[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 63 points 1 month ago

An SEO specialist walks into a bar, saloon, watering hole, place to get drinks, neighborhood bar, dive bar, best mixed drinks, beer on tap...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 57 points 3 months ago

California has optional mail ballots for everyone. Can't imagine voting without it


I can fill out my ballot at my leisure, researching measures when I have time. No need to remember anything or make a cheat sheet for election day. And no standing in line.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 52 points 4 months ago

What's really neat linguistically is that "helicopter" isn't a compound of "heli" and "copter," but rather "helico" (as in helix, helical) and "pter" (as in pterodactyl).

"Rebracketing" is when this happens (i.e., the split in the word is moved in colloquial language).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 79 points 5 months ago

How about we give parents one extra vote per child.

But they have to wait 18 years to use it.

And they can't directly use it, it's more that they get a delegate of sorts.

And this delegate


let's call them, I dunno, ~~their kid~~ "offspring voter"


isn't legally bound to vote one way or another.

And how about this person votes in a manner that in some way reflects how they were raised, and their worldy experiences


possibly voting exactly as the parents would, or possibly exactly opposite, or anywhere in between.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 75 points 5 months ago

Having survived grad school and then some without a dishwasher, I will never look at loading/unloading the dishwasher as a chore; it is a privilege to do so (and is always followed by a heartfelt Thank You to that most selfless of appliances).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 56 points 6 months ago

My company did it the right way


they gave us the day off.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 70 points 6 months ago

Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It's almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed


there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!

I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it's independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still...the computer "knows" what it's displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 67 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
  1. Print out 8KB on high quality paper.
  2. Store in good environment...
[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 51 points 7 months ago

I did this in undergrad. Campus security stopped me, I argued, he called his supervisor on the radio. We chatted for a while, and turns out he was from Venezuela, had studied what I was studying, and was an overall pleasant character. Supervisor response was basically, "wow college kids think they're really clever don't they?", and I was asked, politely, to cease.

I felt like a bit of a dick after that.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 86 points 7 months ago

Have a kid...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 65 points 9 months ago

Lights on boat began to flicker before incident, suggesting some sort of power failure. Steering a full size car without power steering is possible, but spoiler, steering a huge container ship ain't.

Someone commented that exhaust increased noticably as well, possibly because pilot put ship in reverse after losing power (with prop walk veering the ship into the support).

All just people talking on the Internet at present, but "asleep at the wheel" isn't necessarily what happened.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 62 points 9 months ago

Not to be that guy...but there are no WireGuard servers or clients, only peers. Some setups "look" like clients, some "look" like servers, but it's peers all the way down.

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