There’s been some buzz lately about a synthetic replacement for horseshoe crab blood. Once again outlasting a threat to their species while changing absolutely nothing.
Don’t worry about it. It’s pretty easy to get worked up about this stuff and I’d be lying if i said I didn’t do the same sometimes when I get started ranting about politics. I hate this shit so much.
My frustration isn’t because they’re covering him in the news. It’s confusion about why all these forces are aligning this hard against a guy who wants to give free bus rides to people in a single city they probably don’t even live in. I’m expressing exasperation at the degree to which this has been blown so wildly out of proportion.
Socialists winning seats is fantastic, every wretched politician and mainstream media outlet fixing their baleful glare at him for daring to reach for the barest crumb of power is just maddening.
I’m not sure how you’ve gotten the idea I’m disparaging him. I think it’s fucking great he won the primary, but it’s just not so significant that it warrants this severe of a reaction. It’s a nomination for a local office.
There is never a reason for a president to issue an ultimatum to a guy who hasn’t even won his race, nor for large swathes of the national democrat party to be flipping out about his supposed “antisemitism”. They’re acting like his influence is far greater than the office of mayor (which he, again, must stress, has not even won yet!) would grant him.
Yeah but it’s a socialist who hasn’t even won yet and they’re already acting like he’s both already in the office, and actively destroying New York somehow. They’re treating him like a larger threat now than he would be even if he actually wins.
It is in your self interest to be a part of prosperous society and treated with kindness and respect. Which means the collective interest overlaps with self interest quite a bit.
Yeah, that's a pretty decent analogy. It was a wild time, and my fondness is probably tainted by nostalgia, but I'd trade our current internet for it in a second.
I mean, I’m not saying 90s internet didn’t have any of that, but I wouldn’t have described it as “overrun”. Seemed to me, as a child, like most of it was just companies getting an online presence for their existing business to try and be part of wave.
Fast internet is nice, but what if it wasn’t a corporatized nightmare overrun with money-chasing investor-backed start-ups and giant monocorps trying to monetize and exploit every single inch of it?
Depends on what it is. If it’s meant to be mainly used in the shell I will usually use whatever language the shell uses. Anything that’s run automatically usually gets done in bash for compatibility, and stuff more complicated than a few loops and some piping gets done in something easier to work with like python.
For getting better at terminal I would suggest looking into alternative shells. Bash is fine, but it’s not exactly user friendly by default. Something with more robust auto completion like zsh or saner defaults like fish could make the learning experience easier. You can always come back to bash later.
For understanding how the OS works I would start by reading about the file system layout, then look into the init process.
I got to the point I am at through a series of projects of increasing complexity. First I ran a web server on my machine to copy files over the network. Then I used a spare PC to make a simple SMB server. Later I made it into a HTPC pirate box, for streaming stuff downloaded off Usenet to my Xbox. At some point I ran a minecraft server (before docker came along and trivialized this), and got into a bunch of sysadmin and programming stuff and that’s pretty much it.
The historical existence of snow depends on where you’re talking about. Climate is changing but not every manifestation of that will cause less snow. It’s possible some places start getting more as rising temperatures create more moisture in the air in places that are historically cold and dry. For example, parts of the mountains here in Nevada had unusually high snowfall, like Lee’s Canyon
While looking at (what appears to be) the historical data for the US overall doesn’t seem to show a significant deviation at a cursory glance.
Saying these things are obviously true while not bothering to check if they’re factually accurate is misrepresenting the problem and leaves openings for climate denialists to make themselves more credible. “You said snowfall was going down but it just saw record snowfall in the news!” Which is a bad argument but a convincing one to people who aren’t inclined to deal with a global apocalyptic problem.
If the cameras they use for this are cheap enough to not have an IR filter on them you could maybe blind them with some bright IR LEDs while remaining relatively inconspicuous as long as no one points their phone camera at you.
When you get very advanced you can also skip those other two steps.