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ConditionOverload , 1 year ago to til in TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The c...

Fire Nation better not attack this time.

MagosInformaticus , 1 year ago to til in TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.

Most execution methods are, and it never works out as clean and civilized and painless as is claimed. Miscarriages of justice also happen. I’m glad my jurisdiction doesn’t use death penalties any more, and can only hope humanity manages to consign the idea to history someday.

HeartyBeast , 1 year ago to til in TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97...

The tapes were huge, expensive and storage was limited. The tapes tended to get reused.

aeternum , 1 year ago to til in TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.

Now we have lethal injections where it takes hours to die and they're in pain the whole time. How about we don't kill people?

bane_killgrind , 1 year ago

So it's a bit of a privileged position to say that.

Has nobody committed acts against you that you could defend yourself from if they were dead?

electronicoldman , 1 year ago to til in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

Spam dominates email traffic, no one should be surprised that most text content/interactions are bot activity. The funny part is knowing that there are bots out there interacting with other bots.

DreamySweet , 1 year ago to til in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

More info: forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-intern…

Telodzrum , 14 hours ago to til in TIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.

That’s a lot of plastic.

HiddenLychee , 3 days ago to til in TIL there are three types of tears: basal, reflex, and psychic. Psychic tears, produced when we're sad, contain leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller that helps us feel better.

My reflex tears burn my eyes like pepper spray

Unforeseen , 3 days ago to til in TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead". Pri

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https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/9580c4c6-b029-4984-86ba-083175c8c0cd.png

idiomaddict , 3 days ago to til in TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead". Pri

That picture isn’t unconvincing

CatLikeLemming , 3 days ago to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

Btrfs because it sounded cool when I first read about it and worked fine so far :3

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Yeah it sounds “better” FS. Do you use snapshots?

CatLikeLemming , 3 days ago

Yep, got Timeshift hooked up to make a snapshot each time I update my system and I can boot into them via GRUB. Haven’t needed that so far, thankfully, but it’s there just in case.

greywolf0x1 , 3 days ago to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

dual boot NixOS and FreeBSD on a single drive, ext4 on Nix and ZFS on FreeBSD. each partition has its own boot, swap and root, all encrypted

btw, OP wrote that FAT32 is limited, isn’t it the default fs for the boot partition? can other fs like ext2/3 be used?

FellowEnt , 3 days ago to til in TIL Adenosine is an organic compound that, when injected, stops the heart for a few seconds and is used to treat heartbeats, that are too fast (140-250bpm), in effect turning it off an on again.

I should probably carry this, my heart likes to randomly decide 220bpm is a good idea every now and then.

StupidBrotherInLaw , 3 days ago

If that’s true, go get checked out. Tachycardia is often easily treated but can be a serious issue if you ignore it.

FellowEnt , 3 days ago

Yeah I’m lucky I guess that my particular condition is deemed not serious enough to warrant carrying medication. Just gotta live with it, thoroughly unpleasant when it happens though!

AstralPath , 3 days ago

220bpm? That’s a solid blast beat tempo.

When I run my heart caps out at around 186. I can’t even imagine what 220 feels like.

Takios , 4 days ago to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

We use btrfs for the / partition and xfs for any data partitions. Has served us well, the snapshot feature saves us some valuable time when an update goes awry.

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Why xfs let’s say over ext4? Just asking out of curosity.

Takios , 3 days ago

The main distribution we use has it like that by default and our (admittedly rudimentary) benchmarks haven’t shown much of a performance difference versus ext4 so we kept to the default.

lnxtx , 4 days ago to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

Depends. Slower desktop machines XFS.
Standard desktop XFS, if it has a smaller SSD, Btrfs.
Home server ext4/XFS + ZFS. Generic servers at work ext4/XFS, backup/storage servers ZFS.
Database server, experiment with ZFS with compression enabled - ratio 2:1, but encountered problems (probably a bad HBA model), standard ext4/XFS.
Hosts with virtualization, small server - XFS, big server - ZFS (technically a ZVOL).