syklemil

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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

But what did you learn? What are we supposed to learn? Did you get any context, like how he actually went to anger management therapy later?

Or is this just guffawing and gawping at an old angry email from a tech celebrity?

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

This mail is 13 years old, and doesn't seem relevant for anything? This post seems like a lazy attempt at shit-stirring.

Part of the answer here is also integrated design. To be able to be repaired a thing has to be designed for that, and to have identifiable parts that can be adjusted or replaced in isolation, and non-destructive disassembly.

If you have to destroy one part to adjust another, it's not really repairable. If several functions/components are all one thing then you can't really replace just the one.

To use a bike as an example, you can exchange wires, brake pads, seats and most other things in isolation, especially the things that are expected to wear out and need replacement. But you're not going to replace part of your bar tape or frame, because they're essentially one whole thing.

(Ok, you could probably weld a steel frame if you really wanted to, but I think the intent is readable.)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If usps doesn’t want to deliver to rural addresses, fine, but set up some alternatives. Create a secured remote mailbox, or offer P.O. Boxes for free.

The fundamental problem here is that the US population doesn't really want to pay for stuff where they don't directly benefit. In "me first" politics, rural populations are screwed.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Step one is making sure your union has the collective bargaining power it needs to get a good wage and benefits for everyone. Some striking may be involved, so the strike coffers should be robust as well.

Beyond that, wealth taxes and exit taxes on those who want to flee to tax havens with no wealth taxes. Public ownership of some stuff like utilities.

So more or less joining a union if you're not already a member and voting no further right than social democrat.

Mitigations like spending less might also be a good idea or even required, like wearing dust masks in polluted areas, but just like how the dust mask doesn't make the pollution go away, spending less individually doesn't really tackle the fundamental problem of distribution and wealth extraction.

We need actual politics for that.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A wave with an infinitely long period isn't really recognizable as a wave. It'd just be interpreted as a flat line anywhere in the universe. And as mentioned, the energy of light is tied to its frequency: E = hf. (Or with hbar • omega, but that's just multiplied with and divided by 2π, so, the same thing.)

So an infinitely long wave would have f=0 and thus no energy.

The highest frequency you'd get would be 1/planck-time, so the energy would be the Planck constant divided by Planck time, which would be roughly 12.3 GJ. That's a lot of energy for just one photon, but if it's just the one, likely not world-ending.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Similar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass.

I've heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won't eat.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is the GSM2 network still functioning? I think here it was shut down so the frequencies could be reused for 5G

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's how it starts. Just let it develop for a century or something and you'll probably be decent at it

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, I think the fact that the next LTS will be 26.04 is the driver here, I just get the impression that things might get a little rocky and that they might've been better off had the next LTS been further into the future.

But it'll be a real smoke test release, at least. Hopefully they have enough resources to fix the issues that are uncovered, and don't wind up reverting for the LTS, or with a crummy LTS.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I'm generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we'll come back to), so I don't have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I'd expect

  • documentation
  • date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can't have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
  • sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with "foreign" letters and diacritics.
  • Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can't think of off the top of my head

but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don't even think about as long as it looks normal.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.

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