Balinares

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It... depends. There is some great tooling for Python -- this was less true only a few years ago, mind you -- but the landscape is very much in flux, and usage of the modern stuff is not yet widespread. And a lot of the legacy stuff has a whole host of pitfalls.

Things are broadly progressing in the right direction, and I'd say I'm cautiously optimistic, although if you have to deal with anything related to conda then for the time being: good luck, and sorry.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, and therefore the Earth speeds up or slows down depending on where on its orbit it is at the time. In turn this means that the duration of the solar day fluctuates from day to day, from a bit under 24h to a bit over 24h and back.

So if you take a picture every 24h precisely the sun will appear to move horizontally a little bit on top of the expected vertical movement.

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

I mean, he's been implementing hard right policies all along, so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The default actually works pretty well these days.

Messing with the EFI partition, for instance by attempting to have two of those on separate disks, will probably cause you more pain than Windows will. As far as I understand, only one EFI partition can be configured in BIOS as the boot partition, so you will have to change the configuration in BIOS whenever you want to boot to the other OS.

Windows does have a history of changing the default EFI bootloader once in a while; however your chosen bootloader is still there, just not marked as the default anymore. A Windows app like EasyUEFI will let you change the default back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The ONE time in half a decade I take a trip to Seattle...

"Possible cyberattack" plus "no threat actors or ransomware group has taken responsibility" sounds to me like someone fucked up and is timid about owning up.

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

She's pretty and deserves neck scritches. :) Also needs to see a farrier.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Yup, that's a giant house spider. No kidding, that's the vernacular name of the species, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider. Formerly filed under the tegenaria genus, now its own genus.

They're comically large and terror-inducing, but not aggressive. And they keep out more aggressive species too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Windows 98 really sucked and running Unix at home became an option.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was this a mistake?

Clarifying: are you asking if downloading the Proton Mail app through the Google Play Store gives Google access to your Proton account? If so, the answer is no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Hey, friend. This sounds super stressful, and I hope things will not take too long to be sorted out. I hope you'll manage to make room to take care of yourself too until you get to the other side of this. I'm rooting for you!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

All labels are imperfect, I guess. That's the nature of labels: a shorthand for a complex reality.

I don't know if the "trans" label is or isn't a good shorthand for the complex reality of your identity. But the important thing is: your identity is valid and yours, regardless of what labels you stick on it.

If you feel that you are a woman, be that partially or completely, then congratulations, girl, there you go. Or maybe what you feel like switches back and forth depending on your mood, or maybe you exist somewhere in the middle. That's valid too. There are other labels worth exploring in that space, non-binary, genderfluid... I suppose the only really useful thing here is to work out which ones resonate with you as a suitable shorthand for who you are.

Oh and who you are attracted to is irrelevant. Lots of trans gals are lesbians. Doesn't make them any less trans.

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