Yup! I got some cyberpower ones from costco. Wrote a script to test and send me the results first saturday of each month. If it fails, there goes my saturday lol.

Sometimes they get into a state that requires a hard reset. Happened to me a few times and was losing power during brownouts. Learned to test regularly after that.

Nothing. Purpose implies the potential for failure and while there are certainly circumstances that I would consider personal failures, there are none so great that they would invalidate my existence.

That said, I have a vision for my life and the state of the world that I would like to see realized. I want to see a world where climate change is taken seriously and recognized as the imminent threat that it is. It will be waiting on the other side of every economic crisis or war that man chooses to wage.

thought it was clear that was sarcasm. Left out the /s thinking “I can’t just say black without knowing where this would obviously be headed”

smh shoulda known

Void is a stupid thing to call a cat. Like come on guys be original there are other ways of saying “nothing” and centuries worth of racist ways to say black.

these also showed back up on my wishlist

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Is that what everyone is worried about? I’m more worried about the IPs getting turned into something bland or botched releases due to overly aggressive deadlines. Examples being bioware, bungie, infinity ward, and obsidian which were all acquired by larger companies and as a result turned into “meat grinders” responsible only for churning out titles to feed their parent companies.

Before anyone else mentions it, I will say Insomniac has been a success under Sony — releasing spiderman and ratchet and clank. That said, a company is not a person. You cannot trust companies to behave consistently.

Same. Dark souls, bloodborne, sekiro, and elden ring are my favorite games of all time. Rest of the world is going to shit. Seems like we just can’t have nice things.

Check Etsy. Can find some high quality buttons there too usually priced a lot better. Usually some combination of 3D-Printed and silicone-cast resin so lots of glossy options but I have seen matte ones as well. $20-30 range (USD)

Sock goes the weasel

This is not new and it does work to some extent. Back in highschool my buddies and I used to cheat at hot wings challenges by chewing a few cough drops first.

I want this so I can be sure my phone isn’t sneaking a peek at my pooping face

Just had a look. Weird choice of hill to die on

nah it was here just deep in the negative https://lemmy.world/post/20843892

https://www.helpguide.org/find-help

Ever heard the saying “if one guy is an asshole, he’s an asshole. If everyone is an asshole, you’re the asshole”?

Not saying you’re an asshole, but that is to say you’re the only one defending your viewpoint, and you are welcome to it. But we’d all appreciate consideration of the information as opposed to the offense you seem to be taking.

Nuance exists everywhere in our complicated world.

The example that springs to mind is when we discovered that Archimedes invented the foundations of calculus long before Newton and Leibniz. The argument typically goes that the foundations of mathematics would be much further along had this discovery been realized but many others argue that we would have had no practical way to apply it in the time that Archimedes lived.

Now the part that I think you are missing is that the interesting part is not only that we now know that a new number is prime, but that knowing that a number is prime involves verifying that a number is prime and the larger the number is, the more difficult it is to verify so this almost always involves landmark advances in math and computing. Especially since prime numbers are distributed asymptotically meaning they are typically a few orders of magnitude larger than the previous one.

reason for that is isolation and reduncancy though. Most incidents/outages are the result of a change and in the cases you mentioned they are mitigated by the fact that not all instances receive updates at the same time. Presumably, the error is noticed in one place and traffic is then served by healthy instances.

By all accounts these are practices that significant service providers follow. In fact AWS typically rolls out updates to us-east-1 before updating other regions to use it as a canary to warn against issues.

With federated services, this is less of a conscious decision and tends to happen only because instance maintainers update on different schedules.

Blue-green deployments and failover are common mitigation strategies and mature organizations actively employ these. Conversely, these patterns are integral to the decentralized nature of the fediverse and other distributed solutions such as cdn.

Not just an engineer thing though. Everyone finds it obnoxious.

Enceladus, a moon of Saturn is actually mostly water, but salt has been found in volcanic emissions ejected into space.

That said it’s not impossible that conditions exist somewhere in the universe where you have H2O and no NaCl since that is the salt we usually mean when we talk about salt water. Unfortunately it is not the only thing found to be mixing with water as on Jupiter, liquid water does exist but it mixes with amonia.

that would be because electric eels are fish, not eels.

On my phone but see phylogeny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel