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Do you really want to know? There are some things that the human mind is not meant to contemplate.

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I was more suggesting that it might be a bit eldritch, but sometimes humor doesn't come across quite right/

The linked paper is focused on studying the 'perforation-type anchor' they use to hold the tissue to the mold as it grows, rather than keeping it alive afterwards. During growth the tissue and mold were submerged, or partially submerged, in a suitable medium to keep the cells healthy, and it was only when the resulting models were tested that they were removed (although one test did seem to involve letting it dry out to see if the anchors held). Growing the various layers of cells seems to be a solved problem, and I suspect that includes keeping them supplied with nutrients and such, so the authors aren't examining that. What's not solved is how to keep the tissue attached to a robot, which is what the authors were studying.

The internet in it's heyday, when it was a genuinely thrilling place to find information, and quite a lot of weirdness, and before it was swamped by corporate interests.

I remember starting out with gopher and a paper print out of 'The big dummies guide to the internet' which was a directory of almost every gopher and ftp site (pre web) along with a description of what you'd find there. Then the web came along and things got really good for a while. Once big corporations got involved it all went down hill.

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tips fedora

M'Debian.

(Had one too many problems with Fedora)

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You really shouldn't have something kike SSHD open to the world, that's just an unnecessary atrack surface. Instead, run a VPN on the server (or even one for a network if you have several servers on one subnet), connect to that then ssh to your server. The advantage is that a well setup VPN simply won't respond to an invalid connection, and to an attacker, looks just like the firewall dropping the packet. Wireguard is good for this, and easy to configure. OpenVPN is pretty solid too.

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NaevaTheRat? You're not really a rat are you? You're a Drop Bear. This is exactly the sort of thing a Drop Bear would post to entice more victims people to come to Australia.

Seriously though it's a country I'd love to visit one day.

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I suspect he'd didn't have as much to lose by throwing away his 40s as you would. He doesn't sound like the most rational of sorts, so probably didn't have the 'stability and the means" for a good life you mention.

This. Very few problems are truly impossible to solve, they arem in fact, just wildly impractical to solve. So don't try to tell the PM/client/coworker-with-a-'brilliant'-idea it can't be done, tell them what it'll take to work out what it'll take to do it. Either they go away, or you end up in charge of a project with an astronomical budget and no clearly defined deliverables.

My understanding was that the authorities at least realized they needed to contact them, but there was only about 2 minutes between the distress call and the impact, so I'm not sure they could have escaped even if they were notified.

I keep seeing reports that there were other vehicles on the bridge, but nothing about the occupants. I don't know if they mean other work vehicles though.

ETA: It looks like they might not gave had direct radio contact with the work crew, and one of the police officers was going to drice to them, but the bridge collapsed before they could: story

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I was going to roll my eyes at another "is this loss?" comment and move on, but then I looked at the strip again, and yes ot is. How did it get everywhere like this?

We could save so much bandwidth by replacing all loss graphics with the string "122L" and a short explanation of the specific circumstances.

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Have you considered supplementing your income by committing massive fraud?

You need to start by making small changes to your daily habits, and build up to massive fraud. If you try to do it all at once the habit wont stick.

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I imagine they're receiving reports from other parties, such as law enforcement, that there are inappropriate things happening, rather than monitoring the streams themselves.

That's the thing, 'cloud' is just another tool in your toolbox. It's the right tool for some workloads and the wrong one for others. The fact they've shifted the work to their own servers and kept the ops team suggests it was the wrong sort of workload to be in the cloud in the first place.

For a while there was an obsession with moving everything to the cloud, and that was always going to be an expensive mistake in a number of different ways. Hopefully, as the hype dies down more nuanced decisions will be made. There's a whole gamut of options between all in the cloud and all in the data centre, and when people jump straight from one end to the other I'm put in mind of Hamlet's quote "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Understand your workload, understand your business' future plans and their needs, and then make a plan, considering all the tools at your disposal.

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"Make it easy for them to give you what you want"

There's a lot of ways to interpret that, and most of them help. For instance, if you're asking your boss for a raise, if you just say "Hey boss, gimme a raise" you're making it hard for them. If you say "I think I deserve a raise, here are multiple, documented, examples of where I've helped increase revenue/fix a problem that could have cost us/improved customer retention/etc" then you're making it easier for them because they have a list of positives to justify it.

Generally if you're asking a question you need an answer to, or for something in particular, spend a little time thinking about the request from the other person's point of view. What do they need to be able, and inclined, to help you? When you know that, make sure you supply it.

I've found it to be a powerful way of approaching discussions, and it can make a lot of situations make more sense when you realize one party didn't do it and didn't get what they want.

Sometimes, of course, making it easy to give you what you want just means making any other outcome harder instead. >:)

I'm not sure if you'll see this, as federation seems to be playing up on lemm.ee, but first I wanted to congratulate you on your attitude to life, it's an inspiration.

As to your question; I think Obsidian is an excellent tool for you to do this in. As it uses a fairly standard type of markdown for formatting you have plenty of options.

I'd suggest a two pronged approach to make sure your writing is accessible. In the first place, for the more personal stuff, just print it out. Put the printout in an envelope, write instructions on it that it is only to be opened after you pass away and then mail, or give it someone you trust (a friend, family member, solicitor etc). You can update it by jyst giving then a new copy, or just extra pages to add. I'd suggest making a couple of copies to be sure they get to the people who you want to read them.

For the general stuff, as Obsidian uses markdown and so does the wiki function on github, you should be able to just commit the vault to your wiki repository and have it rendered reasonably. That way it'll reflect your changes with little effort. If you're worried you might do something to it, ask a friend, or acquaintance to fork the repository and regularly sync it. That way you can't remove all the copies.

Let me know if you need more detail.

Tmux is a very helpful terminal multiplexer, meaning it can split your terminal into multiple panes. So, create two side by side panes, then one way of doing it is:

  • on the left, run your cmd | tee >(grep 'denied' > error.log)
  • on the right, run tail -f error.log

The tee process takes it's standard in, and writes itbto both standard out, so you see all the lines, and the path it's been given. The >(...) operator runs the grep in a subprocess, and returns the path to it's standard input pipe, so grep receives every line, and writes the denied lines to a log file which you display with tail in the other pane.

Rather than using a file for error.log you could also use a named pipe in much the same way.

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If you actually want to buy a significant quantity of a product like that from overseas (which I'm assuming because you mention a ship load) you'll need to find and contact an appropriate supplier and agree terms, which will probably involve them supplying the goods 'free on board' meaning they'll deliver to a port or ship and it's your responsibility from there. Then you need to contact a shipping company to arrange the actual transport. You'll also need to liaise with the customs departments of both the source and destination countries to get the paperwork in order. If you can find an importer in your target country, you might be able to agree terms with them and have them handle all of that. Then you've judt got to get it from the port to where you need it.

I think even he realized his tocicity was a problem a few years ago, so he took time out to work on that and seems much more balanced now.

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Wound man had a pretty rough day.

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Hmm, now where's that 'oh no...anyway' meme gone?

While I agree with most people here that finding a keyboard and screen would be the easiest option, you do have a couple of other options:

  • Use a preseed file A preseed lets the installer run completely automatically, without user intervention. Get it to install a basic system with SSH and take it from there. You'll want to test the install in a VM, where you can see what's going on before letting it run on the real server. More information here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed

  • Boot from a live image with SSH Take a look at https://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD in particular 'Debian Live'. It looks like ssh is included, but you'd want to check the service comes up on boot. You can then SSH to the machine and install to the harddrive that way. Again, test on a VM until you know you have the image working, and know how to run the install, then write it to a USB key and boot the tsrget server from that.

This all assumes the target server has USB or CD at the top of its boot order. If it doesn't you'll have to change that first, either with a keyboard and screen, or via a remote management interface sych as IPMI.

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Keeping the energy thermal avoids a conversion step, and hence one area of inefficiency, especially as we use a lot of our energy for heating. There's been some interesting progress on heat batteries which would pair well with a solar concentrator.

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This is one of the things I really like about Lemmy; people having thoughtful discussions and changing their point of view with the evidence. So, kudos to you!

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The important part is to include something alongs the lines of "Please let me know if this is not correct by xx/yy/zzzz, otherwise we will proceed on the assumption it is.' That way their ignoring your message becomes agreement and it is much harder for them to gi back on it.

Use their inaction to get the result you need.

Bah, a magnetised needle and a steady hand is the one true way to edit code on your prod system.

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They crack down on plagerism because they're trying to teach and assess you, not whoever you copied from. If they wanted copied answers, they could just photocopy the answers for you and save everyone a lot of effort.

The real world may be different, but the idea is to get the knowledge and, more importantly, the way of thinking about your particular subject, into your head. Once you know that, you know what to copy.

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am I still vunerable to not being able to tell reality from talking points?

You're absolutely still vulnerable, and the fact you sometimes notice you're in an echo chamber means that when you don't spot it you're more likely to think you're not in one, even if you are. It's an interesting dilemma; if you're not aware then you risk falling into any echo chamber, but the more aware you are of a trap like this normally, the more you risk being sucked in due tp misplaced confidence when you miss the signs.

Stay alert, keep questioning why you agree with others and welcome to Lemmy!

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Thanks a lot, I just sprained my brain trying to make sense of that.

If people stopped renting games developers would start selling them again. Until then, the incentive is for them to keep pulling this nonsense.

There's a difference between a game having online elements, such as a MMO, and games that require a connection just so they can keep charging you. Even in the first case though, you should own the client, and ideally it either has a single player mode, or the developer releases the code for a basic server when they shut it down.

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Maybe a good pair of headphones and the careful application of some spray paint? Mask and holes or areas you don't want to colour, then apply several light coats until suitable pinkness is achieved. I suspect you'll get bonus points for personalisation.

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I've been using the 'Top 6 hour' sort, and it pretty much avoids most of those posts as they have no activity. Blocking the bot accounts that still show up is then pretty easy.

So you're willingly admitting that you deliberately increased the chance of Trump winning by not voting tactically? I know it's a rotten system, but you have to work with what's in front of you. The approach you espouse makes it look like you're actually a right wing saboteur rather than anything left wing.

Not the previous commenter, but using indentation as syntax rather than an aid to understanding tge program structure is just painful when you come from any more conventionally structured language. The meme above may be an exaggeration, but it's not much of one. An IDE can probably help, but needing one just to be able to more easily read the code is excessive.

That said, it's a popular language and there are plenty of useful libraries, so sometimes the trade off is worth it.

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That may be your perfect search engine, I jyst want proper boolean operators on a sesrch engine that doesn't think it knows what I want better than I do, and doesn't pack the results out with pages that don't match all the criteria just for the sake of it. The sort of thing you described would be anathema to me, as I suspect my preferred option may be to you.

It sounds like you're actually more concerned about the data in the files not being able to 'pop up' elsewhere, rather than the files themselves. In thus case I'd suggest simply encrypting them, probably using gpg. That'll let you set a password that is distinct from the one used for sudo or similar.

You should also be using full disk encryption to reduce the risk of a temporary file being exposed, or even overwritten sectors/pages being available to an attacker.

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Probably not, but used with sufficient invective I think you could make people feel like they've been insulted with out actually doing so. 'You blasted multicellular mammal! What have you done this time? What are you, bipedal or something? Eukaryote!'

If you enjoy spicy foods (not necessarily hot, but richly flavoured) have a look at Indian cuisine. If you dodge the dishes that are more westernised most things are made with vegetables, and delicious. There's a lot of variation between regions, so there should be plenty to keep you interested.

Ah, memories. That was me on a Spectrum. It's all fun and games until you forget to save (to tape) and your code hangs the machine, losing everything.

If you own a house you could probably leverage this to some extent yourself.

That's a mortgage. Most people use it to pay for the house itself, but you are free to use the money in other ways if you already own the house. It's probably the only leveraged asset many people own, and the interest rate isn't particularly low at the moment, but it's the same thing as getting, say, a line of credit against your yacht.

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Hackers aren't the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with.