qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

*Nobel memorial prize. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences

(Unless these folks won the Nobel prize and then switched fields.)

Yes I realize this is incredibly pedantic...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Affordable Care Act, LGBTQ rights, marijuana reform...not to mention a Black man was president, and a Black woman is the party nominee.

Yeah, it sucks that progress is so slow, and yeah, it sucks that some things have gone backwards. But there has been a huge amount of progress in the past however-many years. We went from "don't ask, don't tell" to having a Catholic president openly support gay marriage in a relatively short time.

Using Harris' Glock anecdote as evidence the party is moving to the right is just lazy editorializing IMHO. Almost as lazy as just asserting that the party is moving to the left because of the issues that you decided illustrate the left-right difference...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Duh, just read it back from /dev/random

You will recover the data, you just need to wait long enough.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Same argument against vegetarianism/veganism


we have teeth "designed" or evolved for eating meat, thus we should eat meat.

...we also have brains capable of abstract reasoning, but nevermind that!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps microwaving for significantly longer, at a low power level, would be safer and result in higher success/yield?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

I think it has a lot to do with disposition and convenience. I'm lazy, and I don't like to drive if I can help it. But I live near enough to public transportation that we'll spontaneously decide to hop on the subway and grab dinner on the waterfront.

It's not the money that's preventing us from hopping in the car to go to some new beach for dinner, it's the convenience.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean...it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I'm working on. I don't try to hide this from my manager.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you'll be fine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

At 28 years old, it's safe to say Leo doesn't use KDE.

Happy birthday!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

That's how I started using Linux


big book with CD, I think it was "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.4" or something. 2.0 or 2.2 kernel.

Honestly, it was fantastic. And almost all of it is still relevant today. (Some of the stuff on xfree86 and the chap/pap stuff not so much.)

But it gave a really solid (IMHO) intro to a Linux/*NIX system, a solid overview of coreutils, etc. And while LILO has been long replaced, and afaik /sys didn't exist at the time, it formed a good foundation.

I'll refrain from commenting on any init system changes that have taken place since then.

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