https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(unit)

although they didn’t really have seconds back then, so they would have said it was 1/40th of an hour, and it also apparently changed length depending on location/time of year (because they were defining hours relative to the times of sunrise and sunset)

I would guess that by “geometrically sum” they meant the magnitude (I don’t see what else they could have meant). I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it used in that way before although I don’t think it’s a standardized term

I’m pretty sure that the difference is just that you get sqrt(2)/2 vs sqrt(2)/2 in the middle instead of .5 vs .5

The dot product of 2 unit vectors is equivalent to the cosine of the angle, the magnitude of the cross product is equivalent to the sine

I was thinking the other day that as a holiday it might be most conceptually similar to Guy Fawkes day, politically motivated holidays celebrating the downfall of someone hated

With the difference being that Guy Fawkes day celebrates the government’s victory over him while Charlie Kirk was aligned with the government and killed illegally, so it’s a more natural holiday driven by organic culture while Guy Fawkes day was government supported

Anyways I’m not British so I don’t really know much about Guy Fawkes day, and this is a silly comparison

I installed arch “from scratch” for the first time after installing it with archinstall like 4+ times previously, and yes it definitely somewhat did this, but honestly not quite to the extent that I expected. I feel like most of my system’s configuration was determined for me by the KDE plasma dependencies and defaults lol

My bootloader configuration is definitely one of the parts that I was more exposed to with a manual install, but honestly I don’t really see how what I learned would help me fix issues like that in the future, more about how I could customize the boot screen and extend my configuration with more boot options

idk it was a good experience to have but I think it brought more personal satisfaction than real practical benefit

you can use arch with the cachyos kernel and repositories to (afaik) get most of that performance boost while keeping the arch experience, that’s what i’m doing on my main computer at the moment

https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/#adding-our-repositories-to-an-existing-arch-linux-install

I think it’s supposed to be that how AI turns high level instructions into code is compared to how compilers turn code into assembly. Implying that using AI is just a natural extension of the handing off work to the computers that we’ve already been doing.

I wonder if you gave different AI models some c++ or something and told them to write assembly based on it how well they would do compared to an actual compiler

Maybe zorin OS. I think that mint is still popular with new Linux users though.

Distrobox?

some things I though were funny:

community regex: “^Yuri|^WholesomeYuri”

filtered domains: “*.itch.io”, “bit.ly”, “forms.google.com”

keywords: “🥺?👉👈”, “enlightened centrist”, “italian plumber”, “Perchance”

Anyways here’s what it is at the moment

https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json

Curl is a foss utility that’s kinda everywhere

lol as a piano player I feel like my hands get quite a bit of exercise

And in general piano players are known for having quite large hands (although that’s by no means universal) it really makes some things quite a lot easier. I think it also trains you to stretch your handspan more than non-piano-players can with equivalently sized hands, although I’m sure that won’t help you open a beer ofc.

Yeah, we have had this little rubber pad kicking around in a drawer that we always used to open cans. More grip makes it a lot easier.

Someone linked a study on this a while ago. IIRC it’s a 20-30% strength loss on average, depending on the ability you’re testing?

great video about perceptions of british food (Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities, 48 min)

I have never heard it referred to as toad in a hole, but fried bread with an egg in the middle is pretty good. Just pan fry with a bit of butter and salt appropriately

I was about to say this same fact on another comment above, but then I read the wikipedia article again

apparently it isn’t like an ‘official’ national dish, I guess it comes from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook referring to it as “a true british national dish” in a speech

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. Chicken Tikka is an Indian dish. The Massala sauce was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy. (full speech) (wikipedia)

chicken tikka masala was invented in England