egerlach

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[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nebula link (if you have Nebula and would like to watch on a service that supports the creators more)

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

I… did not notice the community…

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

🤓

(Recent Aurora convert here. Always preferred KDE to GNOME, but no shade. All in the family, amiright?)

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

There needs to be some subset/common theme for the Universal Blue distro family: Aurora, Bazzite, and Bluefin. I am not aesthetically talented enough to come up with such a collection.

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

Do I spy a Bluefin user?

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago

SOLID often comes up against YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it).

What makes software so great to develop (as opposed to hardware) is that you can (on the small scale) do design after implementation (i.e. refactoring). That lets you decide after seeing how your new bit fits in whether you need an abstraction or not.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

It depends on what your goals are with the transit.

If you're trying to connect existing, dense areas, then buses are potentially fine.

If you're trying to guide future growth, buses are useless. Bus routes can change, train tracks can't. Developers will build around train stations because of this immovability.

That said, if what this poster says is true, then LRT might have been the right choice not just for the UBC extension, but the entire Millenium Line extension from Commercial-Broadway all the way to UBC. But try convincing the car-brained of that… Doug Ford is a good example of someone who thinks it's a good idea to spend 10s of billions on subway instead of 100s of millions on LRT.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If China is okay with the sale that means it's not good for the US. Danger, Will Robinson, danger!

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

An MP3 isn't a single FT or DCT of the entire waveform either. The format breaks the stream up into frames, which are then processed.

So when engineers say "it's a Fourier Transform" they mean:

"It's a Fourier Transform the same way that we use it in practice which is to first break up the audio in the time domain and then transform each chunk into the frequency domain using a Fourier Transform or Discrete Cosine Transform for analysis of that chunk of audio."

But it's quicker to just say "It's a Fourier Transform".

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Oh, I hope she doesn't run for President yet. It would be a waste of her talent. Not that I think she'd do a bad job (considering the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) but I don't think the electorate in the US is ready for her yet, and I think she has a lot she can contribute legislatively. I hope she unseats Schumer though. That's not only within reach but very doable.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's almost like he's a fully fledged, complex human being and not an avatar of one side of a highly simplified model of political thought.

He's quite "left-wing" (from a US Overton Window) on most issues. MTG was relatively early speaking out for Palestine. That doesn't make her a leftist, either

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just got back from my first (short) trip to Montréal in nearly 10 years. It's the most human city in Canada, IMO. This would be a very human-empowering step, which is on brand, IMO. I hope it passes.

Montréal isn't perfect, and neither is PR, but both are better than many alternatives, IMO.

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