SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
1d ago
Just Midsummer 2025.
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
I'd rather cut my arm off than touch VSCode.
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
I've been trying to find a reliable way to hide it completely. It's both useless and visually extremely distracting.
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
0-3-5 has entered the chat
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
UI, on the other hand, has no backing in formal theory whatsoever. It’s like knot theory in mathematics, or the Collatz conjecture—nobody even knows where to start to make progress in a direction anyone would care about.
This isn't remotely true. If you care to look at the literature, particularly slightly older, you'll find there are plenty of commonalities backed by usability research. The fact that (particularly modern) UIs so often ignore them doesn't mean the data and "theory" doesn't exist.
SkoomaDentist
2d ago
Expensive guitars when they can barely string together a few chords?
Bro, why you gotta single me out like that?!
SkoomaDentist
2d ago
Well, I just didn't want to be the first to mention eternal torture here...
SkoomaDentist
2d ago
I’ll just note that anything Electron based is a crime against humanity and should be grounds for immediate execution without a trial.
I think that the attention span thing is real, and quite troubling.
Just yesterday I wrote a short 250 word reply about camera raw development process and someone else complained that it was too wordy. And I'm the guy with the ADHD diagnosis there...
SkoomaDentist
4d ago
The polarization in actual multiparty systems is significantly less because there is no obvious ”the other side” when the constituent parties of the sides change depending on the question and which parties are in the government at the time.
SkoomaDentist
4d ago
I prefer to back into a parking spot, or pull through a double spot to be facing out. Some people call it “getaway parking,” others deride it as “ghetto.”
Lol, whut? People actually complain about that when it's a very sensible thing to do?
I don't do it myself but that's just because I prefer backing out of a parking spot, not backing into it.
SkoomaDentist
4d ago
How on earth is always using a turn signal "totally useless and actively harmful"?
SkoomaDentist
4d ago
4-lane divided highways are signed at 100 km/h or less
The normal speed limit on highways is 120 km/h. 100 km/h is only during winter time.
SkoomaDentist
5d ago
discourage people from driving giant SUVs and pickup trucks they can't handle too fast.
There's a local saying that nobody is in as big hurry as the guy driving a company van. It's not uncommon to see such vans passing you at 20 km / h above the limit on a highway. They seem to have around 150 to 200 hp if I'm reading wikipedia right.
SkoomaDentist
5d ago
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Yes. This should be automatic.
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Yes, mostly. The exception would be rolling at fast walking speed instead of stopping completely at a stop sign if you can see the road is completely empty.
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Driving 5-10 km / h above the limit on roads leads to smoother and safer traffic. OTOH on residential streets the speed should often be slower than the limit because of pedestrians, people getting into / out of cars and so on.
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Yes, no. Cutting people off or riding a bumper are unsafe and should never be tolerated. Flashing lights or other such signal should be normalized for people who drive unnecessarily slowly on the left lane.
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Only if you can do it safely, ie. there is enough space for your car and they start giving you more space when you start entering that lane.
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No.
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People who drive slower than traffic or overtake slower than the speed limit on the left lane should be ostracized significantly unless there's an obvious mitigating factor. A slowish bus overtaking a tractor is fine. A normal car slowly overtaking a truck that drives 20 km / h below the speed limit is not. If the second driver can't overtake at speed limit, they should just stick to the right lane.
OTOH driving slowly on the right lane is always ok unless it's actually endangering other drivers' safety.
SkoomaDentist
5d ago
You have a point there. I will pray to the Emperor for forgiveness.
SkoomaDentist
5d ago
If only there was a way to get that effect on every ”provider” that insists on shoving AI slop to my face in their ”tools”…
SkoomaDentist
6d ago
Should have thrown in another three days FOR USING ALL CAPS. My eyes are burning.
It looks like we need to call in the Ordo Hereticus Malleus to prevent a spread of the Chaos infesfation. The Emperor protects.
She does half-assed twitter polls. That is not data science. I don't know of anything she's done that could accurately be described as data science.
But she posts fancy looking diagrams, so that totally makes it data science, right? /s
SkoomaDentist
6d ago
The US should have dealt with Iran decades ago.
How, though?
Iran is mountaineous and has a large population, so a traditional war would have been protracted instead of something like the Irak war where the army surrendered effectively immediately.
SkoomaDentist
6d ago
Yet more evidence in favor of my approach to automatically dismiss the writings of any people I see regularly mentioned here but not in general newspapers.
SkoomaDentist
8d ago
Unflortunately I haven’t looked into that. I suspect they wouldn’t perform particularly well unless it was almost a solo piano piece.
I use Ultimate Vocal Remover to remove vocals and reduce the volume of drums and bass to make it easier to hear what the guitar is doing and I combine that with Zplane Decoda (shows rough chords and allows transposing and changing speed on the fly) for practising playing along to songs.
SkoomaDentist
8d ago
The market is willing to bear that 7e and the European online stores have few sales. Then people wonder why customers are ordering from China…
I’m not so sure about that. Margaret Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady but I don’t recall her being particularly angry.
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