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  • This is an approach to life sentences I've considered before; I would suggest the prisoner could only petition for execution after being incarcerated for a significant period (20 years or so maybe?) and having exhausted all possible legal appeals. The delay is there to ensure it's not a decision taken in desperation and haste. By that point, if any new evidence to exonerate them is going to turn up, it probably has, although I acknowledge that's not always the case.

    I'm not sure I'd equate it to voluntary euthenasia as the prisoner isn't leaving jail alive either way. On the other hand, I can see why linking the two makes sense too.

  • Putting a simple preseed file on a debian install image is probably going to be your best bet. Assuming you can run a VM on your current machine it shouldn't be too difficult to test it until you're happy with it.

  • I was filing that under 'mystical fluff', but it certainly shapes the stories and how they were told.

  • I don't know about the shrooms, my reading of the old testament made me think it started with some old guy trying to stop his nomadic desert tribe dying of anything too stupid by telling camp fire stories with some sort of message. The whole 'god will make the ground open up to swallow you and your family if you screw up' is a desperate attempt to scare them into not doing stupid things like slaughtering too many of their livestock at once, or eating shellfish whilst wandering around in a desert. The stories get retold, changed and embellished over generations before being written down, and you end up with the weird mess of basic survival tips, animal husbandry, heroic stories and mystic fluff that is the OT.

    The new testament is just the story of a fairly chill guy, with a slight messianic complex, wandering around with his mates and suggesting people be nice to each other, put through a similar transformation.

  • It's going to be a balance between your time getting an automated approach to work and the cost/effort of getting a monitor. Getting preseed working can be a bit fiddly, but it does mean you've learnt a new skill, getting a monitor sounds like it'll be a pain, and you might only need it once.

  • Yes, that'll work too, it does involve adding the disk to your machine temporarily though, so just be carefully which disk you format to do it. Please don't ask why I say that, it brings back painful memories...

  • While I agree with most people here that finding a keyboard and screen would be the easiest option, you do have a couple of other options:

    • Use a preseed file A preseed lets the installer run completely automatically, without user intervention. Get it to install a basic system with SSH and take it from there. You'll want to test the install in a VM, where you can see what's going on before letting it run on the real server. More information here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
    • Boot from a live image with SSH Take a look at https://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD in particular 'Debian Live'. It looks like ssh is included, but you'd want to check the service comes up on boot. You can then SSH to the machine and install to the harddrive that way. Again, test on a VM until you know you have the image working, and know how to run the install, then write it to a USB key and boot the tsrget server from that.

    This all assumes the target server has USB or CD at the top of its boot order. If it doesn't you'll have to change that first, either with a keyboard and screen, or via a remote management interface sych as IPMI.

  • It's obviously just a glitch in the matrix, and you may be the chosen one for noticing.

    I got a 504 server error the first time I posted, but apparently it worked anyway.

  • I was doing fine, seeing two cows, right up until I read your comment, and now I see it as some sort of weird giraffe like creature with short legs and a surprising ability to balance even with its neck stretched out that far.

  • I was doing fine, seeing two cows, right up until I read your comment, and now I see it as some sort of weird giraffe like creature with short legs and a surprising ability to balance even with its neck stretched out that far.

  • Tried with 'Connect for lemmy' against lemm.ee and just got a full screen error that vanished after a second.

    / etc / passwd <- so none of the components are blocked.

  • Turning 'potato' into 'puhtaytuh' is an example of what they're talking about. Saying 'puhtaytuh' involves less mouth movement than saying 'potato'.

    Try using 'hot potato' in a sentence and you'll probably notice that the glottal stop at the end of 'hot' gets toned down or dropped. The 't' sound will still be there, but your tounge wont move as much as if you say 'hot' on it's own.

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  • I reckon it won't be long before we can just replace these sorts of inages with a short prompt and just have an AI generate the image on demand. We can swap bandwidth usage for energy usage instead. I'm not sure that's a good trade, but with the way the internet is going that just makes it more likely to happen.

  • The article says:

    The photons travel through a resonant metasurface, where they mingle with a pump beam.

    From that, I think it's suggesting it needs a separate beam of photons to amplify the signal, much like a transistor needs a supply current to amplify the signal it gets.

    They also say:

    This new tech also captures the visible and non-visible (or infrared) light in one image as you look through the 'lens.'

    Which sounds like it produces an image showing both the IR and visible spectrum in the visible range.

    Mind you, re-readind it, most of the article just talks about IR, so I'm not certain what it's actually doing. It could just be transparent to the visible spectrum. It wouldn't be much good for driving if it did that though, the windscreen blocks a lot of IR and you'd need IR headlights!

  • The material captures visible light too, so headlights would be brighter, but I wonder if there's a way to reduce the contrast by either filtering out some wavelengths (like driving glasses) or the material simply not boosting it's output past a certain level?

  • The device captures visible and infrared light, just like a typical night vision scope. They're working on expanding the spectrum too, which could lead to some interesting and useful results. I understand that, for instance, skin cancers are more visible under certain UV wavelengths, so imagine a doctor being able to just put on a pair of glasses that convert that wavelength to give you a once over during a checkup.

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  • I was going to roll my eyes at another "is this loss?" comment and move on, but then I looked at the strip again, and yes ot is. How did it get everywhere like this?

    We could save so much bandwidth by replacing all loss graphics with the string "122L" and a short explanation of the specific circumstances.

  • am I still vunerable to not being able to tell reality from talking points?

    You're absolutely still vulnerable, and the fact you sometimes notice you're in an echo chamber means that when you don't spot it you're more likely to think you're not in one, even if you are. It's an interesting dilemma; if you're not aware then you risk falling into any echo chamber, but the more aware you are of a trap like this normally, the more you risk being sucked in due tp misplaced confidence when you miss the signs.

    Stay alert, keep questioning why you agree with others and welcome to Lemmy!