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What about those 2% days when you do need windows? Every time you boot to it, you’ll have gigabytes of updates waiting for you, which is seriously annoying. In order to do “just one thing real quick”, you’ll end up wasting an hour each time. I propose you make those days less infuriating, by booting up windows a bit more frequently.

Ideally, you would just uninstall it entirely, and use the disk space for Linux. Unfortunately, many people still have some ties that are difficult to break, so I totally get it why dual booting exists. If that one thing you do in windows doesn’t require much performance, you could also dedicate some old heap of junk laptop for it.

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If you also like linux stuff, open source stuff, or political stuff, there’s no shortage of those communities.

I want to build a Dyson sphere and use the energy to move the entire solar system to a place where our dying star can be replaced.

How’s that for achievable goals?

Read posts and comments. Upvote the good stuff, downvote the bad stuff. Post comments, ask questions, join communities etc.

If you write stuff people like, you’ll get upvotes. If you’re mean, you get downvoted to oblivion.

Oh, that’s a good start. At least one corner stone can be placed easily. The rest of the journey won’t be that easy though.

It’s a good start nonetheless, and I’m happy to see them take this step in the right direction.

Speaking of Excel, here’s a fun little experiment into the nature of binary numbers and rounding errors.

Start with some number and add a fraction like =A1+(1/3) to it. In the cell below, add that same fraction to the previous one. Copy this formula downwards and watch the numbers grow. After about 50 rows, you’ll have a number that looks like something specific, such as 71, but it isn’t exactly. There’s a sneaky rounding error hidden in there. The actual number is very close to the one displayed, but not exactly what you think it is.

If you’re using IF statements or XLOOKUP with numbers like this, you’ll run into some perplexing errors. If I recall correctly, you can even test the number with =A50=71, which will return TRUE but the xlookup still fails. It’s been a while since I tested this one, but I remember it being really weird in all sorts of unexpected ways. It’s weekend, so I’m not touching my work computer today.

You just need to know that a long series of fractions causes weird binary rounding errors to happen behind the scenes. Adding a series of whole numbers and neat decimal numbers was perfectly ok though.

Also, trying to explain this to some coworkers won’t be worth the effort.

I don’t work in a microbiology lab any more, but OMG the amount of plastic waste was unbelievable. Keeping everything sterile (as in germ free and DNA free) does not come cheap! If it’s small and cheap enough, it’s going in the trash. If it’s small but expensive, you’ll autoclave it. If it’s big, you’ll squirt lots of ethanol on it and hope it doesn’t ruin your day.

Technically yes, but not really. It’s a bit complicated.

1. It’s a small apartment, so my bedroom is the living room.
2. There’s a TV, but it’s only connected to a computer, so I can’t even watch normal TV programs. Why would I? Those programs suck and are full of ads.
3. However, I do watch online videos.

Why here though? Where else would I put the TV? It won’t fit in the bathroom. The kitchen has one long wall where it could technically fit, but the watch distance would be like 30 cm at most, and there’s nowhere to sit. Not exactly a premium popcorn experience.

Why even have a TV? I got this one for free. A large display would have been fine as well.

Why even have display of any kind? I kinda like watching YT and other videos on a large display. It’s also ad-free, so why not. Sort of like a smart TV, but without the downsides.

I tried to stay away from dispalys and lights for a while, but I didn’t notice any difference in my sleep quality. I guess the difference is very subtle, so why bother. I don’t think it’s worth the hassle.

I’ve read some stories of someone transmuting Ubuntu into Debian or something like that. It requires lots of knowledge of both systems, plenty of time, and infinite patience. The two distributions should be somewhat closely related in order to make this gargantuan project even remotely feasible. If you’re jumping from Arch to Gentoo, you might as well just do LFS while you’re at it.

Previously it was thought that non-coding sequences were junk, and enormous numbers like 99% were thrown around at the time. Later, we found out that more and more of the non-coding regions actually do various other things, and the scope of junk DNA got narrower as years went by. Nowadays, you don’t really hear that term much, because future scientists have a tendency of discovering new functions for sequences that were previously thought of as non-functional. There’s also debate as to where do we draw the line.

As usual, biochemistry is a fast moving target, and people have gotten cautious about these things. As more and more is discovered, older notions are updated or even thrown away.

Junk DNA.

My evil twin from the mirror dimension. We meet at last! Or maybe I’m the evil one?

Well, not really superpowers since they are common in humans. However, they are pretty interesting abilities nonetheless.

• Advanced speech recognition. I can filter out speech of one person while ignoring other background noise and even other speech.

• Advanced face recognition. I can see faces in clouds, floors, and other inanimate objects. Also helps when looking at real faces of people in a crowd. See also: pareidolia

• Auditory hallucinations during hypnagogia. Look it up. It’s weird and trippy.

• Desensitization and habituation to capsaicin. I can eat spicy foods.

Try that with cheap mobile phone charges. They have an annoying coil whine.

Thanks. I’ll look into those options.

Microsoft now prefers AI models that are “three to six months behind.”

I think it’s more than that. I’m seriously considering giving some tasks to Gemini because Copilot has been so underwhelming for a while now.

The special thing is, you don’t have to believe in money at all to be able to use it. As long as other people believe in it, and you notice that, you can also use money. It doesn’t matter what you believe, as long as other people believe it has value.

Convincing someone to abandon their tribe won’t be easy. No matter how logical your explanation is, they’re going to stick to their tribe regardless.

Are you talking to a conspiracy nut? If so, you can forget about reasoning with them. They don’t play this game by the same rules as you do.

No amount of logic, facts or evidence will ever help. They have emotional issues, so you need to use an emotional solution.