qjkxbmwvz

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

And probably only the second half of the 2nd amendment.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 13 points 2 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 2 months 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?

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