HamsterRage

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[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Take a look at this:

This is in the Museum of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome, and it comes from an ancient Roman Villa in Rome. Probably painted in the first or second century CE. There's walls of this stuff in the museum.

It's not realism, but minimalistic sketches that, in many ways, outdo realism in artistic quality. To me, this looks more like something that you might find in Leonardo's sketchbook than on the wall of on ancient Roman Villa from 1200 years earlier.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

The reason for leaving in the password.trim() would be one of the few things that I would ever document with a comment.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I was there a month ago. It wasn't windy at all.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (19 children)

Isn't the one on the left Samus from Metroid?

A female character!

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What about the Nutria? Literally named like it's food!

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is true, but.....

Moore's Law can be thought of as an observation about the exponential growth of technology power per $ over time. So yeah, not Moore's Law, but something like it that ordinary people can see evolving right in front of their eyes.

So a $40 Raspberry Pi today runs benchmarks 4.76 times faster than a multimillion dollar Cray supercomputer from 1978. Is that Moore's Law? No, but the bang/$ curve probably looks similar to it over those 30 years.

You can see a similar curve when you look at data transmission speed and volume per $ over the same time span.

And then for storage. Going from 5 1/4" floppy disks, or effing cassette drives, back on the earliest home computers. Or the round tapes we used to cart around when I started working in the 80's which had a capacity of around 64KB. To micro SD cards with multi-terabyte capacity today.

Same curve.

Does anybody care whether the storage is a tape, or a platter, or 8 platters, or circuitry? Not for this purpose.

The implication of, "That's not Moore's Law", is that the observation isn't valid. Which is BS. Everyone understands that that the true wonderment is how your Bang/$ goes up exponentially over time.

Even if you're technical you have to understand that this factor drives the applications.

Why aren't we all still walking around with Sony Walkmans? Because small, cheap hard drives enabled the iPod. Why aren't we all still walking around with iPods? Because cheap data volume and speed enabled streaming services.

While none of this involves counting transistors per inch on a chip, it's actually more important/interesting than Moore's Law. Because it speaks to how to the power of the technology available for everyday uses is exploding over time.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

"Happy Days" initially aired about 15 years after the time in which it was set.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I used KDE Connect on Ubuntu with Gnome. No issues.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Old school Unix guy here...vi,awk and sed are all that you need.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

You might want to think about it a bit more before putting it to work. The comment with the streams example is far, far better.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

You're not going to split hairs out of this one. Trying to say that these are not Evangelicals because no true Evangelical would do this is pretty much the "No True Scotsman " evasion. When people say, "Evangelicals", this is exactly the group to which they are referring.

The one or two "True Evangelicals" in the US can consider themselves exempt from this thread.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

There's a bit of "No True Scotsman", going on here I think. You cannot deny what we all see every day, Evangelicals working every day to suppress LGBTQ and women's rights. That's what they do, that's what they are.

[Edit for typo]

 

For some reason, the wife decided to pull out all of the amigurumi critters that she's made since she started doing this at the beginning of the year.

So, here you go, the group shot:

 

She said that the pattern was awful and that she had fudge all kinds of stuff to make it work. The hat needed to be completely redesigned.

 

I'm beginning to think that this sub will never be ready. What's the hold-up????

 

The wife has started to make these amigurumi creatures. Here's her latest two.

She uses worsted weight wool (she tells me) which generally results in bigger creatures.

 

This is the beside the time since the post was created. I cannot figure it out.

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