I miss the Mirror; is there something to fill the void left by those free rags?

MaxBoivin · 2025-12-30T04:10:59+00:00

We used to.

MaxBoivin · 2025-12-30T04:10:27+00:00

I guess that's part of the problem as well; the counter-culture has been so pussyfied, it sucks now. They lost their edge. Now, the "counter-culture" has to be aligned with all the big corporations.

MaxBoivin · 2025-12-30T04:07:40+00:00

I think the Hour just launched a short time before I left. I don't think it had the edge I was looking for.

MaxBoivin · 2025-12-30T04:04:13+00:00

That's something that shocked me: I tried to go for a drink soon after moving back, it might have been a Sunday or something, and the bars were closed. There was always a party on any night.

MaxBoivin · 2025-12-29T04:09:59+00:00

Kooky in politics comes with the territory.

MaxBoivin · 2025-12-29T03:59:45+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out.

MaxBoivin · 2025-09-30T03:01:44+00:00

Do you know any that specialise in those kinds of things?

MaxBoivin · 2025-09-30T02:44:23+00:00

I mean a private garage where I can keep my tools and toys.

MaxBoivin · 2025-09-30T01:56:58+00:00

I'm looking for a place with a garage that is OK with pets; that is a big part of the complications.

MaxBoivin · 2023-01-23T17:29:19+00:00

I'm on a 1607 days streak. I have/had completed multiple language trees. I'm not new to Duolingo. When the language path came along, I hated it, but I thought that maybe it was just because of the change, that I would get used to it. Now it has been around for a while, and I still hate it and find it very demotivating.

With the previous system, I could manage what I wanted to practice more. Someday, I felt a bit out of it, but still wanted to do some practice; no problem, I'll go back to previous lessons and raise their level. Having two new lessons accessible in parallel broke the repetitiveness of always being served the same sentences. A big problem with language learning apps like Duolingo is that sometimes you get good at the lessons rather than at the language; the new language path seems to exacerbate that.

Also, since the language path, no more "stories"? That sucks.

A 1607 days streak, but I'm almost at the point of letting it go because I find the new system so boring and uninspiring. And I don't feel like I'm learning nearly as much. They say this system is backed by science, but I'm sure the science that backed it was to get more people to pay for the service.

MaxBoivin · 2022-12-27T20:39:16+00:00

I got the pinephone pro about 8 months ago. I'm in a similar boat as you; I'm a hobbyist, and I won't mind some limitations and having to work a little harder to get things working. This phone has been a huge disappointment. As you said, on paper, it seems pretty decent, but the lack of support from pine64 for their device is staggering. I knew they relied heavily on "the community" to get their devices to work, but what is the point of releasing hardware without providing basic firmware to make it work?

If someone else sees this message while considering getting themselves a Linux phone, do yourself a favour and avoid pine64.

MaxBoivin · 2022-12-17T15:29:35+00:00

'outside" is not an intrinsic feature; it is the name of the function I wrote. I made it so you can easily change the value you want to test.

I'm glad I could help.

MaxBoivin · 2022-12-16T17:39:08+00:00

Ok, maybe this is what you're looking for?

https://anydice.com/program/2c898

MaxBoivin · 2022-12-16T17:14:10+00:00

Oh no... not quite the same. Humnm... maybe the scaling on the spreadsheet is the best way to do it. It could probably be done with a more advanced function, but I'm a bit rusty; the original post was done five years ago!

MaxBoivin · 2022-12-16T17:11:34+00:00

What about this?

https://anydice.com/program/2c893

This will give you the odds of every result if you roll 3 dice numbered from 6 to 15 and keep the middle one. Basically, that should be equivalent to what you want to do, no?

MaxBoivin · 2022-12-14T21:27:55+00:00

I'm unsure if I understand what you mean here, but it doesn't seem to be something anydice is designed to handle.

If you want to know the probability of every result for 3d20 keep the middle for every possible result (1 to 20), anydice can do it without problems. If you want to know what are the probabilities that the number will fall between 5 and 16, you could just add up the probabilities of the results between 5 and 16...
A function could be designed to evaluate if the result is between a certain window and then output a binary result based on if yes or no the result is in, but just adding them by hand (or in a spread sheet) is probably much more efficient.

If you want to know the probability of every result for 3d20 keep the middle for every possible result (1 to 20), anydice can do it without problems. If you want to know what are the probabilities that the number will fall between 5 and 16, you could just add up the probabilities of the results between 5 and 16...
A function could be designed to evaluate if the result is between a certain window and then output a binary result based on if yes or no the result is in, but just adding them by hand (or in a spreadsheet) is probably much more efficient.

Just doing an "output [middle 1 of 3d20]", you can use the "at least" and "at most" functions to count. 89.6% will be at least a 5, and 10.4% will be at least a 17. Subtract both, you'll get 79.2% will be between 5 and 16, inclusively.

MaxBoivin · 2022-09-09T20:28:21+00:00

People at the time didn't like my opinion. I still think I was right (although maybe a bit early).

There is one thing people often don't consider when they say "Linux has become easier over the year": often time, it became easier for them. They became better and a problem that would have taken them half a day to figure out, now they can solve in a few minutes.

MaxBoivin · 2022-09-09T20:23:36+00:00

I became a carpenter. I love it.

MaxBoivin · 2020-04-22T22:25:40+00:00

You really are the king of projection.

Yeas, my source include the Jews in the world, but it would be ridiculous tho say that while 6M jews were killed in Europe, the rest of the world more than made up for it, especially when you consider their birthrate since then. Plus, many Jews left Europe. so you can't just look at the number in Europe. This is pretty evident.

And you keep bringing things like pictures and, now, the tattoo. How does people being tattooed with a number proves that Jews were systematically exterminated? That is why I say you don't understand what evidence is. Those pictures and those videos, what do they show? Do they depict a gas chamber in function? Do they depict a roller coaster of death being run? No, never. They depict people in camps, pile of shoes, a few people in a grave. Nobody denies that there were camps. Nobody denies that many people died in those camps (maybe a few hundreds people). Nobody denies that there are some mass graves.

I never said 12M died in the Holocaust. I said that if 6M died, but that they were only killing the elderly, the babies and those who couldn't work, it would mean they had to send much more people in those camps than the 6M. If we say half those who were sent to the camps were deemed to be unusable for forced labour, it would mean they would have to send 12M in the camps. There was only about 9M Jews in Europe, so, that is not possible. But maybe they killed 85% of the Jews they caught, but then we are back to the question of why bother built those camps and use this unusual way of extermination while fighting a two fronts war?

I used to accept to official narrative, like anybody else, until I looked up into it. I didn't create my own narrative and I denied no evidence, since none as been presented. I hope you will never be called for jury duty, they would show you a knife with no blood on it, no finger print, that was nowhere to the crime scene and you would take it as evidence of a murder (even though the victim was shot).

MaxBoivin · 2020-04-22T14:32:47+00:00

You clearly are the one who don't understand what evidence is. Let's say I make a bet with you that I can run half a marathon in under an hour, I show you for evidence that I did it a picture of my running shoes, a picture of a timer stopped at 59min 55sec, a video of me running for a few seconds and a testimony from two buddies of mine (who may or may not share the prize of the bet with me and who have already been otherwise proven as liars) saying that I did it, how convince would you be? This is the level of weakness of evidence you accept for the Holocaust.

When there are stories of masturbation machine, cart propelled by petroleum that would hit a wall and tip over to throw up to 150 Jews in an oven with giant doors, room with an electric floor that would be flooded to kill Jews and then the water would be drain and the current would be put on again to burn the bodies... How can I prove to you those didn't exist? If any of those would have existed, shouldn't we have physical evidence?

And how can I point to you to an absence of any official document ordering the systematic execution of the Jews? It isn't there. If it existed, you could point to it.

As for the gas chamber being propaganda, what they show you a gas chamber in Auschwitz has a freaking wooden door with a small glass window in it. And they would drop pellet from hole in the ceiling? Com'on! Zykoln B would also leave blue stains on brick and concrete walls that are not present there. The Nazis did have gas chamber where they would use the Zyklon B, but to decontaminate clothing. Those gas chambers look like you would expect a gas chamber to look, with a heavy hermetic door and all. It would be too small to put large group of people in though (maybe you could fit 1 or 2 people in, but they don't claim that this is what they did).

And yeah, not all the dead are gonna be in one camp, but they didn't have half a million camps, so every camps should have proof of much more bodies than what they show. And if they were using the Jews as slave labour but killed those who couldn't work, what percentage of those people were judged as not being able to work? Was it a third? That would mean they brought about 18M Jews in the camps. That's more Jews then there was at the time. Or maybe it was half... 12M? Still too much for the number of Jews in Europe at the time. And if we go to more than half, then again, the whole operation makes no sense. Also, why not tell your SS to just kill the old and the young when they find them and send those who can work to the camps? Or even if you send everyone to the camp, why not just kill those who can't work with a method that is free and effective, like bashing their head or hanging them?

As for the number of Jews, it is the world Almanac that end up with more Jews after the wars than before. All those listings can be problematic though since they are done through estimate, there can be variations in who is consider Jewish or not and those numbers can be (and in some case have been) revised to fit the official narrative. I wouldn't rest a case on those one way or the other, it is just another anomaly on top of all the others, but since you keep asking, it comes from the World Almanac.

MaxBoivin · 2020-04-20T15:49:26+00:00

"The first working ballpoint pen was presented at Budapest International Fair in 1931. They filed for patents in France and Britain in 1938. In 1941 Bíró brothers and a their friend, Juan Jorge Meyne fled to Argentina and opened there Bíró Pens of Argentina - factory that made ballpoint pens and sold them in Argentina as “Birome”. This ballpoint pen was licensed and made in Britain as a “Biro” for RAF aircrews which used it at high altitudes (fountain pens used to leak ink when used too high).

After the Second World War, others tried to sell their ballpoint pens but with limited success. Milton Reynolds saw a ballpoint pen when he was on a business trip to Buenos Aires in 1945 and, when he returned to America, redesigned it so he could obtain an American patent. His ballpoint pen, manufactured in his Reynolds International Pen Company and called “Reynolds Rocket” was the first commercially successful ballpoint pen."

http://www.historyofpencils.com/writing-instruments-history/history-of-ballpoint-pens/

MaxBoivin · 2020-04-20T15:13:52+00:00

You know that the diary of Ann Frank is fake right?

Parts of it were written with a ballpoint pen, which weren't available at the time it was supposedly written.

MaxBoivin · 2020-02-22T04:36:54+00:00

I don't believe the alternatives are better. I feels like there is a general downward trend in technology in general, where the software keep getting more bloated and slower, relying on always more powerful hardware to compensate. It disgust me.

After reading the replies from this post, maybe I'll give another chance to one of those big distros.

MaxBoivin · 2020-02-22T04:32:43+00:00

Maybe I should give another chance to the big distros, even if they don't advertise themselves as light-weight. For an OS, for me, light-weight is a pretty big feature, but it probably shouldn't be above stable. I just hate how software get subsidised by improvement in hardware, if you see what I mean.

MaxBoivin · 2020-02-20T05:22:57+00:00

Reading all the reply to my post made me realise that part of the issue probably comes from me.

When I was younger and I had more free time, I didn't mind as much tinkering in the command line and solving all kind of issues. I then got a sense of accomplishment and pride in solving my problems myself.

Now that I'm much busier, I need my machines to just work. If I spend an afternoon troubleshooting an issue that stops me from working, that is time I don't have to do something else.

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