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I've had almost all my posts on Reddit go up in smoke for one pedantic reason or another. I haven't posted here much out of that fear but I think it's much better here.

tbh GoDaddy looks sussy too if you didn't know better lol

what are the new shapes

I know the differences between these metrics are inconsequential because the happiness view doesn't start at 0, but it still makes me want to shout "what the fuck are gentoo users so happy about" lol

I love to hate on musky boi as much as the next guy, but how does this actually compare to vehicular accidents and deaths overall? CGP Grey had the right idea when he said they didn't need to be perfect, just as good as or better than humans.

I feel you. I lost my job in January and I've had literally not even a single callback or interview. It's insane.

I have a friend like this, I'm a Nintendo collector and enjoying the hardware is my hobby. I know it's an expensive endeavor, and I don't expect anyone else to do it. I genuinely think any game should be up for piracy and emulation support, and it's incredible what can be done to make games look, sound, and play better than the original. But when I'm sitting there having fun with Metroid Fusion on my GBA SP and you sit there going "why would you ever do that when emulating is cheaper and better" I don't think you're conversing in good faith.

I'm honestly blown away by how many developers don't even know the basics of git

You'll NEVER GUESS what your results are!

That's basically it. Some Arch users are genuinely just picky about what they want on their system and desire to make their setup as minimal as possible. However, a lot of people who make it their personality just get a superiority complex over having something that's less accessible to the average user.

I don't really know about the uptick, but the general trend upward over a longer period of time I kind of wonder if it's due to things like the steam deck. I played around with gaming in Linux with wine back in the early 2010s and was woefully unimpressed with how little I could do, especially with the amount of work involved. I didn't really give it a second look at all, but after the deck released I was blown away by how much has improved, and it's motivated me to see how much I can get away with without windows. I wonder how many people have had a similar experience.

Trump: I'm rubber, and you're glue, and the things you say bounce off of me because ALL YOUR TEMPERAMENTS ARE TRASH AND I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT'S CALM!!!
Lester: Mr. Trump, your head is now literally a giant red steam whistle.
Trump: ... My microphone isn't working.

To kind of piggyback off this, some newer cities in the US do get built with curbing cars in mind. But there's definitely no easy fix for our systemic problem with infrastructure, and even if there was, cars are so deeply engraved in Americana that people here would fight it. It's an uphill battle, and self driving cars can help mitigate existing issues while we figure the rest out.

In smaller and mid size cities where I live, buses are the pretty decent form of public transportation, and I could absolutely see self driving sneak its way into there.

I get that conditions aren't ideal and that sucks, but progress comes in baby steps, and as long as the larger problems remain out of reach, these smaller ones help.

It's a great game and it was groundbreaking in the indie space, but you can't just live off the one game forever. Imagine if Toby Fox did that with Undertale. And then complained about not having money.

I remember a point around 2015ish where a lot of web apps went from recommending Firefox and Chrome for the best experience to just Chrome. Now I often see "don't use Firefox" as a support tactic.

Free comp sci tutoring (which I often do anyway), make free courses and hold seminars, and make significant contributions to open source! That would be such fulfilling work if I didn't have to worry about money.

I just want to have fun, no matter the length. I love Titanfall 2's campaign and it only takes a couple hours to complete, even shorter than most shooters. People complain that it's too short but I think that's its strength. But a lot of AAA games I've played just feel stretched and bloated like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry, where it's just not fun at all between all the tedious things I have to do.

While companies like Nintendo continually kill off game accessibility, Steam doesn't really take away games from anyone. Digital distribution may not be ownership, but Steam in particular hasn't given reason to worry.

As I've slowly been expanding my homelab, NextCloud caught my attention. I haven't tried it quite yet, but it might be closer to what you're looking for.

For real. I love Supergiant games and Bastion has been a personal inspiration in my gamedev journey, but I have Hades loving friends that look at me like I'm some kind of alien when I prefer doing another run in Dead Cells.

I'm with you, it's kind of annoying to see just how much people seethe over a platform. It looks exactly like what redditors did with IG, or TT, or emojis. I understand people's frustrations with TT, but as someone who's made content for both TT and YT shorts, engagement for small guys absolutely sucks on shorts and when TT is banned, there's basically no real alternative. Not only that, but I'm also very concerned about the precedent that's set by effectively censoring parts of the internet for Americans.

That being said I am also super pumped for Loops, I hope there's more updates soon because I've been keeping an eye on that for a while!

Side note, if anyone knows how I can play Splatoon on an emulator using my Wii U gamepad, I'm all ears lol

Yeah, some companies are very slow to adapt. One company I worked for was still using SVN. It was a nightmare lol, and when they did finally migrate to git, some of my coworkers were completely lost.

But there's also something to be said among developers I've worked with on hobbyist projects. Plenty of people who just shared files over and over, or just had it on Google drive or Dropbox

I kind of feel you, I left shortly after the blackout and it's taken some time to adjust to things. But I've seen a lot of good subs stood up since then, and a handful of them were direct equivalents to popular Reddit ones. Good luck!

I think the modern paradigm of frameworks and libraries really makes things confusing, because you can learn every single bit of vanilla JS and then Angular is still like a different language, just like all the rest. I started teaching myself in 2005 so I did have the advantage of a bit of the old world of programming, but I also wasn't allowed to own a computer and I spent years and years on graphing calculators and notepads learning the basic principles of what is now second nature to me. There's lots of great options people have already mentioned, C# or Python both are pretty good, but pick one and stick to it. A few months of daily work on it will get you far enough to get a grasp, and a few years of it will get you started on a career. But just get started with it and keep at it, I promise you will get it!

I had a VW Tiguan that had both, but the digital one didn't poll very often so it was incredibly unreliable. My Audi Q7 has both too, but the analog one is on a digital display, which is kind of weird to think about. Like a computer using an analog clock.

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I used to use Google Play Music for years but when they shut down YouTube Music has always been garbage by comparison. I just pirate the music I like and donate occasionally to artists I like.

I'm still having a hard time adjusting, to be honest. Granted much of reddit is full of reposts, even so there's still just a lot more content and interaction. I could and did spend all day on one or two subreddits, but here it's kind of checking in one a day and seeing maybe a few new posts. I don't have anything else though, so I'm just often left starving for content. But I just can't give spez the satisfaction of returning.

Oh no, I didn't even know those existed

Oh they're terrible

Thanks I hate it

I thought usually fish ate Australians unknown to science

There's not a lot of data to work with, and the kind of test used to determine significance is not the same across the board, but in this case you can do an analysis of variance. Start with a null hypothesis that the happiness level between distros are insignificant, and the alternative hypothesis is that they're not. Here are the assumptions we have to make:

• An alpha value of 0.05. This is somewhat arbitrary, but 5% is the go-to threshold for statistical significance.
• A reasonable sample size of users tested for happiness, we'll go with 100 for each distro.
• A standard deviation between users in distro groups. This is really hard to know without seeing more data, but as long as the sample size was large enough and in a normal distribution, we can reasonably assume s = 0.5 for this.

We can start with the total mean, this is pretty simple:

 (6.51 + 6.71 + 6.74 + 6.76 + 6.83 + 6.9 + 6.93 + 7 + 7.11 + 7.12 + 7.26) / 11 = 6.897

Now we need the total sum of squares, the squared differences between each individual value and the overall mean:

Arch:  (6.51 - 6.897)^2 = 0.150
Fedora:  (6.71 - 6.897)^2 = 0.035
Mint:  (6.74 - 6.897)^2 = 0.025
openSUSE:  (6.76 - 6.897)^2 = 0.019
Manjaro:  (6.83 - 6.897)^2 = 0.005
Ubuntu:  (6.9 - 6.897)^2 = 0.00001
Debian:  (6.93 - 6.897)^2 = 0.001
MX Linux:  (7 - 6.897)^2 = 0.011
Gentoo:  (7.11 - 6.897)^2 = 0.045
Pop!_OS:  (7.12 - 6.897)^2 = 0.050
Slackware:  (7.26 - 6.897)^2 = 0.132

This makes a total sum of squares of 0.471. With our sample size of 100, this makes for a sum of squares between groups of 47.1. The degrees of freedom for between groups is one less than the number of groups (df1 = 10).

The sum of squares within groups is where it gets tricky, but using our assumptions, it would be:

number of groups * (sample size - 1) * (standard deviation)^2

Which calculates as:

11 * (100 - 1) * (0.5)^2 = 272.25

The degrees of freedom for this would be the number of groups subtracted from the sum of sample sizes for every group (df2 = 1089)

Now we can calculate the mean squares, which is generally the quotient of the sum of squares and the degrees of freedom:

# MS (between)
47.1 / 10 = 4.71  // Doesn't end up making a difference, but just for clarity
# MS (within)
272.25 / 1089 = 0.25

Now the F-statistic value is determined as the quotient between these:

F = 4.71 / 0.25 = 18.84

To not bog this down even further, we can use an F-distribution table with the following calculated values:

• df1 = 10
• df2 = 1089
• F = 18.84
• alpha = 0.05

According to the linked table, the F-critical value is between 1.9105 and 1.8307. The calculated F-statistic value is higher than the critical value, which is our indication to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is a statistical significance between these values.

However, again you can see above just how many assumptions we had to make, that the distribution of the data within each group was great in number and normally varied. There's just not enough data to really be sure of any of what I just did above, so the only thing we have to rely on is the representation of the data we do have. Regardless of the intentions of whoever created this graph, the graph itself is in fact misrepresent the data by excluding the commonality between groups to affect our perception of scale. There's a clip I made of a great example of this:

There's a pile of reasons this graph is terrible, awful, no good. However, it's that scale of the y-axis I want to focus on.

This is an egregious example of this kind of statistical manipulation for the point of demonstration. In another comment I ended up recreating this bar graph with a more proper scale, which has a lower bound of 0 as it should. It's suggested that these are values out of 10, so that should be the upper bound as well. That results in something that looks like this:

In fact, if you wanted you could go the other way and manipulate data in favor of making something look more insignificant by choosing a ridiculously high upper bound, like this:

But using the proper scale, it's still quite difficult to tell. If these numbers were something like average reviews of products, it would be easy in that perspective to imagine these as insignificant, like people are mostly just rating 7/10 across the board. However, it's the fact that these are Linux users that makes you imagine that the threshold for the differences are much lower, because there just aren't that many Linux users, and opinions wildly vary between them. This also calls into question how that data was collected, which would require knowing how the question was asked, and how users were polled or tested to eliminate the possibility of confounding variables. At the end of the day I just really could not tell visually if it's significant or not, but that graph is not a helpful way to represent it. In fact, I think Excel might be to blame for this kind of mistake happening more commonly, when I created the graph it defaulted the lower bound to 6. I hope this was helpful, it took me way too much time to write 😂

I just finished watching the debate myself, I don't know if she dodged more than once, she certainly didn't do as much dodging as he did. But she 100% dodged answering why the Biden administration hasn't removed Trump-era tariffs without even a hint of addressing it. I'm not a big fan of what that entails, I think globalization in US economy might be coming to a screeching halt no matter who gets elected.

Just to kind of demonstrate that idea, I've recreated the graph in Excel with the axis starting at 0. I think Excel might actually be to blame for this happening so much, its auto selection actually wanted to pick 6, gross.

I wasn't even aware this existed! This is really cool. Normally I've just stuck to a brand that I know works for me, but this is far better.

Generative AI does not work like this. They're not like humans at all, it will regurgitate whatever input it receives, like how Google can't stop Gemini from telling people to put glue in their pizza. If it really worked like that, there wouldn't be these broad and extensive policies within tech companies about using it with company sensitive data like protection compliances. The day that a health insurance company manager says, "sure, you can feed Chat-GPT medical data" is the day I trust genAI.

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Yeah, effectively I'd want to use it as you could on Wii U, both displaying the second screen and interacting with the touchscreen. Splatoon in particular is extremely underrated with second screen use, being able to see and interact with the map in real-time is so much more useful than blocking your screen in future Splatoon games

Yeah, Photoshop is honestly a hard piece of software to replace because it frankly does so many different things quite well. Most of those things can be covered by breaking out into multiple software, like how I use Krita for illustration and Aseprite for pixel art, but yeah general image manipulation is really the main thing left.

It was super smart with offline streaming too, queuing up the smart downloads when you had no connection and requeuing your original mix when the connection returns. I relied on that for road trips and nothing comes close in functionality.

I didn't even know that... Dang, now I miss it even more