Sisko is my favorite. I don’t think it was going off the deep end as much as using the same strategy the US used by nuking Japan. Japan had no chance at that point and continuing conventional war would have been more costly in terms of lives lost and property damage. Using nukes crushed any hope they had of continuing the war and have their prideful government an out that preserves their ego.
In DS9, it sent the message that the federation is can and will annihilate the dominion to defend themselves and the god complex of the changelings was pure delusion.
I don’t like the phrase “no excuse”. I’m a particularist. E.g. There is no excuse for shooting someone. Shooting a person actively shooting up an elementary school is fine in my book.
You may be right in that using nukes was the wrong call. IMO, it seems like it was the best of bad options.
Saying there is no excuse and you disagree with something are two different things. The phrase “no excuse” is saying you think it is objectively wrong in a way that sounds like it isn’t just your opinion. I don’t think you mean it that way, I’m just explaining why I really don’t like that phrase.
As bad as the nukes were, the conventional bombing of Tokyo was probably worse. Over 100k civilians were killed with 1,000,000+ left homeless.
The fact that self driving cars exist is an admission that driving a car can really suck. Navigating busy suburbs and cities in a car is a stressful experience, especially when people are commuting to or from work....
I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...
GNU is not a Linux variant. It is a set of programs and shared libraries.
ISO 9660 has nothing to do with compression. Just calling it ISO isn’t a good idea for an intro class like that because it is a set of MANY standards. They should have put a little side blurb and called it ISO 9660 in the table.
tar is an archive tool. It has no compression.
Why no mention of compression algorithms algorithms vs archive tools?
Why not have different compression algorithms and their tradeoffs?
ETA: jar files are just zip files for Java libs/programs. You can open them with zip file tools.
It was intended to be an OS and is if you use the Hurd kernel. In practice, Hurd isn’t really used, so it is just a bunch of programs and libraries. I guess it can go either way.
The proposed constitutional amendment would give Ohioans the right to make their own reproductive decisions. Backers say that since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, the proposal would restore a commonsense abortion protection that most Ohio voters can support....
So, I basically missed that transitional phase when telephone booths were more commonplace. This has left me with a number of questions about the ol’ telephone booths, but this one strikes me as one of the funnier and more unnerving ones to ask....
I’m in my 30s so I should be used to this by now, but this shit is getting so stressful guys. I have no savings, my checking account is drained every month with rent, and if there’s ever a serious emergency I have no safety net, I’m legitimately fucked. I’m one unplanned expense away from absolute ruin. Those in the same...
I’m assuming you are in the US. The problem with being broke is it is stressful. Stress impacts decision making, causing a cycle. The US is a capitalist society that educated people to behave as socialists with regards to business, career management, and employment.
The people that REALLY need financial planning advice can’t afford it. Those that can use it to go from rich to richer.
The best thing you can do is get some help going through your expenses to see what you can optimize. Once you start getting a little bit of a breather, you will feel a lot better.
I’ve been following the FIRE community for close to a decade, so if you want, I can probably help you find some fat to trim.
Why not put bollards there to protect anyone on the island from being mowed down? Cheaper than the camera and safer. The families should sue the hell out of the city for not putting a protective barrier there after the first death.
I think the real problem is the pedestrians don’t have any physical protection. It is a numbers game. Even if 99.9999% of drivers can navigate that intersection fine, it doesn’t take long for the 1/1,000,000 that is drunk, up all night with a sick infant, etc to plow into pedestrians. Probably every month or two based on that kind of road’s capacity. People need to start suing and make it too expensive to not put barriers around the pedestrian island.
The point with impaired driving is that car dependent infrastructure is the problem. Plenty of drivers use Uber or cabs when impaired. When you have millions of drivers going through intersections like the one pictured with no feasible alternative, deadly crashes are going to happen.
they don’t have the right to operate a 2 ton weapon when impaired.
Unless we fix the mandatory car ownership prevalent in most of North America, it really should be treated as almost a right. How else are people going to realistically safely get where the need to go?
Well, that is how it already works today, and look at how safe the roads are. The lack of safety is a consequence of allowing shitty drivers to stay on the road.
The lack of safety is because we can’t get shitty drivers off the road because there is no other feasible way to get around much of NA. Even taking licenses away doesn’t do much because people will drive without them due to necessity.
We can’t get start imposing more barriers until we provide alternatives. I.e. usable transit, usable bike infrastructure, abolishing euclidean zoning. Until that is done, people all but have to drive to get around.
Of course I mean the butthole spiders! What do they do with their time since the revamp? Maybe we could convince the judge to let us old school the Dahmer types for a few bearamies? I pulled off toe nails until I was transferred to running coffee shops in the rehab neighborhoods so I never got to see the new spiders.
That is a good episode idea. Their warp engine dies, so they have to send a shuttle to go get parts to fix it. In the mean time, they jury rig the remaining shuttles life support into the main ship and put as many crew members in medically induced comas as possible to reduce the load on it.
“Even if we want to do the right thing, our board of directors will fire us. If the board members don’t, the institutional investors will elect new board members that will allow or even encourage the spread of misinformation because it makes them more money.”
For critics of widening projects, the prime example of induced demand is the Katy Freeway in Houston, one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes....
I see a lot of expensive houses being built in my area. A LOT. And the weird thing is that they’re being bought pretty quickly. Are these people just making more money than me? If so, what are they doing for a living? Or are they just living house poor? How exactly are they affording these places?...
It’s not that simple. It is mortgage+insurance+maintenance
Rent is just rent.
You MAY be able to resell the house if the location is somewhere people want to live in several decades. All it takes is a major economic source to dry up. A military base closing, a factory shutting down, etc can wreck your property value.
Disingenuous…wow. Sometimes people just disagree and for good reason.
Buying a house is not a guaranteed way to build wealth. Ask those thought bought around 2008 and lost their shirts.
It doesn’t ALWAYS make sense to buy or rent. The honest answer is it depends. A location might be great…NOW. Case in point, Detroit. Lot’s of factories closed down. Or military towns during the many base closures in the 90s.
People buying houses to rent can and do lose money on it.
Tell that to the home owners whose equity is wiped out when the factories were offshored or the base closed.
The point is, there are no guarantees. Buy vs rent depends on a person’s circumstances. Buying has risks. People have lost lots of money by buying at the wrong time (like 2008) or the wrong place.
Markets don’t always go up. Market prices can be very disconnected from reality as we have seen with many bubbles throughout the years.
THANK YOU! I get so tired of: buy good. Rent bad. The answer is it depends. 2008 was only 15 years ago. Many people lost boat loads of money from it. People HAVE lost lots of money from factory closures, base closures, market bubbles, a highway being built, etc
The ideal situation is a variety of housing options, for sale and rent.
It was a lot more than 1% in 2008. In the US, 1% is 3 million people.
This discussion about renting vs owning and the overall real estate market are related but not the same thing.
My point is, owning isn’t always the best option, it has risks that vary depending on location, it isn’t always the best financial moving.
Always and never are rarely true. As I said in another comment, the ideal situation is a variety of housing options available for buying or renting.
Back in 2007, I was working on a contract that could have had me moving on short notice, in a housing bubble. Buying would have been insane in that market and I would have lost a few hundred k. Even if it wasn’t a bubble, buying would have put me in a worse situation than renting due to transaction costs, interest, insurance, taxes, and opportunity costs. I own now.
Nobody ever went underwater on a house they can’t sell renting.
Things aren’t always black and white and individual circumstances matter. Sometimes people work on short term contracts and aren’t going to live somewhere for very long. Sometimes people need to move in a hurry and don’t have time to do due diligence buying a property.
As much as some of you may hate it, renting fills a need and isn’t always a bad thing.
The problem with the housing market is part euclidean zoning, part NIMBYism, part capitalism on too long of a leash. It really has nothing to do with rent vs buy.
The fact that more and more people don’t even have the option
I agree with you here. A healthy housing markets should have a variety of housing available at reasonable costs. For rent and sale. In the US, the causes of that are euclidean zoning, NIMBYism, and under regulated capitalism.
I don’t know the US market"
That explains a lot of the disconnect. Buying with minimal risk isn’t feasible in a lot of places in the US.
In the US, it isn’t uncommon for smaller cities to be economically dependent on one particular thing, like a base, university, factory, agriculture, mine, etc. West Virginia is a great example. Their economy is pretty dependent on coal. This is why their democratic senator tends to vote with Republicans on matters that would interfere with coal mining. If the next federal election is a massive slide towards Democrats, the WV economy will be devastated unless they come up with a way to replace coal mining. The real estate market would absolutely tank. Anyone that bought in the previous 5 years would regret it.
A place being devastated economically due to a closure happens. The US is large, so there might not be any other major economic source for 75+km. Even if there are, the distance will in all likelihood cause a large decline in real estate prices.
A house in any particular areas value depends on decisions by the federal government, state government, local government, a school board (school districts effect real estate prices here), and sometimes a corporation. Any one of those entities could (and has) turn a 400k house into a < 300k house in very short order. It happened almost nationwide here in 2008 due to the removal of financial market regulations.
Maybe where you live these kinds of risks aren’t common, in that case buying is going to make more sense in more cases. In the US, buying in an area without economic diversity is a lot more risky than a lot of people realize.
Another issue in the US is housing types. A lot of areas have apartments for rent or 3+ BR SFH to buy. A single person would have a massive opportunity cost and take on unnecessary HVAC costs, etc buying in these areas. Renting a 1BR or studio would be a much lower monthly cost. Renting and investing the difference would be a better move in most cases.
Buying should generally be a better option when someone plans to stay in an area for while. I won’t say always though. Some parts of the US I would never buy real estate.
Based on Ubuntu. Interface and functionality like Windows, users will not feel much difference. BRICS countries committed to their own Linux distributions. South Africa has been the exception.
Good question…me too. Most office apps are browser based now. Sometimes you have to build things from source to get bleeding edge versions of things, but a good Linux admin will have no trouble rolling their own repo with their own packages for the bleeding edge stuff. Most of the time the repo versions are fine though. The only thing I maintain from source on my personal machine is GnuCash.
For while apt upgrades have greeted me with “Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled” and then a list of packages that apparently have updates I’m not going to receive through the regular channel....
I just bought a new Roku. The MAX app won't let me sign in without a 10 character password. My account is old enough to be before this was a requirement. I can sign into their website with my 8 character password just fine....
I’m going to have to just reset it, I don’t want to as I have it on at least 5-6 devices. That most likely won’t get the app to work because it is more than likely hashed. Checking password requirements on front end code like that, especially the login prompt is just terrible design.
Why: Save money and headache, not just on software or services, but on your tax bill. Software and preparation services won’t necessarily teach you about deductions or credits that you can get, saving you money....
So, this looks like the start of a relatively new community (at least for me), and we surely have some new people coming over from the coffee subreddit, so let’s get some conversation going!...
Yes, but it isn’t a huge deal. I just have a small pot I put the brew head in while the water heats up to a boil. When the water hits a full boil, I turn off the stove, place the brew head and mug, and then pull the shot, the little bit of time the brew head and water are removed from the heat and poured gets it close enough for me to the right temp.
EDIT: Everyone that is thinking about flair, make sure to get one with a pressure gauge. It would be impossible to know if you are using the right pressure be feel on something you have never used before.
It's an accessibility thing. Time travelers are covered under the ADA. Once a symbol reaches ubiquity, it can never be changed! Back in my day about 100k years ago, before I touched a mysterious stone in Scotland and found myself in the 21st century, we put an old sandal in front of the cave entrance if we needed privacy! Now it is a sock on a doorknob! 100k years from know, people will still be marking entrances with footwear for privacy.
As a long time Reddit user, there's something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things......
I love The Good Place! To get a Mr money mustache account, you have to know the answers to a few questions covered by the blog. If anyone needs help, PM me. I'm a long time follower of the FIRE community and can assist.
If bad Janet poops because she chooses to and ends conversations with long farts, I'm a bit afraid of what a very bad Janet does...
Sisko was kind of crazy... (startrek.website)
Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers? Answer: It raises a different point (arstechnica.com)
The fact that self driving cars exist is an admission that driving a car can really suck. Navigating busy suburbs and cities in a car is a stressful experience, especially when people are commuting to or from work....
Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)
I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...
I'd like to interject for a moment... (lemmy.ml)
Taken from the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam Guide book (2nd edition, published 2021). I’m not sure if they fixed this in newer versions, if at all.
Ohio votes on abortion rights this fall. Misinformation about the proposal is already spreading (apnews.com)
The proposed constitutional amendment would give Ohioans the right to make their own reproductive decisions. Backers say that since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, the proposal would restore a commonsense abortion protection that most Ohio voters can support....
Was it possible to get locked in a telephone booth?
So, I basically missed that transitional phase when telephone booths were more commonplace. This has left me with a number of questions about the ol’ telephone booths, but this one strikes me as one of the funnier and more unnerving ones to ask....
How do you deal with being broke?
I’m in my 30s so I should be used to this by now, but this shit is getting so stressful guys. I have no savings, my checking account is drained every month with rent, and if there’s ever a serious emergency I have no safety net, I’m legitimately fucked. I’m one unplanned expense away from absolute ruin. Those in the same...
Just another day on a stroad
Safety island in a middle of high speed avenue, beg buttons and flowers in a memory of the previous victim.
Being “gifted”, only makes you wish you weren’t sometimes (i.imgur.com)
When engineering is done with your shit (startrek.website)
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation (www.washingtonpost.com)
Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
[meme] Las Vegas Loop -- expectations vs reality (lemmy.world)
TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion (www.nytimes.com)
For critics of widening projects, the prime example of induced demand is the Katy Freeway in Houston, one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes....
Breaking News! Suburbs bad for kids! (www.washingtonpost.com)
Check the date on the article for a nice surprise....
Chonkasaurus (lemmy.ml)
Why are there so many expensive homes?
I see a lot of expensive houses being built in my area. A LOT. And the weird thing is that they’re being bought pretty quickly. Are these people just making more money than me? If so, what are they doing for a living? Or are they just living house poor? How exactly are they affording these places?...
No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows (gadgeteer.co.za)
Based on Ubuntu. Interface and functionality like Windows, users will not feel much difference. BRICS countries committed to their own Linux distributions. South Africa has been the exception.
is there a study out there to calculate the "kill count" of every day things?
I’m going to horribly oversimply this. For example. Say I am wearing a shirt a cheap one for Wal-Mart....
"get more security updates through ubuntu pro"
For while apt upgrades have greeted me with “Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled” and then a list of packages that apparently have updates I’m not going to receive through the regular channel....
Any idea how this new law will affect instance operators? (www.klfy.com)
The US state of Louisiana requires social media companies to get parental permission for users under 16.
MAX Roku app password box
I just bought a new Roku. The MAX app won't let me sign in without a 10 character password. My account is old enough to be before this was a requirement. I can sign into their website with my 8 character password just fine....
What is your favorite Coffee drink?
Mine is probably a breve, although I usually make cortado because it is easy....
YSK: About your taxes if living in the US
Why: Save money and headache, not just on software or services, but on your tax bill. Software and preparation services won’t necessarily teach you about deductions or credits that you can get, saving you money....
What beans are you buying for espresso and how much do they cost?
I am currently using Stumptown Founder’s blend. It is a bit pricey and is Light-Medium at around 15-16 dollars at Target here in the US.
Favorite Brew Method
So, this looks like the start of a relatively new community (at least for me), and we surely have some new people coming over from the coffee subreddit, so let’s get some conversation going!...
Let's talk TO John Oliver
Am I crazy here?...
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Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?
As a long time Reddit user, there's something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things......