teawrecks

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teawrecks ,

Do you have any examples of shows or movies that you did find engaging before you stopped?

teawrecks ,

Can't disagree with any of that. That was a good place to stop with GoT, I also made it about 2 ep into book of fett before not caring, and I haven't watched any marvel movies since Thanos.

I think there are still some good shows worth watching, but 90% is crap. The best show I've watched recently is probably Barry. 4 quick seasons, 30m episodes, and the series has ended so no risk of a GoT situation.

Did you ever watch Breaking Bad?

teawrecks ,

Ah dang. I think it really is a masterpiece. I think there's a bit of a slump in s2, but by the time s3 gets underway, it's easily up there with No Country for Old Men and Fargo, imo. All the characters are well written, intelligent, trying to out smart each other, but it never feels like they're spoon feeding the audience to keep up. Great tension and the acting is 🤌. And it's only 5 seasons, doesn't feel dragged out.

But if you're able to avoid constantly consuming entertainment in this day and age, more power to ya! 😁

What is a gender neutral replacement for man, guys, buddy, etc?

So I've realized that in conversations I'll use traditional terms for men as general terms for all genders, both singularly and for groups. I always mean it well, but I've been thinking that it's not as inclusive to women/trans people....

teawrecks ,

In the '60s, I made love to many, many women, often outdoors, in the mud and the rain, and it's possible a man slipped in. There would be no way of knowing.

teawrecks ,

More like, the older the character gets, the more they update his backstory to be something the audience can sympathize with. Because a villain for villain's sake gets old fast.

teawrecks ,

I should re-read it, but the impression I got was that Oz was the epitome of this thread's topic. A real "ends justify the means" villain, where his end goal is to save the world from itself by giving it a common enemy to vanquish. And he does it. In terms of the classical trolley problem, he pulled the lever to kill 1 instead of doing nothing and allowing 5 to die. Am I misremembering?

teawrecks ,

Man, such great writing. Yeah, definitely going to have to reread it.

teawrecks ,

I'm not familiar, is Nuance the new hip distro I should be using?

How responsive is your Nextcloud?

My Nextcloud has always been sluggish — navigating and interacting isn't snappy/responsive, changing between apps is very slow, loading tasks is horrible, etc. I'm curious what the experience is like for other people. I'd also be curious to know how you have your Nextcloud set up (install method, server hardware, any other...

teawrecks ,

It's all about where the packages and services are installed

No. Your packages and services could be on a network share on the other side of the world, but where they are run is what matters here. Processes are always loaded into, and run from main memory.

"Running on bare metal" refers to whether the CPU the process is being run on is emulated/virtualized (ex. via Intel VT-x) or not.

A VM uses virtualization to run an OS, and the processes are running within that OS, thus neither is running on bare metal. But the purpose of containers is to run them wherever your host OS is running. So if your host is on bare metal, then the container is too. You are not emulating or virtualizing any hardware.

Here's an article explaining the difference in more detail if needed.

teawrecks ,

More specifically, the container is run on bare metal if the host is running on bare metal. You are correct in this thread, not sure why you're being downvoted. I guess people don't know what virtualization technology is or when it is used.

If the nextcloud container is slow, it's for reasons other than virtualization.

teawrecks , (edited )

Wait what? I'm saying what you said is correct. Am I the one who's confused here?

Edit: oh maybe you meant that's the excuse people give for being wrong? lol

teawrecks ,

A hostile work environment is grounds for a lawsuit. Document everything, bring it to a lawyer for council. If you have a case, they will tell you whether to talk to HR. If you don't have a case, you have no leverage here.

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    teawrecks ,

    As I understand it, the number of DNA combinations is theoretically finite, so yes. Also, your question is limited to phenotype, which wouldn't require two people's DNA to be perfectly identical to produce the same physical appearance.

    I'm sure someone who knew the genetics involved and was well versed in combinatorics could give you some reasonable bounds on the probability, but the genes that contribute to phenotype aren't well defined yet. Suffice to say, the probability is very low. Like "number of atoms in the universe" low.

    And this is all assuming every strand of DNA in your body is identical to each other, and is YOURS. But mutations happen all the time, and there are cases of finding traces of DNA corresponding to a person's mother, child, or older siblings in their body, just because they were exchanging blood during pregnancy and those cells can hang around. And you never really know how those cells will propagate or how they'll affect the person's development. So in reality it may be much more difficult to compute than in theory.

    teawrecks ,

    This was a thing on reddit too. Don't think that Lemmy is immune to group think or even bots intentionally farming divisiveness. If anything, the inconsistent moderation by design makes it even more susceptible.

    I try to tell myself to just roll my eyes at pointlessly negative comments, throw it a downvote if I think it's not contributing anything useful, and move on. Otherwise they'll drag you to their level and beat you with experience, as it were.

    teawrecks ,

    "Click here to talk to hot singles in your area!"

    teawrecks ,

    Make something. Doesn't matter what. Write something, draw something, bake something, make noises with an instrument (even if you don't know how to play it), sculpt some clay, cut some wood, anything. Play Minecraft even.

    And don't feel like you're forcing yourself to do something, just give yourself a way to physically express how you're feeling. You don't have create something useful, you don't have to show what you made to anyone, it's about the process and it's just for you.

    I honestly believe humans have evolved an innate drive to create things, to see the physical world around them respond to their actions, even if they're pointless. And I believe that when you don't do this you will feel like something is missing.

    teawrecks ,

    That's wild. When I was getting a mortgage for my house, the lender was like "your interest rate is X, but if you pay $Y you can add a 'point'". I'm like "wtf is a point?" Turns out, it's a roundabout way of saying, higher down payment = lower interest rate.

    It already wasn't obvious what their jargon meant, so for you to have a sales person offering the exact opposite of what my lender did, actively bribing customers to take a worse deal for themselves, it's just...scummy.

    teawrecks ,

    Cool, see I didn't even know about that difference lol. To me it amounted to "do you want to pay us more up front for a lower monthly rate", which just sounded like the same thing as a larger down payment.

    teawrecks ,

    It's good to be skeptical of people who throw the word quantum around, but in this case you'd be wrong. Penrose is the real deal.

    teawrecks ,

    Assume your hard drives will fail. Any time I get a new NAS drive, I do a burn-in test (using a simple badblocks run, can take a few days depending on the size of the drive, but you can run multiple drives in parallel) to get them past the first ledge of the bathtub curve, and then I put them in a RaidZ2 pool and assume it will fail one day.

    Therefore, it's not about buying the best drives so they never fail, because they will fail. It's about buying the most cost effective drive for your purpose (price vs avg lifespan vs size). For this part, definitely refer to the Backblaze report someone else linked.

    teawrecks ,

    Afaik, the wear and tear on SSDs these days is handled under the hood by the firmware.

    Concepts like Files and FATs and Copy-on-Write are format-specific. I believe that even if a filesystem were to deliberately write to the same location repeatedly to intentionally degrade an SSD, the firmware will intelligently shift its block mapping around under the hood so as to spread out the wear. If the SSD detects a block is producing errors (bad parity bits), it will mark it as bad and map in a new block. To the filesystem, there's still perfectly good storage at that address, albeit with a potential one-off read error.

    The larger sizes SSD just gives the firmware more extra blocks to pull from.

    teawrecks ,

    Seriously? Why be like this? It feels like a Lemmy thing for people to have a chip on their shoulder all the time.

    You shared your understanding, and then I shared mine (in fewer words). I also summarized in once sentence at the bottom. Was just trying to have a conversation, sorry.

    teawrecks ,

    As the other person said, I don't think the SSD knows about partitions or makes any assumptions based on partitioning, it just knows if you've written data to a certain location, and it could be smart enough to know how often you're writing data to that location. So if you keep writing data to a single location, it could decide to logically remap that location in logical memory to different physical memory so that you don't wear it out.

    I say "could" because it really depends on the vendor. This is where one brand could be smart and spend the time writing smart software to extend the life of their drive, while another could cheap out and skip straight to selling you a drive that will die sooner.

    It's also worth noting that drives have an unreported space of "spare sectors" that it can use if it detects one has gone bad. I don't know if you can see the total remaining spare sectors, but it typically scales with the size of a drive. You can at least see how many bad sectors have been reallocated using S.M.A.R.T.

    teawrecks ,

    Phew, good to know that if this ever happens to me as a customer, I just need to go viral on HN. What a relief.

    teawrecks ,

    I really liked this post by Hank Green regarding "natural remedies".

    tl;dw The chemicals used in chemotherapy are naturally occurring, and science uses what we know works. So when people say "you should use natural remedies", what they really mean is, you should use something:

    • we don't know whether it works
    • we know doesn't work
    • we know is actively harmful

    And the first two categories aren't necessarily bad, an Epsom salt bath can feel really nice, but don't think it's a replacement for proper medical science.

    teawrecks ,

    Ok new plan: convince Elon to buy Meta, or at least Threads, or at least get a position on their board.

    But seriously, I don't understand people jumping from one proprietary walled garden to the next. My hope is that it's a natural selection thing, and each time a platform gets cancelled, a small percentage of the user base will hop to the fediverse, until eventually it's the preferred destination.

    teawrecks ,

    I would not mind if people started suing schools for having gendered bathrooms.

    teawrecks ,

    This is normal, I hear it too sometimes. Particularly when I'm laying with one ear covered so I'm hearing white noise while trying to fall asleep. Something about the mix of frequencies, part of them traveling through/bouncing off the walls and the pillow, and just getting older sometimes creates an illusion that a TV is on in the other room or someone is talking outside. Sometimes I'll think my phone alarm is going off (I use internet radio for the alarm, so I never know specifically how it will sound), but then lift my head and my brain has enough info to determine it's just noise.

    Mild hallucinations are normal. It's impossible for your brain to gather 100% accurate data, let alone process everything it is handed, so it hallucinates all the time in ways you don't notice to fill in the gaps (ex. the large blind spot in your vision that your brain has learned to ignore). It's only if it's starting to cause you distress or cognitive dissonance that you should seek help. Ex. it's one thing to hear a TV in the other room that's not there, it's another to conclude that your long-deceased grandfather must be watching TV and think that's normal.

    teawrecks ,

    I tried to make an appointment with a PCP in my area yesterday. The next open slot they had was March...of 2025.

    teawrecks ,

    In general I'm not a fan of commenters immediately telling someone on Manjaro to leave Manjaro. But since you're just transitioning to it, I have to agree, EndeavorOS is the way to go. Manjaro has some anti-patterns that create more trouble than they're worth.

    teawrecks ,

    Prove to me that you actually lived the memories you currently have, and I didn't come into your room and implant them all the moment before you read this post.

    (Also, incredibly, username checks out)

    teawrecks ,

    That's the basis of the thought problem though, it cannot be proven one way or the other. Yes, it's an extraordinary claim, but also I would want you to think that, wouldn't I 😉.

    the question was whether the memory of a thing has the same value as the real time experience of a thing.

    Neurologically speaking, yes, the brain activity of a person experiencing a thing is indistinguishable from a person recalling the thing. So in all tangibly measurable ways, the answer is yes.

    teawrecks ,

    I'm starting to view fads as a form of annealing. To knock ourselves out of local maxima, humans have an predisposition for finding a reason to go back and try old stuff again. If there was something useful to it, it'll be reflected in the tools they create. I guess rebellion in general is just as evolutionarily useful as conformity. The Exploration/Exploitation dichotomy.

    teawrecks ,

    Mr. Ambulance Driver by The Flaming Lips

    Silicon Valley county becomes first in U.S. to declare loneliness a health emergency ( www.nbcnews.com )

    A mountain of research has linked loneliness to an increased risk of dementia, depression, anxiety, heart disease, stroke and early death. The Board of Supervisors of San Mateo county, which includes part of Silicon Valley, passed a resolution on Tuesday that declared loneliness a public health crisis and pledged to explore...

    teawrecks ,

    With the brilliant ideas and massive wealth that the area generates, it's hard to imagine a world where they don't solve every social or medical challenge they are faced with with ease...

    /s

    teawrecks ,

    TIL about the RV64X project, which is apparently a related attempt at an open GPU.

    teawrecks ,

    I don't want the fediverse to always be dictated by the private sector's ideas. I want someone to build the next "TikTok" on the fediverse to begin with, and for once have a generation whose "new thing" isn't controlled by a single corporation.

    teawrecks ,

    I'd say it's pretty typical where I live in the US. Yeah, there's always a couple of assholes, but most people stick to it.

    teawrecks ,

    That will happen. And if they're wrong, they'll crash and burn. That's how tech bubbles burst.

    teawrecks ,

    Given the degree to which first-level customer service is required to stick to a script, I could see over half of call centers being replaced by LLMs over the next 10 years. The second level service might still need to be human, but I expect they could be an order of magnitude smaller than the first tier.

    teawrecks ,

    That's what tier 2 service would be for. But the vast majority of calls are people wanting to execute a simple order or transaction, or ask a silly question they could have googled.

    If your problem can be solved by a bot, and it means you can be done immediatelu and don't need to be on hold for 20m+ waiting for t2 support, you're going to prefer it.

    Also, we've come a long way in just 2-3 years. It will be very difficult for us to talk about how good the experience will be in 5-10 years.

    teawrecks ,

    And yet, we don't use touch-tone menus, bots that suck are already commonplace. An LLM bot could stand to dramatically improve the user experience, and would probably use the same resources that the current bots do.

    Simple things like "I want to fill a prescription" or "I want to schedule a technician" or "do you have blah in stock" could be orchestrated by a bot that sounds human, and people would prefer that to traversing a directory tree for 10m.

    I don't even want to think about how someone would implement a customer facing inventory query using a touch-tone interface, let alone use that.

    teawrecks ,

    I fail to see how adding an LLM to an IVR could improve that situation.

    Ok. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, nor am I the one responsible for this, I'm just very confident this will inevitably happen. Only time will tell.

    teawrecks ,

    Follow the first few steps of this guide to download Linux Mint, create a bootable USB, and live boot into it.

    You can now play around with this like it's a real system. Nothing will be saved when you shut down.

    When you are ready, you can continue with that installation guide to either dual boot, or completely wipe your disks to use linux. (To start, I recommend dual booting. You never really know when you'll need it as you're transitioning.)

    Good luck!

    teawrecks ,

    Good job debugging it. Where'd you get that list of IPs?

    teawrecks ,

    You would have to calculate it assuming that msft wouldn't deliberately make the process more difficult and impractical, which they have demonstrated they are willing to do.

    (Refer to the section labeled "The Microsoft Playbook": https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html)

    teawrecks ,

    I mean, in the 80s and 90s we still got flooded with garbage games made in a month just to make a quick buck. I think Sturgeon's Law has always been in effect, the only difference is that there's so much more of everything now (both good and bad), and marketing teams have gotten so much more effective at farming engagement. But I think that <10% is always there and still worth people's time to both make and play.

    teawrecks ,

    I'm sorry for your loss, bud. I lost my dog last week in a similar way. I took her in for a routine tooth cleaning, they found a mass in her abdomen, and her body wasn't strong enough to recover from the anesthesia 😞.

    She was so young, and as you point out, so incontrovertibly innocent. It's been a difficult time this week accepting that she's suddenly gone from my and my partner's life.

    A friend shared this with me and it's been "living rent free" as they say.

    Time is an illusion that makes things make sense,

    So we're always living in the present tense.

    It seems so unforgiving when a good thing ends,

    But you and I will always be back then.

    Here's to animal friends making us our most human selves.

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