towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In France, no one spoke English even though I spoke loudly and slowly

Haha, reminds me of a holiday ages ago in France.
Someone left their handbag behind or something, and my friend said "I'll sort it out, I know French". To be fair, he did. But when I went back to tell him where we ended up, he was speaking slowly and loudly to the poor french person.

Which reminds me of another time in France, having breakfast. I ordered "orange juice" and the waiter looked confused. So I said it again slower, and his face lit up and said "ah, jus d'orange".

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Absolutely right, that should be 20 years. I guess I'm already preparing for my 40s

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I'm late 30s.
I can't remember <13. So, at least the last 30+ years I've had 4 pairs of sunnies. Maybe 5 pairs.
I've still got 2 of those pairs.
I'm tempted to get a fancy pair that look good instead of just sunnies that look good enough (ie, more than $100). I just don't wear them enough... Maybe a couple weeks a year?
What's the point in buying good sunglasses, and why would I lose a pair?
I've had the same wallet for 15 years, I've been locked out once, and I've lost my phone about 3 times (all of which I've got my phone back).

I'm recovering from about 10 years of undiagnosed depression. Recently (like a year) it has affected my short term memory, to the point I thought I had ADHD or something else. Effecting my work, my ability to live day-to-day, my socialmlife.
I now realise, while ADHD might be a factor, undiagnosed depression has devastated who I am VS who I think I am and who I want to be.

Are there other explanations for your forgetfulness?
Is it age related? Anything else you find you are forgetting?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I feel like for a long time, CUDA was a laser looking for a problem.
It's just that the current (AI) problem might solve expensive employment issues.
It's just that C-Suite/managers are pointing that laser at the creatives instead of the jobs whose task it is to accumulate easily digestible facts and produce a set of instructions. You know, like C-Suites and middle/upper managers do.
And NVidia have pushed CUDA so hard.

AMD have ROCM, an open source cuda equivalent for amd.
But it's kinda like Linux Vs windows. NVidia CUDA is just so damn prevalent.
I guess it was first. Cuda has wider compatibility with Nvidia cards than rocm with AMD cards.
The only way AMD can win is to show a performance boost for a power reduction and cheaper hardware. So many people are entrenched in NVidia, the cost to switching to rocm/amd is a huge gamble

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Yeh, seems not

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I felt like adding something about the specific case of 180° between edges and a vertice.
Makes sense.
And I guess too many vertices means an open set of edges (ie not close, this not a shape).
I was kinda hoping for a strange edge case, like a mobius strip or Klein bottle.

I guess a mobius strip is a 2d representation of a 1d paradigm. And a klein bottle is a 3d representation of a 2d paradigm.
It would be too much to ask of a 1d representation of a ??d paradigm.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

I feel my comment adds to the discussion and wants more details.
But it was too simply phrased.
I guess the details of such a question should be obvious. And if you need the details, the question doesn't actually add the the discussion... It just seems idiotic!

I felt like there might be a really cool scenario where a vertice isn't considered a vertice.
Like, there actually might be some case on a 2d plane "where actually" applies.
I'm fine being wrong

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What if it had 3 corners and 4 edges? Or 4 corners and 3 edges?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Just wait until you learn about the etymology of triceratops

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

One... Two... Four!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

I guess there is a difference between "it's known to happen" and "a nation state accuses another nation state"

[–] towerful@programming.dev 45 points 2 months ago

I know this is fuckcars, but park-and-ride schemes are to remove cars from city centers.
Park out of town, get a bus in for the day, bus back, and drive home.
They are fairly popular and fairly effective around the UK.

Yeh, it would be great if everyone had excellent bus/train service, but this is a decent stop gap

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