observantTrapezium

joined 2 years ago
[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I confirm this as a physics PhD. I also understand exactly this thinking of assuming a system is in thermal equilibrium where it is far from it (like a chicken in am oven).

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago (7 children)

205°C 😂😂😂

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Full disk encryption with LUKS. Don't really see much point in a TPM for booting my personal device, although it definitely has use cases and I don't know what's backdoorsy about it.

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about raising parking fees and lowering transit fares in general, not just during certain times?

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'll keep it in mind next time I have to deal with this problem (hopefully never but who knows).

A few years ago I was in contact with researchers that were developing an AI tool to parse PDFs (I think they didn't care about converting to editable formats, but extracting data), from their material I got the impression that it's extremely difficult to do right using traditional algorithms.

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a curse because it's used for things other than what it's intended to. It's doing a good job representing printed material, but unfortunately people very commonly expect it to be something more akin to a word processor file.

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I know the pain. While there are definitely solutions that work sometimes, there's just no "one size fits all" that I'm aware of. PDFs can represent text very differently internally.

What I did for one project where extracting the text produced a complete mess was to convert the PDF pages to images and then OCR them...

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hate? Digital decluttering feels really good, for me anyway.

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

No. But funny how people interpret posts in their own cultural context. When reading the post just literally, it's clearly about polygamy.

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Very typical projection ("I'm not political, you are"), but the reactions are unnecessary in my opinion (feeding the trolls as some would say). If you don't like the attitude of the maintainer, fork it if you like, ignore it if you don't.

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's actually really easy to remember when considering the Proto-West Germanic etymology, one comes from *hwār, the othe from *hwaʀ. Just apply regular sound changes to find the modern form!

 

There are apparently underground passages connecting the hospitals on University Avenue and all the way to Queen's Park TTC station. I couldn't find a map or even many references to its existence. This Instagram post is the most I could find, but it's unclear if it's open to the public, or how to get there.

Anybody here has experience with it?

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