TootSweet @ TootSweet @lemmy.world Posts 34Comments 2,150Joined 2 yr. ago
Reddit's about to get shittier. Again. Either they'll kowtow to Musk and make it against the rules to ban X links or they'll give some bland, noncommital, centrist statement about how they respect the hard work their mods put in to keep Reddit going or whatever. I really doubt they'll make any unequivocal statement condemning Musk as the neo-Nazi shitbag he is.
I have a vivid memory of staying home sick from school and watching daytime educational programming on PBS. There was a (dry, low-budget, old) math show for kids on. They had a "skit" where a couple of teenagers went and got replacement tires for their car. They came in with a set of numbers that I assume had to do with the tire measurements. (Maybe hub diameter, hub thickness, and tire outer diameter.) They found tires that matched on two of those numbers, but the guy was impatient and said it had to be basically the same because it matched on two parameters. Then in the next scene, the same teens were driving the car with brand new tires and they got pulled over for speeding. The driver was sure the speedometer said he wasn't speeding, but the new outer tire diameter changed the calculation, meaning the speedometer read lower than they were actually going.
This is the first time in my life the memory of that show has ever come in handy.
Shrimp > blockchain. Can't disagree with him there.
For that matter, shit is better than blockchain. Because at least shit is good for manure.
My neighbors across the street had a kid who would creep around in people's front yards and peek in their windows. Like cup his hands around his eyes against the glass to reduce glare and see better. Not like from feet away.
Kid was really annoying and intrusive in other ways too. Like pushing to help you carry in your groceries, not knowing when to drop it, and being offended that you turned him down. Weird kid.
That was all mostly back when he was 8 or 9. He's like 20 now and I think he still lives there. Hasn't done any creeping or intrusive BS in a long time as far as I know.
If just one of them turns out to be true they can call me up and rub it in my face.
I tried something somewhat like this once.
He'd constantly be like "something big is coming very soon, just wait." And I kept pressing him for "due dates". Like by what date are you 99% sure "it" (like, official announcements that ETs have been living among us disguised as humans since the 60s or whatever) will have happened? Because if he gives a date, I can finally nail him down and say "hey, so, you were wrong, see? The incorrectness of your prediction is some amount of disconfirming evidence right?"
So when he finally did tell me a "due date" for one of his conspiracy theories, I kept that in the forefront of my brain. He said that Trump would arrest "thousands" of high-profile Democrat pedophiles engaged in child sex trafficking within a year after his first term in office started.
Well, it happened! Not really. All the right-wing news outlets vastly misrepresented an FBI sex trafficking bust that had nothing to do with Trump or "high-profile Democrats" as the one and the same massive bust of sex-trafficking high-profile Democrats that Q and Fox News and my conspiracist former friend had predicted. And it fell within the timeframe he predicted.
Of course, it was horse shit. This was no confirmation of his wacky theories. But to him, I was just being willfully blind to the obvious vindication of his prediction.
The lesson I took from that was that the fantasy they live in is far to resilient against actual reality to be phased even a little bit by any actual real-world events. And promising someone bragging rights "if such-and-such of your predictions come to pass" isn't going to pan out for you as well as you might hope. It would require them to have a connection to reality for that to work, and they don't.
My solution is scp with termux. I can't suggest any better alternative.
Are they... sweet? Like... soup candy? Or are they more meaty and salty and savory like... well... soup tends to be?
Do you want Gazorpazorp? Because this is how you get Gazorpazorp.
I'm morbidly curious whether Trump supporters actually believe this kind of shit, but ultimately I don't think that question even has an answer.
Not quite. No presidential candidate got a majority of the popular vote. Trump got more of the popular vote than Kamala did. 49.80% and 48.33% respectively.
Yes, I'm being pedantic. Does it really matter? No, probably not.
Aside from what everyone else is saying, don't use dependencies that you don't have to. Particularly don't use big "frameworks". If you use any dependencies, use tiny, focused ones that do one thing. The more code there is underneath what you're writing, the more likely it will cause problems that you will internalize. I've seen it many times. Spring (Java), for instance, will do something not as advertised, and devs will think they're bad coders because they "can't write code that works as it's supposed to." Avoiding that vicious cycle will make you a better coder in the long run.
Also, when things aren't working with your dependencies, do google for fixes, but don't google too long. If you haven't got a solution after an hour of no progress, look at your dependencies' source code until you understand why and how to fix it.
Nvidia:
- ✅ AI
- ✅ Religious
- 🚫 Red scanning visual sensors
Cylons:
- ✅ AI
- ✅ Religious
- ✅ Red scanning visual sensors
They're only one step away, people, and I'm not even sure about the 🚫 on red scanning visual sensors.
Yeah, but I don't want the DCM to be powered/running when the car is running either because of the data privacy concerns.
I'm weird and I study U.S. intellectual property law for fun and this free textbook is awesome. I've got the previous edition printed on dead trees and even the print edition was only $40, which is ridiculously cheap for a college textbook.
I'm pretty sure my 2021 Crosstrek isn't in scope of that recall (at least as far as Subaru is concerned), but I'll do some more research. Thanks!
It's just the most advanced autocorrect ever implemented.
That's generous.
Thank you for this. I haven't been any sort of sysadmin in a good long time and when I was, I didn't manage more than three or four servers. But I am fed up enough with SystemD to finally go to the trouble of switching back from Arch to the Gentoo I used to run and love. And it's a breath of fresh air dealing with OpenRC (and generally the whole Gentoo ecosystem) again.
Unit files are a pain to deal with. I love that with init scripts, if I can write Bash scripts, I can write init scripts without having to look up every little thing in Google and in man pages.
That's the state of vehicles these days. I bought the Subaru I'm driving now because my 2005 Saturn was getting harder and harder to maintain. (And because I wanted more than 1,000 cubic centimeters of cargo space. (Yes, I'm being hyperbolic, but yeah.))
Subaru is hardly the worst offender on privacy. I don't know that I could have gotten a less "smart" car without getting an older vehicle, and the one I was selling was harder to maintain specifically because it was old.
I think the best we can hope for is hackable devices. Being able to just remove the DCM fuse is "hackable" in my book. I got a robot vacuum cleaner, but I got the model that's best for running Valetudo. I got a smartphone with an unlocked bootloader so I could run LineageOS. I didn't get a Nintendo Switch until the Fusee Gilee vulnerability was discovered. I didn't really shop around for a "hackable" car before I bought this Subaru. But I'm satisfied with the "just unplug the DCM fuse" solution.
Everyone needs a Paul Stamets on speed dial for emergency mycological classification.