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on I need an adult · c/science_memes · 6 pts · 36d

Funny thing : in French, the common word for the colours that English tend to call purple is "violet", while the direct translation of purple, which is "pourpre" means a dark reddish purple closer to a dark version of what the English call "red violet".

Enjoy confusion!

The funny thing is that they started providing such an amount of love for Spectacle when Nate started publishing those blog posts, making the need for a very convenient tool for screenshot and annotations very close to people developing the software.

It's a choice. PackageKit is going to warn you about new updates and do the updates for you via Discover or Software Updates, but in case of conflict or issues, it'll just throw an error and give up. You'll then need to use zypper. This is why power users tend to advise to always prefer zypper anyway. The risk for them to forget to update is very limited.

If you know you'll think about running zypper from time to time to update and prefer this way of doing things, then disabling PackageKit as the doc you linked suggests is a good idea. Note that e.g. Discover will still be useful to handle Flatpak.

  1. Pas vraiment un conseil avant la création de compte, mais générer et conserver la clé de sécurité dans un coin (sécurisé), c'est très pratique pour pas perdre le chiffrement de ses messages.

  2. Element est le client le plus complet. Sous Android, FluffyChat est pas mal. Sous Windows, je ne saurais pas dire. Sous Linux, j'utilise parfois Neochat qui commence à être pas mal.

  3. C'est un peu comme tu veux. Perso j'ai mon prénom dans mon pseudo Matrix pour que mes contacts m'identifient plus facilement, mais c'est chacun ses goûts.

  4. Je déconseille le serveur Matrix.org à vrai dire, justement parce que c'est le plus gros et il est souvent un peu lent. Perso, je suis sur tchncs.de, qui est vraiment un super serveur (allemand mais c'est pas spécialement impactant, l'inscription et toutes les infos sont en anglais).

  5. J'utilise pas trop d'extensions, mais tchncs.de propose des bridges vers Signal, WhatsApp et Telegram, c'est pratique.

on New comments feature · c/blorp · 1 pts · 183d

Boost change the status and highlighting of comments when you leave the post. Highlighting stays even if you shut off the screen and come back, so long as you didn't leave the post.

I do not know how Boost does it, but I would not be surprised it is something along the lines you're suggesting.

Thanks for your interest in that feature.

on New comments feature · c/blorp · 2 pts · 183d

It looks like this on e.g. Boost. Greyed comments are new comments since I visited the post.

(Sorry about the volume bar on the right...)

The ingredient you might be missing for how common the CLT is applicable is the following: in most complex systems (e.g. biological systems), any variable you measure is likely influenced by a lot of other hidden variables. Because there are so many variables at play, each effect is likely to be small, and the way their effects are compounded is likely somewhat additive (this one comes from things like series expansion). Hence summing up effects between variables must be relatively common and account for the bulk of the variation in a response variable.

A last bit is this: most statistical methods like the linear model are relatively robust to deviation from the normal distribution. So, you don't need exactly a normal distribution, you just need close enough. It turns out the CLT often produces "close enough" quite quickly (i.e. with a few variables added together).