qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I've honestly never understood people who feel the need to "replace" Spotify. ... Spotify has never made sense for my use-case.

I don't know how to say this, but...you have extremely uncommon use-cases:

...during those times, my phone is either fully turned off (so I'll use an MP3 player), or it's in Airplane Mode.

Many people listen to music on stereos and don't necessarily want a device plugged in, so

I just download the music I like to my device and listen to it via VLC.

either doesn't work or is substantially less convenient than e.g. casting from a phone.

Not hating on your setup at all, but it's very niche, in my experience.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The think the objection is that this is specifically targeted at women, and it's something that someone might be self conscious about.

"Free coffee to shortest/tallest/skinniest/fattest man" would be also be offensive IMHO, because it's singling out people for a trait for which they maybe don't want to be singled out.

Crude humor is great, if all parties are in on the joke; I believe the point that parent was making was that all parties are not necessarily in on the joke.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 5 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID

Atomicity (something happens in its entirety or not at all), consistency (database is always in a valid state


if the database has constraints, they will always be honored), isolation (transactions don't step on each other), durability (complete transaction is complete even if there's a power failure).

Not a database expert, my parenthetical explanations may need work.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

I once took a Lyft and the push alert was, "Look for Jesus in a white Toyota Camry."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

It's a line from The Kinks' Lola.

The first bit, not the bit about fascists. But I suspect they'd be on board with that.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some would call the former command cat abuse.

In short, unless you want the contents of a file printed to stdout (or multiple files concatenated), the command can probably be written without cat, instead using the filename as an argument (grep pattern file) or IO redirection (cmd < file).

Stylistics and readability are another thing though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I think parent is referring to Merkle trees.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago

How's the software support?

I have an Orange Pi 5+ which is better than a raspberry pi in every way...except the software support.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Did they really take artistic liberties to make the Bay Bridge coloration look like the Golden Gate?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

scolding hot metal

I like the mental imagery


it's not scalding hot, no, the metal is actively chastising you.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 38 points 1 week ago

...the San Francisco gold rush in 1949.

Classic CS major, making an off-by-one(hundred years) error ;)

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