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  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • apropos algebra, that comes from al-Jabr, which (approximately) means reunion, resetting of broken parts, or balancing, and is a shortnening of the title of the book (copy-pasted from wiktionary) al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing". the author of this book, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi also gave us the word "algorithm" (from al-Khwarizmi)

  • What happens if i make songs available on a blog?

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  • obligatory disclaimer that i am not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice.

    legal answer:i think distributing a song in full on your blog is pretty unambiguously copyright infringement. i think having select snippets that you highlight and talk about would be fine though, as that would likely fall under using the work for critisism. the general rule for fair use is that your work should not replace or supersede the original (which uploading the song in full could). if you absolutely need the songs to be accessible in full, you would probably need to link to something like a streaming service. also be aware that things like album covers might be considered their own works under their own copyright, so reproducing that without critique could also constitue infringement.

    practical answer:i don't think there are scrapers on the general internet looking for copyrighted content so if you're sufficiently small and/or the artists are sufficiently lenient you'll probably be fine, and at worst you'll get a cease and desist and take down the tracks they complain about

  • AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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  • your frontend of choice probably has some option to hide posts containing specific keywords

  • YOLO

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  • wait that says hydrofluoric acid that seems way worse???

    i think my brain just kinda autocorrected it to HCl because it scares me to think that there's someone out there who a) has access to HF and b) is dumb enough to put it in their ass

  • YOLO

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  • tbf this uses a lot of medical jargon that most people who aren't doctors will never need. put simply, it's a case of a man who put hydrofluoric acid in his ass (owie) while high from snorting cocaine

    edit: wrong acid, it's actually way worse than i thought

  • You can always emulate Call of Duty for the DS

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  • wdym? fortnite is owned by epic games. that is steam's competition

  • Cooking Shows

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  • part of the skill of cooking is learning why a dish working. rather than tasting some and going "this tastes bad", you should be thinking "what is not working here?" too much or too little salt? did you overcook the meat? do some of the flavors clash? a major skill in cooking is being able to identify why your meal didn't turn out how you wanted it to, and then hopefully finding out how to fix or avoid that.

    i think following the recipe to the letter can weaken that skill because you just kinda uncritically follow the steps in front of you

  • Nice

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  • how in the hell did you find out that it was weird al from just this image???

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows

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  • as far as i can tell this only accounts for games on steam, which means massive games like fortnite, valorant, league of legends and genshin impact are excluded. also for some reason apex legends is rated as silver on protondb despite very much not working on linux? so i guess at least one of the silvers in the top 10 chart should be downgraded to not working

  • Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition

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  • the problem is that the way version numbers are handled now, it's more like 1.MAJOR.MINOR, with no real definition of what counts as a "minor" update, so it's hard to tell which versions are compatible. i feel like this problem would mostly go away if they either added another number to the version to signify patches, or actually used semver properly (they could mix these approaches to do something similar to java, so the next version would be 22.0.0)

    i feel like this whole version debacle is only gonna get worse because microsoft is planning to move to a "content drop" model, with smaller more frequent updates, which means even more pressure on the "patch" version. so unless their update model or versioning systen changes, we'll probably be playing 1.21.37 in a couple of years, and good luck figuring out which of those versions are actually compatible

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • i wonder how these numbers change if you weight by active players. like sure, Shooty Guns 2 (2008) running on linux is a good thing, but if it has a grand total of 5 people in the world playing it, it won't really do much for linux adoption as long as games like league of legends, apex legends and fortnite still don't work

    (for the record i don't play any of those games and i've been happily daily-driving linux with no windows intervention for the last 4 year)

  • Revolt became Stoat

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  • i think for my purposes i'm fine with hosting that through a separate service, so instead of XMPP + mumble i would run polyproto + mumble (or some other voip solution, screen sharing seems to be a decent way away in mumble)

    but (as i understand it), polyproto isn't a chat protocol per se, but more a protocol for federated message authentication. as an application of this protocol, they're building polyproto-chat, which is a chat protocol. in theory, one could then also build a polyproto-voice so you can use the same account for both chatting and voice calls. i still think this is pretty far away, considering how young polyproto is, which is why my current vision is chat and voice as two separate services (which i also prefer because i imagine it makes the technology simpler and hosting easier)

  • Revolt became Stoat

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  • i honestly think that if revolt had federation, then it would be the obvious choice for me, but alas. personally i'm still hopeful for polyproto getting off the ground, but the boring realistic choice for the time being is probably something like XMPP + mumble

  • 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

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  • unfortunately you can't really get rich from knowing a bubble will happen. things like shorting, put options, bear certificates, and etfs with inverse leverage either have terrible risk reward ratios (you can basically lose infinite money from shorting, that's what the whole gamestop/amc thing was about) or very bad long-term gains (bear certificates and inverse etfs usually only track day-to-day changes and generally fall in value when the stock they're tracking fluctuates in price).of course, if you know when the crash is gonna happen, it's a completely different story. then you can buy shorts/puts/etc just before the bubble bursts and laugh yourself to the bank (assuming the firms on the wrong end of those assets haven't gone bankrupt, which is also a very real risk in a situation like this)

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    "Anti-ai arguments literally support eugenics"

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  • IT'S A TRAP

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  • actually you can show that the naturals, integers and rationals all have the the same size.for example, to show that there are as many naturals as integers (which you do by making a 1-to-1 mapping (more specifically a bijection, i.e. every natural maps to a unique integer and every integer maps to a unique natural) between them), you can say that every natural, n, maps to (n+1)/2 if it is odd and -n/2 if it is even. so 0 and 1 map to themselves, 2 maps to -1, 3 maps to 2, 4 maps to -2, and so on. this maps every natural number to an integer, and vice-versa. therefore, the cardinality (size) of the naturals and the integers are the same.

    you can do something similar for the rationals (if you want to try your hand at proving this yourself, it can be made a lot easier by noting that if you can find a function that maps every natural to a unique rational (an injection), and another function that maps every rational to a unique natural, you can use those construct a bijection between the naturals and rationals. this is called the schröder-bernstein theorem).

    it turns out that you cannot do this kind of mapping between the naturals (or any other set of that cardinality) and the reals. i won't recite it here, but cantor's diagonal argument is a quite elegant proof of this fact.

    now, this raises a question: is there anything between the naturals (and friends) and the reals? it turns out that we don't actually know. this is called the continuum hypothesis

  • Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

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  • on a related note, why is there so much goddamn hype for omarchy? as far as i can tell it's basically just an arch linux config, but every time i, against my better judgement, look at the comments of some tech thread, people are talking about how omarchy is the best thing since sliced bread. even framework have been posting about it a lot.so my question is why??? is it literally just because it has dhh behind it?

    <rant>

    is it because i am being forced to look at the opinions whose only experience with writing code is vibecoding the latest greatest b2b saas slop in the new flashy javascript framework and then deploying it on some platform that is literally just an aws wrapper with a 1000% upcharge, whose idea of a perfect operating system is one with an llm pre-installed and a billion flashy animations happening anytime you move a window???

    </rant>

  • lifespan

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  • it's because they've bought in to the capitalist myth. only smart people can make lots of money, so surely they must be smart. combine this with yes men and snake oil salesmen who make their money scamming rich people, and the result is a lot of rich people who are really into weird pseudoscience

  • Drone sightings disrupt flights at Copenhagen, Oslo airports

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  • from what the police has released so far it doesn't seem to be the case. they say that the number and size of the drones as well as their flight patterns indicate that they were being flown by professionals

    source for good measure (in danish)

  • jprule

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  • i just saw a post hating on webp on my timeline, and happened to have recently talked with a friend about image formats, wherein this image was made. so i just kinda thought it would be relevant to post

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    the rule consumes

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    rulequest 🥺

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    needs rule

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    cereule strike

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    old pic but hiii lemmy :3 (arch btw)

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    me for rule