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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Engineer here: mostly use i, but have seen j used plenty. First time I saw j used was by a maths professor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure the point of your comment. The article uses that word, or ither forms of it a bunch, they are not shying away from it. An immigrant is someone who moves TO a country. An emmigrant is someone who moves FROM a country. These are both permanent moves (or intended to be). An expat is someone who LIVES in another country. Formally it means temporarily but I've seen it colloquially used for both temp and permanent.

So "US expats in New Zealand" is precise and inclusive whereas "immigrant" means people from any country who moved permanently. Imprecise and non inclusive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Trumpaphobia, the fear of 45/47

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I disabled to use of emojis when I set up our companies internal wiki for SOP thinking that wasn't appropriate for technical documentation, but my boss asked me to turn them back on because he wanted to use them. I begrudgingly obliged.

Turns out he didn't want to use smileies, just the icons for quickly identifying bullet points like ⛔‼️✅❕or even 🌐🖨️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Mint, Pop!OS, or Unbuntu LTS

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (18 children)

I run free local models...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I'm an American citizen self deporting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't cover my mouth when I yawn.

When I'm in a freind group I'll make eye contact with someone and extend my tongue to assert dominance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do CAD and web dev - have been bombarded with "job offers" to get me to operate forklifts and or trucks for 10 years now. Even did an interview once where I didn't even know that was the job until after the interview.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When you push something you push the atoms in the thing. This in turn pushes the adjacent atoms, when push the adjacent atoms all the way down the line. Very much like pushing water in the bathtub, it ripples down the line. The speed at which atoms propogate this ripple is the speed of sound. In air this is roughly 700mph, but as the substance gets harder* it gets faster. For example, aluminum and steel it is about 11,000mph. That's why there's a movie trope about putting your ear to the railroad line to hear the train.

If you are talking about something magically hard then I suppose the speed of sound in that material could approach the speed of light, but still not surpass it. Nothing with mass may travel the speed of light, not even an electron, let alone nuclei.

*generalizing

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When can I run Steam OS on my phone? :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

When I was younger about 14 eggs a week. Now about 9.

Where I am eggs have only gone up about $0.20 in the last few months. Still under $6 per dozen for cage free eggs. Maybe $3.50 for caged eggs?

 

Hey, I'm an American moving to NZ (Whangerei, Northland) in a few months and am trying to device if I should fly my desktop/server over or just build a new one there.

What's the general availability of server and desktop parts there? Any recommended local shops, or do I need to import everything from Asia?

 

I would very much like to move from Google and Microsoft and other proprietary, non privacy services.

I have spent hundreds of $ and thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms and every single one of them has been difficult, annoying, frustrating, and ultimately fails.

I have concluded I am just not the guy to do this as I am Windows CAD guy and have no idea what I am doing with networking, Linux or CLI. 90% of the words and terms in tutorials are greek to me.

I am looking for notes (Joplin), Google Drive replacement (NextCloud?), and email (??) on a cloud server. And then video streaming (plex or jellyfin + *arr?) and photo management (immich?) on my local machines.

Let me know if you are interested or know of somewhere better to post this.

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