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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 62 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn't sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to \mathrm); googling latex residue did not produce the search results I was hoping for...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And many folks have headless setups


raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It's kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I for one am glad this demographic got exactly what they voted for.

Emphasis mine.

The problem is that "they" did not all vote this way. Yeah, I too am glad that the Trumpers are getting their comeuppance


fuck them. But your rhetoric is a bit extreme and devoid of empathy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For some (most?) of us, we don't have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is obvious though


currently, you might test a drug on mice, then on primates, and finally on humans (as an example). It would be faster to skip the early bits and go straight to human testing.

...but that is very, very, very wrong. Science of course doesn't care about right and wrong, nor does it care if you "believe" in it, which is the beautiful thing about science


so a scientifically sound experiment is a scientifically sound experiment regardless of ethical considerations. (Which does not mean we should be doing it of course!)

Now, taking a step back, maybe you're right that, in the long run, throwing ethics out the window would actually slow things down, as it would (rightfully) cause backlash. But that's getting into a whole "sociology of science" discussion.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is all based, most likely, on Griffiths' textbook. Quoting here from this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1b97gt/magnetic_fields_do_no_work_but_magnetic_cranes/ :

The statement "magnetic fields do no work" is incorrect. Griffiths has mislead a generation of physics students on this. A correct version of the statement is that "magnetic fields do no work on objects with no magnetic moments" which is rather trivial. One could also correctly make the same statement about electric fields. However, electric monopoles are very common, so a situation in which there are no electric moments never occurs in normal circumstances.

tl;dr: use Jackson ;)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jobs created toxic work environments.

...and so did Linus Torvalds*


he's certainly not the embodiment of capitalism. But I absolutely have a huge amount of respect for Torvalds, even if I don't approve of his way of interpersonal/professional style.

(I used to run Arch btw [but I run Debian now].)

*He's supposedly taken steps in the right direction here and has made improvements.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Not sure if trolling or not, but googling around and it sounds like Sensory Processing Disorders can cause this level of passionate hatred towards bananas...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago

On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

That's not true at all. You generally can't use your distribution's package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you ./configure'd it properly make install will put it under your home.

Standard Linux distributions don't place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you'll need to sort that out.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But this is a weird thing to lie about


the only reason to implement toner DRM is to get people to buy your cartridges. But if your public statement is, "it's ok to buy off brand cartridges," then...well... that's kinda weird.

Not saying you're wrong, and they could be trying to have their cake and eat it too (court the anti-DRM crowd but also scare people into sticking with their toner). I'm just saying your snarky/sarcastic response seems unwarranted here.

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