tko

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I don't remember him predicting that she would win. His model (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/) gave her a 71% chance of winning. 71% is a long way from 100%, and the result of that election definitely fit within the model.

That said, you are absolutely correct... we need to keep shining a light on the realities of each of these candidates, because in the light of day Biden is a much better choice than Trump.

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I agree... I was simply clarifying that Nate Silver did NOT predict that Hillary would win (nor is he predicting that Trump will win this election), which is a common misunderstanding about probability. For these types of models to be meaningful to the public, there needs to be literacy on what is meant by the percentages given. Really, I'm just reinforcing rodneylives' point from another angle!

It was not a prediction of victory... it was a 71% chance of winning the electoral college. Said another way, they gave her a 29% chance of losing.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

Selling is an art... and this is why I'm not in sales. I have absolutely no interest in trying to convince somebody to buy something.

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Unraid

This is a question for Randall Munroe. I wish I knew how to summon him.

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Clarification question: Why would you expect somebody to DM you?

I'm not familiar with lateral thinking, but this reads like a joke... Is it intended to be funny, or are you actually expected to come up with all of those answers?

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I would say he overpaid by exactly the right amount.

The question is not "is it better than a normal vacation?" where of course the answer is "no." Rather, the question is "is it better than your regular work routine?" The answer to that depends on a lot of factors: your specific job, personality, personal finances, family obligations, etc. I think there are lots of circumstances where it could make sense for some people.

The engagement is what's valuable. You can't have engagement without content, that's true. However, content without engagement is worthless.

With that in mind, if you "steal" a post from reddit and it generates engagement over here, nobody will have any problems with that. However, if you "steal" a bunch of posts from reddit and spam them over here, they probably won't get engagement and therefore only serve to clutter the feed with empty content.

It's important to remember that Lemmy and the Fediverse is a community, just like reddit is a community. Each of those communities behaves differently and has different expectations. Once you learn the community and the expectations, it becomes a lot easier to understand what you should and should not post.

I wrote my personal website in PHP, and I'm pretty happy with the security I've got going on. I'm not an expert, but I paid close attention to best practices to avoid pitfalls like SQL injection. My instinct is that it's certainly easy to code insecure applications in PHP (and probably many other languages as well), but the language does provide means by which to code safely.

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Given the choice between RAID but no backup, and backup but no RAID, it's backup but no RAID by a mile.

erm... 12am is midnight

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Can you clarify exactly what you mean by a "dumb car"? Do you just mean that it doesn't have a screen in the cockpit? Or something else?

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I recommend checking out https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ to help choose a mattress. It's independent and free of advertisements.

Is there a reason why your bot doesn't define CSAM?

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These comments... goodness. May we never, ever lose our humanity. Ailment is not to be celebrated. That man has a family who loves him and are worried about him. I hope he gets the treatment he needs and is returned to good health.

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I've been a best man twice and both times I quoted from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran, specifically the "On Love" section. "On Marriage" and "On Children" also have appropriate words for a wedding.

YES, this drives me nuts. It's not like it's hard to put autofocus="autofocus" into your input element.

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CPU/RAM/Disk/Network etc. get written to Influxdb via Telegraf, and visualized with Grafana.

Logging and errors go to Graylog stack (Mongodb, Opensearch, Graylog).

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I think you've hit the nail on the head... many of us grew up using Windows and/or Mac. Incremental changes to the OS aren't a hindrance because of the baseline familiarity with the OS. Without OS familiarity, you're going to feel like a fish out of water.

I'm getting better with linux, but I still daily drive on a Windows machine and I'm not sure if that will ever change.

I'm not sure why the origin of the question should matter... if it's getting engagement here, then it's all good!

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Don't you think people just mean that it feels like a Mario game at the same time as feeling fresh? That's certainly how I felt. It's "innovative" in the sense that there are things that you didn't expect, and that's fun and exciting. I could be wrong, but I don't think anybody means "innovative" in that it's ground-breaking in the larger gaming world or even in the platforming genre.

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No, it's more that there's a problem with the wires or the solder points. Since you said you messed around with the wires quite a bit without any impact, it could be that the short is in the solder points either in the buds or in the plug.

Wait, is Russia in Europe?

Edit: apparently it's in both. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents

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Is there not a native Nextcloud app for your tablet?

Any SATA or SAS drive should work just fine. If you need some hot swap caddies, you can buy them fairly cheap on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dell+t320+drive+caddy

I've personally used the WorkDone brand caddies, and they are perfectly usable!

edit: I'm fairly certain it doesn't support four 3.5 AND eight 2.5... the form factor supported depends on the backplane that's installed. Also know that the backplane physically supports double that number of hard drives... you'd just need an HBA card with two internal ports. See this list for some options: (https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/official-recommended-sas2-hba-internal-external/4581)

It doesn't bother me much. I think the only slightly annoying part is waiting for them to retrieve your car when you want to leave.

If you ever go to India, take an extra suitcase that you can fill up with Stainless Steel cookware. The price is amazing, and the quality is so much better than what's available in America. We spent about $85 on what I estimate would have cost $400-$500 in America.

I like my Venstar Explorer Minis. They have both a local API and cloud, both of which can be disabled independently (so you can have local ON and cloud OFF).

Loans are different from lines of credit... loans don't have an "available credit" associated with them. The reason your score might go down when you pay off student loan is because you're reducing the number of open accounts you have, and also possibly reducing the diversity of accounts (lines of credit vs. installment loans).

Disclaimer: I'm not saying this is a good system, just explaining how it works.

That doesn't make any sense... the fact that it's only used in part of the world makes it even more useful for the bot to define it.

Do I understand correctly that you're asking us to give you a good reason to hack wireless signals because you yourself cannot think of a good reason?

If so, I can't think of a good reason either, unless of course you want to be a white hat for somebody.

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they bring some of their failed policies with them

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

I use a Graylog/Opensearch/Mongodb stack to log everything. I spent a good amount of time writing parsers for each source, but the benefit is that everything is normalized to make searching easier. I'm happy with it as a solution!

I'd like to propose a rule prohibiting blatant attempts to sell things (like linking to a product on Amazon).

Let us know what you think after you try it!

Science is cool.

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