medem

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[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services 'for free', but is one of the world's biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If being a corporate hoe taught me anything, it's that you should NEVER sacrifice your health, including your mental health, for a company.

If you burn out, no colleague is going to care for you. If you fall ill, no boss is going to visit you. If you die, oh, you'll very much have someone from the company go to your funeral : they need to be sure you're indeed dead so that they can stop paying your salary.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 9 points 5 days ago

LFS (Linux From Scratch), though building a custom NetBSD or OpenBSD Kernel and making an ISO with custom packages/configuration is a lot easier.

You're speaking in the past tense. There are at least two more joke distros around which are active as of now: Justin Bieber Linux ('Biebian') and Rebecca Black OS...

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually, the only way I've been able to make sense of what happened is thinking that he might have been interested in me, correctly sensed I'd never be, and didn't want to be hurt.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Once I was in the train, minding my own business, reading an unusual, interesting book. The guy seating in front of me noticed it and we started talking. It turned out, we live in the same city. We both were relatively new there.

FF a week. We went out to get some burgers. Talked about basically everything. We had what could only qualify as a wonderful time together. Chatted for hours, even talked about travelling together to a country I know relatively well and he'd like to visit.

Where I live, split checks are custom. I always hated them, so thinking (wrongly, as it'd turn out) we'd see each other again very soon, I paid for the whole bill.

Before going home, I even cited Casablanca's well known 'beginning of a long friendship' line.

Never heard from him after that. When I tried to reach out, only a half-hearted bs 'oh sorry, I'm so bad at replying texts' came.

Never saw him again.

Really shattered my confidence in people, and myself.

Angus, if you're out there. WTF man. Why.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a similar issue with people panicking about AS 'taking their jobs', or even the world. I'm like, dude, that might happen, but idiots delegating important decisions (i.e., decisions that should DEFINITELY be taken by humans), to the AS is something that's a) at least as ominous b) at least as relevant and c) already happening

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 weeks ago

Put even another way, correlation is not causality. Even IF everything were true, the most interesting/relevant information is missing: does AS cause these behaviours? Or does it simply act as a catalyzer?

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sex as well.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 15 points 3 weeks ago

I first thought this article was about their self driving cars and I was like who tf gets in a self driving car with their baby. It's not. It's about Tesla cars in general. Scary stuff.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think they meant 'because'

 

The prequel to the 'A Quiet Place' saga got me thinking.

spoiler alert!

There is a scene in which many humans march towards a safety point. Each individual human would have been relatively quiet, but because there are a lot of them (potentially hundreds), they end up being, as a whole, loud enough to alert the monsters so they get all killed.

This would suggest that many sources of noise which are near to each other and generate more or less the same amount of noise end up adding up so that the end result in dB is more or less the sum of the individual dB levels.

But then again, it's fiction.

Back to reality, I work in a room full of different servers which have also very different levels of noise. I have noticed that from my standpoint, the noise of the quietest server seems to disappear whenever the loudest is running, so it kind of does blow my mind how our perception of noise works...

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