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  • It is sarcastic.

    Wanna know the first time I heard "This is the Year of the Linux Desktop!"? 1999.

    Yes, nineteen ninety-nine. Twenty-five years ago.

    Linux as a desktop is still a laugh. It still doesn't come close to Windows of twenty-five years ago.

    But it's killer as a server, or a purpose-built system. My NAS/VM server kicks ass under Linux, way better than running windows. Even VMware recently switched their desktop virtualization to using Linux. This is where Linux shines.

    You could make a Windows killer desktop, except which distro? Which shell? Which set of base tools/utilities? Define "killer desktop" in the Linux community.

    Windows is the general purpose OS, with a common shell. That's what MS did, settle on one UI (mostly), so it's a common experience everywhere.

  • What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?
  • Such things are possibly influenced by things like Latin. English (generally) has different written forms for noun and verb forms, which kind of reflect spoken language (though none of this is set in pudding, let alone stone).

    There's a great podcast "The History of English" By Kevin Stroud, that discusses such things.

  • Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
  • I imagine the manufacturers and their lawyers are why we don't have greater access to OBDII and CANBUS info.

    There's a number of things I'd love to control via CANBUS, like the remote start system, climate control, etc.

  • Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
  • Fucking Jeep/Chrysler. Like who keeps buying this garbage?

    If someone gave me one, I'd sell it before it had a chance of showing a CEL.

    Jeep/Chrysler history: an amalgamation of numerous car companies since the 1950's, so all sorts of competing design approaches, conflicting engineering, and dead weight.

    And I'd love to own a Studebaker Hawk (which was Kaiser before Studebaker).

  • Can marketing work to increase sales price of land?
  • That's less "marketing" than location. Location, location, location.

    It's been important since the beginning of flight as a waypoint, and is far enough north to provide security coverage for the Atlantic.

  • Built a shelve to transport long consumables and tools on the bed of my work truck
  • Nice. I'm sure it makes a big difference, keeping stuff out of the way.

    Though I don't know that I'd trust those nails/screws to handle the dynamic loads of a vehicle. I'd want the vertical supports directly under loads, so the fasteners just keep things together.

    A friend made a ply tray on small ball rollers for stuff up in the front. He puts toolboxes on it, the tray has a lip so they stay in place, and he uses a piece of cord to pull it out. Ingenious. But I really like those drawers of yours.

  • What is this tower?
  • As much as I agree the fake trees seem fake, they're surprisingly effective.

    I've asked people about cell towers on a hill nearby, and no one has ever noticed them. I tell them they look like fake trees, they still don't know.

    Our brains are pretty good at filtering out seemingly useless information.

  • Does adderall make anyone feel less anxious?
  • I believe it's a mild SNRI, with a greater norepinephrine effect than serotonin.

    But it's been a while since I've read about it.

    Also think of it this way - ADHD is a dysfunction of executive functions, kind of like the conductor for your brain has a bit of narcolepsy. So the orchestra gets chaotic when he lapses; percussion timing gets thrown off, the horns start getting louder, violins keep coming in late.

    It would be near impossible to switch to another song when this is going on, and all the players are freaking out trying to stay on track with the current song.

    Toss in a medication that seems to keep the conductor from falling asleep, and that chaos abates. All the players now have someone to look to for what to do next, how loudly to play, or to slow things down when the conductor gives them a sign.

    When it's time to change songs, the conductor can now say "ok, everyone, let's play Hangout With Family", everyone changes their sheet music and starts playing at that tempo.

  • Suppressor Maximum Decibel Reduction

    Totally off the wall question, which I realize probably isn't very meaningful, but I was watching a movie where a character was using a suppressed rifle. Looked like an AR/.223 (I assume).

    Well it got me thinking - how much can a given gun be suppressed (decibel reduction) before performance is significantly reduced (I assume it must impact performance, even if just a little since it's attenuating sound waves, which are energy, but what do I know?).

    I'm sure it varies by round/load, barrel length, etc, so let's assume a subsonic .223 round in a 14" barrel (is that a common lenth?). Or if you know a specific case that's fine too.

    Surely there are reasons why a given suppressor is chosen for a specific use case, and I don't know enough to see that (diminishing returns for length/weight?)

    I tried asking chatgpt, but it just returned generic suppressor info.

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