bashinator

“Both sides are equally bad” was particularly effective Russian social media trolling leading into 2016. Glad that bullshit is thoroughly discredited.

Okay, let me rephrase. What should I be doing other than voting and working for causes I believe in. I’m not in an oppressed group unless you consider the entirety of the American public not part of the oligarchy to be such a group.

So what actual actions do you advocate for ordinary citizens to take?

Any example use-cases?

IMO you can have fictional science without going into the fantasy realm, simply by keeping it consistent with our current understanding of the Universe. Alistair Reynolds has written some truly epic space opera that completely omits FTL travel, much to the benefit of the story.

What distro did you move to? IME debian as a base image for python app containers is also kind of a pain.

A different take on the same joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnWutAm4En4

Bad example; 01/01 is unambiguously Jan 1 no matter how you read it.

base65536, and look who the author is :-D

https://github.com/qntm/base65536

Curious and just brainstorming a possibility here; is it possible for a city to rezone an existing property? Say a building that's unoccupied for N years triggers an automatic zoning review.

Obligatory https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Sounds like a regulatory failure; an unoccupied building shouldn't be able to retain book value.

I couldn't find a way of converting from US teaspoons to cubic light-seconds, which is my favorite demo of the GNU utility. Also, do you have a way of adding a time dimension to the conversions? E.g from kibibytes per day to megabits per second?

What's the reason to use this over GNU Units?

https://www.gnu.org/software/units/

Something that would facilitate load testing of microservice containers for optimizing the resource requests and limits.

I guess that depends on how much of a Platonist you are :-D

Sufficient quantitative change in capability causes a qualitative difference to outcomes.

I'd say it's a toss-up whether the stackoverflow/chatgpt query is slower than remembering the name of the alternate tool.

As a sysadmin, `lsof` is part of my standard toolkit; I wouldn't be able to do my job if I had to look stuff like that up on Stackoverflow every time.

You talking with the PostGIS folks?

You don't even really need technical means if you have sufficient financial resources, cf. Thiel v. Gawker.

Eh, I see devops as automated systems administration. Knowing how to be a good by-hand sysadmin is an enormous advantage in knowing how to automate things.

Nope, at best the filesystem is an analogy. Just like the stretchy rubber mat isn't a perfect description of spacetime.

The Great Attractor is likely a cluster of galaxies with lots and lots of SMBHs.

Nothing about that is going to make the fundamental pitch of a sound you hear seem like a different frequency than it is. It will affect your perception of the complex overtones as you say, but matching the fundamental frequency you're singing with the resonant frequency of the glass does not involve complex overtones.

I'm going to go with 0%, given that the fundamental pitch of a sound is unaffected by material interference. I suppose exceptionally high-pitched tones above several thousand hertz might be affected, but nothing within the range of a human voice.

The New York Times makes considerably more money from subscription services than from advertising. That's a recent (last ten-fifteen years) pivot.

There's no backplane - all power and communication goes through a front-facing ethernet port. Kind of defeats the purpose of a blade form factor IMO.

Just finished rereading that for the first time in ages. I don’t agree with a lot of its opinion on consciousness, but still great read. I was surprised at how in line with Dark Forest theory it is.

My parents have a vintage carpet with some eastern (counterclockwise) swastikas on it. That said, the context around your comment is completely apparent and the downvote are troubling to say the least. I hope it's just unhelpful pedantry rather than pedantry as a cover for bigotry.