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I'm a new Linux user, just learning how to use the terminal. by asgerbjin linux

[–]gfixler 11 points12 points ago

It's not going to happen. There's no way I can jump over a car.

Neil Tyson on running for President by johosoin atheism

[–]gfixler -6 points-5 points ago

Sans quote and byline, it's actually 212 lines. It's called accuracy, people.

Woody Harrelson's AMA by pty17in funny

[–]gfixler 13 points14 points ago

CYBER SECURITY!? Are you RoboCop?

Woody Harrelson's AMA by pty17in funny

[–]gfixler 36 points37 points ago

Took that poser a couple days to ruin his cred. He's no Woody Harrelson.

What on GOD'S GREEN EARTH did my dog just dig up?! by Josiahxin WTF

[–]gfixler 1 point2 points ago

I thought you wrote "still an active trampoline." I was disappointed when I realized this wasn't about circus bears.

Eargasmic by ozzymustainein gaming

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point ago

I've been linked to this video before, and it always sounds way too fast, and like it's missing something in the beginning. I had been thinking I just remembered it poorly, but I just now finally realized it's because I'm much more familiar with the Sega Master System startup sound. No (or almost no) voice in games back then.

Eargasmic by ozzymustainein gaming

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point ago

What's really crazy is that this is the first time I've ever heard this. My console memories are mostly Intellivision, Atari 2600, Coleco, NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis, Game Boy (the first one), Game Gear, and Lynx. It kind of blows my mind that this long after the PS came out, I still haven't heard anyone turn the thing on.

My bar-stools. Cherry and Sapele. by cschemain woodworking

[–]gfixler 1 point2 points ago

I've built a lot of things with pocket screws, including an entire shed. They are strong as hell.

Mini 3D mill is like a mini 3D printer, except the exact opposite by kevinforredin DIY

[–]gfixler 1 point2 points ago

I have a Sherline 5400 CNC mini mill on a workbench in my home office. I also have their 4400 CNC mini lathe. They're hooked up to an old ShuttleX PC running EMC2 on linuxcnc.org's flavor of Ubuntu, which has some changes to the timing module(s) to ensure the HAL is given ultimate priority so it won't lag and cause an issue at the bit. I can easily cut wood, plastic, aluminum, and even some of the softer steel varieties, all to 0.001" accuracy. I got them back around 2006.

Reading in the university library, when I leave for a moment and come back to find this. by koolaid252in atheism

[–]gfixler 1 point2 points ago

sudo apt-get installed, tested, and working. It simply outputs whatever is in the primary selection (selected text). You can specify secondary or clipboard selections as well.

Why does my head hurt when I watch things in 3d? by Yohfayin askscience

[–]gfixler 1 point2 points ago

Our brains do a ton of interpretation to make sense of the light hitting our retinas. Helping them are two sets of muscles. One of these angles your eyes inward and outward to point them both independently at a particular target (the thing you want to look at), and the other set of muscles actually squeezes and stretches your eyeball to focus it. These muscles slightly shorten or elongate your eye to move the lens toward or away from the retina to compensate for the various distances objects are from your eye. When these muscles don't work well - i.e. they're bad at shaping your eye all the way in one direction or the other - you can't focus on near or far objects, and you end up nearsighted, farsighted, or some mixture of the two.

So, two things are happening when you change from seeing a close object to seeing one far away. Your brain realizes you're trying to see something, but both eyes aren't pointing directly at it. It corrects this by pointing each eye at it so the center of the image in each eye corresponds, and the rest of the image can do whatever it will - you only care about what you're looking at. You can tell if something in your periphery is closer or farther by feeling that the images are not lined up perfectly in each eye. If they're misaligned in one direction, you know they're closer, and in the other direction, they're farther. In other words, you can tell if you'd have to angle your eyes outward more to get each eye pointing at some other thing, meaning that that object has to be farther than whatever you're targeting currently, or if they'd have to angle inward, meaning it's closer.

As you're doing this, your focusing muscles are constantly, rapidly squeezing and stretching your eye to refocus. These actions are joined in your mind. When your eyes separate to target a farther object, you naturally expect to have to shape your eyes to focus on something farther to make it sharp on your retinas. When your eyes converge toward a closer target, you naturally feel the need to squish your eyes to focus closer. 3D images - e.g. posters - aren't too bad, because they're static. However, moving images, such as 3D movies and 3D TV images cause you to constantly change view and follow objects. You constantly angle your eyes farther or closer to bring the images going separately to each eye together such that the point you want to see overlaps. Unfortunately, this also means you want to constantly be focusing on nearer and farther objects, but the TV is flat. Everything is at the same focal distance. Your eyes don't know that, and your brain doesn't know what to do. You continually keep changing focus in lock-step with your eyes' independent re-anglings, and your brain keeps rapidly picking up on the fact that you're making the image worse by doing that, so it tries other options, like going against its nature and focusing inversely from its usual routine.

Still, the lifelong habit is strong, and your eyes continually screw up, focusing in and out to match eye angle. This is quite a workout for the muscles around your eyes. There are sensitive nerves in this region, and lots of blood flow. Many times headaches feel like they're in this region - sinuses, behind the eyes, etc. It's not a great place to have muscles freaking out and getting tired. It causes headaches. Add on that your brain is mildly freaking out trying to figure out why its usual focus-with-eye-angle routine is suddenly broken, and it makes sense why your eyes and head would hurt a bit after extended 3D TV viewing.

Reading in the university library, when I leave for a moment and come back to find this. by koolaid252in atheism

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point ago

I was wondering while posting if there was a utility available in the shell to send the X selection buffer to standard output.

Reading in the university library, when I leave for a moment and come back to find this. by koolaid252in atheism

[–]gfixler 1 point2 points ago

Look at fancy, saving three keystrokes.

Reading in the university library, when I leave for a moment and come back to find this. by koolaid252in atheism

[–]gfixler 65 points66 points ago

I hope he triple-clicked on the first paragraph of that comment and dragged to anywhere in the third to select the 3 paragraphs, then hit a hotkey to pop open a shell in which he typed echo " and then middle-clicked the mouse on the shell to paste in the selected words, then finished typing " | wc -w and then hit enter and the output was 99.

How to point class instance properties at other class instances again, after recreating the instances from textfile data? by gfixlerin Python

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point ago

That sounds like a good solution. Even with the simple implicit method, if the previousNode/nextNode properties are stored as simple index numbers (you'd have to pre-know the order before you write them out), the rebuilding functionality could create a list populated with each instance as it's created, and then at the end, it could go through the previousNode/nextNode properties and reassign to them what's at that particular index in the rebuild instance pointer list. I think I may even go with a dictionary, and assign the id() values to make it even easier. No need to generate UIDs or worry about order then. After they're rebuilt, the ID value won't be needed, and will be replaced with the new id() values on the next write.

Thanks!

How to point class instance properties at other class instances again, after recreating the instances from textfile data? by gfixlerin Python

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point ago

Thanks. I think I'm going with this, or something very much like it.

Only in Canada by xbsdin pics

[–]gfixler 20 points21 points ago

Defenstracidal: Being in a state of wanting to kill someone by throwing them through a window. This is a very specific homicidal condition.

That'd be Jimmy Fallon walking around the Super Bowl festivities dressed as a woman. by canda_pandain pics

[–]gfixler 1 point2 points ago

Being at any live comedy performance is always funnier. I've seen improv and even some stand-up acts that were simultaneously screencast, which I was therefore able to watch again later, and they didn't hold up at all. In most cases I'd go look them up to send to a friend, because they "had to see this" hilarity, but then while watching it I'd realize it was only mildly amusing on a computer monitor.

That'd be Jimmy Fallon walking around the Super Bowl festivities dressed as a woman. by canda_pandain pics

[–]gfixler 4 points5 points ago

His mouth is normal. His head is huge.

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