qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 19 hours ago

Having a CC doesn't mean you have debt...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

"Why the HELL should I have to press 2 for English?"


bumper sticker I would see on my bike commute back in the day.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Some cities offer guides or services for native plants! https://sfpublicworks.org/services/plant-lists-and-palettes

It's even divided across the city's different climate zones (San Francisco is small, but can have huge differences in weather from one side to the other).

I recall a SoCal city even offering free consultation for native gardens.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 5 days ago

With coherent detection I think the separation between eyes would allow for this.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

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).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

Dipoles are, effectively, not


so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.

The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We still use leaded gas for aviation, as does (I believe) the EU (I'm guessing RoW, too).

(Supposed to be banned this year in the EU but AFAICT pushed back until 2032.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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