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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I just say my name is Bigus Dickus whenever they call me. They usually hang up or insult me.

For the "car's extended warranty" I just tell them it's a 1969 Wayne Industries Batmobile. They usually just say they don't provide coverage for that car and hang up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Only briefly skimmed, but don't you need nonlinearity for these things to work (e.g., rectifier, sigmoid...)? Else, it's just linear algebra, and more layers can't help (since matrices can be multiplied, the dimensionality is the only thing that matters). I don't think you can really get nonlinearity with one bit.

Not my field, so I'm sure I'm missing something. If anyone wants to ELI5 though...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Bigger does almost always mean more emissions/worse economy for a given technology. In this case someone else pointed out that the economy is about the same for both, which is due to the fact that technology has improved; if you put the engineering effort of the big car into the form factor of the little car, it'd be much more efficient.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (19 children)

The Chevy Suburban is about the same weight now as in 1973 (5837lbs then, 5785-5993lbs now, according to Wikipedia).

It was huge then, it's huge now.

The BMWs pictured are not the same class of car either


one is a coupe/sedan, one's an SUV, so of course they will be radically different.

Don't get m wrong, I think modern cars are too big and, in the case of BMW, way uglier than they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As far as reinstalling and losing your data, you may want to just backup /home to a USB disk now.

You'll want to figure out the VPN issue, so maybe post what you know about that. Also post ifconfig -a or ip addr show. Also the output of route for good measure. Can you ping anything? Is it just a nameserver issue (try pinging 8.8.8.8 and kernel.org, for instance)?

Once you have network access, I'd install tmux if you're going to be spending any significant time debugging in the terminal :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Disappointed that there was no "Rule 34" reference. I expected more from this community...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

KDE is minimalistic?! Granted it's been a very long time since using it, but I'd say Fluxbox or i3wm are minimalistic, KDE...not so much.

Not hating on it at all, just musing.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Looks like Slashdot no longer allows Anonymous Cowards. TIL.

(I'm not editorializing


that's what you'd show up as if you posted anonymously.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Codec has huge impact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think this is the same Lincoln Electric that is now known for welding.

Interestingly, the founder also founded this institute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Institute_of_Land_Policy

[–] [email protected] 94 points 6 months ago (13 children)

I like the sentiment, but there are non-peer reviewed papers that are real science. Politics and funding are real things, and there is a bit of gatekeeping here, which isn't really good IMHO.

Also, reproducibility is a sticky subject, especially with immoral experiments (which can still be the product of science, however unsavory), or experiments for which there are only one apparatus in the world (e.g., some particle physics).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've only recently branched out from router defaults...only reason was that I wanted to VLAN off my home network, and mostly just so [Home Assistant-controlled] smart devices can't talk to the Internet at all.

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