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- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 9 hours ago:
Not at all in this case though! Or rather, it depends on your perspective.
“Why doesn’t electricity leak out the outlet?” is a good question, if you know nothing about electricity.
“Why doesn’t electricity leak out the outlet?” is a little stupid, if you know a little about electricity.
“Why doesn’t electricity leak out the outlet?” is a great question if you know a bit more about electricity (because it does leak out, it’s just that 50/60Hz doesn’t couple to freespace well unless you have a colossal antenna).
As to this question, light in a moving media: preprints.opticaopen.org/articles/…/25441108?file…
- Comment on Best Abstract Ever 4 days ago:
You can!
Getting it published is another matter though…
- Comment on And black gloves of course 6 days ago:
…using chopsticks of course, so you don’t get your mechanical keyboard dirty.
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 2 weeks ago:
from many years ago. Post says 9/29/24…
- Comment on Took me by surprise 2 weeks ago:
It’s completely context dependent; you’re right that using male/female is appropriate for humans in certain contexts, e.g., medical usage (“Patient, a 47yo female, presented with…”). But it is — for cultural and historical reasons — generally considered inappropriate to refer to our fellow humans that way in conversation.
Re: mutt, fair enough. Bitch/stud are examples of how animal terms, when applied to humans, take on very different meanings. Purebred is afaik not specific to species, but it is wildly inappropriate to refer to people as such.
At the end of the day, the logic behind what is and is not appropriate has history behind it; animal terms have been used extensively to refer to subjugated peoples; it may be scientifically accurate but that doesn’t mean that it’s inoffensive.
- Comment on Took me by surprise 2 weeks ago:
Of course we’re animals, but let’s use some common sense wrt cultural norms here. A dog of mixed lineage is mutt, but it’s completely inappropriate to refer to a multiracial person as such. A female dog is a bitch, a male is a stud; the sexism is pretty obvious when applied to humans. It’s fine to talk about owning a dog; it’s not ok to talk about owning another human (except perhaps children, in certain contexts).
Yes, we are animals too, but that doesn’t mean we should talk about each other in the same way. (And I say this as a vegetarian who thinks we should treat all animals with significantly more respect than we currently do.)
- Comment on Took me by surprise 2 weeks ago:
Unless we want to use group pronouns like we do with animals.
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly why referring to women as “females” is problematic — using male/female as nouns is fine for animals. Humans, not so much…
- Comment on Parents when their kid brings them home a half-eaten candy necklace 2 weeks ago:
Anyway, how’s your sex life?
- Comment on SHAME. 2 weeks ago:
“It’s not that I’m against vaccines, it’s just that I want my body’s own antibodies to fight off the virus.”
- Comment on Reincarnated into the exact opposite body 4 weeks ago:
Anybody want a peanut?
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 4 weeks ago:
If I wanted to give it a bold facelift I’d just use the top one and remove the letters. Gives it an arrogant, “if you have to ask what this is…” vibe, which is probably a good thing for them.
- Comment on It's insidious 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 weeks ago:
I really don’t think it’s the devs driving these decisions…
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 4 weeks ago:
Ok so it is fully qualified then? I’m just confused because it sounded like you were saying I wasn’t using the term correctly in your other comment.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, my understanding was that FQDN means that anyone will resolve the domain to e.g. the same IP address? Which is the case here (unless DNS rebinding or similar is employed) — but it doesn’t resolve to the same physical host in this case since it’s a private IP. Wikipedia:
A fully qualified domain name is distinguished by its lack of ambiguity in terms of DNS zone location in the hierarchy of DNS labels: it can be interpreted only in one way.
In my example, I can run
nslookup jellyfin.myexample.com 8.8.8.8and it resolves to what I expect (a local IP address).But IANA network professional by any means, so maybe I’m misusing the term?
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 4 weeks ago:
TIL, thanks. I use namecheap and haven’t had any problems (mikrorik router).
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 4 weeks ago:
If you have your own domain name+control over the DNS entries, a cute trick you can use for Jellyfin is to set up a fully qualified DNS entry to point to your local (private) IP address.
So, you can have jellyfin.example.com point to 192.168.0.100 or similar. Inaccessible to the outside world (assuming you have your servers set up securely, no port forwarding), but local devices can access.
This is useful if you want to play on e.g. Chromecast/Google TV dongle but don’t want your traffic going over the Internet.
It’s a silly trick to work around the fact that these devices don’t always query the local DNS server (e.g., your router), so you need something fully qualified — but a private IP on a public DNS record works just fine!
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 5 weeks ago:
…which implies the existence of integer women, real women, complex women, imaginary women, rational & irrational women.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
Debian (i3 on laptop, headless on homelab).
But apparently my coffee is Arch.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 weeks ago:
How do we get everyone angry.
This is the problem — taking away my coffee makes me angry, but I’ll be too tired to do anything about it.
- Comment on Don't ask if its level 5 weeks ago:
Come see the vise grips inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being drill pressed!
- Comment on lab toys 1 month ago:
Whatever you do, do not touch that one BNC cable. Just trust me on this.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
If the minimum wage was a comfortable living wage — like it should be, in my and many other folks’ opinion — then it wouldn’t matter. One person’s excess isn’t a problem, unless it’s at the expense of someone else (which, you know, is kinda the case…).
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).
For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.
But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)
- Comment on bitey 1 month ago:
Fun fact, the (rough) conversion efficiency of calories to mechanical joules in the human body (separate from the mechanical to electrical you’re referring to) is about 25% — but this is about the same factor as going from calories to joules! So, for a human to put out 13.5 kJ of energy would require about 13.5 food calories (kilocalories).
- Comment on hard to argue with 1 month ago:
Same argument against vegetarianism/veganism — we have teeth “designed” or evolved for eating meat, thus we should eat meat.
…we also have brains capable of abstract reasoning, but nevermind that!
- Comment on Fead 2 months ago:
Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you’ll be fine.
- Comment on Hey, a nickel... 2 months ago:
Handy back-of-the-envelope is that a year is about pi*10^7 seconds.
Also…hate to be the guy to mention leap years but…
- Comment on Leaned about Bias Tee today 2 months ago:
The Picosecond Pulse Labs bias tees hold a special place in my heart.
- Comment on Based on true events 2 months ago:
For a while I thought the Google AI result had a pretty logical, well thought out, practical solution — use glue.
