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Semi-Hemi-Demigod

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I'm just this guy, you know?

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Primary stargate is in Colorado so that's where the Goa'uld would strike first

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It's the same reason all the aliens Doctor Who fights are always attacking Britain

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To add to her punk credentials, at a concert after that show she was loudly booed. Instead of running off stage, or singing the song she had planned, she did the same song she did on SNL.

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"Blockchain engineer" isn't a job.

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How would the community respond to a brand/corporation hosting their own Lemmy community?

I think companies hosting their own instances, locked down so only employees can be mods, is a smart idea for companies. Instead of giving editorial control, and ad revenue, to a third party, they get to retain control over their brand without intermediaries while still being part of a larger community for discoverability.

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What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?

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It's also a lot easier to multiply and divide recipes if you switch it over to metric. This is particularly useful if you don't have enough of one ingredient and need to reduce the others by that ratio.

Then there's the ability to measure the ingredient directly out of the container, using any scoop you can find, rather than needing multiple sets of measuring spoons.

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Say you have a recipe that takes three eggs but you only have two. Do you wanna do the math on what 2/3 of one cup is actually?

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Exactly. Portal 2 is no doubt a fantastic puzzle game. But so is Myst, and Myst did a lot more with a lot less technology.

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I’m old enough to have played both on release :)

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I understand the anxiety but based on your experience you won't have any trouble finding a fully remote job, probably that pays more.

I've been mostly to fully remote since 2009 and the time I've had with my kids is worth more than anything I could have found in an office. Best of luck in your search!

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Testifying at your own trial is almost always a bad idea, even if it's a social media trial

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The one advantage that Alexa legitimately had over Siri was the ability to set multiple timers. Very handy when doing multiple dishes at a time.

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I have yet to find an official definition of what Web3 means, but to me it just looks like creating scarcity where there isn’t any because reasons.

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If they had just called it "John Carter of Mars" it would have at least communicated a major plot point. It was a really ambitious attempt to reboot a classic science fiction novel, but since nobody remembered what Barsoom was they were at a disadvantage.

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Indeed.

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Weird Al's UHF is hilarious and would have done well except that it came out the same weekend as a whooole bunch of other classic movies. The weekend of July 21, 1989 the other movies you could see were:

  • Ghostbusters II
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • Dead Poet's Society
  • Batman
  • Lethal Weapon 2
  • Weekend at Bernie's
  • Karate Kid III
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Give it a chance and it'll muscle open those bars and then... VOOM

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At least the ocean will be nice and warm when it floods their houses

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Sounds like a great deal:

Under the tentative agreement, existing full- and part-time UPS union workers will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the five-year contract. The agreement also includes a provision to increase starting pay for part-time workers, which the union had called the most at risk in the company’s workforce of being exploited. Starting pay for part-time workers will be $21 per hour, it said, up from $16.20 today.

More proof that there is power in a union

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He bought Twitter back when cash was cheap. That alone could be a couple billion in valuation at least.

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As someone who prefers threaded interaction, it’s gonna be hard to stop calling them posts. Maybe that’s what my grandkids will think is old fashioned about me.

“They’s been posts since BBS and they’ll stay posts!”

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Oh I get it. It’s lesbian because it’s not straight.

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Uploaded: 70.92TB
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That's a lot of Linux ISOs

I prefer Wayland (.social) though

Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.

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It totally worked for Xfinity

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25 years ago the notion that Macs would replace Windows was laughable. Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to recruit users to advocate for them.

But now most of the folks I work with have Macs and the ones who don’t use Linux. The only folks who use Windows are the accountants.

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Another important thing that Macs have is support contracts. You're not going to deploy a thousand Linux machines if the vendor doesn't provide support for it, and a lot of vendors still don't support Linux

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Macs have the advantage of having Unix under the hood while being supported by software vendors.

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MacOS only is used in some Silicon Valley companies, but that’s a bubble. You’d be hard pressed to find it used in the rest of the business world anywhere.

As a support/sales engineer for the last 20 years, the number of Macs I see both my coworkers and my customers using is huge. And this is across lots of different markets: Aerospace, finance, software, content creation, etc.

Macs are cheaper on a TCO basis than Windows machines, with IBM finding they save $273 - $543 per Mac they deploy, and they need less than half the number of support people for Macs compared to Windows.

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I linked to a study upthread that shows IBM saving a few hundred dollars each when deploying Macs vs. Windows. Interestingly, the study also pointed out that employees using Macs did better on performance reviews.

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You wanna fix education? Fund it like the military.

My mom had a tote bag that said "I want to live in a world where schools have all the money they need and the air force needs to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."

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everything “cool” was having an X in it, like XForce and stuff like that.

Like that show Wormhole Xtreme

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"Hey, it's what I do"

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Especially because they bought a bunch of companies that weren't Facebook. Another example is Google rebranding as Alphabet. Those make complete sense.

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You are one of the few people I've seen who were able to hear the dialog enough in Tenet to actually have an opinion

What is it with the increasing interest in (landing on) the moon? (arstechnica.com)

The news is full of it, excitement seems high, and I really don’t get it. I’m not against space-related research, but why suddenly the moon? And why send people there? Can someone fill me in on what’s to be gained or why one might be excited about it?...

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Imagine the far side of the moon dotted with radio telescopes that make Arecibo look like a digital satellite dish...

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I don't want to run away from our problems. I want to run away from other humans.

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No, they're called rare-earth metals because they're rare on earth. On the moon they're just rocks.

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I try not to be

Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

My girlfriend has threatened to break up with me several times now unless I cut down to a pack a week. I’m not addicted but it does help me get through my day. I keep trying to tell her that but she doesn’t believe me and keeps saying that it’s actually bad. I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is...

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As a former pack a day smoker, you’re right that it does those things. It also causes cancer and other health problems, your pickled and smoked grandfather notwithstanding. (Also, cigars are not inhaled which causes lower rates of cancer than cigarettes.)

If you want to have better cognitive ability, lose weight and, have more free testosterone you’re better off lifting weights regularly. All of those benefits but none of the lung cancer.

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Nicotine is available in non-smokable form if you are fat, stupid, and lack testosterone as well as willpower. You don’t have to smoke it

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I don’t know why you’re skipping straight to insulting me

Because you're either a troll or an idiot, and in either case you deserve derision. This is an insane take on cigarette smoking.

I wish you well in your pursuit of testosterone and lung cancer.

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Once we grow it in a lab we can control it a lot more. Maybe genetically engineer it to have different properties.

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Oh jeez

Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"?

Feel like we’ve got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you’ve got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under...

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I've been using it at my job to help me write code, and it's a bit like having a soux chef. I can say "I need an if statement that checks these values" or "Give me loop that does x y and z" and it'll almost always spit out the right answer. So coding, at least most of the time, changes from avoiding syntax errors and verifying the exact right format and turns into asking for and assembling parts.

But the neat thing is that if you have a little experience with a language you can suddenly start writing a lot of code in it. I had to figure out something with Ansible with zero experience. ChatGPT helped me get a fully functioning Ansible deployment in a couple days. Without it I'd have spent weeks in StackOverflow and documentation trying to piece together the exact syntax.

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Y’all dumb motherfuckers ready for a key change?

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Don’t let folks know about Kbin or it’ll start having load issues.

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I at least have an idea by estimating the result. If I do 10 x 20 and end up with 13.397897 I know something’s wrong.

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