takeheart

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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I recently learned that the Mormons settled and resettled in several states before finally staying in Utah. It's quite an interesting story, especially given that most religions are so ancient that it's very hard to track their origins today.

Johnny Harris has great videos about it, this one for instance.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I was thinking about something else and should have worded my question differently: for a given number of vertices, how do you find the coordinates that cover most of the area. So for instance for 3 vertices (triangle): where do you place the three points so that you cover as close as 100% of the area as possible? Overshooting would be allowed, ie a triangle that has an area of 120% of the US would be better than one that has 70%.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What's a systematic algorithm for finding the best approximation (minimal under/overshoot of area) when you are given a raster or vector image representing the "real" borders? Or it just trial and error?

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Geheimtipp um die Geburtenrate anzukurbeln: Männer, die Familien mitgründen und unterstützen, nicht in sinnlosen Invasionen verheizen.

Bonustipp: Keine sinnlosen Invasionen anzetteln. Ist es nicht wert, wenn dann Millionen an Menschen, vor allem junge und fähige, aus dem eigenen Land fliehen.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice. I'm wondering how often this cycle has played out so far ...?

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

That was a wild ride. Well done 👏

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never knew about transparent web proxies. Neat. Do they play a part in commercial DDOS protection? I'm thinking of those please wait while we're evaluating your request messages that you get on some sites. But also about any methods used to prove that you are human.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, this book used to be somewhat of a staple in German households with children. I dare say whole generations were traumatized 🫨. Up until today the character names are used (pejoratively) for misbehaving children: twitching Philip for ADHD, shockheaded Peter for unkemptness, soup Kaspar for those who play with their food, etc

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Good to know. It was a common problem with XCOM 2 for me.

Whenever possible I tried to get around this distorted audio noise after resuming from sleep by first opening a pause menu and then sending the deck to sleep. It seems to occur less the less audio channels are used by the game engine at the moment that you sent the deck to sleep.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

What's the difference between run time program data and temporary files? Is /tmp just for system level processes but not for user space?

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

These creatures look adorable 😍.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

This has some real draw the rest of the fucking owl vibes, well done.

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Ich hatte mal eine Kommilitonin die größtenteils in den Vereinten Arabischen Emiraten aufgewachsen ist. Sie konnte perfekt Deutsch, hat aber manchmal drollige Ausdrücke, falsche Präpositionen, etc verwendet.

Sie sagte zum Beispiel immer:

den Lichtschalter zu machen

der letzte macht das Licht zu

Kann sein, dass dieses konkrete Beispiel auch irgendwo im DACH Raum als Dialekt existiert, aber sie hatte noch viel mehr solcher Dinger. Das ist leider einzige Beispiel, was mir zurzeit noch einfällt.

Ich hab mir damals sagen lassen, dass diese kleinen Ungereimtheiten von den Sprachschulen in der Arabischen Welt stammen. Sie werden dort wohl teils einfach so unterrichtet.

Fallen euch noch mehr solcher Beispiele ein? Kann auch aus anderen Teilen der Welt stammen. Eine Aufstellung dazu wäre mal ganz interessant. Vielleicht kennt auch jemand eine Internetseite dazu?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13844882

I'm often using the Select by Color or Fuzzy Select tool. ¿Is there a quick way to increment the threshold with a keyboard shortcut, the mouse wheel, or similar?

Take the following example:

Given the image of the GIMP mascot, I want to select only certain portions, for instance the outer white part.

To do this I activate the Select by Color or the Fuzzy Select tool. Set the threshold to a starting value (let's say 15), then click on a white part at the edges of the image. But I'm not quite satisfied with the resulting selection: it selects most of the area I want but not enough of the greyish shadow below the chin. So I adjust the threshold to 50 and click again. Still not enough, set to 90 and lick again. A bit too much, set to 80 and click another. Almost there, set to 85 and click. Set to 83 and finally voilá.

That involved a lot of clicking and typing though. ¿Is there a quicker way to do this? Ideally I would like to see a live update of the selection as I change the threshold, so that I can simply drag the slider or scroll the mouse wheel until it's perfect.

Maybe I'm simply using the wrong tool and there's are completely different inroads to achieve this. I'd like to know about those as well.

 
 
 
 
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