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At this point you get into a philosophical discussion about what "right" really means

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Dude even stuff like bowling is too much now. An hour for two people can approach $70 at certain places. Not the bougie places either, those places are even more. I was browsing Google reviews for one place nearby like that and the owner responded saying that they should look for a Groupon.

There's nothing you can do to change what happened in the past but you can treat every new day as a new opportunity to try to self actualize, following whatever path to do that seems best to you.

My understanding is, with their iterative approach, the fact that the last one spiralled uncontrollably doesn't mean it was a total waste. They got a lot of good data from that and it will apply to future designs.

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It's probably a 15 year old Logitech webcam.

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My town actually has a square. It's nice to have.

As an American, whenever I try to do an English accent it ends up as Australian. That one is much easier. Even the affectations feel easier to do.

It was a freak occurrence. I hesitate to call it an accident because the pig is probably not incontinent.

I disagree that it was just "slave holding states". This is obvious to us, maybe, but when presenting the issue to non Americans I think it's important to be accurate on this. It was meant to give states (slave holding or not) with lower populations a larger voice. It still does that. Our system of government was never meant to be a pure democracy. The president wouldn't have to care about the priorities of smaller population states at all without the electoral college. They would just have to trust that he'll keep them in mind.

With all that said though, with how homogenous the county is culturally and with communication and travel barriers between states and between the state and federal governments pretty much non existent, at this point I think it has outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. Also the difference between the most and least populated states are, percentage wise way bigger than they were when the county was founded. Also, if my voice as a populated state dweller is smaller because of this system, it feels less like the president is "my" president because I had less of a say in picking him. At the end of the day the president is everyone's president equally so the election of the president should be a purely democratic process.

I've been taking notes religiously at work for years. So many notes. I have gone through dozens of note pads over the years. I recently switched from paper to Microsoft To Do. Works great for my purposes since I'm on my computer most of the time anyway. No more bulky note pads with disorganized chicken scratch.

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When you're coming off of a lifetime of anything being able to be smoothed over given enough money and power, it's hard to imagine an alternative.

I'm 95% certain I've said y'all'd've before unironically.

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Off-site backup is the proper answer to your question. All this really depends on your own tolerance or comfort with the possibility of losing data. The rule of thumb is that there should be at least three different copies of your data, each in a different physical location. For each of them, there should be redundancy of some kind implemented to guard against hardware failure. Redundancy is typically achieved by using mirrored drives or by using RAID of some kind. Also, if you'd like to know, using RAID in which you can only lose one disk in the array is not typically considered a sufficient level of protection because of the possibility of a cascading drive failure during replacement of a failed disk. It should be at least two.

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Because developers don't bother with documentation. They either assert it's self documenting or they assert whatever it is was always intended to be temporary so it's not worth documenting.

On a percentage basis I've gotten more downvotes and disagreements on Lemmy than I ever got on Reddit

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Oh cool thanks

What is this "rule" trend I'm seeing recently? What does it mean?

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Just an anecdote related to the first part of what you said: I'm in the US, PTO season seems to be December at my company. Both because some portion of people's PTO hours will expire at the end of the year, and obviously because of being adjacent to Christmas and new year.

That seems like a separate issue. I acknowledge your dread. It is important and should be addressed appropriately. I just don't think the actual threat that COVID currently poses warrants such dread. You should be more afraid of heart disease, or car accidents, or something like that. Those things kill more people than COVID. Especially in 2023. It's barely worse than the flu now. I was afraid of 2020 COVID. It's not the same disease as it was then though.

I'd say it depends on your circumstances and your tolerance to the possibility of data loss. The general answer to the question is that without using some kind of redundancy, either mirrored disks or RAID, the failure of a single disk would mean you lose your data. This is true for each copy of your data that you have.

It doesn't just disappear right, it becomes something else. It converts to a more stable isotope. I think.

I just watched the original Halloween. When she tries to get help next door they don't come to the door. Later she's able to successfully attack Mike Myers from inside a closet.

In Oracle you'd just set up a user that has limited access and give them those credentials. Creating a few views that pulls in the data they want is a bonus.

There are plenty of people for whom this is not a true statement.

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It's been years since I dual booted. If you want Windows to be default I'm struggling to think of what could be gained by dual booting over just running your Linux system in a vm in Windows.

The calculations necessary to rebuild a failed drive from parity data stored on the other drives means that for the duration of the time that the array is being rebuilt (aka "resilvered"), you'll have high activity on the other drives. So during that time there's an increased chance that a drive that was already on the brink of failure is pushed over the edge. If that happens, your data is gone. Like I said it depends on your risk tolerance. You may not feel like it's worth it in your situation. I personally only run a raidz1. I accept the risk that entails, just as people who use raidz2 accept the increased risk that entails over raidz3. There's no limit to the amount of redundancy you can add. The level of redundancy that's needed is a decision that only you/your organization can make.

You can still find the mind enriching parts if you look. It's a neutral communication medium at this point, the barriers to entry just don't really exist anymore. People use it how they will. Dumb people will use it in dumb ways. 50% of people are dumber than the average person. That's a lot of people.

How are their symptoms though? Not bad right? By saying COVID is over I mean the more dangerous forms of it from 2020 and 2021 are gone. It's barely worse than the flu at this point. I'm not saying people aren't still getting it. It's just mostly inconsequential.

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Lemmy sure does love name calling! It's such a mature and productive way to carry on a conversation!

I mean literally I paid 60k-ish all together for my two cars , why is it so hard to believe? I didn't read it cover to cover, like all the detailed specifications, and the index and all that kind of stuff, I didn't memorize the maintenance schedules for Canada and Mexico, but all the explanations of all the features? Of course I read all of that. It takes just 2-3 hours to go through it all, even sitting in the car and trying everything out as I go. It's a super small time investment into something I'm going to own for several years. I spend way more time on a weekly basis on leisure activities like playing games.

Everyone who doesn't own a gas powered car.

I've found that people who worry that they have bad handwriting typically have very good, legible handwriting. This is true with a lot of things actually. If you care about it, chances are you're above average already. It's only people who don't care and thus you don't hear from at all about it who are truly bad at something.

What an odd thing to be upset about. It's other people's stuff, leave it alone. It's not harming you either way. Besides, I see plenty of janky Nissan Altimas around with damage the owner/leasee obviously has no intention of repairing.

Yes I have read the entire thing. I paid enough for it I better know how to use it.

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As we both know, the 1918 Spanish flu was unusually virulent, and back then we had no vaccines. Comparing to that flu would not give us useful data. It would be misleading. As you know, I meant today's flu.

I've heard Starfield is supposed to be like 120GB!

Opinion: unless you or a loved on has some kind of immune system issue, COVID is pretty much over.

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