Joe UchillCan I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?
DrJackMiller
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Medical Physicist. Nerd. Academic.
I have an overwhelming urge to share this. Try to quantify #nmr spectra with an R packaged called BATMAN, which performs a Bayesian automated quantification. It's excellent. It's really written in C++. 10 years ago. And the binary packages work. The _source_ packages however, segfault immediately unless I add specifically ` -O0 -ggdb -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2` to my `~/.R/Makevars`. Literally *everything* else segfaults with off-by-one-byte access errors in vectors and arrays. Great...
@researchfairy I'm in exactly the same boat. 5 TiB "free" allowance (for the millions spent per year on M$, at least), being reduced to "around 100 GiB". That is apparently enough for 97% of users! (I feel an urge to mention lognormal distributions here).
I _really dislike_ the fact that once-competent IT departments who hired graduates of the institution and _built things_ now seem to buy lots of stuff from M$ instead -- losing institutional knowledge, skills, and culture in the process.
Unnamed TNG skant beefcakeMcGill: Microsoft says server farms are destroying the planet, so we're limiting the institutional cloud disk space we're giving you to 20 GB only
CIHR: You're still required to keep all your original data sets for all your research until 5 years after the end of the grant though
Me: If you and Microsoft want to actually do something about the planet, maybe pull the plug on OpenAI instead
McGill: If you have questions about the new policy read the email again good luck bye!
@quixoticgeek
And then they went ahead anyway. Literally who the hell was asking for a pint of wine?!!?
And then they went ahead anyway. Literally who the hell was asking for a pint of wine?!!?
QuixoticgeekI find it reassuring that when the UK gov did it's consultation on bringing back barbarian stupid units. Over 98% of respondents said they wanted to just stick with metric.
Konstantinos Xynos
Sybren Stüvel 🧡🤍"This shocked me", about nudity in Baldur's Gate 3: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/826B2sKtcOY
Nudity doesn't shock me at all, it's part of being human. What I DO find shocking is all those games that find it acceptable to let you kill people at will, often with lots of blood & gore, but refuse to show even a nipple. THAT to me is much more disturbing than any nudity would be.
This will shock you in Baldur's Gate 3
The woeful UK government has just released this formal response to a consultation on "bringing back imperial measurements": https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales/outcome/choice-on-units-of-measurement-consultation-response. 99% of respondents thought it was a bad idea. Naturally, on the same day we get this excellent use of parliament time: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pints-of-wine-stocked-on-britains-shelves-for-the-first-time-ever
(Note the quotes around 'pint' because, I understand, the relevant legislation hasn't been adjusted yet).
I cannot begin to attempt to convey how stupid I think this all is. People are starving!
ssh://thepinkhacker.comI can't be the only one who has thought "what does the 'k' in KDE stand for?"
I swear, if it's recursive…