spauldo

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The cat I had when I was a kid would occasionally use the toilet. Just for peeing.

When he was done he'd paw the handle. He wasn't strong enough to actually flush it, but he tried.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Bah, I was mostly just tired from the long day.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's just one letter away from "wang"...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny choice as marijuana was never Alice's drug of choice (and he's been sober nearly 40 years now).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, they do. So do I, for that matter. While my part of the company focuses more on government projects like water plants, fuel depots, and utility management, the rest of the company does process automation in the energy sector. That's a fancy way of saying they build control systems for refineries.

I disagree with your assertion that more thought leads to less conservatism. The particular coworker I'm talking about does quite a bit of thinking, and is quite eloquent. He's still wrong, of course, but it's due to his opinions, his priorities, and what he chooses to believe more than a lack of thought.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yet I continue to constantly hear from my conservative colleagues about how bad Biden is for the oil industry...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't believe so - the docs mention several ways to boot a pi but most only work for newer models.

An option might be to boot an SD card read-only and run everything over NFS. It's trivial to do that sort of thing with some UNIX clones (OpenBSD, for instance), but I don't know about a modern Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, everyone tells me that, but I just can't bring myself to care. Then again I watch maybe one movie a year, so I'm sure part of my disinterest in Episode 3 is my general disinterest in movies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was episode 2 for me. Everything was just horrible about that movie. Acting, plot, everything. I never watched 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not a thing.

Granted, there are things in this world that aren't chemicals. Muons, stuff at the LHC, plasma... But everything that a normal person interacts with is a chemical.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It might be too outdated to do major services, but it's still fine for its original use - interfacing with electronic components.

You could build a weather station, monitor temperature and humidity in your attic and crawlspace, automatically water plants, etc. You don't need much electronics knowledge for that sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strange use of the term. I always understood a "doomsday weapon" to be one that destroys everyone involved. It's not a weapon for winning a war, it's to not lose at any cost.

A weaponized virus that kills indiscriminately, for instance.

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