Preflight_Tomato

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[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, it's fine for now. If you're doing anything more than the absolute basic, you'll need 16+ now (on Win 11). Somewhat related, but my work computer was stuck, slow, and crashing at 99% utilization on 8GB until I added a card (my money). Now it stays around 85% on 16GB.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

& also you probably know to spec it appropriately; most slow laptops I see have 8 gigs ram.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The unit symbol should follow the quantity, as this is how it’s generally read and spoken. Just because it’s tradition doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I guess I could install Ventoy on the raspberry Pi's SD card, but I prefer it to be bare, since the idea is to keep it simple.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If a hypothesis is untestable, then it is a guess, and not scientific.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Primary every democrat.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

"man" used to mean person, it was gender neutral. In fact the root "men" just meant "to think", so a man could be any sapient being.

It was only changed several hundred years ago. "mankind" and other similar universals were meant to represent every human and became exclusionary only under patriarchal interpretation. "mankind" of course endures as universal, but we see lots of "firewoman", "mailwoman", etc., where the language becomes fundamentally gendered.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

"the data are" also sounded odd to me when I first heard it. After practice it became fine. Now I see it as a green flag that someone may be scientifically literate.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Literally the poorest condition house would cost 100% of 8 years of take-home pay of my engineer salary where I live. That's before accounting for loan interest on 20% down payment (I have 5%) which would push it up to 18 full years of my labor.

A single-family house is simply not worth 15+ years of my life, and I'm actively looking into cheaper options.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I saw it originally watching Simon Clark. Reviewing, it looks like the chart shown is actually a great example of a terrible graph; it uses 5 year periods then switches to 1 year periods without clear indication, making it look flatter than it would otherwise. If I adjust for this in a photo editor, emissions have barely slowed. I was misled, sorry for passing that on and thanks for questioning it.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?time=2000..latest&country=%7EOWID_WRL

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nazi salutes. He did it twice.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Some good news:

  • ~~emission rates have plateaued; we are still destroying the planet, but no longer accelerating the rate at which we do it~~
  • Solar panels (unsubsidized) are the cheapest method of electricity generation as of 2022
  • there is a fundamentally limited amount of fossil fuels, so as long as we don’t turn to Venus 2.0 by 2100 we will deplete most coal and oil and it will be possible for our ancestors to repair the planet over the following centuries.

Yeah I know even this “good news” is bleak, but it’s worth celebrating. There is some hope.

 

In 2022 the Department of Labor estimated, based on 1259 observations, that unauthorized workers make up 37-47% of agricultural workers (95% confidence interval).

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Fifty-eight percent of crop workers interviewed had work authorization in 2021–2022. Among the 38 percent who were U.S. citizens, 83 percent were born in the United States, and 17 percent were naturalized citizens. The remainder of the work-authorized population consisted mainly of lawful permanent residents (18%) with 2 percent authorized through some other visa program.

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If ICE is actually effective the US is about to experience food insecurity or inflation (or both) at a level unseen in a hundred years.

Is there any reason to believe that this won't happen?

Apologies if this is the wrong community to post in. All of the politics ones had rules about posting only news articles.

 

I'd like to store/seed important data (wikipedia, gutenberg, etc.), and read recently that it would be a good idea to store torrent files long-term. My questions are:

  1. Is it better to store torrent files or magnet links?
  2. Will a given magnet link retrieve the exact same .torrent file every initiation?
  3. Is storage of these files/links a good idea (especially if I have the files)?

This question is really about whether magnet links or torrent files are better to store long term, with a sanity check that this is something that should be done.

I've read these two StackExchange posts which were very helpful, and am looking to get more technical opinions and info:

 
 

Hey folks! I've been using MarkText for years, but it seems dead now. It still works fine, but I've been on-and-off looking for something that gets dependency updates and is less resource heavy (electron).

I look for the following in order of importance:

  • FLOSS license
  • WYSIWYG editing, not side-by-side
  • limited scope (edit docs, not trying to be 'A System for Managing Ideas')
  • low resource usage
  • LaTeX support is a plus

Do you know if MarkText has a trustworthy fork that is maintained? Do you know if something with similar user experience exists that uses a more lightweight code base?

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