Looks almost like a sandhill crane, or other type of crane… wonder what bird it is.
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quilan@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you ever cried because of a video game?
1·6 months agoI was just about to mention exactly these games!
Outer Wilds’ ending was, to me, a beautiful meditation on confronting loss, the ending of things, and coming to peace with it.
Shadowbringers was along a similar theme. It was interesting emphasizing with Emet, and yet still realizing he’s wrong (“cool motive, still interdimensional genocide”). It was a combination of feeling unbearably sad for him, and yet thankful for stopping him. Also, seeing Ardbert during the camera pan in the Crystarium at the end.
Endwalker’s final walk had to have been designed in a lab to generate waterworks. What an experience.
quilan@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology"?
2·7 months agoMan, I love this guy’s videos. He’s got the most pleasantly chill voice (think Australian Bob Ross) and shows a great mastery of the things he makes. Highly recommended channel.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite math constant that is NOT a real number?
13·8 months agoSo complex or quaternion I imagine? ‘i’ it is!
For some further mind fuckery on the subject, I highly recommend this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkH1citHtgs. Dude never misses in interesting content.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You are the badass hero. You are about to detonate a bomb that will kill you, destroy the enemy and save humanity. What is your last badass quote?
16·9 months agoI wasn’t expecting to be sad in this thread but there it is. “I am the very model of a scientist Salarian…”
Number 1 would have to be:
- Triosphere (prog/power?). Ida is utterly amazing.
Some others I didn’t see in this thread are:
- Ebony Ark (prog/power)
- To Mera (prog)
- Without Face (prog/goth metal?)
- Mystik (speed)
quilan@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•An argument starter: which of these is the "second set of 4 digits in base 10"? (Body)
10·1 year agoI’d argue lexicographically it would be 0000 and 0001 for the first two sets of 4 digits. If you’re looking for combinations w/o replacement, it would be 0123 and 0124.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•My wife found this in the archives of the library where she works.
13·1 year agoI’ve definitely caught myself writing
cumTotal += value;in my code before.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•People who have lost weight, how has your experience been?
81·1 year agoBack in August '22, I weighed about 270 lbs @ 6’0 (122.5 kg, 183 cm). I realized this was dangerously unhealthy so I asked my doctor if there was any drug options for helping me change habits. As my insurance didn’t cover weight loss, the doc opted for Phentermine. It drastically cut my food cravings and with exercise I’ve been losing weight steadily since. Down to 215 lbs now and the physical benefits are great: no more constant GIRD, can bend over without discomfort, etc.
It is funny though, just finally barely breaking the obese barrier (30 bmi) and people say “and you still want to lose more weight??” My goal is 180.
Edit: As an aside, how fucked is it that insurance companies don’t cover weight loss; wouldn’t covering it reduce their costs over time?
Starsector is amazing, even though buying it on the website made me wonder if the storefront was made in the 90s.
quilan@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What is your directory structure like for programming?
4·1 year agoprojects/[rust|cpp|python|..]/proj-name
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Favorite underrated / unrecognized TV show? I'll go first.
2·1 year agoExactly same. Gf & I got into it a few weeks ago and just caught up to current. We’re champing at the bit to see what happens next.
Jade #1!
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences
7·1 year agoIt is - without the quiet zone, it makes detecting the locator pattern really difficult, especially in one’s looking for the 1:1:3:1:1 ratio.
For any not in the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•i will never understand scientific fraudEnglish
1·1 year agoGood ol" BobbyB does not miss, thank the gods. Memes aside, his work is indeed phenomenal.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•With authoritarianism on the rise has the internet helped or hurt the cause for democracy and collective rule?
3·2 years agovideo-sizes
I’m confused as to your meaning here. Current codecs are miles ahead of what we had in the past. Unless you mean typical resolution (eg. 4k, 8k, etc).
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
15·2 years agoFor the purposes of OPs problem (P v NP), it considers not particular solutions, but general algorithmic approaches. Thus, we consider things as either Hard (exponential time, by size of input), or Easy (only polynomial time, by size of input).
A number of important problems fall into this general class of Hard problems: Sudoku, Traveling Salesman, Bin Packing, etc. These all have initial setups where solving them takes exponential time.
On the other hand, as an example of an easy problem, consider sorting a list of numbers. It’s really easy to determine if a lost is sorted, and it’s always relatively fast/easy to sort the list, no matter what setup it had initially.
Coincidentally, I do work on embedded devices, but as mentioned by ferret, most embedded stuff nowadays is (I think?) an Arm variant. Most all of the device code I write is C++ though; no need to get into assembly land unless clang screws something up, but that hasn’t happened yet thankfully. That said, in the future, this may change as we optimize certain imaging algorithms further.

The math, CS & physics crowd knows the superiority of IJK