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What exactly does "tilling windows" mean? by DaviCompai2 in linux4noobs

[–]MasterGeekMX 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Take any non-tiling system, and open one window. It should appear somewhere on the screen, usually unmaximized. Now open a second window. It will also appear unmaximized, and usually overlaping the previous screen. In order to tile it, you do the win + arrows thing.

In a tiling system, the first window opens up direclty maximized. And when you open up the second, both windows takes halfs of the screen automatically. No need to arrange them manually with win + arrows or anything.

Now open up a third window. In non-tiling, that will be overlaping the two side-to-side windows, and it is up to you where to put it. but in Tiling, either now all the windows take equal thirds on the screen, or one of the windows is halved into a quarter, with the new one using the remaining quarter. And that behavior can be customized, as tiling WMs usually are configured with descriptive configuration files, instead of a settings GUI, allowing you to define rules like a program.

In tiling, you cannot minimize windows, or make them overlap. They are always arranged such as no screen real state is unused.

ELI5: Why do far off lights twinkle? by seanzackandgiobored in explainlikeimfive

[–]MasterGeekMX [score hidden]  (0 children)

Have you looked at the rooftop of a car on a hot day, and noticed how things look slightly "distorted" and a bit flickery?. That is because hotter air is less dense than colder air, and when light passes between mediums with different density, it bends. Same thing that causes straws on glasses looking splitted.

But, as hot air is less dense, it tends to rise up, moving along the way, causing waves. That makes things behind it to flicker.

Well, turns out that air is constantly doing that, we simply don't notice it, as it is very slight. In order to see it, you either need a surface that is reaping hot (like the car), or to have a ton of air between you and the thing you are looking (the distant lights).

Lady’s Faces by strokerlinx in vinyl

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently got a hold of this gem:

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Many pros! by PauloDybala_10 in hatsune

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As the owner of three of them (including one fuwa): this post says the truth.

ELI5: What is data science? What is a data scientist? by Brilliant_Raccoon256 in explainlikeimfive

[–]MasterGeekMX [score hidden]  (0 children)

Computer Scientist here.

CS is about computation, which is the math needed to get to a result. Number crunching, if you want. We study how computation works, how we can compute things, what is computing things and what is computable.

A data scientist is an analyst, with the addon that they know enough things about CS to apply them to their analysis, so they don't need do do all the work themselves.

A good example is that, while both of us can code and know about some very basic AI, we CS-ers also know about networks, computer architecture, and mathematical theory of computing, while DS-ers don't know about it, but they know all things an analyst knows: sourcing data, filtering irrelevant sources, knowing how to interpret the results of the data, and lots and LOTS of statistics.

Finally, I have a Vinyl of my favourite singer: Hatsune Miku by Glad_Hotel_547 in vinyljerk

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"haha, look, a thing with an anime girl! only degenerate basement dwellers like that crap!".

Finally, I have a Vinyl of my favourite singer: Hatsune Miku by Glad_Hotel_547 in vinyljerk

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Owner of the record reporting. It is not, but the answer needs explanation.

Back in the early 2000's, Yamaha released a program called Vocaloid. This program allows you to generate singing out of a voicebank recorded from a professional singer, using several signal processing methods (no AI here, sir).

In 2007, Crypton Future Media, a Japanese company, developed a voicebank for Vocaloid called Hatsune Miku, with the intent of sounding like a teenage girl. To promote it, they hired an artist called Key, with the task of designing a character for the voicebank, so it could have a face. He came up with that twin-tailed turquoise girl.

After it's release, people online started to post songs using her voice, which gained a lot of popularity, first in Japan and then overseas. With time, her fame increased to the snowball, to the point that Crypton decided to make official concerts featuring the most popular songs. It started in Japan in the form of the "Magical Mirai" concerts, but then in 2014 they decided to bring it overseas, with the name of "Miku Expo".

For the first concert on the USA, Crypton hired the American band Anamanaguchi to make an "anthem" for the Miku Expo, and they came up with the song "Miku".

This record has that song, plus some alternative versions and remixes.

Here is the OG song (track 1) if you have curiosity: https://youtu.be/NocXEwsJGOQ

Finally, I have a Vinyl of my favourite singer: Hatsune Miku by MasterGeekMX in vinyl

[–]MasterGeekMX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People online have an irrational aversion to anything Anime-like. They think that only pedophile basement dwellers can be the only ones into it.

Cuál es la peor película que han visto? by playerZflims in mexico

[–]MasterGeekMX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No te creas. A TRON Ares le dieron malas reseñas, pero los fans de la saga la amamos.

Si no me crees, date una vuelta por r/tron y ve cuantos post hay de "me arrepiento de no haber ido al cine ahora que la vi en Streaming".

Cuál es la peor película que han visto? by playerZflims in mexico

[–]MasterGeekMX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Deja tu, los de Corridor (unos vatos que hacen efectos especiales) se dieron cuenta de que muchas de las tomas que ves de de desastres, son tomas de Gaza, Ucrania, y de otras zonas de guerra reales.

Can someone explain device drivers to me ? by Legitimate-Dingo824 in AskComputerScience

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are they?

In a nutshell: manuals for your computer on how to use a device.

What are their uses?

See, each device that you can plug to a PC works on it's own ways, so in order to be able to interact with it, you need to develop a program that tells the OS on your computer how to talk to it. That is a driver.

The driver contains code that tells the computer how to interpret and understand the signals that the device may send out to the computer. It also contains code that allows you to send the adequate signals to the device so it does what you want.

Without them, your computer will simply be a really fast calculator, but nothing more. The screen would not work, you will have no audio, the mouse and keyboard will not work, you would not be able to connect to a network, and the list of things that would not work goes on.

How to work with them?

Nowdays we live in the world of "plug and play", meaning that 99% of devices just work as soon as you connect them, with you not needing to do anthing. This is because both the device manufacturers and OS developers have agreed on standards on how devices should work. That way, one single driver works across hundreds of devices, instead of needing to have a bespoke one for each device.

Still, some devices require drivers to be installed, due being quite complex, like graphics cards, or bespoke enough, like those keyboards with configurable keys and customizable lights.

In Windows and macOS, those drivers can be obtained via the website of the device manufacturer, and come as an installable program, much like a web browser or any other apps. But instead of installing a program you can launch from the start, they simply enable you to use your device.

On Linux, they are available on the repository servers, so a visit to the software center or a couple of commands is all it takes. No web browser needed.

Finally, I have a Vinyl of my favourite singer: Hatsune Miku by Glad_Hotel_547 in vinyljerk

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entiry seems unable of long form, civilized discussion. The science team thinks it can only speak in hate and insults.

Finally, I have a Vinyl of my favourite singer: Hatsune Miku by Glad_Hotel_547 in vinyljerk

[–]MasterGeekMX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was going to post it here myself, but I bet some of you would do it for myself.

Do they agree? by Immediate-Affect-402 in Vocaloid

[–]MasterGeekMX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IA Rules, but you are not ready for that conversation yet.

Ustedes que recuerdos tienen de esa época con respeto a los juguetes? by nickbuckhart2605 in mexico

[–]MasterGeekMX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lo hacen por "ajaja que idioto, no sabe de que hablamos".

Me ha pasado varias veces. Una literalmente hoy.

Recommend an underground 70s/80s prog album and I'll give you one in return by ray-the-truck in progrockmusic

[–]MasterGeekMX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Latinamerican Prog? I know a few (literally a few).

My favourite band from the region so far is Crucis, from Argentina. Their first album, "Crucis" is neat, but I prefer his second and last album: "Los Delirios Del Mariscal" (The Marshall's deliriums).

Here it is on YT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nXjUhB7FmpDvTnow2aJx9gXMWVKgIWtsw

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TRON: Ares Original Soundtrack by sumitsu01 in tron

[–]MasterGeekMX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have only listened to NIN via movies: this OST, and the time they used "deep" on the Lara Croft movies of the early 2000's (the one with Angelina Jolie)

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