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Andy

@ nydas @lemmy.world

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Joined
3 yr. ago

I’m an Australian based Data Engineer, who enjoys making sub-40% custom keyboards.

  • Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand

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  • While I love to jump on the anti-Elon bus, I have to query: the highest accident rates, or highest accident rates as a percentage of vehicles on the road? If you have 10 Tesla cars on the road, and there are 2 MGs on the road, and 2 Telsas and one MG crashes, then what? 20% of Tesla vs. 50% of MG, but also that could be framed as ‘double the number of Teslas crash compared to MGs’ or ‘Tesla has the highest accident rate of any auto brand’.

  • OpenAI is 'optimistic' that it can bring ousted CEO Sam Altman and other senior figures back, The Information reported

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  • Sam Altman has just been hired by Microsoft. LinkedIn

  • In 2023 which would you choose for a Linux phone and why: Phosh oder GNOME Shell mobile?

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  • Yes. But if 90% of your friends use it, and have groups in it where things are planned and organised, then by not having it you’re going to be missing out on a big chunk of things going on around you.

  • In 2023 which would you choose for a Linux phone and why: Phosh oder GNOME Shell mobile?

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  • The challenge is that these days a phone is rarely used for calls or texts, but used with apps like WhatsApp or Teams or Slack or your mobile banking app, or things like that. And so there would need to be a critical mass of these apps to get me to switch.

  • ErgoMechKeyboards @lemmy.world
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    Any OpenSCAD whiz available to provide some advice?

  • what is RSS?

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  • An RSS feed is a publication that you can subscribe to without needing to give any personal information, such as your email address.

    Website would publish their blog entries to an RSS feed so you didn’t need to keep going to their website, or give your email address to get it sent to you that way.

    RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.

  • You can't imagine how much this annoyed me...

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  • I’ve just cancelled my Medium subscription. I was finding myself going there less and less. So many articles saying the same thing in various levels of broken English.

  • Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention?

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  • Way easier to drink a drive-thru drink from a straw while driving. And it’s a drive-thru, so kinda assumed you’ll be consuming it behind the wheel. My toddler also has a habit of not fully creating a seal between his bottom lip and the underside of the cup. So a straw in that case saves a lot of spillage.

  • PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here

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  • I think it gives everyone the same list of 29, but it’s the order that’s important. Gentoo came back as my top. I use Void which came back as 4th in my list.

  • PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here

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  • Well at least at the end of the questions the distro I use (Void) was somewhere near the top of the list (4th).

  • Feature Request on notifications

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  • Will do, thank you!

  • Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Feature Request on notifications

  • Moore’s Law for AI. Is there such a thing?

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  • Thank you!

    But does that equate to the power of AI doubling every 3.5 months?

  • What would 128 bits computing look like?

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  • I’ve been thinking about this, in conjunction with quantum computing and AGI for some time.

    If AI follows anything like Moore’s Law, I don’t think it will be too long (decades) before we’ll be breaching the limit of 64bit, and we would need to go one way or another.

    That said, based on the above, 99%+ of our existing jobs would have likely been fully automated, so the world would likely be a very different place, and 128bit computing likely would stand out as too big of an achievement.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Andy @lemmy.world

    Moore’s Law for AI. Is there such a thing?

  • Why do we not eat pig or cow?

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  • True. I think someone else pointed this out as well. But I don’t eat a poultry drumstick. The English language is a funny thing!

  • Why do we not eat pig or cow?

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  • Fascinating! Thank you all for the answers! I got an F in French at high school, which might explain why I hadn’t made the connection.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Andy @lemmy.world

    Why do we not eat pig or cow?

  • Windows Activation

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  • I’m an avid Void user, so I get the value of linux. But I cringe every time I see a comment like this. The OP has asked a specific question about a specific version of a specific OS. Someone asking about an OS should not be considered an invitation to tell them about another.

  • What Phone & OS should I get next?

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  • Whoops. My bad. Adjustment made. Sorry :-/

  • What Phone & OS should I get next?

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  • Cool, thank you.

  • What Phone & OS should I get next?

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  • Ah, that’s a really good point. I hadn’t thought about that. I use Apple CarPlay and haven’t carried a wallet/cards in years.

    Are there any non-Google, non-Apple OSs that allow for these (even if it is the Google app sitting in a sandbox)?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Andy @lemmy.world

    What Phone & OS should I get next?

  • Bell curve of Linux distributions

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  • Its got the same ‘start raw’ that you get with Arch, so you can build it exactly the way you want. But you can also choose to go MUSL instead of GNU if you choose, and it’s non-systemd if that makes a difference.

    It’s rolling release, but still stable, so I can upgrade after leaving it a month and be confident it’s unlikely to break as a result.

  • Bell curve of Linux distributions

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  • Hahaha that’s ok. I’ve tried them all except Slackware. Even gave LFS a go. But Void is home for me.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    Latest project

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    Transparent solder mask - jlcpcb

    vid.puffyan.us /embed/c18vkHG_7tY
  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    Tilting legs like the ErgoDox

  • Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are the little blue books against some users?

  • Command Line @lemmy.ml
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    Bash notes

    books.goalkicker.com /BashBook/
  • Programming @kbin.social
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    Free resources

    books.goalkicker.com
  • Void Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Loving my Void setup

  • Lemmy.World Announcements @lemmy.world
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    Still learning Lemmy