so I'd recommend learning it even if you never touch guix.

I use guix because, while it has a small community, the packaging language is one of the easiest I've ever used.

Every distro I've tried I've always run into having to wait on packages or support from someone else. The package transformation scheme like what nixos has is great but Nixlang sucks ass. Being able to do all that in lisp is much preferred.

Plus I like shepherd much more than any of the other process 0's

I have a feeling a lot of these demos were just trying to game that very "new and trending" page, and this change will produce fewer demos.

Eric Roesch did a number of blog posts on this issue throughout 2023.

Glad it's only taken a year for the rest of the news media to get their head out of their ass.

That's not really how that works. The 2°C increase is a prediction of how average temperatures will increase based on already existing carbon in the atmosphere.

If we stop emitting today, the average temperature will still increase beyond 2°C and stay there unless there's another force actively removing the CO2 from the atmosphere.

This isn't "if we stop emitting today, we'll peak at 2°C increase and then it'll go back down" the 2°C prediction is a permanent increase to the average temperature.

The damage is done. Millions will likely die regardless of how much carbon we put out from this point forward. The fight now is to decrease the people that will die beyond that number.

if we exceed the 1.5°C warming target set by the Paris Agreement.

Pretty sure previous studies have already confirmed we're already blowing past 2°C even if we stopped producing CO2 today.

Not to be too doomer about it but we're already too late to prevent centuries of damage. What we can do now is try and keep the ecosystem from becoming completely uninhabitable.

Not only that but the entire Apollo program was about to be scrapped before the CIA fucked up the bay of pigs invasion.

Two days after the Gagarin flight on 12 April, Kennedy discussed once again the possibility of a lunar landing program with Webb, but the NASA head's conservative estimates of a cost of more than $20 billion for the project was too steep and Kennedy delayed making a decision. A week later, at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy called Johnson, who headed the National Aeronautics and Space Council, to the White House to discuss strategy for catching up with the Soviets in space. Johnson agreed to take the matter up with the Space Council and to rec- ommend a course of action. It is likely that one of the explicit programs that Kennedy asked Johnson to con- sider was a lunar landing program, for the next day, 20 April 1961, he followed up with a memorandum to Johnson raising fundamental questions about the proj- ect. In particular, Kennedy asked Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space, or by a trip around the moon, or by a rocket to go to the moon and back with a man? Is there any other space program that promises dramatic results in which we could win?

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4503-apollo.pdf

They needed a win so they pivoted to the space program. Kennedy didn't approve that program "because it is hard" and he was a great man. He approved it because he was desperate for anything to show some kind of leadership and superiority over the soviets and communism and the space program seemed to have the only thing left.

Don't get me wrong I think JFK was a great president but people shouldn't make him out for something he's not.