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  • Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

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  • Maybe there's some interplay between amd64 and x64 architectures.

    AMD64 and x64 are the same thing. Do you mean AMD64 and x86? There is definitely interplay there, as AMD64 implements the x86-32 instruction set.

  • 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?

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  • Same --- rsync to a pi 3 with a (single) ZFS drive at family's house. Retain some daily/weekly/monthly snapshots.

    I have a (free) VPS with static IPv4 which is how I connect everything.

    Both the VPS and the remote site have limited network speed (I think 50Mbps for VPS), so the initial sync was done sneakernet (well..."airplane net"). Nightly rsync is no problem bandwidth-wise, and is mostly just any new videos I've uploaded to my local Immich instance.

  • Trump administration mulling end to habeas corpus, legal right to challenge one’s detention

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  • When they talk about being the party of Lincoln this isn't what I had in mind...

  • Kash Patel is seriously infuriating FBI officials

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  • Scully and Mulder would not put up with this shit.

  • Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jesus?

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  • Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:

    "Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

  • Not difficult to understand

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  • Nah just give them the .tex source and let them deal with it.

  • When Streetcars ruled Market Street, San Francisco, 1940

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  • I'm really bummed I missed this event --- a streetcar has a period appropriate jazz group for a free show. And they didn't charge fares either.

    Turns out you can also rent the streetcars for events, which is pretty neat --- would make for a fun night on the town.

  • San Francisco Historic Streetcar on Route Through Dolores Park

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  • Nice!

    This isn't the service route for the vintage streetcars --- they use those tracks to get from the rail house to their normal Market/Embarcadero route. But you can still ride them, kind of a Muni "secret menu." Easy way to find them is to use an app/website with realtime locations and look for an F streetcar that's on the wrong tracks.

  • When Streetcars ruled Market Street, San Francisco, 1940

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  • They don't dominate like they used to, but we still have vintage streetcars on Market and the Embarcadero --- https://www.streetcar.org/

    Same fare as other Muni busses and trams.

  • Programmers then and now

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  • It is "backwards" from some other commands --- usually you run copy/rsync/link from source to destination, but with tar the destination (tarball) is specified before the source (directory/files).

    That, and the flags not needing dashes always just throws me for a loop.

    And the icing on the cake is that I don't use tar for tarring that often, so I lose all muscle memory (untaring a tgz or tar.bz2 is frequent enough that I can usually get that right at least...).

  • Car race where cars cannot cost more than $500

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  • There was an old Top Gear episode with a race in a Nordic country with an interesting take on a price cap --- the price enforcement was that anybody could buy your car (for no more than the price cap) after the race.

    So I think you technically could enter the race with a brand new tricked out rally car...but anyone could buy it for $500/$1000/whatever.

  • My dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with?

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  • I think some commercial TVs might do what you want.

  • Look over there!

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  • At work on a slack it just means "I'm watching this discussion."

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    What are your favorite and or famous thought experiments?

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  • You discounted space dust.

    No I didn't --- it would thermalize and radiate.

    This is not my paradox, and it's not really a paradox at all, as the big bang model explains it nicely. There are many nice articles on the topic of you'd like to read more about it.

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    What are your favorite and or famous thought experiments?

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  • Yes. But why is there an absence of light?

    If there are infinite stars, then every direction you look would encounter a star. (Things stay the same brightness per subtended angle as they get far away. Space dust doesn't matter, as it would thermalize and radiate.)

    So, the universe can't have infinite luminous matter, be static and ageless, because if it were then the night sky would look like the surface of a sun.

    This may all seem obvious, but it's neat that you can figure that out with the naked eye.

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    What are your favorite and or famous thought experiments?

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  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27s_paradox

    Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night paradox or Olbers and Cheseaux's paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe.

    The night sky being dark has some profound cosmological implications.

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    What are your legit experiences where "the obstacle was the way"

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  • Widely regarded as the best Seinfeld episode is The Contest. It's about who can go the longest without masturbating, but what makes it great is that they never say that explicitly --- it's just euphemisms and insinuation. And it's hilarious IMHO.

    I believe they initially wanted to spell it out, but the networks wouldn't let them (I could be wrong). Definitely for the better that they danced around the topic the way they did.

    (Yes I know, Jerry Seinfeld is a problematic person, I'm just trying to answer the question...)

  • Swamps have hidden terrain bonuses

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  • What, the curtains?

  • NASA issues warning after sudden change in the ocean surprises scientists: 'Getting faster and faster'

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  • TIL NASA is woke.

    (/s shouldn't be required but here we are...)