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Technology@lemmy.world•US state laws push age checks into the operating systemEnglish
3·5 months agoI had to have a friend help me because a company I bought from only did customer support through Instagram.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?
2·7 months agoI don’t disagree. But cooling performance does impact CPU performance in some cases even without “overclocking”
And in very hot running chips, it can start to matter.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?
2·7 months agoBoost clocks depend on thermal headroom. Better cooling will get you better performance still, even if you aren’t manually over clocking.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.English
7·1 year agoOr, y’know, don’t do illegal things and it doesn’t matter. That’s the point of fines being a deterrent
bisby@lemmy.worldto[Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.world•SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly EmbarrassingEnglish
1411·1 year agoAlso starship hasn’t started its operational lifespan. These are test articles still. They should absolutely be treating them with respect and due diligence since they are launching, but this is just highly public testing on a reusable rocket. Success not guaranteed and that’s why they aren’t flying real payloads (even of their own).
Also, pretty sure Apollo 1 was a great example of Saturn rockets not being flawless.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•'Similar' is not the same as 'the same', but it is similarEnglish
54·1 year agoIn theory, “in theory” and “in practice” have the same results, but in practice, they often differ.
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Android@lemmy.world•Google Messages redesigns gallery + camera, adds ‘Original quality’ sending [U]English
71·1 year agoCommunication is explicitly a more than one person endeavor. If the other party isn’t willing or able to use signal, then sms might be the required option. Signal removed their SMS functionality from their app.
There are perfectly valid reasons to use Google messages instead of signal.
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World News@lemmy.world•A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on cameraEnglish
28·1 year agoUnless it dives with you in its mouth.
XMPP has been an option for decades, if your contacts aren’t using it by now, they arent going to. And with communications tools, both parties have to agree on a tool. Even if one party doesn’t care about privacy or security.
Raw brute force security isn’t the point most of the time, and ease of use and simplicity of setup are going to be major factors in adoption. Signal is much easier to get started with for most people than XMPP.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If "more money=more problems," why doesn't "no money=no problems"?English
1·2 years agoI believe the number is now closer to $110k and even then you are one major hospital visit from being back on the problems train.
The trick is to make more money, but don’t live like you do. Just save the money. And then be able to retire young with millions in the bank
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If "more money=more problems," why doesn't "no money=no problems"?English
7·2 years agoThe hard part is that point moves. I have very few problems. And insurance covers some things (supposedly). But if my spouse died and I suddenly had to throw child care into the mix, and changing my schedule to be the one that takes them to/from school… I could easily wind up where new problems form. I thought I had enough money, but I only had enough money for the specific circumstances
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politics @lemmy.world•Ex-Porn Shop Staff Say Mark Robinson [Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina] Was A Regular. He Denies It.English
23·2 years agoI know nothing about this specific person. But the American Republican party is on a bit of a hypocritical purity crusade. They claim that porn is bad. They are the ones getting all worked up about other peoples sexual life, because it somehow affects the sanctity of their marriage.
So this article is pointing out his hypocrisy. He is doing something wrong by his own standards, so what room does he have to try to make laws about his stupid beliefs when he doesn’t even follow them himself.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your most profound "small world" moment?English
14·2 years agoOne of my (otherwise random) WoW guild members had my grandma as his kindergarten teacher.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloadedEnglish
191·2 years agoThat didn’t take long.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are the differences between the 'base' of various Linux distributions?English
1·2 years agoYou’re right. There are multiple definitions of the word stable, and “unchanging” is a valid one of them.
It’s just that every where else I’ve seen it in computing, it refers to a build of something being not-crashy enough to actually ship. “Can’t be knocked over” sort of stability. And everyone I’ve ever talked to outside of Lemmy has assumed that was what “stable” meant to Debian. but it doesn’t. It just means “versions won’t change so you won’t have version compatibility issues, but you’ll also be left with several month to year old software that wasn’t even up to date when this version released, but at least you don’t have to think about the compatibility issues!”
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are the differences between the 'base' of various Linux distributions?English
7·2 years agoDebian aims for rock solid stability
To be clear, Debian “stability” refers to “unchanging packages”, not “doesn’t crash.” Debian would rather ship a known bug for a year than update the package if it’s not explicitly a security bug (and then only certain packages).
So if you have a crash in Debian, you will always have that crash until the next version of debian a year or so from now. That’s not what I’d consider “stable” but rather “consistent”
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World News@lemmy.world•Pope uses homophobic slur in meeting with bishops — reportsEnglish
5·2 years agoYou’re right, it’s very likely he wasn’t intending to use a slur. But it seems to me like a lot of the reporting is “he didn’t mean to disrespect people!” when that’s not the case. The pope’s intentions were absolutely to disrespect people, just by his actions, and not by that specific word. the specific phrasing he used to do so doesn’t really matter.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pope uses homophobic slur in meeting with bishops — reportsEnglish
193·2 years agothe pope had made the remark while reiterating his position against gay people becoming priests.
It doesn’t matter what word he used, he was using it in an anti LGBT sentiment.
The 87-year-old pontiff was reported as saying that the Catholic seminaries were already too full of … gay men.
Here, I removed the slur. This isn’t any better. Italian fluency wasn’t the problem and didn’t change his argument.
Fascinating. The wikipedia page is for
shebangso clearly you are right.But the wikipedia page also cites it being called
hashbang– citing mostly o’reilly books.Now I’m intrigued, not that I have a lot of reason to talk about shell scripts, but I had never heard it called any other way.
TIL, thanks!