Fun Fact: this has always been true. That and avoiding the children. In the days of outhouses, sitting on the toilet for hours was not great. So they read newspapers.
Edit: I was more being funny about wasting time in the bathroom too avoid child responsibility. People have often needed long times to make things work. The person that responded to me had some great points.
One for those running #ZFS on #Linux systems. I realise that you can’t have hibernate aka suspend to disk on a swap in the encrypted zpool but if you don’t use hibernation then is it OK to use swap using the likes of the command example below to set it up in the encrypted pool?...
That is why you’ll see the southern states being referred to as red states today, because they are gerrymandered to guarantee Republican victories.
WTF?!? No!
The maps presented on election night had pseudo random colors. One color for Democrats, one for Republicans, and a third for other parties. These tended to change with TV network and election year.
In 2000, the election went on and on and on due to the tight results. In that year the Republicans were assigned Red and the Democrats blue on many networks. Things were contentious.
From that point on those colors were then used as shorthand for areas that voted for Republicans or Democrats. Things continues to present and Republicans tend to wear red, and Democrats blue.
I live in an apartment building. Another unit recently caught on fire, and the building was evacuated. Smoke was everywhere. No heat reached my part of the building. I have not seen any soot, either....
If you can, perhaps talk with your boss about the situation. “I am hungry as my apartment building had a fire and all my food might be covered in toxins”, is a one off that gets some extra dispensation.
Edit: your response as 6 hours ago. You either are the chips, or are at work.
The bright colors. Something has changed and suddenly neon jackets and shirts were available. It felt very optimistic and futuristic. Everything was briefly neon. It was glorious.
It was not long after that pants got huge and clothing got dark, subtle, and depressed. Like everyone wants to be an adult and not an easy target for the random gunmen.
Shit. School shootings weren’t a thing. I miss that not being a thing.
Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...
I always assumed it was a comparison between the West and the USSR. One could swap the populations and few would notice. It was a culture and leadership thing.
In Next Gen the USSR was gone, so they no longer needed that angle.
Great point. IBM has a long history of squeezing every penny from their customers. At one corner job, IBM had to come onsite a few times a year to perform system updates. We were not allowed by IBM to upgrade the OS ourselves.
Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between “Effective Altruism” (doomers) and “Effective Accelerationism” (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of...
Orange Site is currently upset and turned off by Cory’s view. I liked how he ended the piece:
It’s because I’m a materialist that my primary concerns about AI are things like the climate impact of AI data-centers and the human impact of biased, opaque, incompetent and unfit algorithmic systems – not science fiction-inspired, self-induced panics over the human race being enslaved by our robot overlords.
Elon very likely lives in his own bubble with no one around that can disagree.
A millionaire could surround themselves with other millionaires and get a reality check. There are few billionaires and trillionaires, and they are likely surrounded by people that depend on the billionaires for their life’s stability.
This is a good argument for taxing billionaires heavily. They should not exist and will be destructive as they loose touch with reality.
Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.
No, we cannot just put every random library on the server. Please stick to the stable ones the team picked, not random ones you just heard about and wanted to try in production.
What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?
"Millennial lingo" by Shen Comic (file.coffee)
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FOSS app to record GPS location, saving it locally?
Is there any good FOSS app that could record the phone GPS location, but keep the data locally on the same phone, no dialing out?...
ZFS Swap on Linux
One for those running #ZFS on #Linux systems. I realise that you can’t have hibernate aka suspend to disk on a swap in the encrypted zpool but if you don’t use hibernation then is it OK to use swap using the likes of the command example below to set it up in the encrypted pool?...
anon is a, uh *checks notes* confederate boymoder (discuss.tchncs.de)
Is it safe to eat things like chips after a building fire?
I live in an apartment building. Another unit recently caught on fire, and the building was evacuated. Smoke was everywhere. No heat reached my part of the building. I have not seen any soot, either....
What do you miss the most from the 90s?
For me it’s holding a VHS in the store and looking at the cover.
Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?
Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...
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The song in question.
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‘HUNGOVER’ [OC] (feddit.nl)
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Dev rule (lemmy.world)
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Pluralistic: The real AI fight (27 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between “Effective Altruism” (doomers) and “Effective Accelerationism” (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of...
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Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla (www.theguardian.com)
Why are people censoring "bad" words?
Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.
The eye-opener commit (discuss.tchncs.de)
Always wondered how they feel (lemmy.world)
Wolverine really does look like two Batmen kissing
‘Where did your humanity go?’: Qatar minister slams West for lack of reaction to bombardment of Gaza (www.dawn.com)
I used to think X (sopuli.xyz)
Bending the Prime Directive again (startrek.website)
What happens when Linus dies/retires?
Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
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It's almost like a zombie movie for them (startrek.website)
Is it really possible to make a house very good in passive heating and passive cooling, and can an apartment building do it as well?