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14 days agoSo would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.
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By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn’t useful anymore.
Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it’ll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.
1·15 days agoThe mnemonic I use is that longitude lines are all equally long, which means they must be the ones that are meridians and thus go north-south.
In contrast, latitude lines are all different lengths, analogous to how being given latitude in the figurative sense affords you freedom of choice.
(I’m willing to bet there’s an Age of Exploration sailing idiom somewhere in that etymology, BTW — probably something about how straying north or south of your target course in order to catch the right wind is no big deal because you can just use your sextant to keep track of it, but straying farther east or west than you intend means you’re screwed because chronometers hadn’t been invented yet.)
(Please correct me if I’m wrong!)
You got longitude and latitude backwards, but otherwise 👍
If I understand correctly, it’s kinda like an add-on IPMI, in the sense that it doesn’t rely on the target computer’s OS to be running to work.
6·17 days agoI’m glad you posted this because I need similar advice. I want a GPU for Jellyfin transcoding and running Ollama (for a local conversation agent for Home Assistant), splitting access to the single GPU between two VMs in Proxmox.
I would also prefer it to be AMD as a first choice or Intel as a second, because I’m still not a fan of Nvidia for their hostile attitude towards Linux and for proprietary CUDA.
(The sad thing is that I probably could have accomplished the transcoding part with just integrated graphics, but my AMD CPU isn’t an APU.)
24·17 days agoYeah I’m not against the CEO earning similar amounts to those of organisations doing similar things and bringing in similar amounts of money
This is the exact argument boards of directors (which are made of other CEOs) use to excuse continually ratcheting up CEO pay, which their own boards in turn use to excuse ratcheting up their pay. It’s the huge grift of the CEO good ol’ boys club.
8·17 days agoHe points out that “Manatee Gray” is a color found on many products across a range of categories on the Target website, some of them in women’s regular and even petite sizes.
In this case, he says, there were two different teams of buyers responsible for the “missy” and plus-size product lines, and the teams didn’t coordinate when they inputted the product information for the site. One team apparently used the color’s official name, while the other eyeballed it.
“We apologize for any discomfort this might have caused and are working to update the name of the dress to reflect Dark Heather Gray,” Thomas told FORBES.
They totally should’ve doubled-down and normalized all the sizes to “manatee gray,” LOL.
I feel like, even on the Github page (targeted at technically-minded folks), you should still lead with the non-technical differences instead of the technical ones. In other words, change that first paragraph in the README to include the info from your third paragraph here.
My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.
You sure it’s not because it’s meant to be
insulting“motivating?” I was audibly shocked when I read it, LOL.
Get a drain snake; they work way better than any chemical solution.
6·23 days agoThat’s true, and yet my point is, too. It just goes to show how comprehensively the FTC has been failing that even good leadership is too little, too late at this point.
The underlying problem in all these cases is the failure of the FTC to do its goddamn job of enforcing antitrust and consumer protection law.
No, I said no such thing. Quit putting words in my mouth.
What I said – the only thing I said – was disagreeing with your rationalizing of the wear as somehow a good thing.
I’m not sure how much of a “lost artform” it can be when you can just buy a can of the stuff at Home Depot.
(Sure, that isn’t “the good stuff” as per @Orbituary@lemmy.world, but IMO it’s not a big deal. “Clear” and “thin” are the correct choices for OP anyway, so the only disadvantage to this premixed spray compared to buying flakes and mixing it yourself is that whatever is leftover in the can will probably go bad before OP has a use for it. Also, I’ve found spray shellac to be very easy to work with, but I suppose YMMV.)
On one hand, the patina of real brass oxidizing can be pretty nice. On the other hand, the ‘patina’ of brass-colored paint rubbing off of plastic or pot metal or whatever the Hell that thing’s actually made of… not so much.
I’m using a couple of TP-Link EAP225 ceiling-mounted PoE access points, and one EAP235-wall wall-mounted one, connected to my old TP-Link Archer C7 router (with the antennas disabled) running OpenWRT.
I’d like to replace the router with something rack-mounted, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
I love that GL.iNet stuff ships with OpenWRT (or apparently FreeRTOS in the case of the Thread border router I’m eyeing right now), but I wish they would make stuff like ceiling or wall-mounted PoE access points and rack-mountable wired routers. The form-factor is what stops me from choosing them over TP-Link devices that I have to flash OpenWRT onto myself.
Don’t get lazy with soundbars; do it properly with discrete speakers (at least in the living room).
Hi folks, I’m the mod @GreenKnight23 is complaining about.
I removed four of his comments for incivility, out of the eight he had posted in the thread at the time. I chose those four and only those four because they consisted pretty much entirely of insults and accusations against another user. I omitted the other four because, while some of them contained incivility too, they also contained valid arguments and/or weren’t as egregious.
The comments removed were:
The contents of these comments are visible in the !fuckcars modlog:
https://lemmy.world/modlog/3902?page=1&actionType=All
He then proceeded to post the paranoid unhinged rant attacking me that he copied above, basically leaving me no choice but to ban him. After some waffling over the duration (which you can also see reflected in the modlog), I chose to temporarily ban him for 1 day, the shortest interval possible.
The contents of that removed comment are not visible in the !fuckcars modlog.
Later, he wrote the comment here in !selfhosted I’m now replying to (which I noticed because it showed up in my inbox due to the username mention) and I read that he claimed that all of his comments in the thread were removed. At first I thought it was just a blatant lie and began writing a rebuttal, but then I realized that he’s right: all of them are gone, and there are no entries in the modlog detailing why they were removed or who did it.
I think what happened was that when I banned him, I checked the “remove content” checkbox thinking that it removed the comment I was banning him for, but it apparently removed all of his comments in the thread instead. Worse, it doesn’t record in the modlog that that’s what it did. On top of that, unbanning him doesn’t undo the comment removals, which is unfortunate because testing that possibility and then re-banning him afterward reset the timer to the full 24 hours again.
Anyway, I’ve looked through the thread and attempted to individually restore the comments I never intended to remove. That in itself is difficult because I can’t see what the original text was until I restore it, and the comment IDs apparently change(!) when the original text is overwritten or when they’re viewed in context or something (I haven’t quite figured out the reason yet), so I can’t just match the numbers in the URLs. Nevertheless, the state of his comments in the thread should be as intended now. Also, I learned something new about how moderation works, so that’s nice I guess.
P.S.: I’d like to give a special shout-out to this comment of his…
…which I not only didn’t remove initially but also went to the trouble of restoring, even though it almost certainly deserves removal, just because of the minuscule chance that the deleted comment it’s replying to contained something that somehow justified it. That’s how lenient I’ve intended to be this entire time, and had still been in practice at the point @GreenKnight23 posted his rant.
P.P.S. I’m not actually colluding with any other users, BTW.