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  • The bank doesn't own the house, they just have a significant lien against it. Maybe a potato potato situation (how are you supposed to spell that phrase 🤔), but it is an important distinction.

    Landlords can get pissed if you paint the walls/change appliances/remodel/etc., but so long as the property is properly insured (and you make your loan payments on time) the bank probably isn't going to bother you.

    Landlords can --- and do --- place restrictions on quiet hours, guest policy, who is allowed to live there, etc. Owning is definitely different.

  • Except that this problem doesn't specify distance between horseman, so I think it's a bit bogus --- no need to resolve an individual person to be able to tell that they're there. And for hair color, if you make assumptions about the clothes being worn, you could perhaps infer color of hair, even if the hair isn't resolvable (a person being a "single pixel" would have a different hue depending).

  • We're in the market for a kid carrying ebike, and while REI makes the most financial sense, I think we'll be paying a visit to our LBS.

    As an aside, I tend to prefer Sports Basement. Have had better luck with their bike department, too. No idea if they're better from a corporate standpoint though.

  • This is the real big brain hack with decibels --- you can use a linear scale, it's just that the units are logarithmic instead.

    (Yes I know most people would call a dB axis logarithmic, it's just a silly comment.)

  • My $4k piece of carbon and $3k hunk of titanium would like to have a word...

    I would bet just about anything that the only reason profit margins could possibly be higher for a car is due to volume --- which, if everyone rode bikes, wouldn't be an issue at all.

    Absolute profit, sure --- cars are more expensive, so they'll win out.

  • You can have a lot of smart functionality and remain local-only (e.g., Home Assistant). All my smart devices are on their own VLAN with no Internet access --- if something breaks it's not the cloud's fault, it's mine.

  • Fail2ban config can get fairly involved in my experience. I'm probably not doing it the right way, as I wrote a bunch of web server ban rules --- anyone trying to access wpadmin gets banned, for instance (I don't use WordPress, and if I did, it wouldn't be accessible from my public facing reverse proxy).

    I just skimmed my nginx logs and looked for anything funky and put that in a ban rule, basically.

  • Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

    With Windows, there is 1 current version of Windows (11), 1 "almost current" (10), 1 "outdated but you'll maybe see it" (8.x) and only a few "you'll probably only see this in obscure situations" versions. Linux has as many "parent" distros/package management systems (apt, rpm, pacman, etc.). This definitely complicates things, as each distro family does things slightly differently.

    And we haven't even touched the window manager/DE choices, of which there are a ton (as opposed to Windows). "Combinatorical explosion" maybe isn't the right phrase, but you get the idea --- Debian with i3wm is wildly different from Fedora Plasma.

    This is all a good thing though, as Linux users tend to like the choice and flexibility --- but it does mean that the "right way" to do something on Linux is very dependent on your particular setup, which isn't the case with Windows.

    (I have used Linux for the last 20+ years, and it's definitely my preferred setup, and am lucky enough that I rarely use Windows for work, and never for personal use.)

  • My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.

    More here, including (which I didn't know until now) cardiac catheterization.

    I'm sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs

  • Why the HUGE, irreconcilable disparity between your front page and the opinion section?

    This is always how it goes, as it should. Horrible opinions shouldn't affect the reporting; and horrible reporting shouldn't affect the opinions. Different publication, but https://newsliteracy.wsj.com/news-opinion/

    It's best IMHO to think of them as two completely separate entities.

  • Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    San Francisco's historical fleet