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Note to self: Buy stock in deadly neurotoxin manufacturers.

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I wrote a thing about this earlier: Fedora has apparently been infected with an advertising department. Their website has a lot of branding and buzzwords and wanketeering and very few technical details. It never says the word Gnome anywhere. You just have to know “Workstation” and “Silverblue” mean Gnome.

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Based on my experience migrating from Mint to Pop!_OS, the next step is migrate back to Mint.

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Because if the complaint is “They ban you over there for failing an ideological purity test” the solution is we have our own Lemmy instance, start or participate in an equivalent community here.

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something something blackjack and hookers.

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Fairly early on, when discussing defederating with an instance called “exploding heads”, I laid out criteria I would consider worthy of defederation, which you can find here

I was primarily concerned with unwanted traffic going out over the rest of the Fediverse, hosting illegal content like child porn, or being a rampant hive of racism and calls to violence.

So far I’ve basically heard people accuse Lemmy.ml of being rather Chinese in their moderation in-house. Is that all we’ve got?

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There is no requirement that I am aware of for college professors to have any training in the fundamentals of instruction, and it SHOWS.

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You want to show me a tape measure, caliper or micrometer marked in thirds of a millimeter?

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I was a pilot in a past life. Night flight is quite different than day flight, because it’s darker up there than you think. A lot of nations outright don’t allow night VFR requiring night flight to be done IFR, some others have optional night flight endorsements or ratings for night VFR. But it’s a training requirement for American private pilots.

Because it is a regulatory matter, there has to be a strict definition of “night time.” Which is where we get the concept of “civil twilight” which IIRC is the moment when the center point of the sun’s disc is between 0 and 6 degrees below the horizon. “Night time” is officially the time when the sun is 6 or more degrees below the horizon. Exactly when this happens changes every single day as the days get longer and shorter, so you still have to look it up. The exact moment of local solar noon is even less important unless you’re navigating by sextant, and the way we currently solve this kind of problem is we maintain an accurate clock calibrated in GMT, UTC or Unix Timecode depending on your exact use case, and then we do the math on the fly to convert to local time. When is local solar noon today at my exact location? 18:32:40 GMT.

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Stumpy Nubs has released a video on this topic, which is what I’m mainly pulling from.

Several of SawStop’s patents have expired but there is one still active which is fairly broad in scope and basically gives them right-of-way over any flesh-detecting saw brakes. They sued (or issued a cease and desist, don’t know if it went to court or whatever) Bosch for the line of flesh detecting saws they briefly sold. There is now some proposal for requiring all saws to have flesh-sensing blade brakes in the US, which would basically set the minimum price of a table saw at $1000 or more, and SawStop has “promised” to open their patent if this becomes law. For whatever that’s worth.

It is my understanding that Underwriter’s Labs is where the requirement for any new model of table saw sold after 2008 have a riving knife.

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I’m comfortable using a radial arm saw for the same tasks you’d use a sliding compound miter saw, plus dadoing. Granted, it’s operating in a climb cut mode by design so it can run toward you, so it isn’t as safe as a miter saw. It’s where you get into the stupid things they used to say they can do while trying to market them as do-all wonder tools that they become hilariously dangerous.

There’s a conversion I quite like for radial arm saws: Take the circular saw off and replace it with a router. Now you’ve got an over-arm router table.

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A problem I deftly sidestepped by avoiding “smart” watches altogether.

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GIMP has a well deserved reputation for responding to “this is not nice to use” with “Good!” There are lots of ways to design image editors, sure. Many of those ways are awful.

Blender used to suck, too. Then they made a decision to improve. Which GIMP is bound and determined not to do. So it needs to go in the box with HURD and someone needs to do better from scratch.

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My understanding of Starship Troopers: The Movie is you’re supposed to be paying attention to the politics and chuckling “What a bunch of complete dumb fucks” to yourself. Not so much the book it’s based on though.

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TIL that wrath is circumspect and demure.

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How does this make Microsoft money? What’s their path to selling the result of this feature?

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I think I’m leaning toward pine as well. You could cut into it and smell, I imagine most people now the scent of pine since it’s a popular air freshener/household cleaner scent for some reason (I’m from a pine forest, pine doesn’t smell ‘clean’ to me.)

[SOLVED] {TV series or movie unsure] two characters act out scene from Empire Strikes Back for young children

I think I saw this in a youtube video taken out of context so I’m not exactly sure when it was made, or if it was a TV show or a movie. And while it could obviously be from any time after 1980 because it references Empire Strikes Back it felt 21st century to me....

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An automatic car has no clutch; automatic transmissions aren’t just manual transmissions that do the work for you. It has a thing called a torque converter which is kind of a hydraulic pump and hydraulic motor in one unit which allows the engine to deliver torque and yet still slip.

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*grunned.

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Even the author agrees Fight Club the movie is better than the book.

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I wonder what it would do for those of us who have had dental implants.

I had a tooth removed and replaced with a socket bone grafted into my skull to which a crown is bolted. If I were to lose another tooth, what would happen if I took this drug?

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Advice I have heard is decline an exit interview, because those are for the company’s benefit and not yours.

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I don’t buy games from big studios. I don’t have this problem.

If no one bought games from big studios, this problem wouldn’t exist.

Go play games that were made by less than ten people. Go play games that don’t have microtransactions. Go play games where no one involved has a business degree. Go eat a vegetable and brush your teeth. Do things that are good for you.

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Question: did you build the grate to be removable or is it fixed in place?

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