azimir

joined 2 years ago
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

According to Fox News, President Obama is still president and so is Traitor Trump. Everyone is president, depending upon who is watching at the moment to stir up one kind of hatred or another.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I had a Pentium I 120 MHz Packard Hell machine. It came with Win95 OSR 1 and I loved that beast. I upgraded the disk (1.1 GB to 3.1GB!) and the RAM up to 40MB. The screen was a 13" fishbowl so I get a Sony Trinitron 15" screen eventually.

The combo modem/fax/sound ISA card wasn't worth keeping, but I got a PCI Sound blaster as well as a 3Com 3c905 fast 10/100 Ethernet card. I had one of the best machines in the dorm for a while. Warcraft II played so very good.

The Linux support in RedHat 5.2, then through 6.2, and sometimes Mandrake, OpenBSD, and some other distros was great. As long as you set the IRQs in the bios right it worked like a dream.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago

Added bonus: why put for my autonomous vehicle to park during the day? Just order it to circle the block until I'm done with work. It's not making traffic for me then and I save some money on parking.

The likely outcomes of truly autonomous vehicles read like a sociopath's guide to fucking up everything and not caring a whit about the side effects.

EV cars are one piece of the puzzle to reducing our carbon footprint. They're not a solution to traffic. In fact, they're possibly the worst thing that could ever happen to traffic.

We should require that before any fully autonomous vehicles can be used in a city, the car makers have to fund a world class public transit system of trains, bike roads, and reduced car infrastructure (fewer lanes, nearly no open air parking, etc). Then we can talk about them inflicting their sociopathic toys upon our communities.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

We'll see what the courts say, but his "I'm a weird asshole" Tshirt isn't helping his first impressions.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

They invited them in and became the Nazi bar of the anecdote. Don't let them in, even if they're playing nice at the start. You can't use the right wing extremest for your own ends. They're going to take over because they don't have limits or the good of anyone in mind. Once they're in your tent they will eat you. It's happened time and again throughout history and you didn't learn so now you burn.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The pages doesn't clarify: could I use the M.2 for storage instead of wifi?

I've got a hardline for net, what I need is a better disk than MicroSD or buying an emmc module.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

It was quite early for me. I shouldn't post when delirious.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That doesn't make them correct. The strength of the belief has no bearing on reality unless it's combined with evidence to warrant that belief.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Gotta protect those gas stoves, oversized pickups, generally fucking everything up out of anger, and fighting culture wars instead of the class war keeping us all in the gutter.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's all about biblatex. I only write using Word/docx if they force me to for publication, otherwise I use LaTeX for typesetting. It's vastly superior for serious publications, especially technical ones.

I use JabRef for managing my citation databases.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

I did some work In a field with a total of 6 papers over 30 years. It was niche as all get out. Did my second paper cite the first? You betcha. I literally cited every research paper ever done on the topic, including mine.

Now there's 7 papers on the topic.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They are file handles. All three are opened by default for all new processes.

STDIN is number 0 STDOUT is number 1 STDERR is number 2

By default STDIN is connected to a buffer which keyboard chars are put in by the OS.

STDOUT is a buffer read by your terminal emulator to be drawn on the screen if it's a GUI. A raw terminal does the same, but without the windows manager layer in the middle. Essentially, the virtual terminal is reading the STDIO buffer and rendering the characters to it's GUI windows for you.

STDERR is the same as STDIO, but is usually only used for error messages, but they're displayed via a different file handles so they can be captured and redirected separately from STDIO.

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