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[–] tal@lemmy.today 36 points 6 months ago

Donald Trump: "Enemy of God"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g1zvgj4do

'Anointed by God': The Christians who see Trump as their saviour

This timeline.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I would donate to support lemmy.today, as I'm using an instance and it has costs, but the admin has said that he's currently not interested in donations.

I believe I donated to Ernest's coffee fund back when I was using kbin.social. Can't recall how much, though. Was a while ago.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No wonder agile is hated

I think that the basic ideas are reasonable. Keep in touch with your team and evaluate the current situation, track progress, stuff like that.

It's just that the excessive codification of the practices becomes overbearing.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Byte order in which Unicode encoding? UTF-16LE?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 6 months ago

Dutch uwu speak

Logically, it makes sense that this exists, but still not something that I've ever thought about.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, gotcha. What type of cheese did it turn into, out of curiosity?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

I've had no problem with various tools to compute ReplayGain levels. I currently use bs1770gain.

What about volume normalization is problematic for you?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I wouldn't. I'd leave things at now.

I think that the Internet has pretty much monotonically improved over time. Oh, sure, there are some things that I miss, but overall? Today wins solidly. Today:

  • Bandwidth is much higher.

  • Availability is much more widespread.

  • Security is a lot better in most respects. Used to be most traffic on the Internet wasn't encrypted.

  • Flash and ActiveX are gone on the Web.

  • IPv6 is widely available, alleviating address constraints.

  • Email spam is more or less solved, though it does make running your own mail server today a pain.

  • Open source is a lot more widespread and mainstream.

  • I'd say that the reliability of a lot of online services is better.

  • The widespread use of containerization and VMs has dramatically reduced the cost of having a small server in a datacenter.

  • GOG and Steam are pretty amazing ways to buy video games. The selection is inexpensive, readily available, and ludicrously vast.

  • Ditto for Amazon compared to brick-and-mortar plus mail order.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

I liked the first book a lot, and recall liking the series less as it went on.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I guess...uh...that it'd be less dense, so that'd dick up tides on Earth.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html

Mean density (kg/m³): 3344

https://eurekamag.com/research/001/061/001061121.php

At 8 deg C, mean densities of blockformed and conventionally-hooped cheeses were, resp., 1.094 and 1.091 g/ml.

So that's 1094 kg/m³.

Basically, Earth's tides would be about a third as strong, which I imagine would affect a bunch of things, especially coastal ecology. Dunno how much tides affect weather.

Also, probably alters the reflectivity of the Moon, so would affect the brightness of the Moon. Might affect a lot of nocturnal critters and such. Hard to estimate, since that depends a lot on what cheese is involved.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Less energy density, though.

On the other hand, maybe a less-fire-risky battery would be grounds for increasing the current 100Wh maximum that the FAA places on laptop batteries.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

While details of the Pentagon's plan remain secret, the White House proposal would commit $277 million in funding to kick off a new program called "pLEO SATCOM" or "MILNET."

Please do not call it "MILNET". That term's already been taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILNET

In computer networking, MILNET (fully Military Network) was the name given to the part of the ARPANET internetwork designated for unclassified United States Department of Defense traffic.[1][2]

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