qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago

People need to stop buying the thinnest thing

Yeah, I think one of the problems is that thin is a familiar and commonly reported spec for a display. If MTTF were reported


and it should be!


then I think the problem would sort itself out.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago

Maybe not a warrant, and IANAL, but government agencies aren't necessarily at liberty to share information amongst themselves. For instance, IRS needs a court order to share returns with law enforcement (IRC Section 6103(i)(1)).

But yeah...this seems like maybe not a super great solution...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

I mean Dexter Holland has a PhD in molecular biology, but if you're dropping into a half pipe you're probably more likely to be listening to Smash than to his dissertation on tape...

Different contexts. She can run like stink (as in, fastest in the world), and I don't see how that takes away from her academic achievements.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Experimentalists: understood, say no more.

Theorists: ok, show me the Hamiltonian...including the noise terms.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

St. Hawking don't you call me 'cuz I can't go...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

There were stories going around about how Trump claimed to have been in an emergency helicopter landing with Willie Brown, the (Black) former mayor of San Francisco. Willie Brown denied this.

So...I actually think the headline makes sense, and is kinda funny, but the context is definitely important


Trump confuses a short Black politician from SF with a tall Black politician from LA.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right, I just meant that you can't sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn't elevated to root with sudo. I'm not saying anything too profound :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

to identify I'm a citizen.

It's kinda worse than that


it's used to authenticate yourself as a citizen.

My SSN should at most be an ID, no different from a name. I can identify myself as Darth Vader or 4200-69-1337, but that shouldn't matter, because I should never be able to authenticate myself as either of those.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Compiling a kernel yourself isn't a big deal these days, especially with DKMS. Generally the type of people I've encountered who care about which kernel version they're usiyare the type of people who are capable of compiling it themselves...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root


can't run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Also a super useful tool for measuring real world bandwidth, both on physical media and over the network ( dd status=progress ... | nc ...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 96 points 3 months ago (24 children)

As much as I think a "would you like to have a beer with the candidates?" is a stupid way of measuring things...I wouldn't mind having a beer with these candidates.

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