Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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9/11 happened on 9/11 because 9-1-1 is a thing... At least that's what I've always heard.

I can't say I blame you, it's a pretty wishy-washy post. Especially with Brighter Shores (Andrew Gower's new game) right around the corner.

By integrating everything into it, it has become a good enough medium of communication for almost everything.

Except that's not at all what we've done.

The only reason English dominates is because it's the dominant language of the world super powers following world war II. It's not because of some special design, principle, or properties.

English isn't just "make up whatever rules and put them wherever", particularly formal English which is what we're talking about in the context of education.

Really, a better argument against changing the spelling is the classic "standards" xkcd, where now you're just making another dialect of English where they spell words differently again, and now it needs to be adopted, fracturing the language further.

Language will evolve with or without direction. We have the structure in the form of schools to actually evolve it with direction in the name of making things more consistent and intuitive. We should use it, that's all.

The old "why try to do anything because it will never be perfect" argument never holds water.

I disagree that it's a fools errand. Misspellings rarely become popular enough to become "proper" because we teach everyone the "proper" spelling and we have spell checkers on our computers that are used for virtually everything.

There's no method for the people speaking the English language to put pressure on a word that already exists because we've build up this infrastructure to "lock things in' and insist that "they've been this way so they must continue to be this way." The only way we get language evolution currently is via slang ... which is hardly a way to get a better language.

I know the history of facade, it's like many other words we've stolen from other languages that don't make a lick of sense in our alphabet. It's not an infinite list, it's fixable, but we need to change the mind share that "it has to be this way."

We made up official spellings, we can fix them, they're not an immutable law of nature.

I also like the idea of extended driver's license requirements to drive some of these monsters vs a sedan.

Yeah, don't do that. You're asking for the game to shut off at best. They probably won't have the anticheat configured to outright ban you for that but, as a general rule: do not tamper with multiplayer anti-cheat protected games.

My recommendation would be to go to their discord and request the option.

EDIT: I will say this is overly cautious advice, I've never seen Crytek in general or any other developer ban people for using render alternating software that wasn't specifically designed to be a cheat.

All that and a bag of chips

I remember that being said ... a handful of times

followed by snapping your fingers 3 times in the shape of a Z seems like something a sane person would say?

and I barely remember that... certainly I don't remember it tied to the former.

or "bout it bout it rowdy rowdy"?

0 recollection of that

or "salty" or "scrubs" when not refering to sodium or doctors medical attire.

Fair.

Our slang, just like every generations slang, was the worst.

I was informed by a friend I'm actually thinking of gen alpha slang (and blaming Gen Z) with stuff like ... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skibidi%20Toilet

I guess it's just a matter of what's "normal" with folks around you, particular as a kid. I certainly wasn't in a slang heavy group of kids in general. We texted with (near) proper grammar and full sentences and also found the "r u k? bb" kind of stuff pretty cringe-worthy.

That's something only a teacher would say. As someone who did all their school work and got a fancy engineering job, a lot of it was bogus busy work that 99% of us have completely forgotten.

You can't tell me that I needed two teachers having me comb through the book for words that weren't part of the index so that I could rewrite the word's textbook definition on a piece of paper verbatim on a weekly basis and that that was a good education experience.

You can't tell me my high school study hall where they'd give you something to do if you were bored and forbid you from sleeping or playing games unless the study hall monitor "liked you" was a good experience.

I mean my high school algebra teacher couldn't even remember the algebra lesson she'd taught every year for over a decade when I had her. If it was really a life skill or that important, she would've remembered.

In calculus they teach you the hard way to differentiate and then they're just like "ah but actually you can do it this way and that's how everyone does it."

Artificially raising the difficulty by forbidding formula sheets in math is also just stupid. If you can see the problem, recognize which formula to use, and use it, that should be enough.

We're just straight up wasting millions of hours of people's time with our education system that has very little merit in terms of long term results and retention and negatively affects both people that come out of it "passing with flying colors" and people that flunk out because of various home life circumstances, bad teachers, difficult with the material, or a lack of interest.

Students are miserable (suicide is at an all time high last I checked and I'm pretty confident it's not just about social media), administrators are miserable, teachers are miserable, and kids really don't learn all that much that stays with them into adulthood. We desperately try to shove way too much information into people's heads in a very dry and uncaptivating way. We need to throw the system out and figure out how to teach what matters and change/replace stuff that doesn't matter or make sense (e.g. we changed the spelling of various words in the past, why don't we fix them instead of teaching a bunch of ridiculous spellings that make no sense like facade, ghost, llama, etc).

That's fair, I did just check my Rocky Linux install and it does indeed use LVM.

So much stuff in this space has moved to hosted/cloud I didn't think about that.

The bird site was great in the early days when it was a bunch of micro blogs. It was basically freely hosted short form RSS feeds. I could keep track of so many things so easily from all my devices.

When the focus changed to more of a "town square" rather than just "hey I/we did this thing and you should know about it in 255 characters or less!" that's when it became a mess.

Musk took a useful platform, failed to see it for what it is at its best, and elevated what made it its worst (gossip, rage baiting, berating, false information, and sensitizationalized content lacking nuance or substance). To be clear, that transition predates Musk and was driven more by users than Twitter the company, but Musk accelerated it (this is fundamentally visible in moves like monetizing the API which prevented Twitter ingesting and outputting various feeds for a large number of use cases).

RIP little blue bird, RIP

Did your friend borrow your Lenny account to shame you for not learning to Google things?

I haven't seen LVM in any recent Fedora (very high confidence), Debian (high confidence), or OpenSUSE (fairly confident) installations (just using the default options) on any system that's using GPT partition tables.

For RAID, I've only ever seen mdadm or ZFS (though I see LVM is an option for doing this as well per the arch wiki). Snapshotting I normally see done either at the file system level with something like rsnapshot, kopia, restic, etc or using a file system that supports snapshots like btrfs or ZFS.

If you're still using MBR and/or completely disabling EFI via the "legacy boot loader" option or similar, then yeah they will use LVM ... but I wouldn't say that's the norm.

Go for it, use a personal anecdote if you have one about how you or someone you know was bit by not putting blocks in front of the wheels.

If you don't have one... make up a white lie about how your now deceased great uncle Johnny told you he left a trailer out without blocks on a little slope like that and it rolled into the street.

The anecdotes / a story can be a ... easier path to selling the truth that can feel a bit more humbled vs "I know better than you, so do what I say."

So I fixed this by using clonezilla (which seemed to fix things up automatically), but for my edification, how do you get the UUID of the device itself? The only UUIDs I was seeing seemingly were the partition UUIDs.

There wasn't any LVM involved, it's AFAIK pretty rare outside of MBR installs (as GPT typically lets you have more than enough partitions).

Very interesting. I wasn't finding anywhere what the device ID was. Everything was looking like it was copied over from where I was (at least noticing).

Clonezilla seems to have taken care of the necessary updates so if you do this again I'd recommend just using that. I hate that it's yet another special ISO tool to keep around on a USB thumb drive, but if I'd used that from the start several hours of my life would've been saved 😅

Pretty much exactly my experience and takeaway on both Windows and Linux.

It's definitely not the smoothest launch... But the review bomb has felt a bit undeserved.

Thanks for translating ... my brain is completely fried from fighting with this.