SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet, 1 month ago

“Building with concrete blocks? What is even wrong with you, where you never thought proper construction? What do you mean cheap building costs? People who want to build cheap buildings shouldn’t be allowed to build anyway”.

The internet suddenly makes a bit more sense to me

SpaceCadet, 2 months ago

In the fallout, we learn a little bit about mental health in open source.

Reminded me of this, relevant as always, xkcd:

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SpaceCadet, 2 months ago

I literally fell asleep and started snoring during “At Eternity’s Gate”, the one where the Willem Dafoe looking up meme is taken from. It was so boring… My girlfriend poked me in the ribs and I woke up to people around me laughing at me.

SpaceCadet, 3 months ago

clients (apps) should continue to use the PulseAudio/JACK APIs because the PipeWire API is not designed for general use

Really? That is news to me … explains why mpv’s pipewire audio output was briefly broken a couple of months ago.

SpaceCadet, 3 months ago

The UI is fine.

It’s just that Github is a code sharing and collaboration platform for developers, not a software package distribution platform for end users.

SpaceCadet, 3 months ago

No it isn’t.

It’s more like saying: if that guy you hang out with keeps pushing you into the water and you almost drown every time, perhaps you should stop hanging out with that guy.

Of course, that’s not what people who are in an abusive relationship typically want to hear.

SpaceCadet, 3 months ago

For people like me who took that advice: pretty damn great actually, thanks for asking!

SpaceCadet, 3 months ago

It was a company almost from the start. In the mid 90s Tatu Ylonen created ssh v1 and released it as freeware, then shortly afterwards apparently he regretted it and created ssh v2, made it proprietary and commercialized it with his company.

In the late 90s some OpenBSD guys then forked the unencumbered ssh v1 source to create OpenSSH and implemented ssh v2 with it and their ssh version eventually gained traction and became dominant.

SpaceCadet, 4 months ago

To be fair, it would also be highly distruptive if you let the computer run overnight to finish some long running job and Windows decides it’s rebootin’ time. The point is: the OS shouldn’t decide for you to reboot.

SpaceCadet, 4 months ago

Someone with the skills and knowledge to “manually” produce some of the many one-off parts that went into this prototype.

The scientists and engineers may know what kind of part is needed, but it takes a different skillset to produce it.

SpaceCadet, 5 months ago

The worst part is to change some things it adds like an extra 4 clicks to the old method.

And then at the final click, it takes you to that control panel screen anyway lol

SpaceCadet, 4 months ago

Of course you save the pizza and tacos. The others can save themselves by pulling themselves out by the bootstraps.

SpaceCadet, 5 months ago

This reaction wants to redefine adulthood as post 25

It’s even more than that, it wants to make adulthood some kind of sliding window where the age of the older partner defines how “adult” and “capable of making decisions” we see the younger partner, and the older a person gets the more people at the lower end of the age range get excluded for them from this fictional adulthood. For example: 60 and 30 would also be seen as inappropriate.

Now it’s perfectly normal for younger people not to find much older people attractive or suitable to have a relationship with and vice versa, and they may even find the idea repulsive, but this is still a personal preference. It’s probably even the preference of the majority of people, but that does not mean we should take away the agency of adults to choose their partners when they have a different, non-conforming preference. At that point it has nothing to do anymore with protecting vulnerable people from predators, but about imposing your own preferences and dating standards on other people, and you’re quite right in calling it out for the neo-puritanical and conservative thinking that it is.

SpaceCadet, 5 months ago

A call to genocide basically.

SpaceCadet, 6 months ago

The trouble is that my workload doesn’t decrease with an amount equivalent to the outage time. I still have the same tasks to accomplish, so if the network is down for half a day, it just means I have half a day less to get my work done and meet my deadlines.

SpaceCadet, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Just use rsync -va

NO STOP!

The default quick check algorithm of rsync is not safe for this. It only checks filesize and modification time to determine if files are equal. After a b0rked copy, these are not to be trusted.

You should add the -c flag so that files are properly checksummed, unfortunately if you have slow storage on either end, this often negates the speed advantage of rsync.

For example, consider this example:

<span style="color:#323232;">mkdir source
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mkdir destination
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo "hello" > source/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo "world" > destination/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">touch -r source/file.txt destination/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rsync -avh source/ destination/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cat source/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cat destination/file.txt
</span>

Contrary to what you might expect, the rsync command copies nothing and the output at the end will show:

<span style="color:#323232;">hello
</span><span style="color:#323232;">world
</span>

If you change the rsync command in the example above to rsync -c -avh source/ destination/, it will work as expected.

SpaceCadet, 6 months ago

What a toxic ass message

dickriders

Oh the irony…

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

You’re welcome, cunt

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

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

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, 9 months ago

India, Pakistan, China: …

You left out an important part.

In most Western countries, air has been getting consistently cleaner the past decades due to increasingly strict regulation.

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

mig

Sukhoi. They’re fired from the Su-24

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

As I’m older now 10 year old games still feel “new” to me.

It’s not just you getting older, it’s also diminishing returns.

It takes more and more effort, both in manpower as in graphical processing power, to make graphical leaps, and the visible returns are getting less.

You can compare it to video formats:

• VHS => DVD: huge quality upgrade
• DVD => 1080p HD: yeah that definitely looks better
• 1080p => 4k: I guess it’s a little sharper?
• 4k => 8k: Well it’s … more. Also: why is everything running so hot?

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

I don’t want to change back, but I still thought it added a sense of adventure, and having to be actively involved with the navigation gave you more awareness of where you were and where you were going. Now you just slavishly follow instructions and then some hours later you are there.

Like, we drove to Austria last summer and when we came back my dad asked me: so did you drive over Stuttgart or Nuremberg? And I honestly didn’t know.

SpaceCadet, 9 months ago

And “Good Times” by Edie Brickell, but for some reason nobody ever remembers that lol