darklamer @ darklamer @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I switched from vi to vim in 1994 and found it immediately obvious how to quit — it was just like vi!

I guess I'll never understand these memes.

I switched from vi to vim in 1994 and found it immediately obvious how to quit — it was just like vi!

I guess I'll never understand these memes.

Treating brainfreeze by inserting a copper wire through the eye socket and then heating it on a candle was first proposed in a letter to the Royal Society in 1842.

Such ideas are a core principle of European Union law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_%28European_Union%29

Let them fight.

When I first signed up for Lemmy I was just curious to check out how that feature worked (after I found it while browsing through the profile settings to see what was there).

Trousers off. Pants on.

No.

Hm, this one intrigues me: what is commonly referred to as a website, without actually being a website?

Eh, please tell me how you'd implement a heuristic that doesn't work either through magic or an algorithm.

WTF!? [subscribe to jellyfish facts]

So how does that neural network perform that task? There I can see only two possible options:

• magic
• an algorithm

Houston, we have a problem.

Is sort by upvotes an algorithm?

Any sorting at all can only happen through one of the following:

• luck
• magic
• divine intervention
• an algorithm

… and don't have eyes!

Any meaningful answer to this question will require knowing where you live, for the powers of governments, the legal systems, your rights as a citizen and your possibilities of claiming those rights against the government all vary wildly all over the world.

Turns out that treating prisoners like human beings makes them much less likely to reoffend and go back to prison.

What's really fascinating is that in Norway this is generally seen as a good thing.