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Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds
  • For what it's worth, it seems like it's this "journalist" trying to make a sensational headline

    The researchers themselves very clearly just tried to see if it could happen in our reality

    "We decided to look at the probability of a given string of letters being typed by a finite number of monkeys within a finite time period consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe,"

  • Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations
  • -O2 vs -O3 adds -fgcse-after-reload -fipa-cp-clone -floop-interchange -floop-unroll-and-jam -fpeel-loops -fpredictive-commoning -fsplit-loops -fsplit-paths -ftree-loop-distribution -ftree-partial-pre -funswitch-loops -fvect-cost-model=dynamic -fversion-loops-for-strides

    I don't think any of these optimizations require more modern hardware?

  • Matrix 2.0 Is Here!
  • I've used Matrix since the app was called Riot.im and there was no encryption

    I didn't realize once encryption was added, that there were still metadata leaks as compared to Signal

    Could you give me some information on what metadata is unencrypted, or point me towards documentation about that?

  • Finally did it, got my parent on linux.
  • For historical info - Oracle bought OpenOffice and started to close it down, so all the developers that worked on it forked it into LibreOffice

    Oracle has since given OpenOffice to an open source group, Apache, but the main development still happens on LibreOffice

  • [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax?
  • I agree it's dumb, but I'm also trying to understand how politicians think changing the tax rate for healthier or less healthy foods can possibly affect behavior in the USA when it's set up this way in stores

    There's some evidence it somehow works https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/do-soda-taxes-work

    But I've never known what I'll be taxed on a specific item

  • How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax?

    I was looking at a grocery receipt, and there are three different tax rates depending on the items. The receipt doesn't even specify which items are taxed at which rate - just the total at each percentage.

    I understand the goal of lower or higher taxes on groceries is to incentivize purchasing healthier options over more processed foods, but does it really affect purchasing decisions when the final price of the items is opaque to the consumer?

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    Halo on the Gameboy Color

    sofaswordsman.itch.io Halo: Combat Devolved by SofaSwordsman

    A demake of the original Halo for Game Boy Color

    Halo: Combat Devolved by SofaSwordsman
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    Silverblue vs uBlue

    I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

    The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

    My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

    So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

    uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

    I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

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    Keyboard missing in text entries

    I'm not sure if this is an iOS bug or an issue with wefwef, but any time I select a text entry, I don't get a keyboard on an iPhone 13 running iOS 16.5.1 and wefwef 0.10.4.

    Is this a known issue?

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    Perpetual Night - Aconitum

    I tend to lean towards melodic death metal and symphonic metal, so hopefully this fits!

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