10 year old bug?

What are they talking about, that bug report is from 2014‽

... Fuck

I've ended up using calculus and trig for programming multiple times.

You may be able to draw a circle without math, but teaching a computer to draw a circle requires an understanding of math.

All of machine learning is rooted in linear algebra, rust is a very practical programming language that gains most of its power through category theory.

You don't need to know high level math to be a successful developer, but it can really help in many areas. I can't really think of how to categorize which areas high level math is more or less likely to show up in, which I guess itself kind of supports my point.

Just understanding what a derivative is and what an integral is can help you determine what problems are solvable and what aren't, and let you think ahead about what information you might want to hold onto in your data structures. ( Think about what the +C in this integral represents in the real world, and what data you need to pin that down concretely ).

Lemmy:

It's all about class solidarity!

Also Lemmy: Unless the minimum wage exploited employee is a cashier, in which case fuck'em.

There are far more Christian Zionists in the U.S. than exist Jews (of any kind) in the world.

I tried to solve these cross-distro compatibility problems in a generic way with this "standard", more years ago than I'd like to think about:

https://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Loopback.cfg

If someone wants to come up with a bootloader agnostic solution rather than one tied to grub, like an extension to Bootloader spec , https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ , I'd be happy to evangelize it and add support to grub for using it.

I'm not aware of any other bootloader that supports reading a config file that exists within an iso though, and secure boot support may add additional complications.

Bottom line:

I feel like we could relatively easily get to a point where every Live iso that actually supports loop booting can just be added, as a file, to your USB drive (from Windows, or your android phone even) and be detected at boot in a nice little menu, no editing of config files needed.

I don't have the time or spoons to get the Linux community there alone, but if people are interested in helping I'm more than happy to pick this up again.

(Note: Please don't blindly suggest "Just chain load the iso!" Things aren't that easy, unfortunately).

But this multi-level-marketing "opportunity" "blockchain innovation" is different!

Like me, that user wants to use ISO-8601 format for dates.

I didn't see that option in the screenshot. Anyone know if that's possible in this Beta?

https://m.xkcd.com/1179/

My point is that focusing on length is missing the point.

That's just the ad-hoc justification for their racist actions.

Most schools have absurd policies in writing that are never actually enforced, until someone decides it has suddenly become a-rule-so-important-we'll-go-to-court-over-it .

Most of the time, when admin gets suddenly very focused on a rule like this, you'll find there's a marginalized student that they want to apply it to. But don't bring race into this!

Just because you didn't / don't experience it doesn't mean it's uncommon.

This isn't actually about the length of his hair.

It's that Black natural / protective hair styles are seen by racists as being "disrespectful" and they even said why they have the policy.

Their list included many things, but only one of those was actually relevent here "respect for authority".

Racist people and racist systems will always punish Blackness. This is just one specific example of a larger pattern.

Development of the Wayland specification and multiple Wayland compositors is funded by the X.org foundation, and done largely by current and former Xorg developers / maintainers.

So it still works!

To be fair, NFT bros are the last people I would expect to hire professionals who are qualified to install UV sterilizing lights safely (proper ventilation to avoid excess Ozone, using only far-UVC for anything that could shine directly at a human, etc).

USB block devices containing mountable filesystems (on Desktop systems) can generally have those filesystems mounted and files written to them by regular users; But the block device itself stays only root writeable.

So, you need root privileges either way.

(Going from memory, but also decently confident)

This talk introduces sleepgraph, a tool that might help you debug your s2ram issues.

The talk may also convince you that, for your specific hardware, s2idle might be better than s2ram:

https://youtu.be/Pv5KvN0on0M

The main reason that I piled on Canonical was that they kept on spreading FUD about Wayland to try to promote / justify Mir rather than discussing in good faith.

The worst part about Mir was always Canonical.

Maybe don't try to make programming language jokes out of the concept of systematic rape?

Oof.

I feel this all to well.

I highly recommend reading https://www.strugglecare.com/book .

It's not self-help. It's not going to "fix" you.

But reading it was some of the best therapy I've ever received. If you're at all like me, maybe it will help you too. I am happier, as are the people I love and who love me, in large part because of K.C. Davis' philosophy. (The people I love and who love me are also very empathetic and understanding, which I know is definitely not true for most people unfortunately).

It's less than $20.

It's short.

Buy it. If you can't afford it, I might even be willing to buy it for you / venmo you $20 to get it.

Also available in your library / Libby.

Also available as an audiobook.

This is not advice, because if I had heard this posted as advice in my first year or two of tinitus I would have been pissed at the person giving it. Also, to a very large degree even your emotional reaction to this is not something you can control.

I was absolutely devastated and hated myself when I got tinitus. I and a co-worker teaching international folk dance were invited to a dance party / concert.

Amazing band, flown in from another continent, but I knew it would be too loud. I've always had minor hyperacusis and been very concerned about protecting my hearing. Before the party started I offered disposable earplugs to my co-worker, she declined. I had my own pair, in my pocket, the entire night. For some reason I never put them on.

At the end of the night I leave the venue and have terrible ringing in my ears. I freaked the fuck out, and kept everything as quiet as possible for the rest of the night and the next day to try to allow my ears to heal. Immense guilt and kicking myself. And fear.

The ringing never stopped. Saw an audiologist, who said it would definitely go away in a few weeks. It did not.

Tried supplements that did seem to reduce the volume of the ringing (Lipoflavinoid. No idea if it was all placebo or not).

Saw many more specialists and eventually met one (more than a year later) that told me (no idea if current studies back this up) that sometimes Tinitus is not physical damage at all, and that it's damage in the way that our brains process the input from our ears.

He recommended that I "try not to think about it". Said that sometimes even helps the ringing decrease. I told him that I was not the type of person who could ever not think about it. Nor did I want to be. Exactly the opposite, I had pledged to myself to never just not notice it. Saying that now doesn't really make sense to me, but at the time it absolutely did. It was an integral part of my self-image.

So, I religiously took Lipoflavinoid every day for more than a year. Normally with my ADHD I would struggle with that, but every time I forgot it I would notice the ringing getting louder and remember.

Then, maybe two or three years in I would sometimes forget to take Lipoflavinoid and... Not notice. I still hadn't heard a second of silence for 3 years, but I didn't notice the volume increase.

Eventually I was forgetting it more often than not and didn't want to keep the hassle and pay for it so I just stopped.

Work got difficult and I would have other things to think about than the ringing, and every one in a while there were days where at the end of the day I would realize I hadn't noticed the ringing at all. (If I had that realization in a quiet room, I'd immediately start noticing it again)

I gave up trying to fix it. I managed to convince myself that accepting it did not go against the fiber of my self concept, and my experience got better.

It's been more than 10 years since that concert and I can say that I haven't been bothered by the ringing in years, and I'm in a relatively quiet room typing this out now and don't hear it.

Again, not advice. I can't tell you to "just ignore it", and if you're like me you can't make yourself do that even if you wanted.

If you're early in your experience with tinitus, maybe it will be helpful to hear that at least for one person, it got better. And that by "it" I mostly mean my experience of life with tinitus, moreso than the ringing itself "going away".

If anyone has read this far, fun fact that kind of goes against the general gist of this narrative:

Once I had tinitus I realized that I could be a surprisingly accurate and precise human drcibal meter by comparing perceived volume of my ringing to perceived volume of the environment.

Could get within about 3db in the range from 40 to 75 without earplugs, at which point I would put in earplugs and know how much to adjust to get the same precision up to 100db.

I generally refuse on moral grounds to participate in activities above 95db without all participants strictly being required to use ear protection.

Anything above 80, I set up a small table with free earplugs, even if I'm not the organizer...

Also, I haven't really tried to measure db this way in a few years. Don't know if I still can or not.

You keep on making points that I know you must know don't apply to capitalism in practice.

There are so many jobs that don't NEED to exist, and yet they do. And chances are that you'll be coerced into doing at least one of those jobs in your life, especially if you're poor.

I guess I am also coming at things from the practical perspective of:

There will always be sex workers. What can we do in practice to keep them safe?

"Solutions" based on moralizing sex work as inherently "bad" end up being things like:

Making directly providing sexual services illegal, which is "intended" to stop "sex trafficking" and punish "pimps" but in reality forces transactions underground and in the dark, facilitating sex trafficking and leading to victims being harassed and prosecuted far more than perpetrators.

Sex workers of all kinds want sexual services decriminalized because they understand that criminalization makes everyone less safe:

Providers of sexual services need to advertise on shady websites and meet in non-public spaces, rather than openly using Craigslist on their own terms. Is Craigslist a good example of a safety-focused platform for sexual services? Absolutely not! But providers of sexual services were much safer before Craigslist cracked down than they are, by far. Police regularly harass street workers, very much including sexual assault.

Clients risk getting arrested, and are similarly forced into more dangerous situations.

All people, especially poor and marginalized women, are less safe. The large underground market for sex work makes it much easier for humans to be trafficked. Children sexually abused (child sexual abuse absolutely must be criminalized, and CSAM a long with it). Undocumented immigrants trafficked for sex work, as well as non-sex work.

I believe that the moralization and criminalization of sex work is absolutely fundamental to institutions like the Catholic Church being able to facilitate the sexual abuse / rape of so many children, for so long. And it's not like its over, especially in fundamentalist Christian churches but also in all major institutions and parts of our society.

So, I mostly care about the unique moralization and criminalization of sex work because I regularly listen to sex workers themselves talking about what needs to change to make them, and everyone else, safer.

And they regularly use analogies to other physical and emotional labor.

I'm not sure that I can defend that notion to you articulately, but I also very much don't care.

I support listening to and learning from marginalized people. I support the notion that marginalized people generally know what is best for them better than the random old white dudes that declare themselves to be experts without any real connection to, or respect for, those communities.

I know that policies decisions led by those that are most vulnerable almost always end up helping everyone else too.

Onlyfans models generally have the option to apply for a job at McDonald's instead.*

People working for the military generally do not.

* Ok, there's actually more nuance here because a large percentage of sex workers are disabled, and lack of accessibility and general ableism prevents them from working most other jobs. But while that's important to understand, it's a different discussion.

There's a reason why people who join the U.S. military are disproportionately poor.

You're describing a problem that is common across "industries" as if it were unique to sex work, when it's not.

It's unreasonable to posit that somehow Onlyfans models have less bodily autonomy or more coercion than members of the U.S. (and probably any other) military.

I encourage you to take some time to interrogate why you were so easily able to make this leap of logic, because to me it seems (consciously or not) motivated by moralized "disgust" of sex work rather than rational consideration.