thatsTheCatch

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[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 42 points 1 day ago

Yeah I was reading about the editing guidelines and they have a principle that surprised me at first:

Verifiability, not truth.

Basically, you could edit an article with information you know is true (like your bedrooms or fireplaces), but truth is not the criteria that edits get tested upon. It must be verifiable by a source.

Pretty cool that you didn't just give up and actually got the local newspaper to interview you! That's awesome!

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 85 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Came to ask the same thing.

Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried Helium Browser?

I haven't used it myself as I use Firefox, but it looks promising. If I had to use Chrome on my device I'd try this one. It is still in beta technically, though

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 week ago

Because race is a social construct and whiteness is seen as the default that can be "tainted"

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago

I suspect it's not a lack of playtesters that's the problem, but harsh deadlines and crunch. That type of environment leads to tech debt to get things working fast, which leads to hard-to-manage code, which leads to bugs...

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 week ago (24 children)

I'm confused — GPUs main function is to be able to do lot's of calculations in parallel, vs a CPU which does one thing at a time (simplistically).

GPUs aren't only used solely for video, it's just that graphics are an excellent use case for this type of processing.

So I don't think AI companies are buying GPUs for video output and more because they can process lots of training calculations in parallel. Like how bitcoin miners use GPUs even though there's no video involved in that

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also thought toggles were unnecessary, but then I read something that changed my mind.

Toggles have an immediate effect, whereas checkboxes don't.

For example, a light/dark mode setting. You could use a checkbox, but users have become used to the above behaviour, and so a toggle may be more appropriate.

Checkboxes, therefore, are more of a form element.

Personally, I'd still be fine with just checkboxes, but that design intention is something I hadn't known but makes sense after I heard it

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cars are a really good analogy. I'm going to steal that.

Some people want a trusty Toyota Carolla. Boring as hell but gets you where you need to go.

And some people want sports cars that they spend time pimping and tuning to their heart's desire

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 week ago

any word that starts with T and ends with T

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Damn I liked those websites. I didn't use them all the time but they were very very handy when I forgot my personal card

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I found it hard to read the text without any vertical spacing between the lines

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 38 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)
 

Now that Snapper cards have the 1.5% processing fee on phone top-ups, I did a little math to figure out the cut-off for topping up at a kiosk instead.

Kiosks have a flat 25¢ fee to top up if you use a debit card.

If you are topping up $15 or less, you should top up on your phone (the fee is 23¢ or less). Anything higher than that, you should top up at a kiosk.

The best strategy is to top up as much as you can at a kiosk in one go.

 
 

Whenever I update a package or the system via the Pop! Shop, or downloading a game or updates from Steam, my desktop constantly freezes and hangs. It works perfectly fine otherwise.

I was wondering whether this was common behaviour. It's a bit frustrating because it means I have to pick my moments to update to be when I can go do something else for a while and come back.

If I'm on a Discord call and am doing an update or downloading a game on steam, the freezes mean that my friends can't hear me and I can't hear them.

I've tried Googling it but haven't found anyone with this specific issue yet.

I run a medium-power gaming desktop rig.

Any advice on how to fix or improve this?

Update:

Here are my hardware specs. Sorry for not including them earlier; I was at work when I posted this.

  • Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X570S GAMING X
  • RAM: 32 GiB
  • CPU: AMD® Ryzen 9 5900x 12-core processor × 24
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
 

Alt text: an image of a Gmail inbox with 196 unread emails

 

Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

 
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