Nollij
@Nollij@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor 7 hours ago:
My primary reason for using free ESXi has been career development. VMware was the biggest player at all of the biggest potential employers, so it made sense to be familiar with.
These days, they’re all looking to jump ship. Some are actively migrating, others won’t get there at all.
But all of them now value experience in alternatives at least as much, if not more than VMware.
I’m still using free ESXi, but the next time I rebuild (i.e. new hardware), it will not be ESXi.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
To really find out, you probably just have to ask them directly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
At 16, her personality is visible, and her taste in partners has probably shown. If she’s into guys with ties to drugs, violence, etc, this might actually be a step up.
It still has the glaringly obvious issues OP was asking about, but you don’t always get to choose the cards you’re dealt. This could be the least harmful choice available.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
There is so much additional context needed to say with any confidence. The first thought would be that he can be a good provider (i.e. money) and her other prospects are not very promising. Another could be power, and how that could be extended to the family.
There’s yet another possibility that they aren’t actually ok with it, but are only presenting that face in public. Teenage girls are notoriously hard to control, and this might be the fastest/easiest way to get her to end it or learn a lesson.
There are still a number of other possibilities, many involving religion, that there’s no way to know which might apply to your situation.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 weeks ago:
As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.
Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.
- Comment on The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls 2 weeks ago:
There are some public numbers on how many occurrences are found each year on the major platforms.
IIRC, Facebook deals with around 75 million reports per year. Twitter, Reddit, and others were around 20 million reports per year.
I don’t know how many are dealt with on Mastodon or Lemmy (or how you’d even get reliable numbers for that), but something tells me it’s a lot less than the bigger platforms these days.
- Comment on Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history 4 weeks ago:
This might be interesting. I turned off all of my Google history years ago. I presume they still collected all of it.
This could reveal some of that.
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like a daytime event. If it runs that late, it interferes with nighttime events, most notably drinking/getting laid.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 5 weeks ago:
It’s more like claiming to own a subreddit, or a Twitter hashtag.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 5 weeks ago:
“Having a Discord server” doesn’t mean what those words normally mean.
- Comment on Over 230,000 Canadians Want Elon Musk’s Citizenship Revoked 1 month ago:
For comparison, the total population of Canada is 40.1 million people, meaning that just over 0.5% signed this petition.
As much as I enjoy the sentiment, this petition was never going to go anywhere. As others have pointed out, revoking citizenship based on popular opinion just isn’t a thing.
- Comment on Do you find this compelling evidence to doubt the result of the election? 1 month ago:
In the very few cases where the trump campaign showed any evidence whatsoever, they actually did very well with the court rulings. Keep in mind that these were absolutely not cases of widespread fraud, but of localized errors that are common in every election.
The fact that most suits were filed with literally no evidence whatsoever was very telling, though.
- Comment on I’m planning to teach middle school Spanish, would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause an uproar? 1 month ago:
Does Spanish have a super generic term like “significant other” or “partner” that doesn’t convey anything useful?
Side note, the types of parents you would be concerned about are probably also the type that get super racist about teaching Spanish in the first place.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Thank you- this is exactly the sort of critique I had been expecting/hoping to find
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I agree with you, and would go further.
A while back, there was a study (IIRC) from the UK that recommended against gender transitioning for children. No surprise, it created quite an uproar before it was retracted.
At no point in any of the media coverage or comments on Lemmy, etc, did I see any discussion of the study itself. To this day, I have no idea if there was an issue with the methodology. It seems that no one, neither supporters nor opponents, bothered to read past the headline. Many of them were very fervent in their beliefs, but that wasn’t enough to get them to look at the details.
This is also very bad for science - there are countless headline-grabbing “studies” that fail basic requirements. I’m sure you’ve seen things like “Is coffee/chocolate/etc good for you? A new 10-day study of 23 people suggests that…”. Which of course should get picked apart.
If we aren’t following the science, then what are we even trying to do?
(As an aside, I suspect that study was flawed, but I can’t confirm. It goes against the conclusions widely agreed upon, and would require significant rigor and evidence to support the claim)
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 month ago:
This is exactly why, for many years, there was no percentage on the label. They were concerned that people would try to get it to 100%.
Fast forward a few decades, and it’s extremely rare to find Americans consuming that little sugar, so the concern was no longer valid.
- Comment on Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth] 1 month ago:
While I appreciate that rule in many communities, there’s nothing stopping them from posting a summary or even editorial in the body.
- Comment on Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth] 1 month ago:
TL;DW:
A lot of science-related YouTube channels get indirect funding from the US government.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m inferring that you are not in the US, so your local laws may differ. But in the US, your attorney is required to act in your best interests to the best of their ability. Working against their client is a quick way to be disbarred and paying a massive amount to their (now former) client.
That said, this whole thing seems like an exercise in creative writing. Your life savings would be too tempting to any attorney, and they would try to steal it? You need to make friends with someone powerful to find a good lawyer? You’ll need all of this in a few months, but not now? None of it makes any sense.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
What did those poor cables do to you to get the Liam Neeson treatment?
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
But can it spy on users for marketing purposes? That’s the real question.
/s
- Comment on Jamie Dimon popped off at the 1,200+ JPMorgan employees fighting against full-time RTO: 'I don’t care how many people sign that petition' 1 month ago:
If you have a Chase account, the best time to close it was 20 years ago.
The second best time is right this very second.
Even ignoring this story, with the collapse of the CFPB, you are about to get screwed harder than you can even imagine.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 month ago:
Counter point: Lemmy has always been more toxic.
I’ve never seen a group (as a whole) that’s less capable of accepting that there are things they don’t know, or other viewpoints.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 1 month ago:
Unsurprisingly, fitness is always more complicated than it seems.
You are certainly correct that runners don’t burn (much) more calories than a couch potato. But weightlifters do, vs a couch potato of the same weight.
The thing about cardio is that the calories go directly into effort. The calories burned are roughly proportional to the effort (distance). But the moment you stop, the calories stop getting burned.
If you are doing weightlifting, the calories spent at the time to lift a heavy object are minimal. But it instructs your body to add muscle to better handle all the heavy lifting you do. Once you have that muscle, you burn a ton of calories 24 hours per day just keeping it alive. It becomes part of your base metabolic rate. It burns nearly the same calories whether you’re at the gym, or sitting on the couch. And it will continue to burn those calories until your body decides you no longer need that extra muscle mass and it atrophies.
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 2 months ago:
The potassium levels are very low, to the point where it doesn’t make a difference. While there are different varieties, most only have 45mg. For comparison, a banana has 400+, and a cup of apple juice has 250. The human body requires 3400 per day for men, meaning 8oz of Gatorade only provides 1.3% of what you would need in a normal day, even less if you’re deficient.
Sodium is a bit higher, from 160-310mg of the daily recommended 2300. Even if we ignore the fact that most people have more than enough sodium, particularly the type that are drinking enough for a hangover, a cup of chicken broth has 950mg. In fact, some varieties also have more potassium than Gatorade.
IOW, you’d be far better off drinking some chicken broth and eating a banana than drinking Gatorade.
- Comment on Looks legit, but can it actually be a real thing? 2 months ago:
The text explicitly says the program is for the lieutenant governor’s office.
The question is, would the lieutenant governor of Texas’ office be involved in something like this? I’m certain they want to, but would they have the authority? It’s my understanding that international airports are exclusively under federal control, not state.
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 2 months ago:
I know people will argue with me, but it really depends on what I drank, and not just how much. Even within the same type of alcohol, different brands or varieties give me very different results. For instance, Tullamore Dew (although it is delicious) gives me very nasty hangovers, far more than other Irish whiskeys.
But of course, there are other factors that are far more important. Obviously drink water, but you also need electrolytes (and no, Gatorade does not do this). Drinking on a full stomach and drinking slowly/steadily will also reduce your hangover the next day. And it probably doesn’t need to be said, but when it stops feeling enjoyable, stop drinking. Whether it’s because the party is winding down or because the smell makes you gag, you don’t always need to have the next drink.
- Comment on The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump 2 months ago:
Add in a bit of their self-interest. Every dollar you earned but don’t have, is a dollar stolen by your freeloading bosses/shareholders. Because they certainly didn’t earn it. Why do they have a mansion and a Ferrari? You should at least be able to afford rent.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There are certainly some exceptions, but 90+% are not.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Most wildlife isn’t capable of that level of thought or empathy.
For most animals that hunt, the thought process is “I’m hungry. This looks like something I can eat. Now I’m not hungry”