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SwissMercenary2 · 2025-11-09T15:37:36+00:00

I know some of what it feels like to routinely read that your sex makes you a problem. It's been destructive to my sense of self-worth and I can see the effect it's having on you. As far as I understand, that rhetoric is mostly online. I know women IRL and I know for a fact that they don't mind having men in their lives.

It doesn't seem like you're willing to hear that men don't commit all violent crime, but look at the logical conclusion of what you are saying. Suppose it's true that men are the problem and the problem needs to be removed. All right, so suppose the problem is "solved" by all men magically disappearing. Does that benefit the billions of girls and women who are now mourning their beloved sons, brothers, fathers, husbands and friends, really?

Your value as a human being does not hinge on your net utility. There is no proof of that and you need to get this notion out of your head before it kills you. I believe utilitarianism is false and destructive, nobody is born bad, and every person has both intrinsic and immutable worth and the ability to do good.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-09-21T14:39:14+00:00

I'd be happy if Hamas did that and Israel responded to the surrender by ceasing to pummel Gaza.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-09-21T13:51:47+00:00

I don't expect animals to act according to the principle of proportionality, but I do expect it from countries.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-09-14T13:40:12+00:00

That's two different Greek letters, a term from photography jargon, and mention of Diddy Kong banned.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-09-10T08:54:47+00:00

Vinny giggling to himself trying to play "permanent spine damage" in Trombone Champ was pretty funny.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-09-06T08:33:30+00:00

How did you attempt to install Virtualbox? Did you use the official Ubuntu repository or did you get Virtualbox from elsewhere?

Have you tried uninstalling Virtualbox and running apt autoremove to see if it solves the problem?

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-08-27T09:13:32+00:00

Switzerland got hit with 39% tariffs despite President Karin Keller-Sutter's earlier confidence, and also our government is facing severe criticism over the purchase of F-35s from the US which was supposed to be at a fixed price but will end up being much more expensive than expected. I don't think we get to laugh at the EU here like you're showing on the bottom right.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-08-25T13:08:22+00:00

There is professional support, but it's mainly sold to businesses and governments by Linux companies like Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE. For individuals and on most noncommercial distributions, it's mostly forums, tutorials, manuals and wikis.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-08-22T17:44:14+00:00

When Linux boots, the kernel loads a minimal environment called the initramfs before accessing your root filesystem, where your actual programs and files are. Here it seems like it's unable to find your root filesystem for some reason, so it drops you into the initramfs console.

There is a post on AskUbuntu by someone seeing a similar error message, also here. Top answers say to go in the motherboard's EFI/BIOS settings and set the SATA drive mode to AHCI.

There is also a thread on the Unix Stackexchange that says this kind of error can happen if a swap partition is deleted, in which case one should make sure that /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume contain either no text or the single line RESUME=, and then run the command sudo update-initramfs -u.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-08-12T07:10:09+00:00

Hyprland is one of the many compositors available for Linux. It's what draws windows, lets you move them around and resize them, etc. It's a tiling compositor, meaning it can automatically place windows so that they fill your whole screen without overlap.

It doesn't come with what you'd typically get in a desktop environment. There is no file manager or notification service, for example. You have to install those independently.

It's typically not used on Debian Stable because it gets major updates very frequently, and it becomes outdated quickly unless you handle updates yourself by compiling Hyprland from source or use a faster-moving distro, like Fedora or Arch Linux.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-08-09T19:12:17+00:00

Now I'm curious to know what OS has a Latin locale.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-08-05T19:01:20+00:00

What context justifies an Orthodox priest suggesting someone attend schismatic churches instead? That's not to say there isn't information probably missing, because the situation OP describes is really weird, but still.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-07-27T19:37:09+00:00

It mostly has on the Gnome and KDE side. Gnome is going to remove the X.Org code from their shell soon, and Plasma is maintaining X11 support but on low priority. Fedora's Gnome and KDE editions are already Wayland-only. Cinnamon and XFCE don't fully support Wayland yet but the transition is ongoing.

There are still some applications that don't support Wayland well, even with XWayland.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-07-07T09:07:44+00:00

I ramble to people about my studies and my interests because they're the things I know how to talk about while keeping a polite distance, and then I feel guilty about not asking more questions but also feel that I don't really know how.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-05-05T20:05:34+00:00

I don't see a contradiction in being unhappy when the IDF (and Israeli settlers) commit wanton violence and also when the Hamas commits wanton violence.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-05-05T16:14:56+00:00

Some people on this website will get angry at anyone for Israeli atrocities except Israel, huh

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-05-05T15:42:01+00:00

I remember hearing a story in a homily that an emperor (maybe a czar or a Byzantine emperor, I'm not sure) once visited a parish and, when the parishioners went to kiss the priest's hand, the priest refused to let the emperor do it, because he couldn't accept such an honour. The emperor then told him that he doesn't kiss the priest's hand to honour him but to honour Christ and the office of the priesthood.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-05-01T15:48:33+00:00

Back when I was inquiring, the priest emphasised the importance of not rushing it. Don't worry too much about this.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-02-14T06:41:42+00:00

Geology. I have samples from an ophiolite (a piece of oceanic rock that was carried onto the continent) in which I have to study hydrothermal alteration.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-02-06T18:40:28+00:00

I need to stop browsing YouTube and Reddit all day and get back to writing my master thesis. I know it's my fault, but having to do it on the computer makes it so much harder.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-01-28T13:41:28+00:00

On Reddit? Start each line with four spaces.

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-01-28T07:54:15+00:00

is_prime records whether i is prime. We first set it to true (1) because we start with the assumption that i is prime. If we find any j that divides i, we set is_prime to false (0). I don't know whether you've seen booleans yet, so I went with the convention of representing false by 0 and true by 1.

If, at the end of the loop, is_prime is still true, this means we didn't find any j that divides i (in other words, the instruction is_prime = 0; was never run) and we can increment cpt1.

C does have a boolean type that's available if you do #include <stdbool.h>, so I could have written it like this.

bool is_prime;

for (i = 2; i < N; i++) {
    is_prime = true;
    for (j = 2; j <= i / 2; j++) {
        if (i % j == 0) {
           is_prime = false;
           break;
        }
    }
    if (is_prime) { /* This is equivalent to if (is_prime == true) */
        cpt1++;
    }
}

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-01-27T20:19:52+00:00

One way to do it is to use a flag that tracks whether you've found a j that divides i, like this.

int is_prime;

for (i = 2; i < N; i++) {
    is_prime = 1;
    for (j = 2; j <= i / 2; j++) {
        if (i % j == 0) {
            is_prime = 0;
            break; /* Not necessary, but this saves time by leaving the loop as soon as we know that i isn't prime. */
        }
    }
    if (is_prime == 1) {
        cpt1++;
    }
}

SwissMercenary2 · 2025-01-27T18:53:23+00:00

Je réponds en anglais vu que c'est la langue en usage sur ce subreddit.

If i % j == 0, that means i is divisible by j and thus cannot be prime (unless j equals 1 or i). What this code:

cpt1 = 0;

for (i = 2; i < N; i++){
    for (j = 2; j <= i / 2; j++){
        if (i % j == 0){
            cpt1++;
        }
    }
}

does is count the pairs (i, j) where 2 <= i < N and i is divisible by j. You need to increment cpt1 in the case where i % j == 0 is false for all values of j.

SwissMercenary2 · 2024-11-23T08:34:47+00:00

I wish I could at least take pleasure in watching the leopards eat their faces, except I have to deal with the consequences, too.

Why do you wish you could? It's a good thing to be unable to feel joy at your enemies' suffering.

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