ragingrobot

If I read your comment right, I fully agree.

We take it for granted, we believe that we have the right to exist. At every turn we're trying to defeat death and illness. Trying to defeat nature's (and the planet's) mechanisms of a form of population control.

Then on the other hand, we sort of complain about overpopulation.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see people die, but on the other hand I fully understand that we must die. Me must get ill.

Interesting to see this hit roads.

This is how train speed in the NYC Subway (and likely other systems) has been done since the early 1900s.

Go too fast, and the train's brakes are activated.

The terminology is a bit off, but expected from community content. See the section "Timed Signals"

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

Sorry I was away for a few days.

I wasn't speaking of a pagefile (I know what that is). WinPPC had a setting where you could sacrifice adjust how the onboard RAM was used, as both storage and program memory were RAM in these devices. One could adjust how much to use for each. It was limited in how much, but it was possible.

https://www.hpcfactor.com/support/cesd/200191/how_to_adjust_...

This is the only source I could find, as these devices are so old, info is hard to find. This refers to CE, but includes the later rebranded Windows for PocketPCs.

Named long ago, when people weren't so sensitive about words.

  The term "rape" derives from the Latin word for turnip, rāpa or rāpum, cognate   
  with the Greek word ῥάφη, rhaphe.

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

https://www.etymonline.com/word/rape (see noun, 2)

"Memory extension tool Turn unused storage space into additional virtual RAM⁴ for an even smoother smartphone experience."

If I'm not mistaken, this is something Windows for PocketPCs did way back.

I had tried to do it on logout, but .{bash,zsh}_logout turned out to be unreliable, so now I do it on logon:

1. Save your history!

Unless you have an insanely long history length set (and by default, you really won't), that one off command you never think you're going to need again? You're going to need it. And all those commands you typed after it will push it out of history and it's gone forever.

So, in your .{bash,zsh}rc, do something like

  cp .histfile histories/$(date).histfile

Name it however you like. There are ways to avoid duplication and saving excessive amounts, but I'll leave that up to you.

2. tmux/GNU screen

For some reason I can't stand tabbed terminal windows, and use a multiplexer. Plus tmux's scrolling is a little easier to use that a mousewheel.

3. zsh

If you chose zsh over bash, you get easier to use expansion tools, for example, the equivalent of basename in bash is

  ${FILE##*/}

in zsh

  ${FILE:t}

Helpful in scripting and the like.

Are you the author?

The sections involving tlp and multimedia codecs should be amended. Those _require_ RPMFusion, yet that list makes no note of it. If someone follows the suggestions without adding the RPMFusion repo, they may find they run into errors.

> Actually, a lot of people care.

I can see where a lot more people than we care to believe follow a philosophy in the same vain as that which was stated. Go ahead, do a survey and I bet you get a lot of "I care about climate change," but who's telling the truth and who's just trying not to look like a selfish a-hole? More people will lie, saying they care than will admit the truth and say they don't care.

CICO is fine. Those are all factors that affect the "calories out" part of the equation, they don't break it. The problem is education. Your average person sees things like "values based on a 2,000 calorie diet" and "you burn 100 calories per X minutes of walking" think that's how it works, a hard rule. Many have no understanding of how their own conditions (like age and genetics) warrant adjustment.

I've used it on non-chromebook x86-64 machines with no issues. It will use an official image, so I can't tell you what will happen if that image goes end-of-life (probably the same as if you were using the actual hardware - end of updates). You'll probably want to find a similar machine's image to start with, one that won't be EOL any time soon.

Further into the article it mentions that earlier formulations used blood and urine. Other projects have used urine, so it's not shocking.

The bullet point does make it confusing, as it mentions the substitution before we even know it was used in the first place. There's some weird word order issues here and there (for example, "and you have a potentially revolutionary new material" where I believe it should have been "and you potentially have a..."), but I wouldn't think it's AI.

I suppose that depends on the meat you use and how else it's prepared.

Use a high fat ground beef and bread crumbs that'll soak up that fat, and I'm sure many would consider that unhealthy.

Use lean meat and something else as filler (oatmeal is common when trying to fill out meat) and it would be less unhealthy, but far more prone to error, resulting in perhaps a tasteless brick.

Never read on meatloaf, but I'm sure a publication would go the "easier but fattier" route.

It's a tough demon. I've had a somewhat similar experience.

In my late thirties, I started drinking wine. A bottle a day on each of my days off. I could handle that, easily.

I never drank (and to this day maintain a personal policy) during the work week. With stress and anxiety I don't want to even tempt myself going down that road.

About 2 years ago in my early 40's, I discovered how to enjoy hard liquor. A year ago whiskey. I actually enjoy the taste "neat", provided I have a quality liquor. Be it rum, tequila or whiskey. I drink alone, so I could drink all I wanted to, and not worry about anyone else. The hard liquor, age and anxiety did me in. I never got wasted, never hung over fortunately, but enough that the next morning I realized I had blackout periods. I would eat something I'd prepared or watched a show I wanted to watch, but remember none of it.

I struggled with it for a few months. I hated that feeling. Every week I hated myself that next morning. It fed into my anxiety over time, having lost some.

I can't imagine how people can do it regularly.

I haven't cut out drinking, but fortunately I have learned the new limits. I can enjoy drinking still, and when I start to feel off, where I used to say "one more is ok, you'll be fine," I have managed to convince myself to stop at that point.

Things are so much better now that I've taught myself to enjoy and when to stop. I can only see cutting it out completely as when dieting cutting out certain foods - it leads to temptation and misery.

We lag behind Europe and Russia on other things as well.

I wasn't trying in any way to bury my head in the sand, I know for sure things can be better.

I opined looking from inside and knowing maintenance. I have seen bent track spikes and bolts reused (on mainline track!), rotten ties ignored, tracks sitting on ballast with nothing securing them. I have witnessed for years at a facility where the tracks had spread wider than gauge due to rotted wooden ties, and the solution was "just go real slow," in order to avoid shutting down the track and doing proper repairs.

I had been thinking along those lines originally, but it just states "yard accidents" That number was near the derailment stat, but there can be other types of incidents in yards, such as collisions. So, they are as far as I can tell, "mutually inclusive".

Unfortunately this fact is buried half way into the article.

From personal experience in commuter rail, derailments happen more often than one would like, but most are not severe enough to attract attention.

A single axle off the rail counts as derailment, and may get reported as such for statistical purposes. This can happen frequently on a siding or in a storage yard. Where there's no significant damage, the car body is lifted, the trucks replaced on the track, and once it is all back together, inspected.

The FRA stats linked don't seem to break down derailment causes from what I can see. To be frank, while that number looks significant, when one considers how many miles of track there is in this country and how many miles the rolling stock travels (bad track is just as guilty as bad rolling stock), it could be far worse.

At least in the NYC public schools in the 80's, we were taught to hold a pen/pencil as you describe.

I remember having one friend who held the writing instrument between his index and middle fingers, the thumb at the tip. Really odd in the way he held it, and every teacher we had for 4 years, at the least, tried to correct him.

I tried holding a pen as in the video, and even just miming, it felt really unnatural.

This is how it is for me. Feeling anxious, stressed, depressed or nervous? Even on a 30F day I can head to the beach and feel at peace. Until obnoxious types start showing up that is, and it's as simple as moving and I easily re-find my calm.

Contrast that to say, my backyard or a park. Quiet and calm and I feel good. Let a dog bark for a few minutes or an obnoxious person nearby and my peace is "destroyed" and I have to leave.

Provided you quit.

If not, you will need to use that bathroom again. Why make it a mess for yourself and co-workers who did you no harm?

A few years back, Coca-Cola released "Coke Life," in a green can. Very short lived, but instead of HFCS, it used a blend of cane sugar and stevia. IMO it kicked HFCS Coke's ass. It tasted better, it didn't have that sticky feeling of "normal" Coke and fewer calories because of the blend.

Same here. The longer it sits, the harder it gets, especially by hand.

> during cooking if the recipe allows time for it

A lot of meats, not just beef, can do with a little resting time. Veggies may need to cool just a little. Perfect for at least getting the cooking utensils, pots and pans washed.

Coca-Cola also contained cocaine to a point.

A lot of the early sodas were developed and sold by pharmacies as tonics. Healing, medicinal, feel good, and so on.

A far cry from today's pure sugar rush and crash.

Probably no one else saw interest to do it? I do remember seeing something similar for emacs.

Also, dmidecode is very handy.

  # dmidecode 3.4
  Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
  SMBIOS 2.7 present.

  Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
  Base Board Information
          Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
          Product Name: 02##K5
          Version: A01
          Serial Number: /BGK####/CN#######/
          Asset Tag: Not Specified
          Features:
                  Board is a hosting board
                  Board is replaceable
          Location In Chassis: Not Specified
          Chassis Handle: 0x0003
          Type: Motherboard
          Contained Object Handles: 0

I've done this enough, but don't stop there as it's likely to happen again. When I resort to such a solution, I take a look at the syslogs. More often than not, something there will tell me why a simple restart of a service, module, whatever was the answer.

I had a similar problem as the article with a standard USB 3 enclosure. Two PCs, identical OS (oS Tumbleweed), same kernel version even. modprobe -r then modprobe usbstorage and it worked. An obscure error in the logs pointed to the uas module which for some reason failed to reload, enabling the enclosure to work.

Oddly, the other PC on which it worked was loading uas.

> But that cost is what the railroads don't want to pay, as they could also do the same thing by hiring more employees (and have some percentage of them "idling" at any given time).

At one point the article mentions "on call" (the correct term is "Extra List") and that's exactly what you describe. You'd have say an engineer, who may be new and has no regular assignment - he'd put in his early months or years "on call." The company can call him at any time, and say "get to XXX, your train will be there." The whole issue is having enough to cover shortages.

I really don't want to sound like an (unpleasant word) due to the subject, but I always like to see comments like this. Some in America like to portray the image that we are the cesspool of labor relations, and it reminds me we are not alone and there is a lot of work to be done everywhere to improve life.

I can't speak for the freight railroads, but morale sucks at my agency.

I would be willing to place a wager it's similar at freight, on the subject of time off: no guaranteed holidays. My commuter rail runs 24-7, the only way an employee gets the holiday off is if it falls on their regular day off.

At my railroad a lot of the workers did not have the resources to go to college or get a job with better conditions. So, while morale is low, some take the view "it could be worse." I'm sure you get a lot of that there, too.

I suppose the employee can opt to take fewer planned vacation days, reserving the balance for unplanned absences. This would require the balance to be rolled over, or the employee compensated at the end of the year or other period, otherwise it would make employees unhappy.

Perhaps a mechanism that allows for unplanned time off, with a little education on how to properly plan PTO to allow for unplanned leave.

If it helps avoid any further confusion, it shall be done. Thanks for the suggestion.