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General Discussion / Re: Misc. Politics Thread
« on: February 01, 2021, 12:56:59 pm »
There is a Russiapol thread. Well, and Turkeypol/Israpol/etc., but mostly Russia right now.


Meanwhile in Myanmar the military has seized power (again). They're promising to hand over power to a legitimate democratically elected head of state. It's unclear what the problem was with this one other than being affiliated with the wrong party.

Edit: although I see martinuzz beat me to the punch in EastAsiapol. Maybe we'll turn this into Afripol yet!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 31, 2021, 03:16:36 am »
Everything is terrible enough that I seem to have gone mute this morning. Or at least more so than usual. I guess I might be able to talk if it's urgent enough.

I'm starting to hate weekends because this always happens. As soon as I'm not busy with work, my mind falls apart. I'm so tired of trying to fix it.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 30, 2021, 08:51:29 am »
Quote from: ChairmanPoo on January 30, 2021, 06:23:53 am
Quote from: x2yzh9 on January 29, 2021, 11:42:43 pm
Well it's different-It's an actual device, that was implanted in my right hand. Subdermal fascia, between the right thumb and index finger. I can message you a picture of it? It left behind a very evident surgical scar this clear on a camera. It also has a weird kind of gloss to it. and it's not present in my left hand, and I was not born with any birth defects like such. Sorry, this is just a lot for me to take in. Probably much less anybody else.
Isn't this the guy that periodically posts about having a radio chip in his teeth? Like, for the last 10 years?

Different guy.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: January 30, 2021, 04:06:23 am »
Quote from: Caz on January 29, 2021, 07:14:08 pm
Quote from: methylatedspirit on January 29, 2021, 07:02:49 pm
You see, when you call it "ice rain", I'm imagining solid spikes of ice friggin' raining down from the heavens, ready to impale whoever is foolish enough to not seek shelter. In which case, I would not like the season with ice rain, because that's just terrifying.

you may enjoy australian hailstorms.



South African highveld hailstorms are like this too. You can insure your car against it. And suffer physical injury if you're caught outside when it breaks.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: January 24, 2021, 12:15:16 pm »
Quote from: Starver on January 24, 2021, 12:02:37 pm
Quote from: Iduno on January 24, 2021, 10:05:15 am
How do you get that powr4e for individuals?
Power to the People?

Amandla awethu!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: Unlimited Laugh Works
« on: January 23, 2021, 02:10:39 am »
I wish I'd had this when I was teaching UI/UX design last year, wow. This is great.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: January 20, 2021, 09:47:15 am »
Quote from: wierd on January 20, 2021, 06:49:27 am
I get where you are coming from, but that is not explicitly accurate..

The desk analogy isn't perfect, but it's an analogy. It's not meant to be perfect.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: January 19, 2021, 08:49:15 am »
It was like nine years ago wasn't it? Not something most people remember probably. I think there might have been shock images involved at some point.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: January 18, 2021, 12:17:15 pm »
Quote from: JoshuaFH on January 18, 2021, 11:19:27 am
similar to Sichuan Bloody Mahjong (if you know what that is, congrats)
I got 2 Yakuman over the course of 4 games

I don't know much about mahjong but for my fellow illiterates, I think usually the interval between yakuman is measured in years. So, wild.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 18, 2021, 10:14:08 am »
Quote from: McTraveller on January 18, 2021, 08:29:04 am
Quote from: methylatedspirit on January 18, 2021, 08:14:10 am
That's my perception of Linux From Scratch open source.

There fixed that for you.

I have tried, at various times over the course of two-plus decades, to "get into" open source.  It is still a mess of lack of consideration of use cases, poor documentation, poor references to dependencies, etc.  And those attempts to resolve those issues, like package managers, end up putting you right back in a situation where you have to trust some third party to manage those packages and it's all a black box again.

The fact that you can look inside the box to see how it works is not helpful - it's still a collection of parts that just happen to work together, but don't change them because it might break and nobody will know quite why.

When I worked for a few years in a web-app company, instead of embedded electronics, I realized just how much of the software industry has become "empirical programming" (trying things until they work with no real understanding of why) instead of "engineering" (designing things and documenting them, including why they work, so that they can be used easily and reliably as building blocks).

Some of this depends on the size of the software, I think. I've used a lot of smaller libraries and tools where I've been able to pick things up by flipping through the source in the relevant places. After a certain size though it definitely falls off hard, I agree.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: January 18, 2021, 10:05:54 am »
Quote from: methylatedspirit on January 18, 2021, 08:34:36 am
What happens if you just compile the Linux kernel (plus the absolute bare minimum to get it to boot, but no tools) onto a system? Can it do anything at all? What commands are even available, if any?

The kernel of an operating system doesn't really do anything by itself; it's just an interface for hardware-software communication. There are no commands, unless you're a program interfacing at a system level. It's sort of like asking "what happens if you put a desk in a room"? Well, there's a desk in the room. You can put things on the desk, or I suppose you can sit on it, but the desk by itself isn't actually very interesting.

Edit:

But the closest is maybe Minimal Linux: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mll

All you get is a shell with some limited tools, I don't know exactly which. But not a lot! Probably the place to go if you want to try compiling a kernel and seeing what happens, though, consensus seems to be it's great for tinkering with.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 16, 2021, 12:12:39 pm »
Obviously it stands for Sharp Shooter. C'mon. What happened to presumption of innocence? :P

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 16, 2021, 12:00:55 pm »
Honestly as far as things to cause me acute death in the next decade go I can certainly understand putting AI above climate change.

...I mean, I've spent enough time in AI research to really question whether that's the best use of his time unless the government is doing a really good job of keeping the fun stuff off arxiv, but one of these things is more predictable than the other.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 16, 2021, 05:26:44 am »
Sure. But not so that someone who isn't already feeling the effects can say they'll be dead in a decade so confidently they should quit their job.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 16, 2021, 03:17:02 am »
Quote from: wierd on January 16, 2021, 02:41:31 am
No. Scientists are really suggesting that runaway effects will go in earnest by then.

https://www.livescience.com/ghastly-future-global-crises.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210113144456.htm

None of this is likely to kill someone in a developed country in the next ten years. Longer than that? Yep. Right now? Nope.

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