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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

For the former, I don’t know where to take the tray and cutlery, how to choose food, where to return plates + cutlery, in which order to do the first 2, and I didn’t yet really get to observe people.

I felt that. I have a debilitating fear of social interactions where I don't know the correct way to act ahead of time. Having to consciously parse and adapt to what other people are doing, in real time, is my idea of hell.

Society needs a manpage.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What can you say about Carlton? He was Carlton.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Linux has two different kinds of "used" memory. One is memory allocated for/by running processes that cannot be reclaimed or reallocated to another process. This memory is unavailable. The other kind is memory used for caching (ZFS, write-back cache, etc) that can be reclaimed and allocated for other things as needed. Memory that is not allocated in any way is free. Memory that is either free or allocated to cache is available.

It looks like htop only shows unavailable memory as "used", while proxmox shows the sum of unavailable and cached memory. Proxmox "uses" 11 GB, but it's not running out of memory because most of it is "available".

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Is this like a beanie babies reboot?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In his newest (and worst) How Do You Do Fellow Kids moment, Mark Zuckerberg launches the Poob service, accessible exclusively through the Metaverse. What does it do? Fucked if we know.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Absolutely spewing stuff from an unfortunate hole in his neck?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Right, everybody wants their freedom-loving metal giantess guardian, then it's all "I have a family" this and "I'm the wrong person" that when the government starts feeding citizens to the world serpent that lives inside national monuments.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Thoughts and prayers ought to fix it right up.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

In loving memory of his demise: https://youtu.be/55btGpGsuDo

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not on my own, I'm technically only responsible for the network and cybersecurity, but not being able to log out of an education account on a public computer is a pretty serious threat. Fortunately I'm on good terms with the dean and he's always been receptive to my concerns.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (10 children)

As a university sysadmin that spent half a fucking hour yesterday trying to log someone out of a classroom computer's MS Office software (the "sign out" button did fuck all, go figure): fuck Microsoft, fuck Office, fuck Outlook, fuck Onedrive, fuck their SSO, and their mother too. Next semester I'm sanitizing the computers. Students will use LibreOffice and they'll like it.

I might be a little angry.

 

I've been reading a lot about massive stellar objects, degenerate matter, and how the Pauli exclusion principle works at that scale. One thing I don't understand is what it means for two particles to occupy the same quantum state, or what a quantum state really is.

My background in computers probably isn't helping either. When I think of what "state" means, I imagine a class or a structure. It has a spin field, an energy_level field, and whatever else is required by the model. Two such instances would be indistinguishable if all of their properties were equal. Is this in any way relevant to what a quantum state is, or should I completely abandon this idea?

How many properties does it take to describe, for example, an electron? What kind of precision does it take to tell whether the two states are identical?

Is it even possible to explain it in an intuitive manner?

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This may be useful. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
 

I'm getting this error that says Error. I can't tell if I fat-fingered the community name in the URL, or it got removed, or it doesn't exist in the first place, or maybe there's a legitimate issue with the software, but I hope it's useful!

I need to clarify because some people apparently never encountered the error page: it used to show the actual error. It was later changed to not do that.

(apologies for the atrocious aspect ratio)

 

Minecraft and Factorio ain't shit next to Conway's Game Of Life.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Low effort meme while flatpak update finishes.

I understand why having eight very specific versions of the same library is important. Doesn't mean it isn't annoying.

TranscriptFLATPAK EMPLOYEE: what would u like?
ME: one flatpak update please
FPE: so u want "a whole bag of updates?"
ME: no, just a "flatp-"
FPE: I definitely heard "more updates than u could ever handle"
ME: please, no--
FPE: JERRY, FOIST UPON THIS MAN "A FUCKASS LOAD AMOUNT OF UPDATES"

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

This image is no longer available on nasa.gov.

 

It's a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it's still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 -- I don't know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone.

It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can easily drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB... my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.

Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched for a decade and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing.

P.s. A Lifetime Of Adventure is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k

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My Deer Friend Bajirao (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/nokotan@ani.social
 

LED lights are great, but I miss having a mini hot plate on my desk to mindlessly touch and burn my hand.

(Do kids even watch cartoons these days, or do they go into scrolling withdrawal before the first commercial break?)

 

I just tossed a fistful of pistachio shells into my mouth.

 

INTERFACING [Trivial: failed] - The umbrella bounces off the side of the bin with a clang and a clatter. It comes to rest on the cold concrete, in the middle of a puddle of trash juice. It is no more pitiful a sight than before.

 

Clipped from Josh Strife Hayes' "Dark Swoles" stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwKE9XpvBs

Textless version: https://files.catbox.moe/6kd0wi.mp4

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Philip Rebohle, DXVK's founding developer, stated in an interview that he started the project "to get one specific game to work". Later, he explained in a forum post that he was a bit of a Nier fanboy, and that it was a relatively simple game to use as a test subject for DXVK.

Rebohle was later contacted and hired by Valve. Wine already had a D3D11 compatibility layer, but it wasn't nearly as far ahead as DXVK at the time. It's fair to say that Linux gaming wouldn't exist in its current form if not for one guy's appreciation for Nier Automata. Rebohle still works at Valve, currently conributing to VKD3D-Proton.

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