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

Hobby 1: Ballroom dancing

No I'm pretty sure Strictly Ballroom is a completely accurate portrayal of ballroom dancing.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Whatever you decide for your laptop, I'm a proponent of a barebones off-site setup if you're trying for 3-2-1 backup or similar.

I use a raspberry pi 3 with a single HD (ZFS) retaining some number of daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. Daily rsync, everything over WireGuard+VPS (TailScale would work too).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

From our experience in the US, the birth is nothing compared to the financial drain of the other expenses. And at this age, childcare dwarfs all the other child-related expenses.

We have great insurance and don't rely on family for childcare though, so the math is very very different for someone with "free" familial childcare and no/lousy insurance...

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

Others mentioned virtualization


I have had issues with COW filesystems (btrfs), as COW does not always play nicely with VM drives (extreme fragmentation and very poor performance).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know how compensation works in academic administration, but if there's any vesting going on then you could "take a pay cut" but end up making more due to previous compensation vesting.

Certainly possible for public companies, but again, unsure if that could be the case for a university president...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My understanding is that this is precisely why they have lifetime appointments


a judge can turn around and piss off those who appointed them and there's little recourse, because they'll never be up for election again (similar to the nominal purpose of academic tenure).

I think it's a pretty bad system and there are a million better ways of doing things, but in this one instance the system is maybe working as (I believe it was) intended (even if she holds pretty reprehensible views in other aspects).

Not a lawyer, not a history buff, so grain of salt and all that...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Temba, his hand throwing horns 🤘

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 1 month ago

from stdlib.h import cout

Wait this looks wrong, shit...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Anything can use it, but I think by convention it's used for http on a non-privileged port.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

That...is not how most people view breaks. Especially if you're into sports, which a pretty large chunk of the world is (just a hunch, but I'm guessing you're not).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

Not the "trickle down" that we were promised, but at least this trickle down is real?

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