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Derrick

@ derrickoswald @sh.itjust.works

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  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • What is a concept or thing you became aware of that you can explain fluently but that you do not (yet) possess the word or phrase to coin it with?

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  • I think there are a number of word phrases in English that would be, what are called, Trennbare Verben in German. To give English speakers the idea, when somebody says they "work out", it's not like just "work" - it has a specific fitness idea because of the additional word "out".

    In German, the equivalent verb would be "outworking". In common English grammar, the "out" is always separated. In German, many words can be inserted between working and out - so like "working on the elliptical machine out". That need not be the case in English, but it often is.

    In English I would like to say "I outbuffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé.", or "I uppicked a record from the flea market." or "I uppumped my tires last week." or "I downfell and broke my ulna while skiing."

    Which is more correct: "I pumped up my tires last week." or "I pumped my tires up last week."?

    In German it could be "I buffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé out.", "I picked a record from the flea market up.", "I pumped my tires last week up.", and "I fell and broke my ulna while skiing down."

    I'm just saying we should normalize these two-word combinations as a "standalone verb" concept so the trailing qualifier is not so difficult to parse and locate correctly in a sentence - since each of the meanings absolutely requires both parts of the verb.

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  • It has been my experience, anecdotal as that may be, that a considerable portion of Wikipedia editors are fervent deletionists about anything not found in a paper encyclopedia, Molly White's impression notwithstanding. The mind-set is, that at some point in the future, Wikipedia will actually be printed out somehow, and any extraneous pages just add more cost with no redeeming value. My own vision is more along the Encyclopedia Galactica line - the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind - where notability is a very low bar, as opposed to the current policy. Should there even be a deletion policy? Why? Maybe a better system would rank the topics by page views and surface the better ones. Why are some editors gatekeepers about public knowledge with their speedy deletion trigger happiness? That's not the way it works in science publications - ooooh, I guess we need more that one Wikipedia to make that work.

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
    Derrick @sh.itjust.works

    A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

    archive.ph /nuUEW

  • What architectural style would you like to see come back?

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  • Is there a limit on presidential pardons in the US?

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  • Theoretically, it seems second degree murder can be subject to a pardon... https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-two-police-officers-convicted-murder-black-man-washington-2025-01-23

    From the office of the pardon attorney: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present

    January 22, 2025 - 2 Pardons

     
        
NAME and WARRANT		DISTRICT		SENTENCED							OFFENSE
Terence Dale Sutton, Jr.	District of Columbia	66 months imprisonment; three years supervised release	Murder in second degree; conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting
Andrew Zabavsky			District of Columbia	48 months imprisonment; three years supervised release	Conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting

  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • You've obviously never opened a document (with tabs) where your IDE setting doesn't match what the author used. It looks like shit. Spaces are never, ever, misinterpreted. Tabs are. If your experience in viewing a document depends on a setting that the author had in their IDE, then it is a failure. This is why .PDF files are so ubiquitous, it doesn't matter if you created it in Microsoft Word with a uniform tab setting, or TEX in a console, it looks the same to the reader. If you cannot guarantee that the reader sees your source files as you see them, then you have failed. Full stop. Tabs should be cast into the dust bin as an archaic pre-optimization that failed in the real world.

  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • Code indentation should never use tabs, only spaces.

  • Manitoba repatriating 500MW of baseload power — not renewing export contract to Minnesota expiring next month

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  • My concern is that this will prolong the life of fossil fuel generation in Minnesota (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Minnesota) which is twice as much as all other generation sources combined (8662MW vs. 4453.3MW). So, it's hurting the environment to assert sovereignty - which is probably not what the average Canadian wants.

  • News @lemmy.world
    Derrick @sh.itjust.works

    Manitoba repatriating 500MW of baseload power — not renewing export contract to Minnesota expiring next month

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-kinew-repatriating-hydro-1.7509857
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    Derrick @sh.itjust.works

    Google Photos does OCR on handwriting

  • What scientific fact blows your mind the most?

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  • GNU Radio LoRa PHY level receiver & transmitter

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  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Derrick @sh.itjust.works

    GNU Radio LoRa PHY level receiver & transmitter

  • What do you secretly judge people for?

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  • Disheveled hair. If you have long(ish) hair and you're going out in public, at least drag a comb through it so you don't look like a bed-head.

  • Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows

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  • This is 100% a China and US problem - nowhere else in the world would these Wankpanzers be a status symbol. What's required is a re-education of the Nouveau Riche to make a better choice.

  • Do you think/feel that you are living well? Happily? Embodying your values and dreams? If so, how did this happen?

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  • Yes, living well. Happy mostly. Embodying values and dreams - as much as possible since some dreams would have needed to be started years ago to be realized - like my vineyard and my orchard. Mostly it was reinventing myself every five or seven years to follow the lucre (in software development world look for the bright and shiny new thing).

    I was self employed for most of the time, and I can recommend that for those who have a pretty good work ethic. Having a goal in high school was also a key factor, since it led to a useful degree. I was also doing constant internal evaluation - like the feeling where you're going over your desired job description for a job interview - via a journal or a self help program like "The Red Bucket Strategy". So, in answer to how did this happen question: it was pretty methodical in using the steering gear you have to make course corrections all the time.

  • Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs

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  • 'Cliff-Like' Collapse of Critical Current System More Likely Than Thought: Study

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  • 'Cliff-Like' Collapse of Critical Current System More Likely Than Thought: Study

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  • Is it just me, or does anyone else who sees temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit (without a Celsius conversion) in a summary of a scientific report like this just automatically consider it an American fluff piece and click-bait to be ignored?

    You should read the actual report https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189.

    It might be my naive reading, but it seems that flooding the ocean with 4-5% of the gulf stream flow with fresh water from glacier melt (I think that's a lot) will cause a shut down in the year 3700 or so. Even I, as a climate change believer, think that's a little too far out there to be considered germane.

  • Looking for Notes App for Android & Linux

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  • Joplin with a WebDAV server (for me it's Infomaniak's kDrive) provides syncing across multiple devices and is pretty much transparent. You should just force synchronize when leaving one of the apps to be sure (kind of like the save button in most programs).

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Derrick @sh.itjust.works

    Raspberry Pi is 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1 was in 1978

    www.roylongbottom.org.uk /Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20Performance%20Comparisons%20With%20Home%20Computers%20Phones%20and%20Tablets.htm