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  • Its going to be hard to get an objective answer with sampling bias this extreme. I think Lemmy is better than almost any other social media I’ve used just by virtue of being small and niche. It tends to attract people who are intelligent, but also groups in people who are abrasive or confrontational since they got banned from other platforms, especially Reddit.


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    And then there’s me where I seem to have a workspace for every topic or task, and I use GNOME scratchpads to quickly have single view apps pop in and out independant of my workspace (and so scratchpad brings the app to me, instead of dragging me to the app).

    Ive used tiling windows before and it doesn’t really help me much. I can configure workspaces with full or split windows myself and not touch them instead swapping around using workspace shortcuts.











  • “So I was talking to people, very smart people, the best people, about the bond market, which is, you know, it’s a market, it’s right there, it’s a beautiful market, some people don’t know this, but it’s real, there’s a floor, there’s traders, there’s guys yelling — I’ve seen it, I’ve been there, tremendous energy, tremendous — and I said, we gotta go in. We gotta send in the — I’m thinking Marines, maybe the Guard, somebody strong — and just, you know, straighten it out. Because right now the yields are doing something, nobody can explain it, they use words like ‘basis points,’ sounds made up, sounds like a Scrabble word, and I said, if it’s a market, and it’s un-American what’s happening in there, we go in, we clean it up, like a — like a raid, a beautiful raid. And this actually — this reminds me, because there’s a very famous story, everyone knows it, tremendous story, where Jesus — good guy, great guy, maybe the greatest — he goes into the temple, and there’s a market in there, and he doesn’t like the prices, the vig, whatever they were charging, and he goes in, flips everything, tables everywhere, coins flying, unbelievable scene, and the lesson — and this is the lesson, folks, this is Biblical, you can look it up, I’m not sure you can, but you should — the lesson is: when the market’s ripping you off, you send in strength. That’s it. That’s the whole Bible right there in one story. He didn’t file a complaint. He didn’t write a letter to the — to the temple commissioner, there was no commissioner, there was just him, and a table, and boom. So that’s what we’re gonna do to the bond market. We’re gonna flip some tables. Metaphorically — or not metaphorically, we’ll see, I’ve got people looking into whether there’s an actual floor we can send people onto, physically, and if there is, boy, are those yield curve people in for a surprise.”

    Trump, probably…



  • It depends on the generation. Older tapes and drives are a lot cheaper, especially second hand but hold less (tapes aren’t meant to be overwritten a lot though so typically you want unused. New old stock or new).

    Most homelabbers use LTO-6 or 5, and you can also upgrade your drive and still read your old tapes (except for the newest generations iirc)

    I haven’t looked at a price comparison for years, so I’m going off pre AI numbers. It was cheaper then spinning rust back then for $/TB (for my setup it was cheaper than rust by a massive margin since I have a quarter petabyte of storage. Amortizing a tape drive over that many tapes gets cheap quickly), but maybe its different now?





  • They’re protecting incumbent rent seekers.

    Rheinmetal did pretty much this. They made an overcomplicated shipping container truck launcher for $140k per pop drones. A gigantic multi million dollar target for a $300 DJI with a mortar charge zip tied to it… the entire western arms industry is a gigantic rent seeking grift to get costs as high as possible since that’s the only way of raise profits… Ukraine is the only nation aligned with the west that is focuses on building cheap effective weapons at scale.


  • We don’t know the causality so its better to play it safe. What if pre-dementia or pre-alzheimers donors have the protien and it really is transmissible? For something as lethal as either of those diseases you would err on the side of caution and refuse donated blood with those proteins.

    A massive contributor to why HIV/AIDS is so bad in Africa is becausecof pooled blood products that were contaminated with HIV from donors even after we knew it was transmissible by blood… those companies packaged and sold or donated those products to Africa seeding the current crisis.