Ook the Librarian @ ook_the_librarian @lemmy.world

My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he

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I was disappointed not to see one. That's not a 'no', but I did look for one.

I just thought in hindsight, my response to you plugging freecad is funny.

It's like you took me into your workshop with all these benches, and I just point at the openscad bench like a caveman and grunt "scad".

In the early 200x, I was listening to an Argentinean punk rock group called Dos Minutos.

None of the song names really stick out to me (of course), but here's a link to one.

Thought I'd ping you. I checked out freecad and posted some initial thoughts here. https://lemmy.world/post/11352164

And they write it all down and charge a reasonable price.

Ok, I'm joking, but only kinda. Those things are pretty neat to thumb through. I don't know if the money goes to some wack-job. It's almost certain due to the invisible hand.

inb4 woosh ...bah bah-dah ... bah dah pah dum

I got a good deal on a laptop and removed the hard drive with the preinstalled windows almost immediately. I say "almost" because I did actually set up a work space and installed software on in. It was a just-in-case system.

My laptop has been running linux-only for a while. But my wife needs my lappy for a thing. And it's a windows-only thing. So I remove my hard drive. Put in the pre-installed one I had sitting on a shelf. And it didn't boot. I got a windows error screen saying I had better start rounding up boot recovery material. So fuck.

Put my linux hard drive back in. BIOS can't find a bootable drive. Fuck.

I was able to fix the problem. I kinda hate to admit that it was kinda fun to fix. (If you haven't chrooted, you haven't lived.) But I'm just pissed off at that whole #!

Like they would open source Zed instead of locking it up in a museum and claiming their version is the best.

An electrical ground is reservoir into which you can dump charge with altering its potential difference. A car, in and of itself, is ground for the small shocks that occur from static. The earth is a bit overkill here.

Edit: I am about to use the word "safe" on the internet. Normal "don't trust everyone on the internet" warnings apply.

You are correct that connecting yourself to ground of the car is the same as connecting to the negative terminal. You should be safe doing so in a properly wired car.

That is to say, unless you expect to be at different potential differences. When might that happen? In a lightning strike for example. You do NOT want to electrically connected to your car's ground in a lightning strike. (You should be perfectly safe inside the car, not touching the car's ground.) Your car is not a reservoir for that kind of charge.

The earth can handle a lightning strike without a (measurable) change in potential difference. This is why fish are not cooked in lightning storms.

I hate when the magic smokes leaks out. Never works right again.

inb4 Brown v Board was wrongly decided.

I want to say one of Trump's candidates for a judgeship hinted at that.

She can't spend $83 M. She just needs to call J.G. Wentworth. Let them hound him for the debt.

It's like she wished for a money printing machine from a monkey's paw.

Humans are horrible, but a main-stream social media platform should not be a celebration of it. People need to demand change and then leave if ignored. I seem to hear people demanding change. The next step has more impetus.

Right. Just to clarify "seems like you need a judge, *and that's obviously not the case here as it would be to the civil context."

Fixed that for me. Thanks again.

I just hate the solution. It's unfeasible. And just words. No actionables. But keyboard warrior is better than tongue biter.

I was thinking that was the case for congressional stuff. I seem to remember a civil deposition that was released early due to mischaracterization in the media. Seems you would need to have a judge in the loop for that. I also could be misremembering the facts anyway.

Thanks.

I first saw him on QI on BBC. I was really excited about the pick because I thought he was quite interesting. The announcement was the first I heard any press about him here.

I second your opinion.

Because we elect people who promise things. Then incumbency bias takes over.

(This is not US centric. There were a lot of promises in the 1920s worldwide, too.)

Edit: The only solution I can see (and it's regrettably too slow to tip back the suck gracefully) is routine, vigorous primaries. Do you see how bad those adjectives suck together, "routine and vigorous"? Plus primaries are a snooze-fest.

I dream to see 60% engagement in primaries. And I mean for Congress. Was your congressperson challenged at the primaries? Yes? Did you weigh the arguments or just hope those primary voters know what they are doing?

No? Were they perfect? Or did they know the primaries would not be engaging enough to unseat them?

The establishment will say "no one comes out of a primary smelling pretty". But people that come out of a primary should have their plans defended. The promises made should be what the people of the party like best, not what they think will run best against people who can't agree with the party about who gets human rights. (See how I snuck in a both sides phrasing.)

Sorry for being a bit of keyboard warrior.

Question for a lawyer:

Were we going to see this eventually, or was it only released because Comer lied about it?

There was mention of Morris's lawyer snapping back at Comer last week. Is this the product of that?