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Zangoose

@ Zangoose @lemmy.world

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  • Pipewire/Wireplumber set volume based on node name

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  • I don't think it's a process ID? I have 2 virtual pipewire devices (one called "chat-mic" and one called "chat-speaker"). Pipewire devices (nodes) also have ID numbers, but they are assigned when the device is initialized on startup and aren't guaranteed to be the same between reboots

  • What's your favorite anime? Only tell us by quoting it and seeing if we can guess

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  • I'm headcanonning this comment as the finger gun scene from Komi regardless of whether or not I'm right

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    What's the higest quality version of something like this without having to support Nestle?

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  • Even if you're being serious, that still gives them attention though. If you're actually serious about boycotting Nestle, don't buy, talk about, or consume their products.

    The only acknowledgement you should give them is spreading the word about all the terrible things they do (and maybe alternative-to posts like this one if you don't know how to replace their products)

  • We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica

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  • The prison system also doesn't actually make a net-profit even in the US, it only makes money for specific people (the owners of the private prisons and the systems benefitting off of prisoners' free labor). The government actually loses billions of dollars per year maintaining prisons 🙃

  • Is there any lemmy server hosted from the USA ?

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  • Oh damn fair enough I didn't look at their profile

  • Is there any lemmy server hosted from the USA ?

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  • If I get blocked, oh well 🤷. Who knows what could be the thing that opens up someone's eyes?

    I have a lot of family members that I was pretty close to before they started being MAGA fans in the past year or 2. Maybe it's the optimist in me but I'd like to hope that people can realize how much widespread hate and damage Trump (and conservative media in general) is causing to the US.

  • Is there any lemmy server hosted from the USA ?

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  • One of the first things Trump did as president this year was take away the White House press passes from journalists he disagreed with...

    He has been denying free speech (anything against him) since day 1. The only time he likes free speech is when it degrades other people and allows him to push lies/misinformation to the public.

  • What majors should I take (CS or Management)?

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  • If you've always wanted to pursue CS, do CS.

    Honestly, there's a lot of hype around AI. Companies are trying to figure out how to incorporate LLMs into their workflows, but no one has meaningfully succeeded yet past using it as an automated StackOverflow (which is usually wrong or outdated, just like StackOverflow). Yeah, startups will claim that things like cursor have saved them hundreds or thousands of working hours, but then they get burned their AIs leave in their API keys and code security flaws into their services. In the best case, they've created a nightmare codebase that will raise the turnover rates for their software developers significantly.

    If you are actually passionate about CS, get a CS degree and don't use AI for problem solving. Maybe debugging/concept explanations if it gets better, but don't let it solve problems for you. Designing solutions, to problems, critically thinking about their strengths/weaknesses, and working through them is exactly what a CS degree is supposed to teach you how to do, so don't throw that away by having AI do your work for you.

  • What majors should I take (CS or Management)?

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  • This is absolutely not true. Yes, the computer science field is constantly changing, which is exactly why having a strong grasp of fundamentals is incredibly beneficial. Any competent CS program will be teaching you how to approach programming in general (data structures, concepts, algorithms, protocol design, etc.) instead of focusing directly on specific languages. This is exactly because technology changes so frequently.

    In my entire 4-year CS degree, I only took 1 class where the content in that class was specific to a certain programming language or technology. That class was called "Programming in C++" and it was an optional elective class. Sure, a lot (not all) of my classes were based on specific languages (Java, JS and frameworks, Lisp, C, C++, python, etc.) but the content in them was easily applicable to most general programming. In some of my classes we were free to use whichever language we wanted as long as we could get the compiler running on the submission server's docker environment.

    Yes, you can probably still become a software developer if you are dedicated enough to learning on your own, but in the current job market getting a CS job is definitely not a given anymore, especially when you'll be competing against 1000s of other resumes with CS degrees on them. But a CS degree will make that learning process a lot easier, and will probably give you a more complete understanding of everything.

  • In how many languages can you count to 10?

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  • Why does that assembly code use a global variable for a loop value?? It's also ignoring register conventions (some registers need to be preserved before being modified by a function) which would probably break any codebase you use this in

  • Don't do it

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  • Is it bad that I already knew what this would print the moment I read the meme?

  • Why aren't lemmy DMs compatible with mastodon?

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  • Doesn't W3C already maintain the ActivityPub protocol?

    Edit: nevermind I misunderstood this

  • Days since last Rust Minecraft server

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  • Probably performance - the Java server takes up a lot of memory and CPU for what it does. The base implementation first started in 2011, so it wasn't exactly designed to be multithreaded or parallelized because most games were still largely single-threaded at the time. Rewriting it from scratch in a different language probably helps with that

  • Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O.

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  • Somehow this post has negative down votes and I'm all for it.

  • GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser

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  • Isn't servo mostly a Mozilla-led project? I thought servo would probably just replace gecko as the engine firefox used if it ends up succeeding

  • Give us a shoutout

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  • Reaching a middle ground on an Internet discussion? No, it can't be. There must be something wrong here. I need to keep arguing about minor things like daily routines. Why else would I be here?

    /s if it wasn't obvious. This thread makes me happy, have a good day :)

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  • Obviously, it's a silly semantic debate, and someone could equally judge me for wanting my coffee beans roasted and ground "why not eat the berries fresh if you say you love coffee‽".

    My point is that it would be silly to judge someone for this, just like it's silly to judge someone for putting creamer in coffee.

    Edit: also, what about drinks like mochas, cappuccinos, macchiatos, etc. which also have other ingredients mixed in? Generally it's still fine to call those forms of coffee, no?

    Random side note: I've had chocolate-dipped espresso beans before and they're actually a pretty good snack. You just can't eat too many of them because of the caffeine content.

  • Yelon

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  • I think the idea is that you can eventually get an approximation of whatever wave-like curve you want by merging several pure sin/cos functions with varying amplitudes, wavelengths, and offsets

    Fun fact: this is mostly how JPEG works - it uses fourier transforms to approximate an image in a way that takes up much less storage than storing information about each pixel.

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  • Yeah that's still gatekeeping though. Coffee is coffee regardless of what you put in it. Even if it's gross according to my own individual taste, it's still coffee. Saying anything else is just "better-than-you" gatekeeping.

    Edit: it's also nothing like your example at all, because coffee with creamer is still literally made with real coffee, while an apple jacks pop tart is almost definitely not made with real apples.