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  • And please don’t confuse straight with upright. Once you start measuring with a straightedge you’ve lost the plot, what you’re rather looking for is minimising the sum of squares of muscle tension differences (because tensegrity)… even of the muscles you’re not aware of. That’s why it’s utterly, utterly unlikely that you’ll ever get good posture by means of holding any position. Exercise fostering good movement patterns (and with that solid mobility) is the way to do it, look into the direction of callisthenics, internal martial arts, suchlike. Things that are whole movement systems. If in doubt go swimming: Because it’s weightless it’s pretty much impossible to make anything worse because there’s really no way to do it wrong. Short of drowning.




  • And I still can’t find a phone that has a replaceable battery, proper IP rating, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, alternatively, costs thrice as much as the potato display and CPU would warrant. You can get two of the things, but not all three. I won’t even begin to speak of having an unlocked bootloader, or, while having the rest in place, also a flush camera. FFS I’d be fine with no camera I just don’t want a hump. I’d be fine with 720p, it’s a tiny screen after all, but good contrast and not 8k doesn’t seem to be a thing that companies think anyone would be interested it.

    Stop fucking innovating, just apply lessons already learned. Design a phone with the mindset of designing a bottle opener.



  • They started the whole thing. They invented and implemented a whole programming language to implement the thing. Then they integrated Stylo (Servo’s CSS engine) and a couple smaller bits into Firefox which made it a hell a lot faster. Then they set Rust free and shelved Servo because from the perspective of Firefox going forwards with rewriting more in Rust would’ve been a lot of investment for diminishing returns. Stylo was the big one, enabling before unseen parallelism in rendering.

    Servo, even with FSFE funding, still has ways to go. Ladybird, I wonder why they even bother. If they want a C++ browser engine that hasn’t been touched by big money then there’s KHTML, Webkit/Chromium’s direct ancestor. There’s a reason KDE dropped development: It wasn’t worth the effort. Qt wasn’t willing to pick it up either.


  • barsoap@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.worldThere are teenagers on the fediverse.
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    Quoth Article 8:

    1. Where point (a) of Article 6(1) applies, in relation to the offer of information society services directly to a child, the processing of the personal data of a child shall be lawful where the child is at least 16 years old.
      Where the child is below the age of 16 years, such processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.
      Member States may provide by law for a lower age for those purposes provided that such lower age is not below 13 years.
    2. The controller shall make reasonable efforts to verify in such cases that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child, taking into consideration available technology.
    3. Paragraph 1 shall not affect the general contract law of Member States such as the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract in relation to a child.

    The referenced point (a) is in the conditions for data processing to be lawful:

    the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

    In essence: The age of consent is 16 when it comes to your personal data. A completely different question is whether lemm.ee even processes personal data, even more so in a matter that requires consent. Because unless you doxx yourself lemm.ee knows nothing more about you than your IP and, presuming best practices, only keeps limited logs around for strictly technical purposes which don’t need consent. That point (a) is only one condition under which personal data can be processed, there’s also b, c, d, e, and f.

    …not that I’m saying that the legal notice is bad it’s good. It’s overzealous and overcautious going beyond the letter of the law and event intent, reaching into the fabled realms of actually giving a fuck. Like, if the law says “assault is bad” then this notice is saying “please all cuddle, ok?”



  • There’s also a lot of efficiency in hardware-specific kernels. A generic rocm build vs. one with hand-written kernels (not even for the proper card just a close enough one to have the same instructions) is like a 10x performance drop. That’s on the matrix multiply up to convolve these tensors level, on the layer above that you then have things like smart memory management and scheduling as well as minimising how much work needs to be done in the first place (re-ordering operations so tensors stay small) and stuff.

    You can port cuda code to vulkan or opencl – but you’re going to have to reimplement all of that. Just getting the BLAS layer to not suck is a challenge.


  • Chakalaka.

    Dice an onion and a bell pepper, throw it into plenty of fat, sizzle until the onions are glassy, add some chilli (pickled is fine the end result can use some acid), not too little English curry powder, mix well, making sure the powder is roasted (it changes taste quite drastically), top with a grated carrot or two (veggie proportions are up to taste), put on the lid and let steam on medium heat (err towards low), once steamed (the carrot shreds basically fall apart) add a can of baked beans. Those don’t need to be cooked, just let the stuff stand for a bit until everything is at equal temperature.

    Eat as-is or with whatever, rice works well. Probably works with any curry mix I just happen to be out of Thai for a surprising amount of time now so I didn’t try yet. Size-wise I’d say that the onion should be cut about half the size the beans are, and the bell pepper pieces to be about twice as large as the beans. If you want carrot pieces you can do that but I’d still suggest shredding some so that it can dissolve some sweetness into the saucy part.