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@prologic have trued to get a RasPi lately? Them things are Unobtainium
@prologic have trued to get a RasPi lately? Them things are Unobtainium
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@shreyan Ahahahahah 🤣 Did you write that or generate it? 🤔
@shreyan Ahahahahah 🤣 Did you write that or generate it? 🤔
@shreyan Ahahahahah 🤣 Did you write that or generate it? 🤔
@movq I'd love to see that list in a few months 😆
@movq I'd love to see that list in a few months 😆
@movq I'd love to see that list in a few months 😆
@movq Was interestinf yo learn about actually -- I've forgotten half this stuff over the decades long gone 😆
@movq Was interestinf yo learn about actually -- I've forgotten half this stuff over the decades long gone 😆
@movq Was interestinf yo learn about actually -- I've forgotten half this stuff over the decades long gone 😆
Oh wait my wife replaced the old ones 🤦♂️ the battery didn't die, the ear muffs wore out from my sweaty ears 😆
Oh wait my wife replaced the old ones 🤦♂️ the battery didn't die, the ear muffs wore out from my sweaty ears 😆
Oh wait my wife replaced the old ones 🤦♂️ the battery didn't die, the ear muffs wore out from my sweaty ears 😆
I dunno I've had mine for over 8 years and still going well 👌
I dunno I've had mine for over 8 years and still going well 👌
I dunno I've had mine for over 8 years and still going well 👌
@movq Cable for the win! Agreed, that's a very silly trend. If they at least used regular batteries, AA, AAA or something like that.
That reminds me that I have to get replacement ear pads for both my headset and headphone. The synthetic leather is falling apart and black fuzzy crap ends up all over my face. Also, my headset's left ear piece has some intermittent contact that seems to get worse lately. Shaking my head usually fixes it for some time. Not sure if trying to repair that will finally break the headset instead.
What is a good device for home virtualization these days? I have been looking at the Intel NUC 13 pro's. Basically I want something "quiet" (ie not a screaming banshee 1U), smallish, but with lots of threads and rams. Disk will come from an external NAS.
What is a good device for home virtualization these days? I have been looking at the Intel NUC 13 pro's. Basically I want something "quiet" (ie not a screaming banshee 1U), smallish, but with lots of threads and rams. Disk will come from an external NAS.
This evening I greased all the axles and crudely fixed a few more handles of our handcarts for the upcoming scout flea market at the upcoming weekend. We also pumped up the tires and replaced two destroyed tubes. We gotta have to replace or completely overhaul some tongues and sidewall boards next time, though. They're too worn out and the plywood is delaminating and falling apart beyond repair. The badly maintained handcarts just have to bear up once more before we find time to properly service them like they actually deserve it. The handcarts will be used to collect donated stuff from people's homes and to move items from the sorting area outside to the right locations in the hall.
@abucci Haha, yes. It's not recommended to be close to it. :-)
[47°09′32″S, 126°43′54″W] Dosimeter fixed
@stigatle 😅
I have a love-hate relationship with Rust. Some things are awesome, others are horrible. (And it still hasn’t managed to replace C in my personal projects …)
@stigatle 😅
I have a love-hate relationship with Rust. Some things are awesome, others are horrible. (And it still hasn’t managed to replace C in my personal projects …)
@stigatle 😅
I have a love-hate relationship with Rust. Some things are awesome, others are horrible. (And it still hasn’t managed to replace C in my personal projects …)
I bought my current noise cancelling headphones (Bose QC 25) in 2015, that’s a whopping 8 years ago. So I checked for newer models, maybe they improved the ANC even more.
Well, big surprise, all current models (no matter the manufacturer) have built-in non-replaceable batteries. That is a big no-go. It means these devices will become useless garbage in a couple of years. 😡
I bought my current noise cancelling headphones (Bose QC 25) in 2015, that’s a whopping 8 years ago. So I checked for newer models, maybe they improved the ANC even more.
Well, big surprise, all current models (no matter the manufacturer) have built-in non-replaceable batteries. That is a big no-go. It means these devices will become useless garbage in a couple of years. 😡
I bought my current noise cancelling headphones (Bose QC 25) in 2015, that’s a whopping 8 years ago. So I checked for newer models, maybe they improved the ANC even more.
Well, big surprise, all current models (no matter the manufacturer) have built-in non-replaceable batteries. That is a big no-go. It means these devices will become useless garbage in a couple of years. 😡
@movq oof, rust.. Glad I put that away. I do not think I'll ever pick that up again unless I'm getting paid to work with it.
[47°09′51″S, 126°43′44″W] Dosimeter overflow
@prologic It's a fun challenge to see how many words you can say without expressing any ideas at all. Maybe this GPT stuff should be trained to do that!
@abucci Oh yes, if we're talking "rhetoric" or what I like to call "talking a whole bunch of nothing", politician are exceptionally good at this. THey can dorna on for ~20mins or more and say absolutely fucking nothing of value or meaning. It's hilariously sad to watch.~
@abucci Oh yes, if we're talking "rhetoric" or what I like to call "talking a whole bunch of nothing", politician are exceptionally good at this. THey can dorna on for ~20mins or more and say absolutely fucking nothing of value or meaning. It's hilariously sad to watch.~
@abucci Oh yes, if we're talking "rhetoric" or what I like to call "talking a whole bunch of nothing", politician are exceptionally good at this. THey can dorna on for ~20mins or more and say absolutely fucking nothing of value or meaning. It's hilariously sad to watch.~
@prologic maybe it doesn't fool you, but it fools lots of people and has for thousands of years. That's why politicians (for instance) keep doing it.
Speaking of Rust: I talked to a Rust enthusiast the other day. She said she’s pretty satisfied with Rust’s comprehensive standard library. I was just like: “Huh?!” In my experience, you need a third-party library for pretty much anything.
Sadly, that discussion was not very fruitful, because I didn’t have any examples at hand. 🫤 So, from now on, every time I encounter something that, IMHO, should be in the standard library, I’ll add it to a list. 😅 Let’s see how long that list will get – or, who knows, maybe it’ll stay a short list because I was wrong.
Speaking of Rust: I talked to a Rust enthusiast the other day. She said she’s pretty satisfied with Rust’s comprehensive standard library. I was just like: “Huh?!” In my experience, you need a third-party library for pretty much anything.
Sadly, that discussion was not very fruitful, because I didn’t have any examples at hand. 🫤 So, from now on, every time I encounter something that, IMHO, should be in the standard library, I’ll add it to a list. 😅 Let’s see how long that list will get – or, who knows, maybe it’ll stay a short list because I was wrong.
Speaking of Rust: I talked to a Rust enthusiast the other day. She said she’s pretty satisfied with Rust’s comprehensive standard library. I was just like: “Huh?!” In my experience, you need a third-party library for pretty much anything.
Sadly, that discussion was not very fruitful, because I didn’t have any examples at hand. 🫤 So, from now on, every time I encounter something that, IMHO, should be in the standard library, I’ll add it to a list. 😅 Let’s see how long that list will get – or, who knows, maybe it’ll stay a short list because I was wrong.
@abucci Well I think its stupid. It doesn't fool me (even if some ideas I find "okay" and "acceptable", and others I find questionable at best). Using too many words is frankly inefficient and just confusing, I _actually_ think of people that cannot speak concisely and clearly (as you put it) as not confident in what they're saying, or just non-articulate in the first place.
@abucci Well I think its stupid. It doesn't fool me (even if some ideas I find "okay" and "acceptable", and others I find questionable at best). Using too many words is frankly inefficient and just confusing, I _actually_ think of people that cannot speak concisely and clearly (as you put it) as not confident in what they're saying, or just non-articulate in the first place.
@abucci Well I think its stupid. It doesn't fool me (even if some ideas I find "okay" and "acceptable", and others I find questionable at best). Using too many words is frankly inefficient and just confusing, I _actually_ think of people that cannot speak concisely and clearly (as you put it) as not confident in what they're saying, or just non-articulate in the first place.
@prologic
> Let’s assume for a moment that an answer to a question would be met with so many words you don’t know what the answer was at all. Why? Why do this? Is this a stereotype of academics and philosophers? If so, it’s not a very straight-forward way of thinking, let alone answering a simple question.
Well, I can't know what's in these peoples' minds and hearts. Personally I think it's a way of dissembling, of sowing doubt, and of maintaining plausible deniability. The strategy is to persuade as many people as possible to change their minds, and then force the remaining people to accept the idea because they think too many other people believe it.
Let's say you want, for whatever reason, to get a lot of people to accept an idea that you know most people find horrible. The last thing you should do is express the idea clearly and concisely and repeat it over and over again. All you'd accomplish is to cement people's resistance to you, and label yourself as a person who harbors horrible ideas that they don't like. So you can't do that.
What do you do instead? The entire field of "rhetoric", dating back at least to Plato and Aristotle (400 years BC), is all about this. How to persuade people to accept your idea, even when they resist it. There are way too many techniques to summarize in a twt, but it seems almost obvious that you have to use more words and to use misleading or at least embellished or warped descriptions of things, because that's the opposite of clearly and concisely expressing yourself, which would directly lead to people rejecting your idea.
That's how I think of it anyway.
@prologic Yes, and you enjoy the best seafood every day if you want it!
@abucci But you get underwater views 🤣 That has to be worth millions right? 😅
@abucci But you get underwater views 🤣 That has to be worth millions right? 😅
@abucci But you get underwater views 🤣 That has to be worth millions right? 😅
@abucci So.. Glad we're talking about something I can relate to, instead of the "man" (which I care little for really). So tell me... Let's assume for a moment that an answer to a question would be met with so many words you don't know what the answer was at all. Why? Why do this? Is this a stereotype of academics and philosophers? If so, it's not a very straight-forward way of thinking, let alone answering a simple question.
> There are people in academia who believe adult men should be able to have sex with children, legally, too
That's disgusting. I take great offense to this. Don't ever let me meet such persons 🤣
@abucci So.. Glad we're talking about something I can relate to, instead of the "man" (which I care little for really). So tell me... Let's assume for a moment that an answer to a question would be met with so many words you don't know what the answer was at all. Why? Why do this? Is this a stereotype of academics and philosophers? If so, it's not a very straight-forward way of thinking, let alone answering a simple question.
> There are people in academia who believe adult men should be able to have sex with children, legally, too
That's disgusting. I take great offense to this. Don't ever let me meet such persons 🤣
@abucci So.. Glad we're talking about something I can relate to, instead of the "man" (which I care little for really). So tell me... Let's assume for a moment that an answer to a question would be met with so many words you don't know what the answer was at all. Why? Why do this? Is this a stereotype of academics and philosophers? If so, it's not a very straight-forward way of thinking, let alone answering a simple question.
> There are people in academia who believe adult men should be able to have sex with children, legally, too
That's disgusting. I take great offense to this. Don't ever let me meet such persons 🤣
@prologic hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him "do you support rape" he would not say "no", he'd go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I'm mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn't say "no" right away, he's saying "yes", except with so many words there's some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that's why I give him no slack.
There are people in academia who believe adult men should be able to have sex with children, legally, too. They use the same manner of talking about it that Peterson uses. We need to stop tolerating this, and draw hard red lines. No, that's bad, no matter how many words you use to say it. No, don't express doubts about it, because that provides justification and talking points to the people *who actually carry out the acts*.=
@xuu LOL omfg.
This is the absurd logical endpoint of free market fundamentalism. "The market will fix everything!" Including, apparently, encroaching floodwater.
I do have to say though, after spending awhile looking at houses, that there are a crapton of homes for sale for very high prices (>$1 million) in coastal areas NASA is more or less telling us will be underwater in the next few decades. I don't get how a house that's going to be underwater soon is worth $1 million, but then I'm never been a free market fundamentalist either so 🤷 Maybe they're all watertight.
@lyse that could definitely be a track in an ambient song, no question whatsoever.
The exhaust is amazingly soothing to look at, even though it'd vaporize your entire being in milliseconds if you were anywhere near it.
[47°09′33″S, 126°43′02″W] Dosimeter still failing
Pinellas County Running: 1.01 miles, 00:08:41 average pace, 00:08:48 duration
testing out the foot and knee. nothing to worry about but will ease in to it the coming days.
#running
\*cough\* No, I’m not trying to get your attention. I just have green phlegm in my lungs, that’s all.
\\*cough\\* No, I’m not trying to get your attention. I just have green phlegm in my lungs, that’s all.
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′25″W] Resetting dosimeter
[47°09′18″S, 126°43′12″W] Dosimeter malfunction
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e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
[47°09′15″S, 126°43′37″W] Wind speed: 88kph -- batteries low
My mate and I just juggled again for the first time after the beginning of the pest. It's awesome how well it worked after all those years. Like we never paused at all. The saying is true: It's similar to riding a bicycle, you'll never forget how to do that.