[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I like Ubuntu 😐

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

He must have meant the first 5 digits of the theorem expressed as some kind of Godel numbering. I mean there's no way he's a complete moronic cunt, right?

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

I have used Ubuntu as the daily driver for the last 10 years, because support and tools are widespread and easy, and I don't need any extra pain in my life. Drivers are mostly present and working upon a clean install, and in the one case where the touchpad wasn't recognized, it was super easy to find an ubuntu forum post containing a 1-line command to fix it. But everybody says i should hate it and use Mint instead.

I'm open to give it a go, but in general, will most of the tutorials and fixes you find for Ubuntu also work with Mint?

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

Why is gatekeeping straightness even such an interesting topic people fixate over so much? Contrapoints "Are Traps Gay?" video provided some quite compelling answers to that question FWIW.

The universe started from a mysterious dot, we're apes in clothes, and one day we will all be dust. It seems weird af to devote so much energy to worrying about the rules of which genitals interlock with which.

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Many modern theories in cognitive science posit that the brain's objective is to be a kind of "prediction machine" to predict the incoming stream of sensory information from the top down, as well as processing it from the bottom up. This is sometimes referred to through the aphorism "perception is controlled hallucination".

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

Free speech online doesn't even seem to be a particularly well-defined concept. Those who extol it the loudest are often looking to have the millionth "good faith discussion" about The Bell Curve, or use slurs as "just a joke", or promote a "dating and lifestyle coaching" business to teenage boys. If all they want is carte-blanche to say absolutely anything without being censored, I guess they only need to spin up a web server of their own, or run a lemmy instance. But what they actually want is to bypass the moderation rules on widely-used platforms and shit on the social contract. It's the same reason they don't show pornography, snuff footage, or other damaging content on television.

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

That would make them an abomination against Christendom, as it's provable from Einstein's field equations that men wear these clothes and women wear those clothes.

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

I joined Twitter fairly recently as Machine Learning Twitter is/was a thing, and I wanted to stay abreast of news from people like Andrej Karpathy, Chris Olah, Andrew Ng etc., especially since r/MachineLearning went down the shitter.

But I can't even - I log on and just instantly see ragebait posts from Daily Mail talking heads and bullshit.

Are there any better alternatives for this purpose?

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

As an Ubuntu + Win10 dual booter I had a couple of instances where Windows update destroyed things so irreparably that live Ubuntu boot-repair failed to work, and hours of back-and-forthing error messages to Ubuntu IRC and discord support channels yielded nothing. And I'm too stupid to know any other way of fixing it, so I was SOL. Your milage may vary.

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

I'm reminded of that Futurama episode where the gang logs onto year-3000 VR internet and is immediately assaulted by a vicious swarm of flying viagra ads.

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

I don't really know anything about this topic, but I heard there are new designs of nuclear fission plants that are much safer and "unmeltdownable"? Called Molten Salt Reactors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

From our humble origins riding squids, to blasting down the highways in our Jaguar XJ220s - we've come a long way baby.

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