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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, I just meant that you can't sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn't elevated to root with sudo. I'm not saying anything too profound :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to identify I'm a citizen.

It's kinda worse than that


it's used to authenticate yourself as a citizen.

My SSN should at most be an ID, no different from a name. I can identify myself as Darth Vader or 4200-69-1337, but that shouldn't matter, because I should never be able to authenticate myself as either of those.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

But the endian switches for the teens


twenty three is "tens place ones place," but thirteen is "ones place tens place."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just checked, and the company website page on my relatively high end carbon bike has a listed max weight (rider+bike+equipment) of 120kg. Easy enough to find on the page.

That said...were I close to that limit, I think I'd opt for a steel bike, or maybe titanium if I have the money. Carbon is amazing but its failure mechanism isn't pretty.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compiling a kernel yourself isn't a big deal these days, especially with DKMS. Generally the type of people I've encountered who care about which kernel version they're usiyare the type of people who are capable of compiling it themselves...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root


can't run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Also a super useful tool for measuring real world bandwidth, both on physical media and over the network ( dd status=progress ... | nc ...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 95 points 1 year ago (24 children)

As much as I think a "would you like to have a beer with the candidates?" is a stupid way of measuring things...I wouldn't mind having a beer with these candidates.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's also, in my opinion, the most verb-able of all *NIX commands.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not really true though. My family has excellent insurance, and the whole process of having a kid and all the pediatric visits since have been great (both in terms of care and cost).

That said, our healthcare system sucks at a population level, and I certainly recognize that. But I think recognition that our system works very well for a small part of the population is an important thing to acknowledge.

I certainly "hold an unfavorable view" of the US healthcare system...but that's not because it doesn't work for me personally.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

Yep, I was just reciting the next line in the script :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase...

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