Man, if I could customize that mine would be totally sick. It'd have all kinds of cool mods. People would come from all around to see my butthole.
Why are you stealing chemicals from Norfolk Southern? You gonna pay them for their loss?
You're welcome. :P
(The new theming system in 3 is awesome, I don't even need custom CSS anymore)
(The new theming system in 3 is awesome, I don't even need custom CSS anymore)
I've got a cron job which auto-updates the back-end and front-end weekly. Now I'm just trying to figure out why the translation isn't working, feel like I'm 99% of the way there.
FBXL Social is running soapbox, which by default shows a twitter like feed, but can show context by clicking on the "expand this post" button.
Friendica defaults to showing threads first which is a bit nicer, but overall the soapbox experience worked better for me.
Friendica defaults to showing threads first which is a bit nicer, but overall the soapbox experience worked better for me.
It seems to me that a lot of people assume we'll all be ok because we're westerners.
That age is basically over. The rest of the world is catching up to the west in every positive metric. We need to be focusing on the fundamentals. In schools, the 3 Rs and job/career skills. In the home, useful morality and principles that will help lead to life success.
Depending on the area, between 50-100% of kids can't pass a standardized math test, yet people are busy trying to turn schools into a place to indoctrinate kids into one ideology or another. We can't afford to waste resources on this crap. We need kids who are bright enough to compete on a global stage.
That age is basically over. The rest of the world is catching up to the west in every positive metric. We need to be focusing on the fundamentals. In schools, the 3 Rs and job/career skills. In the home, useful morality and principles that will help lead to life success.
Depending on the area, between 50-100% of kids can't pass a standardized math test, yet people are busy trying to turn schools into a place to indoctrinate kids into one ideology or another. We can't afford to waste resources on this crap. We need kids who are bright enough to compete on a global stage.
tbh that cope is dangerous for this exact reason. "Oh, I'm generally nice and unpopular, I'll be so successful!" -- does nothing to be successful -- "Why am I still generally nice and unpopular and unsuccessful?!"
You could fool me the way people are falling over themselves to defend pharmaceutical companies and big tech companies.
It's my interpretation of a lot of things people suddenly trust. Big tech, big media, big pharma...
I may be a 15 year old at heart. Every time I see infosec.exchange I read it as info sex change and giggle.
True, and the g200 graphics on a lot of those motherboards are aggressively bad by any measure
We have an embarrassment of riches today when it comes to video cards. Even Intel or AMD integrated graphics are shockingly functional if you're not playing the very latest and greatest.
There's a concept in maintenance theory that you should be careful not to do too much maintenance to a thing because what can happen is a technician could take something that works and make it into something that doesn't work.
In such a way, you can have two devices: one that is diligently maintained and another that is completely ignored, but the one that is ignored is more reliable.
This reliability centered maintenance ideology came about to improve the reliability of airplanes, and it worked. New airplanes ended up having significantly less maintenance, but were significantly more reliable.
I think the same concept can be applied to medicine. We see a lot of procedures done, and in a lot of cases the outcomes of doing something are worse than doing nothing. The problem is that leaving things alone to get a better outcome is unintuitive, and feels like we're just intentionally letting people get hurt.
In some ways it's like the trolley car problem. Maybe there's five people on the track if you do nothing and six of you pull the handle, but the six are invisible behind a curtain and you need to be told that researchers discovered six behind the curtain. By the numbers more people will die if you pull the handle, but you can see the people who will die if you do nothing and you can't immediately see the ones who will die if you do something.
In such a way, you can have two devices: one that is diligently maintained and another that is completely ignored, but the one that is ignored is more reliable.
This reliability centered maintenance ideology came about to improve the reliability of airplanes, and it worked. New airplanes ended up having significantly less maintenance, but were significantly more reliable.
I think the same concept can be applied to medicine. We see a lot of procedures done, and in a lot of cases the outcomes of doing something are worse than doing nothing. The problem is that leaving things alone to get a better outcome is unintuitive, and feels like we're just intentionally letting people get hurt.
In some ways it's like the trolley car problem. Maybe there's five people on the track if you do nothing and six of you pull the handle, but the six are invisible behind a curtain and you need to be told that researchers discovered six behind the curtain. By the numbers more people will die if you pull the handle, but you can see the people who will die if you do nothing and you can't immediately see the ones who will die if you do something.
The big lesson over the past few years for me has been: "Own your own stuff"
If you have software, it should be your software without a remote kill switch or remote licensing that can end. If you have hardware, it should be operable without relying on someone else's hardware.
Because otherwise you're hoping for the benevolence of the company you bought it from to keep using the thing you own.
If you have software, it should be your software without a remote kill switch or remote licensing that can end. If you have hardware, it should be operable without relying on someone else's hardware.
Because otherwise you're hoping for the benevolence of the company you bought it from to keep using the thing you own.