Kalcifer @ Kalcifer @sh.itjust.works

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I'm cringing at the date format "1-20-21".

Health-related information should ideally be from peer-reviewed, reproducible scientific studies.

Note that even if a study is currently reproducible, it will only continue to be reproducible until it isn't. There isn't something fundamental that makes a specific scientific study objectively true or false — that isn't how science works.

When in doubt, a policy of “Do No Harm”, based on the Hippocratic Oath, is a good compass on what is okay to post.

I understand that that's likely well-intentioned, but, imo, it's rather subjective — it's more often a matter of relative perspective. That being said, it would be in your best interest to set as clear and precise definitions as you possibly can.

Non-peer-reviewed studies by individuals are not considered safe for health matters.

What does this statement mean? You are banning anyone from sharing anything that is not peer-reviewed…?

We know some folks who are free speech absolutists may disagree with this stance

That's a bit of a stretch.

I've played it for a bit, and it's a decently fun and well-made game! My only gripe is that it requires an email for signup; I wish it would only require a username and password. For most users, though, I'd wager that that's a pretty minor issue.

I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB like 2 months ago.

Watch for battery life when buying older Surface devices. Replacing batteries in the older Surface Pros is notoriously difficult, because apparently the whole assembly is glued together.

Thank you very much for the heads up!

Newer versions are apparently more repairable, but you’ll have to investigate where that cut-off line of repairability is.

It looks like an attempt at heading in the direction of repairability started with the Surface Pro 9, but it's still quite involved [1][2].

My "in Thailand"?

When I use a website as a source, at the time that I access it for information, I will also save a snapshot of it in the Wayback Machine. Ofc theres no guarantee that the Internet Archive will be able to survive, but the likelihood of that is probably far greater than some random website. So, if the link dies, one can still see it in the Wayback Machine. This also has the added benefit of locking in time what the source looked like when it was accessed (assuming one timestamps when they access the source when they cite it).

gestures passionately "Download Lemmy!"

I'm feeling warm and fuzzy for some reason.

What exactly am I looking at? Is this just for visual aesthetic on the outside of a building, or is there some specific purpose served by this architecture?

They don't quite look like balconies, and there's a hole. Perhaps in the rightmost column I can see a part of a railing or a window through some of the holes?

EDIT: Just saw this post in my feed, which I think is showing the same architecture as this one. It appears to be for aesthetic purposes, but I could certainly be wrong.

That's perfect!

Given that Lemmy's mascot looks like a mouse (I think it's technically a lemming), an idea that came to my mind was "cheese day".

Thank you for pointing out, by example, a flaw in my original title 😆

if you’re one of those who never liked using a cover now I bet you’re forced to use one because of the added vulnerability of the bump.

Laughs in case that still has a bump.

That's actually a pretty slick interface. It makes me wonder how many solid apps have been lost to obscurity.

I’ll see if maybe I’ve just misconstrued the over-complexity for my needs.

It depends how you are defining "over-complexity". FreeCAD is a very capable CAD application, so, by extension, it has a vast array of features which means that a single task could potentially be tackled multiple ways. That being said, it is not a difficult application to use, imo. The UI feels well designed, and it is responsive. Like many things, the level of ease of use, and productivity when using it depends a lot on one's familiarity with the application.

Thank you for your suggestion!

Would you be able to provide some screenshots of the application? The website for the application doesn't seem to exist anymore, and the GitHub page doesn't have any images of the application. I must confess, however, that I'm somewhat hesitant to use an application that is no longer maintained, and isn't popular enough to provide a large enough chance of good security due to the sheer number of people looking at the source code and using the app. Granted, the latter could be solved by me "simply" looking through the source, but I confess that this doesn't feel entirely worth it, atm.

Speed tests, in order to be accurate, need to download a reasonable amount from each server.

How much data does Reflector download for each test?

This is why:

it takes quite a while to sort through 200 mirrors.

It could simply be that Reflector isn't overly efficient handling back-to-back tests. Perhaps there is a substantial idle period between tests that is eating up a large chunk of the total test time. Anecdotally, I have seen activity that suggests this in my network activity monitor — there are very short spikes and a comparatively long idle period in between.

You dont need one.

If one doesn't want to make arbitrary decisions then yes evidence would be required.

You will never notice the difference between the fastest one yesterday and the fastest one today

Lost time is still lost time. I'd prefer to saturate my connection. Anything less is an inefficiency. Small losses in time add up.

+1 for FreeCAD.

If everyone did it every day that would be a significant load

Given that I update daily, I feel that the quick connection to the server to test it's bandwidth at boot is rather insignificant.

The mirrors speeds don’t change that often to need to worry about always being on the absolute fastest.

Have there been any credible studies that have looked at the reliability of the mirrors? The reliability would give one an idea on how often they should refresh their mirrors.

Especially if you are updating the the background anyway

You're updating in the background on Arch Linux?