Andy Zaltzman's bubbles task was a thing of beauty, it's only right that he got the top marks.
Then him dragging that spot around on the final task, chef's kiss
Talking of, Emma Sidi's abysmal throwing was wonderful (and Baba channelling Dr McCoy).
Jack Dee is turning out to be the mostly-joyless joy we knew he would be.
In the studio task, did Rosie just completely fluke into the right answer with a vaguely plausible reason?
We have a new series! Let's discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.
Spoilers ahead.
Shame on you APNews for not including any Hoiho memes
Mirror for NYTimes article: https://archive.ph/C7Z6g
The term you want is "cross compile". I've developed simple programs for the Pi on Windows and it's simple enough to produce a static binary (using Rust, anyway). When extra dependencies come in it's better to develop on the same OS, but targeting different architectures is the easy bit.
Token-based string distances looks like exactly what I need for my current side project - I'm using Levenshtein but I should be comparing based on words, not characters.
I just need to figure out which (if any) of these does what I need.
Edit: looks like the Python version has that information: https://github.com/life4/textdistance?tab=readme-ov-file#algorithms
stacking prefixes is disallowed (e.g. 10 k km), and because using mega is both correct and more concise (e.g. 10 Mm).
If you're talking distances and you say Mm, I'm far more likely to assume you mean millimetres. It might be technically correct, but it's bad communication.
How did you find Leptos to work with? I never got further than the tutorial so I have yet to form a real opinion on it.
The first thing to happen is that any liquids (saliva, tears, blood) will start to boil in the very low pressure, but your body won't explode like in some films. This boiling will pull heat from your body causing your nose and mouth to nearly freeze.
Another film trope is that you freeze over, but you'll often overheat first since you can't radiate your heat away quickly enough (depending on if you're in sunlight or not).
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24946971
> TL;DW: > > > Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? > > At some point in the future, yes. > > > Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? > > In theory, yes. > > Scott expresses concerns that current startups have not adequately addressed some of the practical challenges, such as cooling.
Yewtube mirror: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=d-YcVLq98Ew
Scott Manley discusses Lumen Orbit's plan to data centres in space and whether it or not makes sense.
Oh, you're right - somehow I missed seeing the entire bottom third of the image.
And they've highlighted the whole of the UK for "England". Scotland has the thistle, Wales has the daffodil and Wikipedia says that flax is widely used as a symbol of Northern Ireland.
I think of England's rose as red, because of the rugby.
Why are you quoting a US site for a case in China?
This video takes a deep dive into the realities of commercial-scale haggis farming in Scotland. Exploring the industry's impact on animal welfare, it uncovers the ethical concerns surrounding the production of farmed haggis.
I recognised it at three, but couldn't name it. Turns out even with multiple choice I'd still be guessing!
Conversely, if the pricing is due to an error, the company can petition the court to annul the purchase contract, allowing it to refund customers without the necessity of delivering the goods.
Surely, this will apply.
It's a subtle difference between that and path::exists().
path::exists()==falsemight just mean you can't use it (if path::exists() cannot access a file due to e.g. permissions, it'll return false)fs::exists()==Ok(false)means it's definitely not there (permissions error will cause an Err to be returned)
This has been in my daily set for a while now, definitely worth your time. It also has a larger weekly version, along with archives of both types going back years.
I'm on Android (using Firefox), so I was thinking it might be different on a system without apps, but it seems you're on mobile too. How strange.
Yes, but it just asks me where to share the URL. If I send it to the clipboard, it's just
Perhaps it's different on a desktop?
1820, but I don't see where you can export the breakdown.
Bad wording on my part, I wasn't disagreeing. My file server has a /files directory because it saves me a few key strokes and because I can.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18316051
> Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website). > > Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18316051
> Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website). > > Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.
Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website).
Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16786687
Piped mirror: https://piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s
This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023\*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.
I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.
\* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500
> xkcd \#2942: Fluid Speech > > https://xkcd.com/2942 > > explainxkcd.com for \#2942 > > Alt text: > > Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
xkcd \#2942: Fluid Speech
https://xkcd.com/2942
Alt text: > Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
https://xkcd.com/2937
Alt text:
> Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.
While curious about the Centauri accent, I found this 2001 interview with Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari) and Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia).
http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/jurasik22feb01.htm
> The quick story about the accent, if I can tell you how I patchworked it together, is I was doing a play downtown, a Tennessee Williams play, and I worked really hard on a Memphis accent. I felt like I had really nailed it. But one L.A. critic nailed me and said, "That’s a terrible Memphis accent. That doesn’t sound like a Southern accent." I was really hurt. About that time was when "The Gathering," the pilot, showed up. I called Joe and said, "What do you want me to sound like?" He said, "Let him sound like whatever you want," so I purposely took a couple of different things. There’s a character who plays the parole officer in A Clockwork Orange, the guy who’s always saying, "And night-time is the best time, um, yes?" I took my Czechoslovakian grandmother. I had spent three consecutive summers in Ireland. I didn’t always take sounds; I took rhythms. Londo had a kind of musical thing.
The whole thing's worth a read, they seemed to be having fun.
This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.
Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring
Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)
Ruling means music in Russian republic must ‘conform to Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm’
- Chechnya officials have banned music deemed too fast or slow, restricting compositions to a tempo of 80-116 BPM.
- Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision at a meeting, as reported by TASS.
- The ban affects all musical, vocal, and choreographic compositions in the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
Chechnya is a republic of Russia since losing the Second Chechen War but this means that the Russian national anthem, at just 76 BPM, is also banned.
This year's (belated, as is tradition) April Fool's XKCD is written in the Rapier.rs physics engine.
It's like The Incredible Machine, but each person can contribute a cell towards the larger machine.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17292833
> Abandoned industrial building 2/8
> Brand new #Taskmaster starts 28th March on Channel 4 and 29th March outside the UK on YouTube.
From this teaser (Youtube short): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Acq7mRa9ZYk
Contestants: Joanne McNally, John Robins, Nick Mohammed, Sophie Willan, and Steve Pemberton.
I'm hoping they have musical tasks to allow Nick Mohammed to shine. I still can't hear the Jurassic Park theme without singing along with his words.
Isolated for six months one winter, a group of scientists changed how they spoke.
> they were taking part in an unusual experiment, which involved tracking their own voices over time. This was done by making 10-minute recordings every few weeks. They would sit in front of a microphone and repeat the same 29 words as they appeared on a computer screen. Food. Coffee. Hid. Airflow.
> One of those changes was the "ou" sound in words such as "flow" and "sew" that shifted towards the front of the vocal tract.
I'm not actually sure what sound change they're describing there. Can anyone explain with examples or IPA?
edit: Cheers for the answers (turns out I misunderstood which part is the vocal tract)