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2 năm trướcdiscuss

Real clear science is an American media outfit. It's part of the same media group as Real Clear Politics and was founded in Chicago. There's nothing fringe about skepticism of the Havana syndrome story. Despite Congress dumping loads of money to support agents' health issues claimed to have been due to mysterious and unverified sonic weapons, every medical investigation of these reports has failed to offer any support for it. We lack physical evidence, we lack any sensical motive; all we have is foreign paranoia and hearsay.

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this is a funny question. Avoiding tangents, for all intents and purposes, I'm secular. Though I've only had two children with no intention of having more, I was raised Southern Baptist, the oldest of six. I love our big family. My mother was one of seven, and all her siblings have many children as well. I look back fondly on our holiday gatherings and miss them dearly. my aunts were guardian angels through so many difficult times. But as much as I want those big family gatherings and the overall dynamic, I couldn't imagine going back to Southern Baptism as a means to see them perpetuated. It would be nice if there were a natalist "movement" (for lack of better word) that was more or less secular (without being self-aggrandizing and delusional ala effective altruism).

3 năm trướcdiscuss

KDEnlive. Fantastic foss video editing software.

3 năm trướcdiscuss

It's good to know there are worse places than mine. some things are reminiscent of what I've seen, but nothing so extreme as even half of what's described.

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I'm aware of the implications of inflation and the passing of time. Let me be more direct. The "correspondence" between federal deficits and inflation Walter implied existed was almost certainly pulled from his cushions. A deficit that _purchases_ an increase in the money supply certainly _can_ lead to inflation, among other deficit sources in varying degrees. But the implication that we pay for deficits specifically with inflation is a gross oversimplification, all in service of being pithy.

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Setting aside your "self-evident" implication that goods and services across the board rise and fall with fluctuations in money supply...

Is running a federal deficit and an increase in the money supply the same thing? Because my contention was with what Walter right actually said.

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Sounds like you're leaning on the arm of that chair a bit heavily. Care to elaborate?

3 năm trướcdiscuss

is it? I've had fi for years and never noticed. I also don't watch much yt so it's not something I'm apt to notice I suppose.

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Never succumb to the temptation of adding `/s`

Those who depend on it to see sarcasm need to either lighten up or read more novels. Was clearly sarcastic; you're not crazy.

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Exactly. I was more focused on visualizing accurate physics about the object. In that sense it was "vivid". Color simply didn't factor in since it wasn't in the prompt. I can, at this moment visualize complex scenes with color without much issue. Especially after looking up aphantasia more closely, I'm highly skeptical of this test. With that said, I do think I tend to think _without_ color for practical purposes--most of the time I'm just interested in the kinetics of things I'm working through. Otherwise I'm very apt to feel like things have colors about them (my daughter, for instance, has a burnt orange personality; "cosmic" is a yellow word; serene is blue; 118 is red)--so it's not simply having a propensity for not thinking or, more importantly, _feeling_ in color.

3 năm trướcdiscuss

For locking to a particular domain I had always added `site: example.com` to the query, rather than adding domain to a double quote statement.

I have used double quotes to limit to a particular _phrase_ as recently as last week. I'm not privy to the improvements you mention, do you have a link?

4 năm trướcdiscuss

if you're a worker, then mostly yes. Ideally, self-fulfilling goals that require those extra 40-60 hours you're giving to a company then can be diverted. Not everyone can work at ChangeTheWorld corp for their day job.

4 năm trướcdiscuss

bless you

4 năm trướcdiscuss

I use certbot to maintain valid certificates for my website, but there are more use cases for certificates than just https binding--and not all of them lend themselves to LetsEncrypt provisioning. The openssl CLI is definitely not simple, but in my experience it has often been the best available tool for various use cases.

4 năm trướcdiscuss

Your rough solutions require a state that's willing to facilitate them, rather than only appease the interests of investors and consumption-centric corporations. So it struck me as a little incoherent when in the same breath you decry socialism, Marxism and communism--needing only to point at the CCP for rationale. What -ism would you prefer?

4 năm trướcdiscuss

> Remote might work to make a decent product, but I don't think you can build something great.

This was the most egregious part of this post, for the examples you outline. But I also take issue with the framing that remote workers are remote because they have an issue with coming into the office. As a remote employee of and on both before and after the pandemic, I've never had a problem with being in an office, and fully enjoy quarterly visits for a week.

Working from home, I put in my regular 40 hours, and then another 10-20 after-hours, depending on the week/deadlines/insomnia. But outside of that time, my family is not in a tech city. If I were a bachelor with no children this fact wouldn't matter as much. But as it is, when I go afk and back into my life, I want to be physically planted _where my life is_. It is incredibly uncomplicated.

4 năm trướcdiscuss

I'm on the DevOps/SRE side, but from my experience moving close to my wife's family (on her dad's side) has been wonderful. Though there aren't phenomenal prospects for onsight jobs in this area, I've been working remote with decent pay considering the cost of living in the area. Having grandparents for the kids to visit, not to mention cousins to play with, is far more rewarding to me than the ideal job. of course there are multiple factors, such as Do you like your spouse's family? Or do you think your family would be more or less beneficial for the kids/you/your spouse?

in short, my family isn't yours. But giving up the opportunity provided by popular cities was good for me in the end.

4 năm trướcdiscuss

I am also unsure how buildx works, however I do know that the official docker build-and-push action is not compatible with podman (despite the podman-docker pkg), solely because it uses buildx. As well, compared to buildah builds, building with buildx is much faster--at least with default flags for buildah-build-and-push vs docker-build-and-push. I can say that buildx has an additional cache that must be cleared overtime, which might be related to the build speed difference.

4 năm trướcdiscuss

I'd be very interested in checking out your SE script.