qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

From our experience in the US, the birth is nothing compared to the financial drain of the other expenses. And at this age, childcare dwarfs all the other child-related expenses.

We have great insurance and don't rely on family for childcare though, so the math is very very different for someone with "free" familial childcare and no/lousy insurance...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anything can use it, but I think by convention it's used for http on a non-privileged port.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Same


rsync to a pi 3 with a (single) ZFS drive at family's house. Retain some daily/weekly/monthly snapshots.

I have a (free) VPS with static IPv4 which is how I connect everything.

Both the VPS and the remote site have limited network speed (I think 50Mbps for VPS), so the initial sync was done sneakernet (well..."airplane net"). Nightly rsync is no problem bandwidth-wise, and is mostly just any new videos I've uploaded to my local Immich instance.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

When they talk about being the party of Lincoln this isn't what I had in mind...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 39 points 2 years ago

Scully and Mulder would not put up with this shit.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

I think some commercial TVs might do what you want.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In grad school I picked up a an old free HP LaserJet, with an Ethernet NIC card (it was an upgradable printer, maybe from the mid 2000s?).

It was great! Only complaint was no duplexer, but the thing printed great from Linux and the generic toner was cheap.

Today though...the experience is a bit different.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At work on a slack it just means "I'm watching this discussion."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You discounted space dust.

No I didn't


it would thermalize and radiate.

This is not my paradox, and it's not really a paradox at all, as the big bang model explains it nicely. There are many nice articles on the topic of you'd like to read more about it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yes. But why is there an absence of light?

If there are infinite stars, then every direction you look would encounter a star. (Things stay the same brightness per subtended angle as they get far away. Space dust doesn't matter, as it would thermalize and radiate.)

So, the universe can't have infinite luminous matter, be static and ageless, because if it were then the night sky would look like the surface of a sun.

This may all seem obvious, but it's neat that you can figure that out with the naked eye.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27s_paradox

Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night paradox or Olbers and Cheseaux's paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe.

The night sky being dark has some profound cosmological implications.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Widely regarded as the best Seinfeld episode is The Contest. It's about who can go the longest without masturbating, but what makes it great is that they never say that explicitly


it's just euphemisms and insinuation. And it's hilarious IMHO.

I believe they initially wanted to spell it out, but the networks wouldn't let them (I could be wrong). Definitely for the better that they danced around the topic the way they did.

(Yes I know, Jerry Seinfeld is a problematic person, I'm just trying to answer the question...)

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