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Linux@programming.dev•Is Ubuntu Treating Its Users as If They Can’t Be Trusted?English
4·8 days agoBy sheer coincidence, I just made an install image yesterday and will be switching soon
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•People always want their ideal conversation to sound like movie characters, but in reality most people talk as if they're in an interrogation room or how people sound like on police bodycam footage.English
10·10 days agoThere’s some debate on this! Most movie dialogue is designed to convey the impression of conversation, but this is naturally unrealistic. People stutter and start over and get distracted in normal conversation much like you described, which can become very burdensome on the screen. Like when your boss won’t get to the point in the standup. Overly precise dialogue is equally burdensome and often fails to maintain attention (see: the Time 1776 AI videos). A lot of the discussion around how best to balance those natural pauses and disruptions around the otherwise “eloquent” speech in movies to best convey a characterization.
I’m sure others out there can point to legitimate sources, but I’m not super read up on it
Do my 600 applications mean nothing?!
(Yes, they in fact mean nothing)
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politics @lemmy.world•Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes OutrageEnglish
2·27 days agoIce chains for traction. It might be a type of crampon, I’m not certain what the distinction is.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extensionEnglish
2·1 month agoWell I just dumped windows and MS office. For machine vision I’m only dabbling with openCV, so that’s already open source. The switch to libre office has been pretty nice though
Pulse Water Modulation
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Technology@lemmy.world•Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extensionEnglish
1·1 month agoCool thanks, I’ll stick with it! At least until I’m familiar and want to try something new
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Technology@lemmy.world•Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extensionEnglish
2·1 month agoNo worries, it’s all part of the experience
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Technology@lemmy.world•Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extensionEnglish
4·1 month agoHmm, okay. Yeah I was trying to set up an environment to dabble with machine vision and had trouble finding good instructions or guidance for programming env setup. I think in college we used something-Unix but it’s been so long I don’t really have a frame of reference anymore. So I’m looking for a low-overhead daily driver that’s also relatively common or amenable to maker communities
If that makes sense.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extensionEnglish
4·1 month agoDamnit I just switched to Ubuntu. That explains why I kept getting lost. What about Debian?
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News@lemmy.world•‘Absolutely no detail’: experts alarmed as Trump unveils healthcare planEnglish
49·1 month agoIt’s almost a concept of a plan
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politics @lemmy.world•Interview With "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States" Author Daniel Immerwahr | New Yorker Radio Hour (podcast)English
3·1 month agoGreat book, I need to listen to it again. But the interview will do for now!
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Videos@lemmy.world•The first really new compass since 1936 - I invented a new type of compass - The Map Reading CompanyEnglish
71·2 months agoIt’s kind of a disingenuous comparison in the video, but I understand why he did it. The one that settles slowly has no dampening, either fluid or an inductive plate, because he set its initial position by hand. Can’t really do that if it’s in a fluid, although he could have compared in other ways, like setting the initial position with another magnet or comparing to another induction dampened compass and emphasizing that you can see through his.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Listen to your employees English
30·2 months agoI had a boss that did this quarterly meeting where he’d schedule two full days to review everything he heard piecemeal once a week and it always ended up taking 3 and a half days. It was hell and we all hated it. The whole office had to sit in it, no one got any work done, and most of us fell asleep. No decisions were ever made and it was just to give himself the feel goods about telling his boss he knew what was going on.
Horrible boss. The running theory in the office was that he hated his family and didn’t want to go home
I might go back and read those again. If I remember right, they get dark as hell for kids books
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memes@lemmy.world•Steam down (Edit: its up again)English
27·2 months ago
The downdetector comments have descended immediately into utter madness
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Technology@lemmy.world•It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic FindsEnglish
12·2 months agoI’m convinced they’ll do it to themselves, especially as more books are made with AI, more articles, more reddit bots, etc. Their tool will poison its own well.





Watch videos and read some articles about it. There are different edge angles for different use cases, but you’ll generally aim for 20-25°. For things like razors and kitchen knives you’ll want a straight grind/edge and for more heavy use knives a slightly beveled edge is okay. Low grit is for large corrections like burrs and blunt spots. Those kinds of corrections will take a lot of time and you’ll want to look for uniformity before moving to higher grits for a sharper edge and eventually polish. Highly recommend starting with an angle tool and going slowly with a knife you don’t really care about. Work on keeping your angle and pressure consistent and don’t press down very hard. If you apply too much pressure you’ll damage both the edge and stone, especially for softer (higher grit) stones. Check your work regularly to make sure the edge is consistent, you’ll see it pretty clearly under a light. It takes practice. I’ve been freehand sharpening for about 20 years and I still mess up sometimes.
My biggest tip is regular maintenance! I clean and do a few passes on 3000 grit with my kitchen knife every time I use it and it’s been my sharpest knife for 10 years. And clean your stone! Residual steel will build up, making the stone less effective and also risking damage to the edge.