RIP stack overflow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRk9Undc6U

When they say repeated, they mean repeated for all time ever. Has someone ever used the phrase “how are you today?” … yes. Has someone ever used the phrase “Pablo Picasso is my favorite brand of watermelon” before? Probably not. There are probably a lot of phrases with varying levels of “have existed before”. That previous sentence might be an entirely original one.

But there are plenty of other sentences that can be conveyed that actually exchange information but don’t generate new sentences. “So, what do you do for work?” “My favorite color is green” are almost certainly not new sentences.

A better breakdown of my sequence of numbers with the exact same values might be

1, 1, 2, 3,
1, 1, 4, 5,
1, 1, 6, 7,
1, 1, 8, 9
1, 1,
1, 1,
1

And now you have a repeated intro section per line and a sequence of totally unique numbers to that line.

“Most numbers are repeated” could mean that if you pick any given number from all the 21 numbers, it more than 50% likely to be a “1” you pick, just because 1 shows up so often.

“Most numbers are NOT repeated” could mean that if you if you pick any given number from the 9 unique numbers that show up in the set, you are 88% likely to pick a number that only exists once. But if any of these numbers were to be repeated even once, for any reason, that part stops being true.

In language, this just means that some phrases are going to be purely templates like “Hello” but some phrases are informational without being new: “I like turtles” and some are completely never happened before.

And depending on where your mental anchoring is, “we have a lot of repeated phrases in our lives, how could MOST sentences be new” or “repeating things would get old” … that stat may be hard to believe or surprising, or very obvious.

“Hello, how are you?” has been repeated plenty. But after that things start to vary.

In the sequence of numbers 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Most numbers only appear once even though most numbers are a repeat.

• There are 9 possible numbers and most (88%) of them are not repeats
• “1” accounts for most (60%) of the entries in the sequence.

If we assume “hi, how are you?” is “1” and most sentences are another number, we can see how even with common phrases being repeated frequently, most sentences may tend to be original.

(I’ve not done the math and I’ve definitely not studied language enough to say how dubious or accurate the claim is, you just piqued my interest and I started trying to rationalize it all)

I agree. But that’s wrong because lying about current events is wrong. This is what I meant about framework. AI is a tool in that regard and not the problem. There is plenty of “real” journalism out there spreading lies too that I have problems with.

I’m fortunate I guess that most of the AI slop I dismiss is things more akin to baby panda sneezing scares mom panda. Where it doesn’t REALLY matter if it’s real because there are no consequences. It’s either funny or it’s not.

If someone were to say to you “why did the chicken cross the road?” You wouldn’t demand that there is actually a chicken. You would accept it as a framework for a joke.

The same holds true for staged videos or AI or anything. Is the framework important to the point? A video claiming people can fly and using AI as proof… That’s problematic. A staged bit where it would still be funny if it was just told verbally by a standup comedian? Who cares how real it is, the realness was never the point, the concept of the situation was.

Almost all comedy movies are just long staged bits.

And “how funny would this be if a standup comedian told this as a joke” vs “the context of this potentially actually happening is very important to the underlying humor of it” is a variable line for people. And that’s ok. Unless someone is in danger (don’t let someone jump off a cliff because ai said they can fly), other people’s lines don’t really affect you

Indeed. But for me, I have to ADHD myself to do it. I will never just casually peruse screenshots.

However I was chatting with some former coworkers and they were talking about pictures from a previous company on-site. So I started scrolling my photos and screenshots. And then once I found what they were referencing… I kept scrolling. Was very fun.

https://www.amazon.com/Kangaroo-Exercise-200-242lbs-90-110kg-Bouncing/dp/B00M3O1EU6/143-4391115-7611302?psc=1

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/steamos-3-7-20-adds-the-ntsync-driver-to-help-improve-some-game-performance/

Speaking of fsync vs esync vs ntsync.

As someone else has mentioned, proton or wine or games should not be able to cause “OS crashes”. If they do, its either an error happening somewhere else in the stack (a driver perhaps?) being triggered by the game, or you’re dealing with out of memory issues, and its struggling to clean itself up. I would suspect drivers (ie, make sure the system is updated) or memory, because those are the 2 aspects of a system that games tend to push the most.

But to your actual question: It’s a few things. The main thing that differentiates proton from wine, is that wine aims for maximizing global compatibility. Proton is focused on games, and is therefore able to make tradeoffs.

What if a new feature breaks MS Office because it changes how a function works, but doesn’t impact any games, and in fact, makes games fun 2-3x faster on average. Wine would not include this new feature. Proton would. They would put this into proton experimental.

But now they find out that while it makes MOST games faster, some games it causes to crash. Some games might use that same function MS Office does. so they don’t run properly. That might warrant a hotfix release. The point of numbered releases is to have points in time where most things are known working. If this feature had shipped into Proton 123, valve could pin the broken game to Proton 122, so now having different number versions makes sense to keep each individual game working optimally, while experimental and hotfix can be used for testing out new code (literally experimentally).

A great example of this was fsync. TBH, I have no idea what fsync is, but generally speaking, the games make a Windows function call that didn’t have a direct equivalent Linux function. Wine made a workaround to make sure this windows function did what it was expected to do, and there were several versions of the workaround. Some faster, some more reliable. And then eventually the function was actually added to the Linux kernel, so no work around was needed. For a while there, fsync vs esync was a big performance and compatibility concern. And now ntsync tends to cover this. Some games worked better with fsync and some with esync, and some with it all just turned off. But we need experimental proton versions to validate all of this.

That picture is uranium though? In the picture it has yellow oxides forming on the outside.

In the same way that if someone posted a picture of a rusty piece of iron, we’d still say it was iron, even though iron is a silvery-grey metal, but in the picture, it would be reddish/brown.

If she is actually depressed, then she should be receiving mental health aid, and there’s nothing to be “at fault” for. Perhaps there might be better suited facilities to help her, but it sounds like she does need help if she’s that depressed.

If she is in perfect mental health and you’ve somehow got her put in a psych ward anyway, then sure, you’re causing problems and it’s your fault.

I don’t disagree. But cooling performance does impact CPU performance in some cases even without “overclocking”

And in very hot running chips, it can start to matter.

Boost clocks depend on thermal headroom. Better cooling will get you better performance still, even if you aren’t manually over clocking.

You do know that you don’t have to change distros to change DE right?

QR codes on the net make no sense.

If I’m on the net… I’m already on the device that I want to visit a webpage from, just link to the webpage.

QR codes are for sharing something from one thing to another where there is no common interface other than a camera. The internet is already a common interface for sending me a URL, you don’t need a QR code.

For example:

If I were browsing on my phone, the only QR reader I have uses the camera. I can’t take a picture of my phone using my phone. I can’t use the QR code.

If I were on my PC, I dont have a QR reader at all except on my phone, and I’m on my PC, why would I want to switch to my phone.

Sharing a QR code on lemmy/piefed never makes any sense.

Just emphasize that beating Nazis was the good part. WW2 was pretty good in that regard

The first time I heard of rarebit was 30 minutes ago on YouTube (discussing the name change) and now this pops up… Feels weird.

But also looks delicious.

Edit: I’m dumb, it was even on lemmy doom scrolling that I saw it: https://slrpnk.net/post/32169431

That’s really cool! It does sound like something I don’t particularly have a use for, but I see the appeal for others.

And giving it a test drive with flatpak is pretty simple, so no downsides for me there.

Keep up the great work.

This intrigued me so I grabbed it but I still dont quite know what I grabbed.

Is the whole point of this to be able to combine 2 controllers into 1 controller? Some of this feels niche, and like the people who need it will REALLY want it, but for most people, it does nothing beneficial, or am I missing something here that I should keep an eye on.

And yet Maths textbooks do! 😂

“No one” in this context meant “no one who actually does maths professionally.”

In a Maths textbook

Right, and I have decades of maths experience outside of textbooks. So it’s probably been 20 years since I had a meaningful interaction with the × multiplication symbol.

You don’t know that the obelus means divide??

I clearly know what the symbol means, I demonstrated a use of it. But again, haven’t had a meaningful interaction with the symbol in 20 years, and yet I deal with / for division daily.

When I see 1+½ i can instantly say “one and a half”, but when I see 1 + 1 ÷ 2 i actually have to pause for a moment to think about order of operations. Same with 1+2x vs 1 + 2 × x … one I recognize the structure of the problem immediately, and one feels foreign.

The point is that people who do maths for a living, and are probably above average in maths, tend to write things differently than people who are stopped their maths education in high school (or lower), and these types of memes are designed around making people who know high school maths feel smart. People who actually know maths don’t need memes to justify being better at maths than the rest of the public.