OhNoMoreLemmy @ OhNoMoreLemmy @lemmy.ml

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It's a matter of legal jargon. When people say "convicted" they mean has there been a criminal trial in which trump was found guilty of insurrection.

This hasn't happened. But the Colorado supreme court, a court that routinely makes decisions about criminal cases, has decided he committed insurrection.

The convicted thing is just an excuse to let him off.

Which would be fine if they were still used for their original purpose.

If you're stuck in mud with your wheels spinning, aerodynamics is the last thing on your mind, but you still might need enough space in the back for 8 sheep and a dog or six heavily armed insurgents.

They're just a bit shit for anything else.

It used to do this all the time a few months ago. The links never worked. Eventually I got bored of asking it.

I don't think you can buy the book. It was 20 volumes in 1989, and they've been working on an ongoing update since then. There's no plans to physically print a third edition.

But yeah, it's a serious scholarly resource, and they do put out free small dictionaries as well.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

This will be great for Emacs.

Finally I can have dedicated control, meta, super, and hyper buttons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

Depends. It's more fiddly than windows to get set up but there's a lot more options for power management.

I've got a tiny 7 inch laptop and I genuinely can't figure out how to stop the fan from constantly running under windows. On Linux, switchable underclocking and powertop make it last much longer.

This is assuming you've not got an Nvidia GPU in your laptop, I haven't tried in years but toggling the GPU was always difficult.

Eternity is fine. You just need to log out and back in. I'm using it now.

Details here: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/releases/tag/v0.1.2

Yeah, I think the reason threads is attaching itself to the fediverse is precisely because meta don't see it as a threat.

It's an easy way to appear open to the regulators without actually helping any competitors.

What are you doing step-matricider?

Characteristic sleep-EEG changes in patients with depression include disinhibition of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, changes of sleep continuity, and impaired non-REM sleep.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6386825/

Yeah, I think we have multiple types of sleep because we need them, and if you're getting too much rem sleep at the expense of other types it's going to cause problems.

I was listening to a sleep scientist the other day and they were saying that one thing we know is that depressed people have more rem sleep on average, and SSRIs decrease the amount of rem sleep.

If it is something sleep based that goes some way to explaining why it takes time to have an effect. Building up or wiping out a sleep debt can't happen instantaneously.

It's difficult. Perjury requires intent. If a badly trained employee in a hurry makes a mistake that's not perjury.

This means it's legal, under the current law, to badly train your employees and to set them quotas for the amount of DMCA takedowns they have to serve.

They're not intentionally making false statements.

To stop this, you need to create new explicit penalties for bad takedown requests.

Most curries you can get in the UK were invented there.

As a quick rule of thumb, if it looks like it has gravy or thick sauce someone from India wouldn't recognise it

This actually says a lot about Twitter engagement.

The only way to disagree on Twitter is to publicly call people out, while Lemmy and Reddit allow you to disagree without repeating and amplifying what they are saying.

Yeah I thought you'd ask this. Basically they'll never do this, just because their attitude is "fuck you I'm a bank".

Beyond this, there's a big difference between source code and having a working system.

For very long running systems their state depends very heavily on how they were maintained, little bits of informal design decisions that get components working together, and the order stuff was loaded in, and what other services were up and running when you booted up.

None of this magic is captured by source code, and it can make even setting up a replacement server, even as part of the same infrastructure really hard.

Of course banks are moving to more modern dev methods that encourages turnkey deployment, but the fact that they still rely on a bunch of COBOL code tells you there's a lot of very old system running in "do not touch" mode

It wouldn't matter much.

Most of what a bank does isn't on your phone, but server side.

In fact most bank apps could be replaced with an internal web browser that is pointing at their website, and a password manager, with no loss in functionality or change in security.

And if you'd like to review the client side code the bank is using you can just open dev mode in your browser, right now.

This is one of those things where you have to read your employment contract.

If your main job involves generating intellectual property (code, or research or something else) and you live in the US there's probably a clause saying you can't do this without permission. Otherwise, it's probably fine.

However, if you're in the US, they can still fire you whenever they feel like, so if you think this might seriously piss your company off and you need your job, you might want to ask permission first.

The UK here. I think classes started for me just before 9 but the school would generally open a little after 8 so parents could drop their kids off.

It's worth mentioning we have a semi functioning public transport system so for all schools in urban areas, teenagers are expected to use that to get to school.

Out in the country school buses are still a thing though.

I mean the most upvoted answer in your link says it often is that insurmountable.

Basically, it's a huge gamble and a substantial software engineering effort even when you know what you're doing and source code is available.

It's not surprising that biologists keep using old machines until they die.

This is really not a problem that's fixed by open source.

The microscope will be controlled by a card that only plugs into 30 year old desktops. If you open source the drivers for it this only gives you the source code to drivers for Windows 95. These drivers will be incredibly hacky and hard coded and probably die if you install a service pack.

Having access to the source code doesn't let you replace the entire stack because you're still physically tied to old hardware, that is worse than a raspberry pi and even just making sure that you can update Windows is a feat of engineering.