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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

My only complaint with microcenter is that the commission in incentives come off as extreme. Like I will be walking around with something in my hand and a rando will come up to me, say "hey there boss, lemme just slap this on that for you," and proceed to put a sticker on it with their ID. Not a big deal, but palpable, and makes it harder to just browse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AI generated, so influenced from all of the above (with a sprinkling of Chrysler LeBaron perhaps?).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Many new cars have "run-flats," which can be used even if they get a puncture/go flat.

However, they are more expensive, they don't function under certain kinds of flats (e.g., sidewall damage), they have limited range, and limited speed.

The tiny "donut" spares on some cars are also not intended for high speeds, but I'd much prefer that to a punctured run-flat. (You should probably place the donut on the rear of your car is front wheel drive, though.)

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 months ago

When I took some astronomy classes in the early 2000s, Jocelyn Bell was absolutely credited. In her own words:

It has been suggested that I should have had a part in the Nobel Prize awarded to Tony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars. There are several comments that I would like to make on this: First, demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it - after all, I am in good company, am I not!

That said, yeah, I think she absolutely should have been awarded the Nobel prize. But while she did not, she has the admiration


rightly so


of many a budding astronomer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And I'd bet "real bills" are only bills that the parent deems worthy


mortgage, car payment, etc. I'm guessing teacher pays rent, utilities, pays for groceries...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"no real bills" I'd believe...if the parent said she lived at home (no rent, and food provided), was on parents' insurance (health, auto, etc.), had no student debt, and was walking distance to work.

But given that her parent didn't, I'd guess that isn't the case. Turns out rent, food, transportation, and like you said, student debt, are all...what's the word...real bills?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get that people feel like they have so little control over their lives that they feel the need to generally be passive aggressive assholes to people they deem unworthy, but this is just an overall dick move. Having working public/municipal plumbing is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I think the UK does more video surveillance than the US (e.g., https://www.yahoo.com/news/britain-more-surveillance-cameras-per-151641361.html ).

Still no match for the babushkas, of course.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This happened to me when Debian switched from SysV to systemd. I am not the only person who experienced this (e.g., https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147478 ).

This is not to say the systemd behavior is wrong, but it essentially changed the behavior of fstab. Whether this is Debian's fault, Arch's fault (per the above link), systemd's fault, or my fault is a fair question. But this committed that most egregious of sins per our Lord and Savior Torvalds


it broke my userspace.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

My favorite was when the behavior of a USB drive in /etc/fstab went from "hmm it's not plugged in at boot, I'll let the user know" to "not plugged in? Abort! Abort! We can't boot!"

This change over previous init behavior was especially fun on headless machines...

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

If you're OOTL, it's a reference to the Republican posting about being a black nazi on a porn site https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mark-robinson-black-nazi-porn-forum-1235107129/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think they mean just the domain name, but not positive.

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