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dejected_warp_core ,

At one point, my laptop’s Nvidia drivers were all tangled up. The package dependency graph had portions of the screwy, we-don’t-need-your-stinking-standard-version-scheme, binary blob drivers both in front of and behind the currently installed version. I had to basically gut everything Nvidia related, by performing surgery on the filesystem and Apt database, and then build it back. At one point, I was flying in text mode only; not hard, but worth mentioning since it shows how deep a cut this was.

Related: getting the above nonsense to cooperate with containers that also want to do GPU things. As much as I wanted this work with coding up a one-and-done solution (e.g. docker-compose or BASH script), you can’t get away with mounting the host Nvidia driver and tools via volumes. The software on the container image itself must be built against the specific version you’re running - no exceptions. So, I now rebuild these containers after every Nvidia package upgrade (from the author’s git repo), which is a stupid way to achieve containerization. If Nvidia had a stable API/ABI across releases, this would just work. /rant

dejected_warp_core ,

There really should be a hotkey for “move window to primary display” or somesuch. The worst is when just the top “cleat” of the window is inaccessible, making it impossible to simply move the window yourself.

Alternately, a CLI tool to just trash a specific app’s window settings, or a system control panel that lets you browse these settings, would be incredible.

dejected_warp_core ,

I ended up booting from my phone (android app for iso booting)

Impressive. I had no idea that was a thing. That’s easily the most “Star Trek” sounding fix I’ve heard in a good while.

back up in around 40 mins […] on a root shell with no training.

… and you intuited that fix, or at least pulled it together from scratch/google with no training? Doubly impressive.

dejected_warp_core ,

TL;DR: grownups tried to bully all the “not normal” kids in one go, forever. They’re lucky this push-back is so civil. Here’s a take on why this theme looks familiar: it’s patriarchy.

When you have negative politicized action to reinforce “traditional” gender roles, it’s always in defense of a hierarchy, with hetero men on top (“patriarchy”)*. Embracing equality pushes the social norm towards treating people like people, regardless of gender, eradicating the social barriers and roles in that hierarchy. This effectively tears down a whole kind of class stratification and the power structure that comes from it. It doesn’t scare people; it directly threatens their power and feels like a personal attack, which fuels all the moral licensing needed to be deviously underhanded in retaliation.

IMO, we should quit being surprised and outraged, and instead just expect that some knuckle-draggers are going to show up to try and ruin a good thing. Because as long as someone is invested in punching down on others, it’s possible that they’ll punch all the way to some position of authority if nobody stops them.

(* I have yet to witness a conservative regressive matriarchy, but I’m sure they exist somewhere.)

dejected_warp_core ,

I look at it the other way around. The food was so horrible, England sent entire fleets of ships just to get takeout from India. It didn’t matter that it took months on end and people lost their lives along the way, it was still worth it.

dejected_warp_core ,

Also, biscuits and gravy, wtf

I may lose my Yank card for this, but I’m not a fan myself. That said, it’s just scones and bechamel sauce. Hearty, meaty, salty and what you can do with the rendered fat from greasy breakfast sausage*. It’s basically hangover food that caught on.

(* There’s a subset of traditional American food that stems from doing a lot with very little, while having a complete disregard for cholesterol and calorie intake. Assuming that wheat and dairy are the cheapest things in your pantry, you get stuff like this. See “scrapple” for another example.)

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

I’ll back you up.

Guys, we have to suck it up. I’ve talked with my wife about this very thing, a lot. She’s really helped me process a lot of relationship trauma in my deep past, including bad/weird breakups.

Men, by and large, have the ability to utilize violence in ways that women simply do not*. Especially towards women. This shapes a lot of inequity and abuse in society writ large, no matter where you are. Forget the law, forget about the rest doing the right thing, forget all your bias, and forget any logical fallacies you are clinging to right now. Just look at the stats above.

One in four. 25%. If you were doing anything in your day-to-day life that came with a risk of bodily or psychological harm a quarter of the time, every time, you’d probably just stop. Or, as OP is pointing out, screw social pretense and improvise a solution with a better shot at safety.

To flip that around, consider all the women you know and then think about how 25% of them have been abused in some way.

Women learn from their peers or otherwise adapt to be non-confrontational, passive, indirect, avoidant, or just plain not present. Sometimes that lesson is learned proactively, sometimes first-hand. Why? Because 25%, that’s why.

(* As someone who has been abused by women, yes, there are outliers. But since we’re talking statistics, that’s another discussion.)

dejected_warp_core ,

Does this mean that if we always mention pixelfed or @pixelfed we can effectively block Meta from leveraging our contributions to the Fediverse?

dejected_warp_core ,

Let’s tear this apart.

Length overall: 165.8 m Beam: 23.0 m Draft: 8.6 m

Not a nautical engineer, but those seem to be comparable to known military craft. That’s probably a decent envelope for a sub carrying ordinance and full crew. So, lots of free space for a pleasure craft.

Range: approx. 15.000 km

To pump these numbers, that’s likely surface cruising at some optimal speed. We can safely say this isn’t a nuclear sub, since that would be something to boast: your “range” is really “how much food do you have?” since that runs out first.

Submerged duration: approx. 4 weeks

This one’s tricky. There are ways to generate O2 without electricity. But the rest of your environmental controls like heat, light, plumbing, cooking, etc. draw power. So we can assume a pretty beefy battery bank on this boat, but not excessively so, in order to stretch into that 4 week range. But that’s nothing revolutionary for subs - Electric subs go back to 1888, with diesel/electric hybrids coming along after that.

Depth: approx. 250 m

Totally plausible and shallower than military craft. But maybe not with the viewing windows in the illustration.

It even has a pool inside it!

A moon pool or a regular one? Either way, that’s extravagant. But it looks like a moon pool wouldn’t work below 50m or so.

dejected_warp_core ,

As a Subnautica player, I’d more or less demand it. Even if it limits the max cruising depth.

dejected_warp_core ,

Ah, thanks for the fact-check. I didn’t think to look that up - yeah, so they’re fudging the numbers just a tad.

dejected_warp_core ,

The thing to keep in mind here is that each such pizzeria had a specific territory it staked out. There was an effective radius from every location, and the drivers were often very experienced with that chunk of town. I also recall wall-mounted maps near the phone so they could easily tell the customer to call a closer Domino’s or Pizza Hut over if they were out of range. So after a while, you just learn the region, memorize the street names, and off you go. Finding a house number was the only real risk.

Advertising was also typically done door-to-door with flyers and fridge magnets, along with phone numbers for YOUR local franchise. As a franchise owner you’d have your family or hire some kids to canvas every so often. I suppose that helped with any confusion, but there was nothing keeping you from getting a hold of the wrong number from the phone book or a friend.

With GPS navigation everywhere, I’m betting that drivers can range further than ever before. The calculus is probably more like “google says you’re 40 minutes out right now, so no”, than “you’re not one of our customers.”

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

I used to be amazed by the idea that there were people that couldn’t do this. A good map/atlas has an index of street names and what pages grid cells they’re on, and you can trace any familiar road trip with your finger (or a highlighter if you must).

Now I know that some people have a lot working against them. Some can’t visualize things in their head, have no clue which way North is, or imagine what their current location resembles on a 2D map. There’s also a kind of “navigation sense” that some people have and/or learn where your perception of space is in constant comparison to near and distant landmarks, even when indoors. People that can do these things are not afraid of liminal spaces, can easy find hidden rooms in structures, know exactly how big their car is, can improvise new routes between distant locations with ease, and being lost is a temporary problem at worst.

Edit: I had an ex that had very poor spacial perception, so that’s a thing too. There was an argument over whether or not a moving box would fit through a doorway when carried. Critical thinking aside, a complaint was made when seeing the box sitting alone, packed, in the middle of an otherwise empty room. From outside the room, this person was unable to accurately compare the box’s size in relationship to the doorway’s dimensions, and insisted it was too big to leave the space. It was as if their mind was unable to pull together enough context to get an accurate frame of reference. I think this spacial perception ability applies to navigation as well, and may explain why some people struggle with it.

dejected_warp_core ,

If there isn’t a blue dot, they have no idea where they are.

That’s the neat part. Even with the app, they still don’t. Only now they don’t have to know.

dejected_warp_core ,

My partner and I have been together since before Google maps. On holiday she gets is lost, I find the way back. It makes for a nice way of seeing a town.

I’m going to do this, thank you for the idea. Indeed, “getting lost” may be as essential to travel as navigation. I never thought of that before.

dejected_warp_core ,

Its gotten so useless to do so I have forgotten how.

I guess I lucked out with keeping this habit. I know of two tricks you can try to keep it straight. Once you memorize that the sun moves from East to West:

  • On a compass, West and East spell “WE” with North above that.
  • Imagine an old fashioned watch or clock face, where North is at 12 o’clock (N = Noon) and East is at 3 o’clock (3 kinda looks like E).

figured out North while walking around Tromso by looking at the Satellite Dishes.

Nice! Know your environment. For those reading along, when in the Northern Hemisphere:

  • Satellites hang out nearer the equator so dishes point South(ish).
  • Solar panels are another one and also face in a generally Southward direction to maximize solar exposure year-round.
  • An older trick is to look for moss on rocks and trees. These do not like direct sunlight and prefer to grow in the shade of the North side of things.

The opposite is true for these three when in the Southern Hemisphere. And all this is less useful, the closer to the equator you go.

dejected_warp_core ,

Oooh. Table-based layout with image maps. That’s rare these days.

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

I read that as “supplement nutritional brand” and was very confused, wondering why the CIA was working with the likes of GNC.

dejected_warp_core ,

/me puts on VR headset and ugly cries into the metaverse.

dejected_warp_core ,

Because Putin is fucking head of it.

Thank you for taking a risk by posting here and speaking truth to power. People like you give me hope.

dejected_warp_core ,

Yeah, he is either stupid or desperate.

I’ll pick the middle option: Putin is high on his own supply.

The man made it clear that dissent will be met with swift and gruesome consequences. This is a sure-fire recipe for surrounding yourself with yes-men that are not smart enough to get the hell out. And BTW, that’s always a career where everyone’s last promotion is “pavement inspector”, and training starts immediately at an open 6th floor window. So there’s some cocky, can’t-guage-risk-for-a-damn people mixed in there too. The result is a bunch of decisions from the head-of-state that only make sense between those in his court, and fail to hold up to scrutiny outside those walls.

dejected_warp_core ,

Every time I’m astounded at the hot-garbage blend of thinking that reduces to: “here are some pseudo-legal and actually legal measures I’m using to assert that your laws don’t apply to me.”

dejected_warp_core ,

To be fair, naming yourself is possibly the only concept consistent with the whole sovcit “I’m my own person”, uh, “philosophy.” The rest just seems like wishy-washy nonsense to me. But yeah, that probably didn’t go over well.

dejected_warp_core ,

What frustrates me the most about this is that if we promote one commercial solution to the top of the heap, destroying all others, we still lose.

dejected_warp_core ,

I must be missing something. How would Google be at all liable for restoring funds stolen by software that they themselves didn’t furnish, on a device that’s out of their control?

dejected_warp_core ,

I agree and I think it’s important to review why that didn’t work, because I think it’s relevant today.

Under normal circumstances, I would agree that compassion is the best course of action. However the Confederacy largely left the union and then went to war over the ability to own people, claiming it was a “right”. There was a whole world doing away with the practice, with abolitionists saying their peace for a long time up until war broke out. And rather than change tact, and do away with the inherently immoral practice of slavery, these guys doubled-down. To me, that’s exactly the kind of situation where you must withhold compassion, because it demonstrates both a track record and a potential future willingness to break the social contract.

dejected_warp_core ,

While this is technically correct, it’s tantamount to saying “just don’t make mistakes”, or arguing that a seatbelt is unnecessary because many are good enough drivers to not need it.

Languages like C and C++ do not prohibit the kinds of mistakes that the NSA told us two years ago lead to software vulnerabilities.

Other languages, like Rust, have higher guardrails built in and make it much more difficult to accidentally create the same failure modes.

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

I can only conclude that this is some kind of scam

That depends on your framing.

Is it a legitimate attempt to sell shares? Absolutely. Completely legal, disregarding OP’s claim of a GDPR violation. There might be wiggle-room to suggest this is some flavor of price manipulation, but I’m not a lawyer or SEC investigator. In order to IPO, there’s a compliance framework that makes this functionally identical to any other IPO on the market.

Are some people who buy this IPO going to be left holding the bag? In a round-about “we’re all playing the same game, but also not” way, yes. For an instant, people will be holding shares in Reddit at the IPO price, and speculation on value will drive that up on the back of the IPO itself. It might plummet later the same day, it may not. But what is going to really burn people is when the primary shareholders “cash out” and sell a huge chunk of that stock. That usually has the effect of signaling that the company isn’t worth what it was anymore. It’s a gamble where the house can destroy your bid before you can manage to pawn your chips off onto the next guy.

From a spectator standpoint, where this may get interesting is where Reddit IPO intersects with r/wallstreetbets.

Edit: dividends are also a thing, but I never hear about that outside of what mutual funds and 401ks are up to. As someone who has no idea how Reddit does or can actually make money, I’m going to guess that’s not going to be a benefit of being a long-term shareholder.

dejected_warp_core ,

Did you post a lot? Do you have email notifications turned on?

My old account has… a lot (six digits worth), of comment karma. But I think I posted a grand total of three times in the last ten years or so. I also have notifications turned off. So, no IPO notification for me.

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

I think it’s more than that.

The price for these shares is probably not cheap for the individual, but won’t raise a ton of money internally in the grand scheme of things. At least, that’s how it works for employee options and phantom stock. The disparity here is due it’s utility as a retention mechanism. The idea is that, if invested, you’re less likely to jump ship until after IPO. With options and phantom stock, they typically have a “vestment period”, so you have to wait before you can get your money back out.

In this case, Reddit knows it needs its moderators and power users, but can’t afford to employ those people. So we get this weird middle-ground where they entice people to stick around, but they’re still not employees. As a bonus to Reddit Inc., these “investors” will provide ballast for the IPO, because I’m betting this stuff has a vestment period that extends well past the IPO date. Seeing this all on a balance sheet will make other investors feel a lot better about buying or even holding shares when the IPO kicks off.

What I really don’t like about this is that they mention the “DSP” and define it, but are coy about what the actual investment instrument is. What kind of shares are these? What is the price per share?

dejected_warp_core ,

As morbid as it sounds, maybe there’s a genuine need for an internet “dead man switch” as a service? Something that blasts some stuff to your socials, emails your contacts, etc, when you fail to show up after a month or so.

dejected_warp_core ,

Exactly.

Another way to look at this is: It’s not the store brand version that’s marked down, it’s the “name brand” version that’s marked up.

dejected_warp_core ,

Yikes. placed this in the wrong spot. Thank you.

dejected_warp_core ,

There are probably a lot of scientific applications (e.g. statistics, audio, 3D graphics) where exponential notation is the norm and there’s an understanding about precision and significant digits/bits. It’s a space where fixed-point would absolutely destroy performance, because you’d need as many bits as required to store your largest terms. Yes, NaN and negative zero are utter disasters in the corners of the IEEE spec, but so is trying to do math with 256bit integers.

For a practical explanation about how stark a difference this is, the PlayStation (one) uses an integer z-buffer (“fixed point”). This is responsible for the vertex popping/warping that the platform is known for. Floating-point z-buffers became the norm almost immediately after the console’s launch, and we’ve used them ever since.

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

I… I just can’t with this picture.

There’s simply too much here, and I can’t believe this isn’t a meticulously crafted caricature of life 40 years ago.

Edit: I’m an idiot and this is AI generated to the max.

  • This man’s t-shirt makes zero sense
  • The logo on the cup
  • The logo on the cup in the stall behind him
  • The florentine in the stall behind him
  • The “chair” the man in the back is leaning on
  • Who puts a straw in their fries?
  • Faceless people in the background
  • Seats on the booth in the back make zero sense
dejected_warp_core , (edited )

I clearly recall that McDonalds had these disposable thin-foil-metal trays with a company logo on 'em. But they had a habit of wandering off, and were never evenly distributed to all the tables in the dining room. I have no idea about the glass ones in the image search above.

Edit: looks like the paper water cup is the ashtray for this gentleman’s meal.

Edit2: I had a big dumb and this is not real. Carry on.

dejected_warp_core ,

Bones, either your prompt editing is getting better or you’re being a lot more choosy about what to post. This is way better than the other one.

  • Window glare is inconsistent with shadows on subject, kid, tree
  • Maybe that’s a hand, or maybe dad lost some fingers somewhere
  • Chimney held up by some dubious looking carpentry
  • Grass is too green under an oak of that size, IMO. Bark is also kind of inconsistent.
  • Red spots on trunk that read like a scanner photosensor getting blown out due to glare from white areas on a photo print. But no part of a tree trunk is that white, and there are no other artifacts, like where we see glare on the window.
  • The front-door delete is actually not the weirdest part. I can see someone actually doing this. It’s just not likely.
dejected_warp_core ,

See, that one looks legit. Film grain, depth-of-field, zero anachronisms, and recognizable mascots on… a happymeal placemat? Even the prices look right, even though I can’t make out the menu items specifically. Also, repeated things that AI routinely screws up are correct: cashier’s fingers, sizing of cups behind her, drink fountain looks real, and the banners are evenly spaced and the same size.

dejected_warp_core ,

At this point, I’m starting to question even my own sanity.

dejected_warp_core ,

On the one hand: kind of sad since this isn’t too far removed from some workplaces. The hardware and furniture could be sourced from any number of places.

On the other: hot damn. We can get the same kit NASA uses at home. Welcome to the future.

dejected_warp_core ,

Well, the Nostromo was a tug boat for a whole oil refinery, and the eponymous alien chowed down on Ripley’s crew. And shit went sideways because corporate had this brilliant idea that derailed everything that was going right. It really was just a bad day the office.

dejected_warp_core ,

Barf: (seeing other patron in agony) Hey, what did that guy order?

Waitress: Oh, he had the noodles.

Barf & Lonestar: CHECK PLEASE!

dejected_warp_core ,

I’m over here concerned for all of Neuralink’s patients.

dejected_warp_core ,

Tell me how to deploy an S3 bucket to AWS using Terraform, in the style of a reddit comment.

Chat GPT: LOL. RTFM, noob.

dejected_warp_core ,

My prediction: for the uninformed, public watering holes like Reddit.com will resemble broadcast cable, like tiny islands of signal in a vast ocean of noise. For the rest: people will scatter to private and pseudo-private (think Discord) services, resembling the fragmented ‘web’ of bulletin boards in the 1980’s. The Fediverse as it exists today sits in between the two latter examples, but needs a lot more anti-bot measures when it comes to onboarding and monitoring identities.

Overcoming this would require armies of moderators pushing back against noise, bots, intolerance, and more. Basically what everyone is doing now, but with many more people. It might even make sense to get some non-profit businesses off the ground that are trained and crowd-supported to do this kind of dirtywork, full-time.

What’s troubling is that this effectively rolls back the clock for public organization-at-scale. Like a kind of “jamming” for discourse powerful parties don’t like. For instance, the kind of grassroots support that the Arab Spring had, might not be possible anymore. The idea that this is either the entire point, or something that has manifest itself as a weak-point in the web, is something we should all be concerned about.

dejected_warp_core ,

Niche communities, mostly. Anything with tiny membership that’s initimate and easily patrolled for interlocutors. But outside that, no, it won’t be that useful outside a historical database from before everything blew up.

dejected_warp_core ,

I was gonna say. The gorilla is a 800lb. problem that requires stealth, strength, and fast thinking to deal with. You’d need a smarter plan than “lure him into Banana Republic and close the security gate with him inside.” But you will need a plan.

Also, accidentally make eye contact or show your teeth to that ape and you’re dead; like your shoes came off, dead. Can’t say the same for the snakes.

dejected_warp_core ,

The key is to add an additional implied phrase to the end. Kind of like fortune cookies.

In this case, radical right speech has an implied “, for the right people.” After all they are not trying to govern equally, but instead prefer a rigidly defined caste system.

reverence for the sanctity of life, for the right people.

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