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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 25 minutes ago

Judging by the camera angle, OP may have been today years old when they learned this as well (I learned it well into my 30s, too).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 8 hours ago

Our first was a girl. Second was a boy. Third will be a vasectomy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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With Windows, there is 1 current version of Windows (11), 1 "almost current" (10), 1 "outdated but you'll maybe see it" (8.x) and only a few "you'll probably only see this in obscure situations" versions.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.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Innovation, perhaps; progress...that's something else.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I'm gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:

"This."

How'd I do?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Pretty sure that's completely acceptable in parts of northern California (source: born and raised in northern California).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 61 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn't sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to \mathrm); googling latex residue did not produce the search results I was hoping for...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And many folks have headless setups


raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It's kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.

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

For some (most?) of us, we don't have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This realization/acceptance led to us having kids.

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

This is obvious though


currently, you might test a drug on mice, then on primates, and finally on humans (as an example). It would be faster to skip the early bits and go straight to human testing.

...but that is very, very, very wrong. Science of course doesn't care about right and wrong, nor does it care if you "believe" in it, which is the beautiful thing about science


so a scientifically sound experiment is a scientifically sound experiment regardless of ethical considerations. (Which does not mean we should be doing it of course!)

Now, taking a step back, maybe you're right that, in the long run, throwing ethics out the window would actually slow things down, as it would (rightfully) cause backlash. But that's getting into a whole "sociology of science" discussion.

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