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Rentlar

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  • I once traveled from Vladivostok to Moscow by train

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  • Well, the closer you are to the North Pole, the easier time you will have crossing time zones, distance-wise.

    Since I'm doing the math on my phone, I'm using an approximation of the Earth being a sphere with a radius of 6371km, and your train track is directly west, all at the same latitude, and equal longitude based timezones every 15°.

    The circle around our Earth at that latitude has a circumference of 2 × pi × 6371 × cos(theta), kilometres, where theta is the latitude (imagine a triangle between the starting location, the centre of our model Earth and a point partway along a line that connects the equator and the centre). Divide that by 24, and that is the distance you need to travel in my model scenario to go back an hour, and thus the speed in km/h the westbound train needs to go to repeat the same hour again consistently.

    Examples:

    • Going directly west from Vladivostok: 1667.92 × cos (43.12°) = 1217 km/h
    • Going to St. Petersburg: 1667.92 × cos(59.94°) = 835 km/h
    • Going from the tip of the mainland of the Russian Far East: 1667.92 × cos(66.06°) = 677km/h
    • To Murmansk: 1667.92 × cos(68.98) = 598 km/h
    • From Saskylaky, a rural settlement: 1667.92 × cos(71.96°) = 516 km/h
    • From the uninhabited top of the Russian mainland through a railway on the ocean: 1667.92 × cos(77.74°) = 354 km/h
    • From Rudolf Island, northernmost island in Russia: 1667.92 × cos(81.76°) = 239 km/h

  • Trump ramps up attacks on Democrats as ‘godless Communists’ ahead of November’s midterms

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  • Letting the government do anything good for you and your community, is the Republicans' definition of communism and socialism. According to Republicans in Congress and the Trump admin and the Supreme Court, the role of the federal government is to subsidize billionaires and trillionaires, undertake vanity DC projects that are utter failures, start pointless wars they can't finish, make everything unaffordable, tax Americans through tariffs, pardon criminals only in exchange for bribes gratuities, and send goon squads to harass immigrants and dissenters.

    Under these terms, who wouldn't want communism and socialism?

  • The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights

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  • They're originalists, of course. Since none of y'all were around when the Constitution was written, guess what, you don't get rights. Corporations are Adam Smith's babies so they get rights.

  • JD Vance's Bizarre Defense Of Nixon Is Going Viral For All The Wrong Reasons

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  • Watergate would be a 12 hour news story only because this administration has a Watergate-level scandal every other day.

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  • I don't think you're alone. I'm serious and occasionally judgemental on Lemmy, and if I am discussing something I care deeply to ensure the accuracy of my facts whenever I make a claim.

    In contrast, on meme and shitpost communities, I'm a lot less serious and more of a jokester. My suggestion is it might be best for you to avoid the politics communities. Make some posts sharing your pics, arts and crafts, there is much less judgement (and for people that think it's their job to judge your craft beyond helpful and constructive criticism, you should block).

    Oh, also if you see a comment that is nested more than 6 times down, and it's not the AskOuija community, it's probably best to skip over reading all that, becuase it's often two annoying users going at each other. They might be having fun, but there's no need to get yourself involved.

  • Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11

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  • As the RAM apocalypse continues to plague all of us, it’s only fair for users to continue using the more efficient Windows 10, instead of the memory-hogging Windows 11.

    Win 10 isn't even that memory efficient and still slams the heck out of plattered disks. Not that I recommend an HDD over an SSD for boot drives, but it was usable up to Win 8.1, and even today with Linux.

  • Postmaster General Confirms Plan to Hold Back Mail Ballots Under Proposed Rule

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  • We need a judicial injunction post-haste against any interference in ballot deliveries, and to compel the USPS to deliver ballots despite any bullshit investigation by the executive.

  • [META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?

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  • What's the threshold for a tag?

    Just add context as a top level comment or in the body text area. Someone can come in to clarify if the poster is missing it.

    Even for a poster sometimes it's not obvious if there is any AI in the project. Example: Lutris, dev said they are adding Claude commits and will be scrubbing mentions of the tool from PRs. Sometimes AI is discussed but rejected.

    It's easy to tell when a whole project has been vibecoded, but the grey zone of an existing project that may or may not have had slopcode added, is tougher for posters to discern.

  • What is the magic sysreq combination?

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  • The function I used most often aside from the usual sequence is Alt-SysRq-F. This runs oomkiller to SIGKILL what would appear to be the process hogging the most memory. That was usually enough to get control back from an agonizingly sluggish system caused by hitting the swapspace. I didn't need it anymore after I upgraded to 48GB of RAM.

    Another way to remember the classic mnemonic, it's "busier" in reverse, after holding down for a second the Alt and SysRq keys (which may require a function key combo on some keyboards).

    You should check ahead of time whether the value of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq is not zero to be sure the Sysrq functions are enabled. If not, then in /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf you can add the line kernel.sysrq = 1 to enable all features, or a higher number to enable select features.

  • Elon Musk threatens to sue lawmaker who suggested DOGE cuts led to death of 4.5M kids

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  • Ok. Go ahead. Countersuing the "trillionaire" for punitive damages is not above Congressman Khanna, of all people.

  • Can we finally admit that Lemmy is just Reddit trying to tell you its not Reddit?

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  • https://lemmy.ca/post/7243839/4029041

    I already wrote about what's different back in Oct 2023 in response to a complaint reminiscent of yours. Most important bit:

    That’s what you will have to deal with in the de-centralized model, and I think it strikes a decent balance of allowing open communication, resisting overall censorship while still allowing some groups to censor out what they consider bad vibes.

  • Simple hard way to conjugate Japanese verbs

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  • Seems like a fine way, but the number of rules and exceptions seem about equivalent to the "2-category, 5 sub-category" method of learning it.

    And it is mentioned already but si = shi, ti = chi, tu = tsu rules should already be ingrained by the time you get to conjugation, there are very few practical examples of てぃ words etc. in hiragana, so I really don't think a learner needs to fuss too much over that.

  • Why the fuck do people post photos of text instead of just text?

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    Sometimes the meme is the word(s) itself.

  • Trump’s $14M reflecting pool paint job is now peeling off and floating to the surface

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  • The pool paint job is still going better than more than half the things the Trump administration has undertaken. That should say a lot.

  • Conway: Macron Is Trolling 'Ignoramus' Trump at Versailles

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  • Even the MAGA Twitter account Rapid Response 47 can't spin their way from quoting Trump that doesn't make him sound like an old, tired, doddering idiot.

    “Did you sign the MOU?”

    “It’s signed, yeah... I signed it in Versailles.”

  • Trump says it’s ‘back to dropping bombs’ if he doesn’t like final Iran deal

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  • Back to illegal war crimes not authorized by Congress.

  • ‘Accomplished nothing’: Critics trash Trump’s boasting about ‘great’ Iran deal

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  • Great! Deal with Iran, peace in the Middle East, woohoo... now back to investigating and releasing more of the Epstein Files?

  • Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

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  • Maybe Zuck should pay his employees more for the extra work put on them from the layoff, to lift their spirits.

  • ‘Trump has surrendered to Iran’: Some prominent GOP hawks fear Trump just caved

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  • This was on the better end of outcomes after a certain point (as long as Israel can stop running interference)...

    Trump wasn't going to get to where the Obama deal was, so I knew he'd have to give concessions but claiming whatever he does as a win. Even if Iran were to annex part of Florida as part of the deal, he would say it's a win. Lying is easy as breathing for Trump, but the hardest thing is ever admitting wrongdoing.