Brian-Puccio

On MacOS and iOS, two dashes (i.e., the -- characters) automagically turns into an em dash (—). No special commands needed.

Can I ask why it will produce terrible color rendering? In addition to commercial scanners that used narrowband trichromatic (RGB) light sources, hobbyists are creating their own RGB light sources to digitize color negative film claiming superior results and putting forward arguments why this is better:

https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/

(NB: Most film I shoot is slide film, which I’ve been told doesn’t benefit from RGB light sources because it’s intended viewing was projected with a broad-spectrum white light [likely a warmer than daylight (but color temperature isn’t much of a concern for digitizing slides)] so I haven’t dug into this much.)

WP is a fork of b2/cafelog. So b3/bistrolist?

(There’s also b2evolution.)

Credit unions are nonprofit, member/cooperatively owned financial institutions.

Banks are for profit (and likely publicly traded).

Yes, screenshot things.

But also export your config because you will inevitably forget to screenshot a thing or seven and you can poke around the config export for that port number or IP address.

Worst case scenario, you can spin up a VM of pfsense quickly and reimport the config if you have to.

So 6,400 Gb/s compared to 409.6 Gb/s once you convert units?

I’ve been using BorgBackup since it was Attic. Been thrilled with it.

> My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck.

At some marketing meeting this was brought up and was promptly considers a feature, not a bug.

The first line of the fifth paragraph reads:

> In overt cases, this is known as ‘constructive dismissal’: when an employee is forced to leave because the employer created a hostile work environment.

Mine mnemonic is use e.g. when you could say “for eg-zample” and use i.e. when you could say “that is” — ie to is. Admittedly, the second half isn’t as good as the first. : )

I’ve taken this concept to its fullest conclusion: everything north of the Long Beach Bridge (or Cross Bay Bridge if you live there) is “upstate”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach_Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Bay_Veterans_Memorial_Br...

As well as direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising

> The inhabitants don't lose. > > Play your scenario out. > > A bunch of poor people buy 100 acres of land for $1, and they turn it into a paradise.

Yeah but instead it’s people who cannot buy land who rent their homes who make their community better only to be priced out.

> No owners “lose”

Right and for all the people who aren’t wealthy enough to own land who get priced out of their neighborhoods and have to move? Often further from places of employment?

The comment you replied to said “let's say there's a neighborhood of people who are quite poor but charitable toward one another”. Poor people buying 100 acres of land for $1 is not a “neighborhood of people”.

Your scenario is buying cheap land in hopes one day it’s expensive — basically a long shot lottery ticket.

Obama in 2007: first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, essentially codifying Roe

Obama in 2009 (the same year he had a supermajority in the legislature): eh, that’s not so important

I have zero faith in Democrats in Congress to actually do this and all of the Republicans in Congress are vocally (or tacitly) opposed to it.

Clinton’s VP pick was an anti-choice Democrat.

I doubt there will be a federal law allowing for first trimester abortions on demand for at least a decade.

> The split of pro/against is really close to 50/50.

I’ve searched and I cannot find data that say half of America wants abortion made completely illegal (as it is in several states right now and will be in more shortly due to trigger laws).

Can you please share where you get your 50/50 split from?

> Roe v Wade only prevented legislation from finding a solution.

Roe only? Roe made safe abortions available to millions — it reshaped society.

If the argument against Roe is that fertilized embryos are killed, then we need to make sure in-vitro fertilization is stopped where abortion is as well.

As one anti-abortion politician said “The egg in the lab doesn’t apply. It’s not in a woman.”

That’s my memory, too. Linode for a long time didn’t have a product at that very low price point.

I’m also a happy Linode user since … a decade? more? I remember the phpBB forums for their customers from forever ago. I’m sure there are cheaper out there, but given the already pretty low cost, I’m not interested in jumping ship. I hope their recent acquisition doesn’t change much.

I am not a modern react/angular/vue developer, but this is still new to me. Thanks!

> You cannot compare these two levels of violence. Or if you compare them you should add a [fractal] distance between them.

I didn’t intend to. Just that the land of the free isn’t so free when police are charged with randomly (or not so randomly) searching people.

So the ends (gun crime reduction) justified the means (stop and frisk, subway bag searches, etc.)?

While I’m super opposed to this, people from the West and especially Americans shouldn’t forget that the NYPD has for years used programs like Stop and Frisk [0] and subway bag searches [1] that were seen as valid crime/terrorism fighting policies. The idea that the state shouldn’t randomly stop people to search them has been and still is strongly supported by a decent chunk of the population.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_C...

[1] https://www.nyclu.org/en/cases/sultan-v-kelly-et-al-challeng...

And GitLab since v10.3:

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2017/12/22/gitlab-10-3-rel...

The docs seem to indicate that if you have a directory structure (say over NFS share) you want to backup to tape, you must first back it up to a datastore (read: local storage on the PBS), that you cannot backup the files straight from a directory structure you must first store them locally in the datastore?

For a sample size of one, go ahead and ask them:

https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289

> A flamboyant YouTuber known as Omi in a Hellcat was charged with illegally selling copyrighted TV shows and movies through an online service, prosecutors said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/bill-omar-carrasquillo...

So no.

> Home owners are more likely to maintain homes well (and efficiently).

That property owners aren’t willing to maintain property well if they don’t live there is not an indictment of the renters, but of the property owners. The renters pay the property owners to do this very job.

I’ve stumbled across this in databases I’ve inherited before and while I appreciated that I could easily do filtering and stuff without joining across tables (and based on the comments here, more easily shard when things scale), it seems to denormalize the data.

Is there a specific term for the trade off of denormalized vs more easily query/shard/etc?

If you like some of the art others have mentioned in this thread, the very analog and mechanical art by James Gandy might also be of interest:

http://www.jamesnolangandy.com

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ is one of my favorite single-serving sites.

Same with a mid-90s Audi with my grandmother picking up someone from the airport. Took us a minute to figure out we weren’t in her car because both were immaculate inside. Though it was a while ago so I’m thinking they both just shared the same physical key to unlock the doors and start the engine.