qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago

You're just gatekeeping.

ThinkPad with a generator? Nothing wrong with that


maybe add LoRa, get a ham license and add some packet radio or digital modes and you have a neat disaster setup.

MacBook that you don't want to scuff? Well, I'm not that precious with my gear, but you do you. Many Mac laptops last a very long time, and the performance of modern Apple silicon is really, really impressive


and you have UNIX out of the box. Plenty for a tech enthusiast to like.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eating this spicy Klingon-Thai curry is an honorable battle; but the battle the next morning...that is a battle without honor.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

A lot of non-graphical utilities


basically the *NIX coreutils, plus stuff like rsync, ssh, compression/archival tools (tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.), grep, and the like. Git also comes to mind.

I think part of this is that the UNIX philosophy is "developer friendly"


tell a good dev they need to make a compression utility that follows this protocol, and they will make a compression utility that follows the protocol.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Your local city college may or may not offer free classes (in San Francisco, you just need to show proof that you live in the city with some legal status).

Some public transportation is free for certain groups (youth and folks experiencing homelessness can get free passes here).

"First X of the month" at the zoo/a museum/whatever


lots of venues have free events.

A jog, bike ride, hike


lots of great stuff outside!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You ever been to a city that's not San Francisco?

Of course; my point was never that it's a ubiquitous practice in the US, only that it definitely exists in places.

One that's newer?

Sure (Seattle is newer, for instance), but that's obviously not what you mean.

I think we're talking about different types of cities


new, rural, small incorporated cities are certainly very different than "capital C" Cities. I'm guessing this is the real distinction that we're talking about..

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Plenty in the US, too


I'm in San Francisco and there are tons of mixed use buildings, in both "sharp" and well-off neighborhoods alike.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not all bad


remote work policy is now a major topic. You'd be laughed out of any number of job interviews for asking about remote work policy, whereas now it's a completely fair question.

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

Having a CC doesn't mean you have debt...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The bank doesn't own the house, they just have a significant lien against it. Maybe a potato potato situation (how are you supposed to spell that phrase 🤔), but it is an important distinction.

Landlords can get pissed if you paint the walls/change appliances/remodel/etc., but so long as the property is properly insured (and you make your loan payments on time) the bank probably isn't going to bother you.

Landlords can


and do


place restrictions on quiet hours, guest policy, who is allowed to live there, etc. Owning is definitely different.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

With coherent detection I think the separation between eyes would allow for this.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Except that this problem doesn't specify distance between horseman, so I think it's a bit bogus


no need to resolve an individual person to be able to tell that they're there. And for hair color, if you make assumptions about the clothes being worn, you could perhaps infer color of hair, even if the hair isn't resolvable (a person being a "single pixel" would have a different hue depending).

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