I had this realization when I thought of disk images. A disk image is a file ergo everything that can be on a disk necessarily has to be a file of some kind.
It’s more like data is data is data to me but that’s so far from descriptive it’s like saying matter is matter.
What’s it like? I have friends with similar interests who moved to the UK, although it would be extremely expensive to visit for me. I’d like to think it would be a good event to make a trip / difficult visa process worth it, like we all meet up there, explore a nice city, watch some weird plays, have a great old time.
Good lord that visa is expensive. Maybe further in the future. That’s like 1,500 US dollars for paperwork and airfare alone, and that is a lot of money where I am.
When I was in university, and it was finals time and they opened the study areas 24/7, they would wheel out big coffee dispensers, the kind I associate with hospitals or bad hotels. Just a big insulated metal cylinder filled with almost rancid, mealy, astringent black liquid, with rickety little spouts.
The default coffee here is Turkish-style (we call it Turkish or Arabic coffee), but this was a weird halfway between batch brew drip coffee and Turkish style coffee. And being a few hours old it was basically the absolute worst of both worlds.
I think they don’t allow any food or coffee anymore there now which sucks, maybe one too many spills. Never an issue when I was there.
My friends knew I would only get coffee from particular places, and they would be shocked to see me drink what I called hospital coffee. But for me this was the coffee called for by the situation I was in, hopelessly cramming control systems at three in the morning. The bad coffee is integral (don’t clap) to the experience. I’m participating in the ritual that is finals here, so this is part of that ritual. The fact that the coffee tastes like bitumen is just part of me taking the moment in. I know it’s shit. I want it to be shit. Let me enjoy the diversity the world offers.
Just so I understand, since I was looking into using ZFS for my storage before hard drives went up by like 400%: you set up things in an obtuse way and you got a failure that can’t be recovered from?
I somewhat wrapped my head around how ZFS data storage itself works, and was feeling relatively confident that it’s what I’d use.
The silly sounding answer is that you just have to try stuff. You won’t know what you’re into unless you go look for it.
I also suffer from looking at other people enjoying things and thinking “that’s great for them but I don’t do that stuff”. You’ll always have the time for indoor time wasting when the weather/budget/whatever is in the way.
It’s very easy to feel zero urgency to go out and do stuff and to look back and think “huh did I waste two months I don’t remember anything happening recently”. Just look up events and meetups and hobby clubs in your area, you can just check it out and leave without losing anything. Sadly corporate social media is where a lot of stuff gets posted, but you can find a lot of stuff just fine without an account.
You can also think of not just what the “event” is but also what kind of people you think would go. I’m not necessarily that interested in TTRPGs but I know those events would attract interesting people I have common interests with.
I’m not road traveling the US so even though I’ve been using it for like 15 years my level is small.
What I can tell you is I’ve got over 30 km2 in my home country, Lebanon, a tiny place. I’m not someone with a lot of travel experience at all but I think I’m in the top 5% of people who’ve seen the most of our country and that’s pretty cool.
I remember looking into this, the number of books I have that I’d like to scan are not enough to justify building one of these unless they can be folded up and passed on.
Might be best to just get a plexiglass slab with some kind of anti glare covering and try to get flat pages
I’ve seen this in Abu Dhabi. A bit creepy but it came with inbuilt convenience like letting your party members each pay for their items or splitting into X portions (you can pay for n*X portions if you want). Sure it’s handy but just give me a paper menu for fucks sake, let me ask the staff for a recommendation
Years after education I still look at his Taylor series videos as refreshers. I’m genuinely gutted. He was part of the hopeful, tiny bit of digital utopianism I had in my brain
Seems to have been banned in Lebanon since 2010 (unfortunately not an effective ban). Better late than never, but the map isn’t showing it at all, I had to take a look to be sure.
I’m somewhat in favor of using yucky words for giving nuance as long as the rest of the text implies you’re not one to use the phrases in an earnest way.
I’ve had mixed results on Lemmy with words like “homemaker” when trying to discuss a specific kind of social expectation, and then got immediately told off for using it. I never use it. It was the right word in the moment.
Maybe write “what they’re gleefully call X” instead of “X” and it would keep the yuck factor of putting the word there without seeming like you’re taking the word at face value
I’m in the same boat as you with the twist that I would have been a bit impressed if they brought him in without announcing it. I know there’s billing rules about this stuff but Marvel is an unlimited money machine they can figure out how to make the contracts work.
Why did I watch all the way when I knew where it was going
I had this realization when I thought of disk images. A disk image is a file ergo everything that can be on a disk necessarily has to be a file of some kind.
It’s more like data is data is data to me but that’s so far from descriptive it’s like saying matter is matter.
What’s it like? I have friends with similar interests who moved to the UK, although it would be extremely expensive to visit for me. I’d like to think it would be a good event to make a trip / difficult visa process worth it, like we all meet up there, explore a nice city, watch some weird plays, have a great old time.
Good lord that visa is expensive. Maybe further in the future. That’s like 1,500 US dollars for paperwork and airfare alone, and that is a lot of money where I am.
When I was in university, and it was finals time and they opened the study areas 24/7, they would wheel out big coffee dispensers, the kind I associate with hospitals or bad hotels. Just a big insulated metal cylinder filled with almost rancid, mealy, astringent black liquid, with rickety little spouts.
The default coffee here is Turkish-style (we call it Turkish or Arabic coffee), but this was a weird halfway between batch brew drip coffee and Turkish style coffee. And being a few hours old it was basically the absolute worst of both worlds.
I think they don’t allow any food or coffee anymore there now which sucks, maybe one too many spills. Never an issue when I was there.
My friends knew I would only get coffee from particular places, and they would be shocked to see me drink what I called hospital coffee. But for me this was the coffee called for by the situation I was in, hopelessly cramming control systems at three in the morning. The bad coffee is integral (don’t clap) to the experience. I’m participating in the ritual that is finals here, so this is part of that ritual. The fact that the coffee tastes like bitumen is just part of me taking the moment in. I know it’s shit. I want it to be shit. Let me enjoy the diversity the world offers.
It’s charming to burst into a comment section and seeing exactly what you were about to write
Just so I understand, since I was looking into using ZFS for my storage before hard drives went up by like 400%: you set up things in an obtuse way and you got a failure that can’t be recovered from?
I somewhat wrapped my head around how ZFS data storage itself works, and was feeling relatively confident that it’s what I’d use.
What were they making before this thing?
Do page admins see the names of anonymous asks? I haven’t touched Facebook in like a decade
The silly sounding answer is that you just have to try stuff. You won’t know what you’re into unless you go look for it.
I also suffer from looking at other people enjoying things and thinking “that’s great for them but I don’t do that stuff”. You’ll always have the time for indoor time wasting when the weather/budget/whatever is in the way.
It’s very easy to feel zero urgency to go out and do stuff and to look back and think “huh did I waste two months I don’t remember anything happening recently”. Just look up events and meetups and hobby clubs in your area, you can just check it out and leave without losing anything. Sadly corporate social media is where a lot of stuff gets posted, but you can find a lot of stuff just fine without an account.
You can also think of not just what the “event” is but also what kind of people you think would go. I’m not necessarily that interested in TTRPGs but I know those events would attract interesting people I have common interests with.
At the time it gave me a good impression of him. I thought alright this guy sees Zionism for what it is. Oh well
I’m not road traveling the US so even though I’ve been using it for like 15 years my level is small.
What I can tell you is I’ve got over 30 km2 in my home country, Lebanon, a tiny place. I’m not someone with a lot of travel experience at all but I think I’m in the top 5% of people who’ve seen the most of our country and that’s pretty cool.
Another FoW user in the wild! Neat
X2 on the fear of not trying hard enough to move.
I remember looking into this, the number of books I have that I’d like to scan are not enough to justify building one of these unless they can be folded up and passed on.
Might be best to just get a plexiglass slab with some kind of anti glare covering and try to get flat pages
Oh it’s nice you’re getting some recognition from what seems to be OH HELL NO
I’ve seen this in Abu Dhabi. A bit creepy but it came with inbuilt convenience like letting your party members each pay for their items or splitting into X portions (you can pay for n*X portions if you want). Sure it’s handy but just give me a paper menu for fucks sake, let me ask the staff for a recommendation
Years after education I still look at his Taylor series videos as refreshers. I’m genuinely gutted. He was part of the hopeful, tiny bit of digital utopianism I had in my brain
Seems to have been banned in Lebanon since 2010 (unfortunately not an effective ban). Better late than never, but the map isn’t showing it at all, I had to take a look to be sure.
I’m somewhat in favor of using yucky words for giving nuance as long as the rest of the text implies you’re not one to use the phrases in an earnest way.
I’ve had mixed results on Lemmy with words like “homemaker” when trying to discuss a specific kind of social expectation, and then got immediately told off for using it. I never use it. It was the right word in the moment.
Maybe write “what they’re gleefully call X” instead of “X” and it would keep the yuck factor of putting the word there without seeming like you’re taking the word at face value
I’m in the same boat as you with the twist that I would have been a bit impressed if they brought him in without announcing it. I know there’s billing rules about this stuff but Marvel is an unlimited money machine they can figure out how to make the contracts work.
Voyager’s main page has sections for All, Home, and Local. You can even select which one to open by default in the settings