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But they are not buried particularly deeply. If you have drawings, or just some sense of where the meter boxes are in a particular set of houses, you can make quick work of them with a spade and ten minutes or so.

And that’s why you want a camera on your front yard.

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Ah yes, the famously war torn Sweden.

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Really? I took the circumvesuvian railway a couple of years ago and it was just a regular commuter train.

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I’m always impressed by people projecting “arrogance” onto others, especially people you don’t shared a language with. Rude? Sure. Dismissive? Why not. But arrogant? How do you know? Did he give you a five page newsletter that extols his superiority? Are you a mind reader?

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Ah yes, the famous “no go” zones of Sweden.

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It’s the French transliteration. Doner would be pronounced “donay”.

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Actual degrees or American fantasy units?

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That was going to be Rowan Atkinson’s Oscar role! The woke brigade ROBBED HIM!

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Also we chase women out of academia by early mid-career, so they have less opportunity for self citation.

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First of all, at best it’s tangentially related. There are a lot of steps between graduation with a collage degree (which in the U.S., let’s face it, usually means a bachelors) and being a mid career researcher.

Second, if anything it underscores my point - that women are dropping out of academia faster than men.

But we don’t have to speculate. We have lots of statistics about this. Women leave academia at higher rates than men. This is not really up for debate.

vzq ,

You got served pretty good in the original thread. Yet you come here asking the same question. What are you hoping to accomplish?

Why do I puke more than once when I've been drunk?

So I’ve been drinking and it becomes like I drink water and I puke right away. So it’s like what’s the point of puking if I can’t get rid of all the toxicant in one go. I end up just puking whatever I put in. I assume puking is good but yeah I don’t get the point if it can’t be just a one time thing.

vzq ,

Poisoning. You have alcohol poisoning.

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Suddenly I’m reminded of David Cameron.

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We’re posting quillette now?

Jesus Christ how low we have sunk.

vzq , (edited )

Hold your horses pardner.

First of all, I didn’t comment on the merits of recycling plastic. I know it’s stupid. Everyone knows it’s stupid.

Second, the assertion that “To dismiss any information merely because it emanates from a source they disfavor is the epitome of liberalism” requires some seriously odd definition of “liberalism” to be true.

Third, quillette can go get very fucked all the way.

Fourth, “the epitome of liberalism, a testament to their steadfast commitment to ideological purity” is legit the funniest shit I’ve heard all week. You are accusing liberals of striving for ideological purity? Liberals?

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Long story short, they carry water for “the alt right”, aka the current rebrand of fucking Nazis.

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Ok, let’s do this.

Can you please explain to me the tenets of the supposedly dogmatic ideology of “liberalism” as you understand them?

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I am asking you. And I’m asking a substantially more specific question than “what is liberalism”.

At least you could cite the relevant sections of that mammoth document.

vzq ,

You understand how the thing you typed supports my position, not yours right?

Liberals have no “ideological purity”, other than “Money is good”. The rest are easily abandoned precepts at best, but more likely fake pretenses from the start.

vzq ,

How about we take a break, you read what you posted, then we cycle back? Pay special attention to the paragraph you wrote that starts with “when threatened by populism”.

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What part of my original comment displayed a dogmatic adherence “liberal” ideology?

All that private property I didn’t mention? Or was it something else?

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Dude, that has no bearing on my comment whatsoever. Just admit you just use “liberal” as a general purpose insult without thinking and move on.

vzq ,

He works really really hard ;)

vzq ,

The solution to that is to buy a net block. IPV6 address space is very affordable.

vzq ,

Are you new to the whole “human” thing? We gender absolutely everything.

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Federation is anathema to boot licking authoritarian fascists.

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you know, like how we advance our understanding of science…?

One eulogy at a time, if you are of the Kuhn persuasion.

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The Romans didn’t make a machine that found those things by the thousands.

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Panic buy pasta and bog roll, just like last time.

vzq ,

I like Lemmy but there’s like a few dozen of us. We’re politically less relevant than mumsnet.

State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore (blog.jeujeus.de)

In this article, I aim to take a different approach. We will begin by defining a laptop according to my understanding. The I will share my personal history and journey to this point, as well as my current situation with my home and work laptops. Using this perspective, we will explore the current dysfunctionality of the standby...

vzq ,

Unpopular opinion: the only vendor that does sleep right is Apple. The only reason they can is the tight vertical integration of the platform where they control all the hardware, all the drivers, and can exercise control over all the applications in the App Store.

More open platforms are essentially fucked.

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I mean, that’s fair. It’s certainly not a technical impossibility to get it right and keep getting it right.

Does the form factor between 3.5" and 2.5" matter in a NAS server? (slrpnk.net)

Been finding some good deals on 2.5 disks lately, but have never bought one before. Have a couple of 3.5 disks on the other hand in my Unraid server. Wondering how much it matters wether I get a 2.5 or not? What form factor do you prefer/usually go for?

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The key here is “better performance at similar price points”. There are absolutely amazing 2.5 drives made for server applications, but they cost so much money you’re better off getting SSD these days.

Speaking of which, you should consider SSD.

vzq ,

That’s fair.

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Wait, Mexico elected a celebrated climate scientist to the presidency?

That’s pretty awesome.

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Amazingly, no. I had to follow a few links before I found out because apparently the fact that she’s a woman trumps all the other news, but she is, in fact, not a fascist.

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Yann LeCunn is, in a very real sense, a prime example of everything that is wrong with AI research.

And still he has a thousand times the integrity of the rat.

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There’s some serious bad blood in the AI academic world between the old farts that toiled thanklessly all through the thirty years of the AI winter, proving all sorts of fundamental theorems, only to get steam rolled by (relative) newcomers with big tech backing the very second tech started catching up to the math. Things got pretty heated with accusations of academic malpractice, and generic assholery.

Yann is one of the main participants in this drama. The other is a Swiss professor that is about equally friendly.

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And you should see the assholes that the uncensored image generators contribute!

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Schmidhuber

Note how the titles of his recent papers are all “<popular AI technique> is a special case of <thing I published in the 90s>”

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I look up the candidates/parties on their respective web sites and check out their positions.

Amazing, I know.

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Monsters Inc but all the apostles are Mike Wazowski.

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Are there any non-crappy ways to tie SSH into a single sign on flow yet?

I’m over managing users per application and typing in passwords.

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Tbf that’s mostly because they come in two varieties, overfilled (which behave as the image describes) and empty.

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I am shocked, shocked, that the guy hand picked by right wing extremist lobby groups to represent their views on the Supreme Court is a hard right wing extremist.

Shocked.

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Hot take: It’s what old farts used to use back in the day.

These days you should just use encrypting file systems with per-file keying (like eg APFS) and stop worrying about deletion leaving file data around.

vzq ,

Fair point. Data integrity and availability concerns often trump confidentiality.

Still, if your main concern is safe disposal rather than preventing unauthorized access, most major operating systems have ways to ensure continued access.

vzq ,

Most people are as evil as they want.

That is to say, not a lot.

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