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qjkxbmwvz ,

Is there any consensus as to the internal organs/stuff which maybe doesn’t fossilize well? Like, did they just evolve a bitchin’ chassis but they’re constantly tinkering with the internal bits?

qjkxbmwvz ,

What country? AFAIK in the US you can’t make the batteries replaceable. If they are wirelessly linked they can have auxiliary batteries for that, but (I believe) that’s different than the main battery…

EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

AFAIK in the USA you can’t have the main batteries be replaceable (I think an aux battery for wireless functions is allowed…).

EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.

qjkxbmwvz ,

with the ever present threat of hurricanes

That may be true for Florida, but that’s not really relevant for northern California/PNW/many, many other parts of the world…

qjkxbmwvz ,

If you can get to work on city streets, there’s a good chance you can bike or take public transportation. Nothing evil about that!

Spectrum Call Center in Charlotte, NC Reportedly Provided Fried Chicken and Watermelon to Employees for Juneteenth (thencbeat.com)

“We want to acknowledge some feedback received regarding our Juneteenth celebration,” Pezzuto said in his letter obtained by The North Carolina Beat. “Although our intent was to celebrate this nationally recognized day, some of you voiced your concerns regarding the associated food choices.”...

qjkxbmwvz ,

My company did it the right way — they gave us the day off.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Funding agencies have huge power here; demanding that research be published in OA journals is perhaps a good start (with limits on $ spent publishing, perhaps).

qjkxbmwvz ,

Is that for sure what happened? IIRC there was speculation about mechanical failure (lights we not out on ship, large plume of smoke…).

Though perhaps that doesn’t really matter as far as how much it sucks for the crew.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Basically sounds like the Tesla game plan, which was super effective: roadster (which is purely a toy for the rich) and a little later the Model S (practical EV), and then introduce an affordable model.

This implies that eventually people will strap rusty boxes to their head though, so grain of salt with the analogy…

qjkxbmwvz ,

Whoa, I used Slackware for basically that same time frame (IBM — not Lenovo — ThinkPad 600e, which was pretty ancient even at the time). Good stuff!

qjkxbmwvz ,

I think that’s covered by, “in the photos.”

qjkxbmwvz ,

…the department wrote alongside photos of the column. In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Not sure how you would prefer that be phrased? Also, if you can reasonably see the horizon aligned with its reflection, that suggests something to the reader about how it’s more or less perpendicular to the ground, rather than slanted (cone/pyramid/etc.).

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

rocky dessert

🤦

qjkxbmwvz ,

Can you post the CPU info? I think it should be available from the BIOS.

qjkxbmwvz ,

We really need to see info from the BIOS — exact CPU model, RAM speed, etc.

As others have pointed out, this is a pretty anachronistic build — i586 with DDR1 is just weird, so it’s possible there’s some really niche hardware and you may need an exotic kernel (or kernel options) to get anything to boot.

That said: have you just tried running a standard live or install CD from that time period? You could try booting a 2001 Slackware installer to see what happens.

qjkxbmwvz ,

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers…

qjkxbmwvz ,

From skimming TFA, it’s not that the numbers are fake per se, it’s that they’re wildly misinterpreted.

Job cuts coincided with minimum wage laws, however, they also coincided with seasonal reduction in workforce. So it’s entirely expected that that would happen.

Adjusting for seasonal expectations — which you absolutely must do for a proper comparison — gives you the opposite conclusion, and emphatically does not point to the minimum wage having a negative causal link to fast-food employment numbers.

qjkxbmwvz ,

There’s an audio illusion that’s somewhat analogous to the barber pole illusion — instead of a pattern which appears to always go up or down, you can have a sound which seems to always go up or down in pitch: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

qjkxbmwvz ,

I audited a class on the topic. The professor said something like, “Some folks think evolution isn’t a fact, it’s just a theory — but they have it backwards! It is a fact…but it’s a lousy theory.”

qjkxbmwvz ,

I went with “cheap mikrotik router + cheap used enterprise APs (3x Aruba 325),” and I’ve been pretty happy.

What hardware you running for pfSense?

qjkxbmwvz ,

Please be direct and stop beating around the Bush.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

qjkxbmwvz ,

I’ve heard that RawTherapee is good, but not quite on the same level.

qjkxbmwvz ,

…except that it used to be that your ability to secure a loan was based on where you went to school, how firm your handshake was, and if you happened to have the right skin color and sex organs.

The current system certainly isn’t perfect; and if you’re denied a loan you have a legal right (in the US) to know the reason.

There are systemic issues, to be sure. But the nominal goal is absolutely better than what we used to have.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I’d definitely recommend getting a credit report (not from the websites that advertise with an insane jingle, but from the actual credit bureaus — you’re entitled to a free report). Mine had debt from a relative with a similar name; I was able to get that removed. They will also tell you in more detail what goes in to calculating it.

I agree that it’s not perfect, and often very opaque, but you should be able to get some understanding of why she doesn’t have good credit.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Not every ISP! Where I live there’s an awesome ISP, Sonic, which is pro-NN, and last I heard only offers “best effort” service — which means there’s no throttling your link, no paid tiers; if the fiber and hardware can support 10Gbps symmetric, then that’s what you get.

Sadly, they’re not the norm. And sadly, not offered at my address.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Right — not immune to congestion at all. Unlike ATT fiber, where we had 300Mbps (symmetric I think)…but if you log in to the modem it reported a gigabit link. Starting a download, you could often get more than 300Mbps, but it would slowly fall in line with bandwidth policies.

With Sonic, my gigabit connection would get north of 900Mbps (iperf3), both ways, to a nearby university computer. I miss it.

qjkxbmwvz ,

When I’m feeling cool and downloading a *.tar* file, I’ll wget to stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.

I have (successfully!) written an .iso to CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I usually suppress output of either wget (-q) or of tar (no v flag), otherwise I think the output gets mangled and looks funny (you see both download progress and files being extracted).

qjkxbmwvz ,

Probably because we don’t dead reckon off the position of the gas pedal, but rather, our mental shortcut is, “clutch is furthest left pedal.”

As others have said, brake on automatic tends to be a wide pedal. Pedals on a smaller car or sports car tend to be small and very close together for heel and toe and whatnot.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Yeah…it’s pretty funny to see a bird running around with an apparently broken wing and then as soon as you’re out of threat range they fly away.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Then there’s the pitcher plant that isn’t really carnivorous, but relies on excrement…it’s not so much a pitcher as a toilet: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_lowii

qjkxbmwvz ,

In California, the major utility provider was found guilty in relation to wildfires, and fined.

Guess what happened to electricity rates…

qjkxbmwvz ,

Does gnome-screenshot work without DISPLAY being set?

qjkxbmwvz ,

In before the .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 gang…

Linux on old School Machines?

Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...

qjkxbmwvz ,

I still use my i5-4670k machine. It has a SATA SSD, only 8GB RAM, but it is a completely zippy machine. Ancient (by today’s standards) 750Ti, but I only rarely use it for old games (Xonotic and Portal2) and it doesn’t break a sweat.

Debian, i3wm, so it ends up being lightweight but that’s my preferred setup regardless of specs.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Is there a commonly accepted reason why Microsoft makes these big releases so different?

AFAIK macOS has relatively minor changes, in terms of UI/UX, from release to release (look at screenshots of the original OS X vs. the current macOS version). And Linux is entirely dependent on distro, but for me it’s just “has i3wm changed drastically? No? Great!”

My guess is that Windows just does it because they need folks to upgrade, and that’s the only tool they have to force people’s hands…

qjkxbmwvz ,

What do you put on potatoes? Ketchup. What color is ketchup? Red. What color are commies?

I rest my case.

qjkxbmwvz ,

But this isn’t entirely stupid. Many Americans have very limited vacation time; weekend getaways are the norm, and are optimized for. This means that for a lot of folks, skiing on a weekend (or even worse, a long weekend) means that lots of other people are doing the exact same thing.

Specifically, I’m in San Francisco, so heading up to Tahoe for a weekend/long weekend is a standard thing to do. It’s about 200 miles each way, so you’re going to need to recharge. Which wouldn’t be a problem except that everyone else is doing the exact same thing, on essentially the same schedule; this is a recipe for delays when the infrastructure is vastly inferior to the gas station network (and the charge time is obviously greater than the few minutes spent at the pump).

You might think that you could optimize for the daily trips and use rentals for getaways, but using chains on a rental car can be problematic/against TOS. Which can be a problem going up to a ski resort (AWD often ok, but not guaranteed).

I’m all for phasing out dinosaur burners, but the issue is not without nuance.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Sure, but Chevy was essentially forced by public opinion to continue making the Bolt EV, which is an affordable and well-liked little car.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Lots of games worked just fine on a 486…

Commander Keen and Lemmings should keep you busy for a few evenings at least.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It’s almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed — there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!

I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it’s independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still…the computer “knows” what it’s displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I think an email address is required to access their respective app stores, but is it actually required for creating an account?

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

Except a millennium millenia is a thousand years, not a million years.

65-145 epochs ago might be the correct wording?

“Mya” would be the correct term.

Edit: corrections from MBM, bisby.

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

Millenia is thousands, epoch “Mya” is million years ago.

But as my stat mech professor once said, “what’s a few orders of magnitude between friends?”

Edit: thanks to bisby, MBM.

qjkxbmwvz ,

You’re right — the first result I stumbled upon was the Simple wikipedia result which erroneously calls an epoch 1,000,000 years ( simple wiki link ).

qjkxbmwvz ,

There are plenty of distributions without systemd — …wikipedia.org/…/Category:Linux_distributions_wit…

qjkxbmwvz ,

I just say my name is Bigus Dickus whenever they call me. They usually hang up or insult me.

For the “car’s extended warranty” I just tell them it’s a 1969 Wayne Industries Batmobile. They usually just say they don’t provide coverage for that car and hang up.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Looks like Slashdot no longer allows Anonymous Cowards. TIL.

(I’m not editorializing — that’s what you’d show up as if you posted anonymously.)

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