droans

joined 3 years ago
[–] droans@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

That's the worst part about it - the fix is so simple. Google just completely abandoned it.

It was just a single kernel function call on a single line with slightly modified arguments. Just make a small update and it works perfectly fine.

I spent much more time researching the fix than I did applying it. But now I have to rebuild and reinstall it every single time I update my kernel.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you still alive? How's that blood clot doing?

[–] droans@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm from Indy - no one is buying the story. The councilor is a complete tool who's hated by his own constituents and will be voted out. He's been caught multiple times making up shit like this just for attention.

Just a thought - if someone was this passionate against new AI data centers, why would they get an anti-data center flyer, put it in a plastic bag, leave it under his doormat, and then shoot up his door? If they're going to this much trouble, they want to stop the data centers. But they'd be relying on the councilor looking under his doormat and that his opinions wouldn't be hardened by this. Why wouldn't they try to kill the councilor, too? Why wouldn't they at least leave behind an actual threat?

What's much more likely is he either did this for attention or it was a drive-by shooting and he either put the flyer there himself or it just happened to already be on his porch.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You know the one thing I never see mentioned?

These systems were trained on 4Chan, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter posts and comments. They weren't trained on military communication, guidelines, etc.

They know more about Call of Duty than they know about actual warfare. What the fuck do you think they're gonna recommend?

[–] droans@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I've got a toddler and I'm already planning on doing that once he's old enough to retain the memories.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be the first time. They got caught in a huge price-fixing scandal just about a decade back and nothing changed.

And again, where are the customers going to go? There's only so much capacity and no one's building new plants.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That's exactly why they can alienate them. The PC manufacturers don't really have many vendors to choose from.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Like the other person said, that's not really YAML's fault - just whoever decided to use YAML there.

If users aren't intended to interact directly with the data, use JSON.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Or by configuring your parser.

I do agree there are plenty of annoyances that shouldn't exist in YAML but do because someone had an opinionated belief at one point, though. For example, it shouldn't try to guess that "yes", "no", "y", and "n" are truthy values. Let the programmer handle that. If they write true/false, then go ahead and consider those truthy. Times can also be a bit of a pain - iirc writing 12:00 is supposed to be interpreted as 0.5 - but at least that's something you can work around.

But there's plenty in that article that are only problems because the writer made them problems. Every language lets you make mistakes, markup languages aren't any different. It's not a bad thing that you can write strings without quotes. It's not forcing you to do so. Anchors also make it simple to reuse YAML and they're completely optional. The issue with numbers (1.2 stays as 1.2 while 1.2.3 becomes "1.2.3" is very nitpicky. It's completely reasonable for it to try to treat numbers as numbers where it can. If type conversion is that big of an issue for you, then I really doubt you know what you're doing.

On top of all this, YAML is just a superset of JSON. You can literally just paste JSON into your YAML file and it'll process it just fine.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but if you want something that's easy to read and write, even for people who aren't techy, YAML is probably the best option.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It doesn't have to be fire stations. But they are commonly used for a few good reasons.

They're relatively ubiquitous. It shouldn't be hard for someone to locate a fire station. They're almost always staffed 24/7. They're trained on basic first aid. Quite often, they'll even have medics on staff.

Very importantly, though, they don't have a lot of people coming in and out of them. One of the big benefits of this program is that there are zero questions asked and it's as anonymous as you wish. The people who use these are often afraid they'll be judged as a failure. The lockboxes have a built-in time delay so you can leave before the station is alerted.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Toddlers are perfect for getting in all the small fiery caverns which the grown firemen can't fit into.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like you're complaining more about politicians and pundits than actual economists.

It's like saying you don't trust geologists because they assume that the world is 4,000 years old. They don't - just some idiots in charge do.

view more: next ›