SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

Any money that goes to nuclear could be going to renewables, which would get us there more quickly.

That’s a false dilemma. Nuclear and renewables provide different things, so they shouldn’t be compared directly in an “either or” comparison, and certainly not on cost. Nuclear power provides a stable baseline, so you don’t have to rely on coal/gas/diesel powered generators. Renewables cheaply but opportunistically provide power from natural sources that may not always be available but that can augment the baseline. The share of renewable energy in the mix is something engineers should figure out, not “the market”.

Also, monetary cost shouldn’t be the only concern. Some renewables have a societal cost too, for example in the amount of land that they occupy per kWh generated, or visual polution. I wouldn’t want to live within the shadow flicker of a windmill for example.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Yeah there goes my coffee …

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

“modern” text entry controls… Like selecting text by going shift+leftarrow or deleting whole words by holding ctrl+backspace/del …

Those are not really features of the terminal emulator but of the shell. I don’t think a terminal emulator can coerce bash or zsh or whatever to do those things unless it acts as some kind of proxy between your text editing buffer and the shell, which would probably lead to its own set of complications. The thing you want would have to be a combination of a GUI terminal program and its own shell.

For bash, I suggest you read up on readline keyboard shortcuts, which can do many of the text editing tricks that you are asking. The shortcuts are different than what you are used to on Windows, and there’s no concept of “selecting” text, but for terminal applications it’s pretty much the standard way text input is handled on Linux.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

the other part is a person whom speaks english as a second language. Its not always a clear translation, particularly with English since the language is bastardised from many languages, and many “grammar rules” can be broken, by our own design.

It isn’t even incorrect English. If you look up female as a noun, in the dictionary it says:

female noun:

1. An animal that can lay eggs or give birth to babies; a plant that can produce fruit
2. (formal) a woman or a girl

As for why English has two words for it, it comes down to its mixed roots: female has a Latin root and came into the English language via French. It’s ultimately derived from femina, which is Latin for woman. The word woman comes from the proto-Germanic wiban, which originally means wive, which itself coincidentally has the same proto-Germanic root.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Maybe not everyone is a native English speaker who can sense the difference in nuance in contemporary usage between words which are essentially synonyms.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

it’s usually only used in scientific or academic context

Also law enforcement typically uses it for the same reason. It’s more encompassing (the term female includes women and girls) but it also sounds formal and depersonalizing, and the depersonalizing bit is why it can sound creepy.

But again, it’s a nuance that not everybody may pick up on. I don’t like to assume malice when something can be adequately explained by ignorance.

I’m a non-native speaker myself by the way, and I didn’t pick up on this nuance until the incel thing came about a few years ago and people started to get upset about them deliberately using the term “females” as a dehumanizing way to describe women.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

I still don’t see how one is offensive and one isn’t, when they describe the exact same thing.

Female as a noun sounds more formal, distant and depersonalizing than woman. Language is all about nuance.

going to war over it is really stupid.

I agree with you there. In most cases, and without additional context, I think it’s best to assume ignorance rather than malice.

On the other hand, it’s also fair to say that this “going to war” only started a few years ago when incels deliberately and maliciously began using the term female to speak about women in a dehumanizing way.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Besides, have you never seen internet posts like in AITA or such using F/M?

I think in those cases they refer to the adjective female and not the noun.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

I’ve had general anesthesia, it was just like falling into a deep, dreamless sleep.

What if anesthesia actually just blocks your memories and physical reactions, but you actually experience everything that happens to you in absolute terror?

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

if a memory never forms it may as well not have happened

That is an interesting philosophical question.

If suffering is not remembered, was there even suffering? And if there was, does it matter? I can think of a few counterexamples of that, for example: a killer who tortures his victim before killing them.

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

I prefer this performance that she also did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEcqoqvlxPY

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Yeah on modern hardware, resource usage by the DE is negligable compared to what some applications use (for example web browsers, or chromium based apps).

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Another difference is that on forums you tend to get to know the members if you hang around long enough. On reddit/lemmy I never got this feeling, you’re just discussing with random usernames and once the discussion is over, you will probably never run into each other again.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Can’t say I ever got that from any subreddit, except in the negative way: trolls and overzealous moderators.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

O2 denotes two oxygen atoms binding together into one molecule.

O1 or simply O can’t really exist for long in nature, because it’s not stable and will bind with almost anything it meets, including another O atom.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

VM with a docker build environment.

As for “littering”, a simple docker system prune -f after a build gets rid of most of it.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

You’re welcome, cunt

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Yes, that’s essentially what I did.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Using double NAT here because my ISP won’t even support/allow putting their box in bridge mode and I don’t even have root access to it, just some limited functionality via their web GUI.

I haven’t had any issues with it.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

That’s because free speech, by design, is one of the more important defenses against government overreach.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Some suggestions:

Step 1:

rsync has a -x flag that stops it from crossing filesystem boundaries. I find it quite useful so that I don’t have to manually exclude all these directories with mounted pseudo filesystems and whatnot. Alternatively, you can also do a second mount of the filesystem you want to backup in a more convenient location than /, and run your rsync from there.

If you want to be fancy, you can also use rsync’s –link-dest option to maintain different versions of your backup, so that you can go a bit further back in time. Using this option rsync creates hardlinks for files that are unchanged between the current backup and the previous one, and you can have multiple backups without much storage overhead and while still keeping the backup incremental and speedy.

Step 3:

Reflector comes with a weekly timer preinstalled. You can enable it with systemctl enable reflector.timer and then just edit the config file to your preferred settings.

Alternatively, it also has a service that you can enable so that it runs at boot time, but that doesn’t work for one of my systems that is using wifi. For some reason it runs before the network is truly available and returns an error. On my ethernet connected system, I don’t have that issue.

Step 4:

Instead of vacuuming your journal manually, you can also set limits in /etc/systemd/journald.conf. I just set SystemMaxUse to something sensible like 512M, so I don’t ever have to worry about my journal overflowing my disk.

Step 5:

I just automate the paccache stuff with a simple cron.weekly entry. You may also want to look into where yay caches its packages.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Trim support is standard. Any kernel released in the past 15 years or so will have trim support built in. So that’s not something you should worry about.

How trimming is triggered is another matter, and is distro dependent. On Arch and Debian at least there is a weekly systemd timer that runs the fstrim command on all trimmable filesystems. You can check it if’s enabled with: systemctl list-unit-files fstrim.timer. I can’t tell how other distributions handle that. On Debian derived ones, I imagine it’s similar, on something like Slackware, which is systemd-less and more hands-off in its approach, you may have to schedule fstrim yourself, or run it manually occasionally.

There is also the discard mount option that you can add in /etc/fstab, which enables automatic synchronous trimming every time blocks are deleted, but its use is discouraged because it carries a performance penalty.

Hope that answers your question.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

You typically use either discard or the fstrim.timer, but not both at the same time.

Using the discard option means that trims are being done on the fly every time blocks are deleted, using fstrim.timer means that trims are being done periodically. The former carries a performance penalty, so it’s usually not recommended unless you need it (for example, if you regularly do huge amounts of writes and deletes on this drive).

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

Accompany with beer, snaps and lots of friends.

And if that doesn’t get the taste out of your mouth, nothing will.

SpaceCadet, 8 months ago

I thought this was debunked as fake.