SapientLasagna

joined 1 year ago
[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

My first vehicle was a 1971 Ford 3/4 ton. It was extremely reliable and tough. Having sat for most of the previous 30 years in a barn, it even looked good.

But it had all of the safety features of 1971. Power brakes the would lock up and throw you off the road if you more than thought about braking. Lap belts and a solid steel steering wheel to smash your teeth on. If you somehow hit the steering wheel hard enough to break it, you'd be impaled on the steel pipe steering column. Speaking of the steering, it didn't have power steering, so if you hit a rut on a rough road, the steering wheel would spin out of control. You had to just let go of it until it stopped spinning lest it break your thumbs. Also, the gas tank was inside the cab behind the seat for extra car crash fun.

It was a beautiful death trap. I kinda wish I could have put it back into a barn for another 30 years instead of selling it.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Or maybe 13,500 miles. But what's a few zeros between friends?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Well that's just lying be omission. Lots of people were disabled or disfigured too.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

/sbin is like /bin, but for system administrative type commands. /usr holds all the other software that isn't critical to get the system up and running.

A device file is a special file that's like a pointer to a piece of actual hardware, like a serial port or a hard drive. /dev also has some non-hardware special files like /dev/zero. When you read from that one, you get an endless stream of zeros. Or /dev/null, that discards any data that's written to it.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Also, unless you're one of those people who legitimately doesn't care if food tastes good or not, learn to cook. You don't have to be good a cooking everything, but develop a repertoire of food that is healthy and you like to eat.

The age where you could depend on a wife to be a good cook for you are long past.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

It's not a hard real time OS though. Real Time Linux would be appropriate for some subsystems in a car, but not for things that are safety critical with hard timing constraints, e.g. ABS controllers.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Honestly, they can just send the keywords. No need to send audio if they can match 1000 or so words that are most meaningful to advertisers and send counts of those.

AFAIK this is only speculated, not proven.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago

The bear uses Arch, BTW.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately, we probably don't even get to be France. We might be Austria though.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As a non-American, it's crazy to me that there (apparently) aren't any safe storage laws enforced. Would it really infringe people's gun rights to require that all firearms may only be in a safe, in your hands, or on your person (in a holster, sling, etc.)?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

At least some of the app developers have realized that if they develop for Postgres they get to keep the Sql Server licensing costs for themselves. Windows server licensing costs too, if they're clever.

Unfortunately the old janky enterprise shit will probably never get updated. You know the ones. The ones that think they're new and hip because they support SSO (Radius only)

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