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He literally has a spreadsheet of neat phrases categorized by rhythm and syllable count so that he can word salad a song together. I love Weezer songs, but the lyrics have no meaning beyond what the listener brings with them.

Here's the Song Exploder episode for anyone interested. The other episodes are also always really interesting even when I don't know the band or song they break down.

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Most papers are made in TEX or LaTEX. These formats separate display from data in such a way that they can be quickly formatted to a variety of page size, margins, text size, et al with minimal effort. It's basically an open standard typesetting format. You can create and edit TEX in any text editor and run it through a program to prepare it for print or viewing. Nothing else can handle math formulas, tables, charts, etc with the same elegance. If you've ever struggled to write a math paper in Microsoft word, seriously question why your professor hasn't already forced you to learn about LaTEX.

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Price gouging by any other name if still illegal. A heatwave, especially in this escalating climate crisis, is no different than a hurricane or other natural disaster and many places already have laws to deal with the ethics of raising prices under those circumstances.

Georgia becomes first state to require election law training for police ( www.theguardian.com )

The new requirement for police trainees to take a one-hour course on election laws is meant to keep officers from trying to guess at how to enforce the law on election day, said Chris Harvey, deputy executive director for the Georgia peace officer standards and training council....

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It is criminally embarrassing that police are not REQUIRED to actually study ethics and the law in order to get licensed to enforce the laws of their jurisdiction. We require licensing for just about everything else: lawyers, doctors, engineers, surveyors, electricians, nurses, hair dressers, and more. But when handing out the authority to enforce increasing complex laws and the legal authority to murder civilians? Nothing really. Just a few weeks of training for the bullies that peaked in highschool.

How to make an old USB brother laser printer wireless?

I have an old Brother laser printer that's been doing fine and doesn't need to be replaced, but it only supports USB. Is there a device besides an old computer/laptop that would make it a shared wireless printer that supports windows machines well? I'm pretty sure i could come up with something myself, but i would prefer an...

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CUPS is probably the print server you're thinking of.

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Tell me you've never had a decent bagel without telling me you've never had a decent bagel. A bagel is not a roll.

I never said either was better, just different.

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If your bagel is dry and you can't distinguish it from normal bread, you've never actually had a real bagel.

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You're either responding to the wrong comment. Can't read. Or you think straw man arguments are valid.

I never said either was better, just that's it's foolish to confuse or compare the two.

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Did you ever hear the tragedy of MythTV? I thought not. It’s not a story the Youtubes would tell you. It’s a Pirate legend. MythTV was a Dark Lord of the Pitates, so powerful and so wise he could use the PCs to influence the airwaves to create watchable TV… He had such a knowledge of the PCs that he could even keep the shows he cared about from dying. The dark side of the PC is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice XBMC everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

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My head cannon is that TIE fighters don't make sound exactly as they zip around, but they do something to the electromagnetic fields or some other techno babble thing that causes other things, like droids, space ships, rocks, or skulls to scream with a Doppler effect like that as they zip by.

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I'm not a nice person. I'm not a kind person. I'm not even a good person. I try to be all of those things and sometimes it feels like a struggle. I don't think I'm evil or a total asshole or a sociopath or something. I just think it a metric we have to constantly check-in on and adjust. I don't really trust people that think of themselves as nice, kind, or good. I don't think I really agree with those people about what it really means to be nice, kind, or good. For example, I do believe the song got it right, sometimes you do need to be cruel to be kind in the right measure.

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Sen. Travis Hutson, a Palm Coast Republican, sponsored the resolution that pushed the proposed constitutional amendment onto this year’s ballot.

It's a Republican resolution that already failed to get the vote in 2010.

Ben Wilcox, a board member of Common Cause Florida, told the Miami Herald that if Amendment 6 passed it would be bad for the integrity of elections and public policy. “Corporations and wealthy individuals that make campaign contributions would have more ability to influence our elections,” said Wilcox. “Candidates that are not able to access that kind of funding and that rely on smaller donations from individuals, it would hurt those candidates’ chances to win and empower the big campaign donors to have more influence on public policy.”

It's going to make the individual political contributions of actual Floridians and voters less meaningful.

Only personal contributions from Florida residents to a candidate’s official campaign account are eligible for matching funds, capped at $250 per person. Contributions from corporations and political committees are not matched.

Yep, if passed, your contributions cannot hope to match the corporations buying candidates. $250 per person is barely a drop in the bucket anyway.

"[Politicians in favor of the resolution are] probably benefiting from large campaign contributions that are coming from wealthy individuals and corporations so they don’t see a need to level the playing field with candidates who don’t have access to that kind of funding.” [said Wilcox.]

Wilcox says as Floridians are deciding on how they will vote on Amendment 6, he hopes they will ask themselves if public policy should be based on “public interest” or the “influence of wealthy corporations.”

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Sometimes I get a particular kind of headache. Listening to loud music with heavy bass can help ease the headache. Singing along to my playlist of songs I might sing at karaoke from my belly loudly also can help ease the pain a bit. So yes, I guess it can be relaxing.

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Counterpoint: It's a salad.

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Maybe they are illuminating their living room with the front end of a BMW.

Better yet, it's a Pimp My Ride style makeover that replaces those unused turn signals with a projection system for an instant drive-in movie experience.

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In my experience, 2 devices will ultimately save you effort and frustration. Anything you choose as a good NAS/seedbox will be unlikely to have a good from the couch interface or handle Netflix reliable and easily. A small Android TV box may have a much better interface, simple app setup, and support all the streaming services, but probably won't be very powerful or convenient to use as a NAS. The NAS is always on, plugged directly into the Internet access point, and tucked away out of sight and sound. The Android TV or Apple TV box is silent, small, and can be mounted directly to the Beamer/Projector.

Yes, Kodi exists and it's add-ons can bridge this gap. But I still think that a SBC NAS running Jellyfin or plex + an Nvidia shield with jellyfin, Plex, Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, amaon, etc. will be so much easier to setup, manage, find support for, and upgrade.

I have a similar setup even though my server has a direct HDMI link to my TV. I'm not a fan of viewing using the server it from the couch. Setting up IR remotes sucks always. And it's confusing for anyone but me to use. But if my Nvidia Shield dies or I'm having network trouble, VLC a pretty good backup.

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's...

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Who cares? It's a work phone that is used only for work, they are entitled and expected to track it as much as my work laptop or any other company equipment. That's not a privacy issue unless you're using company resources for personal stuff. If I don't want them tracking me I just turn it off or leave it at home.

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This comment is just arrogant enough to sound enlightened and so absurd that it's rage bait for anyone that has done any actual work in the field. Perfect trolling my friend. Chef's kiss.

My work feels very "off"...

I work in security at a northern michigan ski/golf resort. The resort spans 2 properties and has a combined total of roughly 3000 acres. As you might expect, it can be a tough job at times, with drunks, noise complaints, safety issues, etc but wtf do you do when your job is mostly just tough for simply feeling "creepy"? There's...

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Do the buildings have carbon monoxide detectors? Are they old buildings with old electrical systems? You said it's a ski resort, so I'd expect some banging and weird noises as the temperature of the buildings fluctuate. Portable electric/magnetic field detectors exist. Maybe portable carbon monoxide detectors too. These things can be measureable and often feel like ghosts. Rule them out. Then maybe introduce yourself to the lifeless guests and they'll leave you alone. If none of that pans out. Read Stephen King's The Shining. Real life is rarely as scary as Stephen King.

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Well then, say hi to the ghosts for me, just don't sit down for a drink with them. Do read that book if you haven't already; it's one of my favorites and none of the movies do it justice.

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Hoodies aren't exactly new technology. Pretty sure hooded upper garments with laces predate pea coats.

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Unprondered?

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Don't eat the onion.

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The vote doesn't matter if the governor can just veto it like they did the monorail bill.

Ok maybe veto isn't the perfect word, but that amounts to what actually happened. Doesn't matter how the governor killed it. Florida voters wanted the constitutional amendment and Bush killed it by referendum without the voters having any further say.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-jeb-bush-high-speed-rail-20150510-story.html

Then there was the travesty of the Bush/Gore election.

Florida voters know that their vote does not count.

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That's not true.

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Lacking anything close to empathy, every accusation of this narcissist is an admission.

Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?

The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....

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LMAO. No. You can't convince an overconfident idiot with facts and experience.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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I think the more nuanced take is that we should be making "piracy" legal by expanding and protecting fair use and rights to make personal copies. There are lots of things that are called piracy now that really shouldn't be. Making "piracy" legal still leaves plenty of room for artists to get paid.

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Like every system? What's the actual distinction you're trying to point out?

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Are you implying that we should be counting atlanteans, cetaceans, the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, and the mole people? I don't think they much care about being left out.

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I'm just curious how much RAM you think that is.

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The USA does not produce agricultural products in a vacuum. We live in a time of global markets requiring global intelligence to support the decisions of local agriculture. The war in Ukraine has been a pretty clear lesson on that topic.

Also, the US has a history of building and supporting infrastructure projects that are global in reach and benefit, even if they were executed with American interests first. This mostly takes the form of global scientific data products made public. GPS is another high profile project originally designed to benefit the U.S. and later made publically available not just to U.S. citizens and interests, but globally public.

Why do they do it? Obviously because the U.S. is an evil empire bent on global dominance and destruction. /s

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Docker compose is just a setting file for a container. It's the same advantage you get using an ssh config file instead of typing out and specifying a user, IP, port, and private key to use each time. What's the advantage to putting all my containers into one compose file? It's not like I'm running docker commands from the terminal manually to start and stop them unless something goes wrong, I let systemd handle that. And I'd much rather the systemd be able to individually start, stop, and monitor individual containers rather than have to bring them all down if one fails.

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Strong aging Facebook user vibes from that kind of tag on all their posts.

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This is only a plot hole because you forgot part of the movie.

Inigo's quest is to kill the six fingered man. He saves the man in black only to get his help towards this goal. ~~But, there is exactly the kind of explanation line in the movie by Fezzik, who has not been in a drunken stupor for a month and has in fact gotten a job working closely with the castle's security forces, explaining his insight on the topic. Fezzik has this line, interrupting Inigo talking about how he needs the skills of the Man in Black to execute his revenge:

"the rumors are that he was the Princess' true love". ~~

That bit was in the book and the script, but the line as filmed in the movie was paraphrased by Inigo and not uttered by Fezzik. Doesn't really matter to the plot anyway though because Inigo sought the man in black to help plot his revenge because the man in black had defeated Vizzini. A confusing line because we were never explicitly shown how Inigo learned about the man in black's true love of Buttercup, but not exactly a plot hole.

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The line does appear in the film, though on review it does appear that Inigo takes the line from Frezik. Probably that was because Andre the giant didn't actually speak English very well. Forgive my confusion, since I'd more recently read the book than watched the movie and the scene in question is only changed slightly. So in point of fact, it was still a throwaway line and it was still in the movie.

Never the less, Inigo was seeking the Man in Black to aid his own revenge, not because of Wesley's true love for Buttercup, so where and when he learned of the man in black's love for Buttercup is mostly irrelevant to the plot. Moreover, Wesley declares "True Love" to Max before Inigo says anything about love to Max.

This is all especially amusing, since we are debating a single line in a movie, based on a book, that is itself a self declared abridged version of another book.

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Yes, that's basically what I said. I know there is no unabridged version of the book, because I'm not a dunce. That was the joke, but you're so worried about being right and getting the last word you missed it.

I've seen the movie damn near a thousand times. I've read the book (didn't I already make this clear). We're both fans.

It's not a plot hole. It's a single stepped on line that does not matter to the plot and major motivations of the characters.

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I did a rewatch after your first comment. The line is there. Inigo says it, when Fezzik should have. But, you were right in that it doesn't make sense for Inigo to say it because we were never shown when he learned of Wesley's love of Buttercup. But Inigo wasn't looking for the Man in Black to assist true love, he just wanted whomever bested Vizzini to help in his revenge plot.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making its...

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Sounds like they are admitting that their cars violate FCC rules about interferance.

What animated film or tv show is this? ( i.imgur.com )

For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don't think it's excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art....

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Counterpoint, nobody watched it for the CGI. The characters only seem annoying now because they were over the top then and moved the goal posts for that over the course of a generation of being repeatedly aired on broadcast television and cable. The plot seems basic now because so many sci-fi movies afterwards we're influenced in some way by it. The 5th Element is a fun bombastic sci-fi romp and you're taking it way to seriously to enjoy it the way everyone that does enjoy it will do. But, you do you. I'm not telling you you're wrong. Sometimes entertainment endeavors fail us, sometimes we fail to enjoy entertainment on its terms because of our predispositions.

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If you're using Android you can automate lockdown mode using Tasker so that it can it can be enabled "passively". For example, on my phone lockdown happens after: too many incorrect access attempts (bad biometric or passcode), any Bluetooth disconnects, any sudden shakes or jolts. So if someone takes my phone away from me, takes my phone from my car, or if I turn off my watch then lockdown. If someone fails to unlock my phone: photo taken, synced to cloud, phone lockdown. If my phone gets tapped, set down a little to roughly, or I get thrown to the ground or against a car with my phone in my pocket then lockdown. Sure, it means biometrics is often disabled on my phone, but now I find that reassuring.

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Tasker

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Original? No. Usenet, BBS, IRC are the originals. Napster made it hip. Soul seek made it better. Then there was Limewire, DirectConnect, and some others. Then there was BitTorrent, which I really did use to download Linux ISOs before the rise of popular public and private trackers.

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So many maps in pop culture trying to make a statements are really just population density maps.

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Who are they going to serve? You could probably fit each of those state's populations on one train. /s

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Nope, I've been tricked enough times by that domain. They'll just repeat the click bait headline for one paragraph/sentence. Then a full screen ad or three. Then they'll explain what Star Wars is. Then an ad. Then they'll explain what The Mandalorian and Grogu are. Then an ad. Then they'll rephrase the click bait title as a question. Then an ad. Then they'll finally get around to doing a bad job of plagiarizing a mediocre reddit comment thread, but word it as a hypothesis. That usually takes a sentence or two, but sometimes they just skip this part. Then an ad. Then some non-committal conclusion. This conclusion can usually be reused for any similar articles about the subject, in this case Star Wars. Then more ads of equal or greater screen scrolling than the length of the entire article with ads that you just read.

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When you say Plex interface remotely, are you referring to the Plex app or PlexAmp app? I feel like PlexAmp fixed all of my complaints about listening to music through Plex (the same app I use for videos).

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You don't need to get too complicated with scripts if you let Picard do all the tagging and renaming. In my experience it works pretty well with the default out of the box configuration. Just don't try to do your whole library at once, just go album by album and check each one is matching with the correct release. I was in the same boat about a decade ago and did the same, just a few albums a day getting tagged and renamed into a fresh music directory. And of course, make a backup first, just in case.

Lately I've been going through this process again because I messed up configuring Lidarr and many files got improperly renamed. Since they were all still properly tagged, fixing them has been easy, especially with Picard. I haven't really bothered to find all the stray files yet (they're still roughly in the right location) because Plex ignores the paths and just reads the tags so the misnamed files aren't even noticable in Plex

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