Bought an eBike last weekend because I'd rather be soaked by rain than sitting in traffic to/from work. It feels damn good to finally be the person in an otherwise empty bike lane, passing countless cars that are going nowhere.
I'm not going to say "Don't learn gentoo next" but if you're already well versed in Nix or setting up a base arch install, I feel like the only thing Gentoo will teach is "How long does it really take to compile Firefox from source?"
Surely Boromir would have killed the chicken and run off? Frodo only escaped him because the ring was right there on his person.
Not a Polish film, but Hard to be a God (2013) is that.
It's a 3hr B&W Russian film about futuristic scientists who are living on a medieval planet to study it. Everything is disgusting, claustrophobic, and filthy (the main character is a germophobe). As he watches a fascist theocracy take control of the kingdom, the protaginist wrestles with whether or not to get involved.
M1 Abrams: Requires an advanced economy plus an army of General Dynamics contractors for maintenance
Trebuchet: Can be completely repaired by one hammer-wielding villager
Plus, I assume that tanks count as a cavalry archer unit, which means any old monk can start converting them. Meanwhile trebuchets can't be converted until your enemy researches redemption at the monastery.
Breakfast: Coffee and toast Lunch: Toasted sandwich or reheated dinner leftovers Dinner: Something home-cooked
As someone who usually prefers a hot meal over a cold one, that's my standard fare. It's not a crazy effort.
The nice thing about morrowind is that because it's mostly text-based, it's so much easier for modded dialogue to blend in with original content (if it's written well).
Hmm, maybe I should try my hand at modding: With the right speech craft/personality stats, you can trick Crassus Curio into kissing a guar.
A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value NaN, which stands for "Not a number".
So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.
Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60's show The Prisoner: "I am not a number, I am a free man"
Instance defederation drama retold through half-remembered hearsay? Surely we can do better.
Update on my last post
A few months ago, I posted to complain about the build system at my job. It wasn't my only complaint about that job, but it was the easiest to put into words. There were other factors (unfulfilling work, unpleasant work culture, a manager with whom every interaction felt "fake") that led to me quitting in early January.
My original goal was to take several months off and focus on longtime hobbies as well as training/certifying to get a DevOps job. However, day 1 of America's current Republican administration made clear that my family is no longer welcome here, and we'd need a strong financial footing to move. I put my plans on hold and got back into the job market.
I had changed jobs during COVID and the post-pandemic market cooldown, so I thought I knew what to expect (folks who looked for jobs in 2000 & 2008 are allowed to laugh). I was not ready for how quickly job postings reacted to economic troubles this time.
In the end, after dealing with "AI" interviewers, mid-intervie
This shoebox thing near my furnace
What's this device (circled in blue) that's attached to my furnace? It recently got replaced and I forgot what the HVAC technician called it, or what its function is.
I do rember that they said to put some vinegar in the U-bend (circled in red) once or twice a year. I forgot to ask why this is necessary, but I'd guess that it tends to collect moisture, and the vinegar will prevent mold?
Fun language fact:
Summary:
Street = Has businesses, houses, shops and sidewalks. Designed for humans.
Road = Higher speed limit than streets, generally no businesses or sidewalks, as it's just there to connect areas. Designed for cars.
Stroad = A connection between areas that also has businesses. You have higher speed limits, minimal sidewalks and it's dangerous/impossible to cross on foot. The only way to get around to different businesses along a stroad is by car.
The server code could also be released as a binary blob under a proprietary license. No different from distributing any other piece of software.
It was a giant open-plan office and there were only 1-2 people constantly vaping, so I didn't smell much. It was quiet though, so it could be easily heard.
Everyone else did the right thing and smoked/vaped on the roof every hour. Any why wouldn't you? It's a guaranteed break away from your crummy desk.
In my anecdotal experience, French people vape a shitload.
I had French coworkers who vaped nonstop in the Paris office. You could hear the click of the heating element every few minutes. I've also seen old French ladies ripping from huge tricked out vapes.
At my last job, there was no planning of work/projects. Like, there was a general plan of "We need feature X by Q3 and here's what it should do", but nothing about breaking work down into smaller units or prioritizing different tasks.
The manager would drop an email: "Hey, can you do ...." and that was it. Now it's another thing to throw down the waterfall. Big surprise, the same bastard would harp about how the project was underperforming!
I hope USA Fencing (the org who manages competition fencing in the United States) doesn't bend to right-wing pressure and change their rules. It is a bare minimum to respect your opponent in any martial sport. Otherwise the implicit contract of "we are fighting for sport, not blood" can't be upheld, and you can't trust your opponent to engage safely.
ARR I think is Annual Recurring Revenue
It's probably using WebView, or whatever it's called where an android app brings up a browser window. If you have Firefox as your default web browser, apps will use it instead of chrome. It's usually pretty nice, because if you have adblock in Firefox you also get adblock in the app.
It's possible that the sign-in webpage wants to talk to the camera before returning control to the app.
If it's trying to talk to a device over Bluetooth or USB, it's not supported in Firefox. Mozilla refuses to implement WebUSB because they think the danger of letting people accidentally flash malware onto a physical device outweighs the benefits.
Appropriate settings for a private matrix server
I want a private place where I can talk to specific people.
I'd imagine I want something like:
- By default, nobody can register a new account on my server
- By default, nobody can view or join the rooms on my server
- If a friend has an account on a different matrix server, I can invite them to mine
I probably want some kind of federation with other instances (eg, where my friends might register their accounts), but not some free-for-all. Can someone recommend the right settings? The server is running synapse.
If you got accidentally duplicated, do you think your copy would try and kill you?
In media, there are sometimes stories where a person is cloned/duplicated (usually with identical memories) and the clone is murderous towards the original. Usually it's something like "I knew there could be only one of us, and you would do the same". Sometimes, they're able to work things out and can share a single public identity, or duplication gives one copy a chance to do go off and live a new life that they always wanted.
How would you and your duplicate get along? Assume you are living like you do today, in a society where duplication is unheard of and has no legal precedent.
Our tooling saps my will to work
I hate every interaction with our tooling. I loathe our older-than-dirt source control system. I hate our 4+ hour build times from scratch. I can't stand our "never plan shit" development process. I despise waiting 3+ months to see my changes in prod. I'm baffled by our RTFM onboarding process when the "manual" is some document written at project launch that's never been updated in the 10 years since.
My current task is simple, took a short time to write my code. But I've had so much trouble with tooling that the process of submitting a code review has stretched over a week. At this point, I know what I can do next to fix it, and it would take maybe 20 mins to do. However, I can't bring myself to even do that.
As cruel as it feels to say, my manager is like some NPC. I am on two teams, one of which I meet with every day who doesn't understand the work I'm doing for team #2. Team #2 meanwhile consists mostly of people I've never met, not even on video calls.
The company is
Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31696866
I am a cisgender man with dual citizenship between the USA and the UK. My husband is a transgender man who does not have UK citizenship.
As part of our threat modeling, we are developing a shortlist of nations where we would migrate if things get rough. The UK, while being on a worrisome trend line with regards ro trans rights, made the list because it would be relatively simple for us to move and work there with my citizenship already sorted.
Could any UK trans people help us to understand the GRC? My husband has fully transitioned with respect to his US documentation. When we married, he was also a man. Since all his documents match, could he get by without a GRC, or would he be forced through the humiliation of immigrating as his birth-sex and then acquiring a GRC once we moved? Would a GRC be necessary to receive basic healthcare and/or hormones?