Betteridge says no.

Thank you- this is exactly the sort of critique I had been expecting/hoping to find

I agree with you, and would go further.

A while back, there was a study (IIRC) from the UK that recommended against gender transitioning for children. No surprise, it created quite an uproar before it was retracted.

At no point in any of the media coverage or comments on Lemmy, etc, did I see any discussion of the study itself. To this day, I have no idea if there was an issue with the methodology. It seems that no one, neither supporters nor opponents, bothered to read past the headline. Many of them were very fervent in their beliefs, but that wasn’t enough to get them to look at the details.

This is also very bad for science - there are countless headline-grabbing “studies” that fail basic requirements. I’m sure you’ve seen things like “Is coffee/chocolate/etc good for you? A new 10-day study of 23 people suggests that…”. Which of course should get picked apart.

If we aren’t following the science, then what are we even trying to do?

(As an aside, I suspect that study was flawed, but I can’t confirm. It goes against the conclusions widely agreed upon, and would require significant rigor and evidence to support the claim)

This is exactly why, for many years, there was no percentage on the label. They were concerned that people would try to get it to 100%.

Fast forward a few decades, and it’s extremely rare to find Americans consuming that little sugar, so the concern was no longer valid.

Do you have any idea how many cups/mugs/plates/pans say this? Most of my dishes are not “dishwasher safe”. Only a couple have had any issues with it.

Similarly, look at how many of your clothes are incredibly delicate according to the tag. It’s erring on the side of extreme caution, and to provide a defense if it’s a piece of shit that falls apart.

That said, I didn’t check the compatibility of your selected SR transceiver against your NICs and switch, so I’ll presume you’ve done your homework for that.

This is the part that’s making me the most nervous. Even when I can find a compatibility list, they only refer to obscure first-party transceivers that I can’t find (or cost an absurd amount). But from what I have gathered, SFP+ is perfectly standardized, and it’s only the lockout code preventing you from using any transceiver on the market.

I couldn’t even tell if there’s a difference (beyond basic spec compatibility, like 1G vs 10g, SR MMF vs LR, etc) between the expensive ones over the cheap generics. There must be some differences, because I see multiple models that look otherwise identical. Unless they’re just aesthetics/date indicators, which is always a possibility.

In order to do business in Mexico, they must agree to Mexican laws.

In order to do business in Canada, they must follow Canadian laws.

In order to do business in the US, they must follow US laws kiss the ring.

This isn’t the first time big tech has had to tackle something like this. Usually it’s with disputed territory. In that case, each region gets to see what it demands to see, while presenting something different to the rest of the world.

I’m inferring that you are not in the US, so your local laws may differ. But in the US, your attorney is required to act in your best interests to the best of their ability. Working against their client is a quick way to be disbarred and paying a massive amount to their (now former) client.

That said, this whole thing seems like an exercise in creative writing. Your life savings would be too tempting to any attorney, and they would try to steal it? You need to make friends with someone powerful to find a good lawyer? You’ll need all of this in a few months, but not now? None of it makes any sense.

What did those poor cables do to you to get the Liam Neeson treatment?

But can it spy on users for marketing purposes? That’s the real question.

/s

Just so we’re all on the same page, they aren’t meeting to negotiate peace. They’re meeting to divide assets. It’s probate, basically.

Counter point: Lemmy has always been more toxic.

I’ve never seen a group (as a whole) that’s less capable of accepting that there are things they don’t know, or other viewpoints.

Here’s the universal link:

https://lemmy.ca/post/39050251

2 upvotes (including mine), 8 downvotes.

Not especially long, at least not at this time. I need about 13m end-to-end for my current plan.

Unsurprisingly, fitness is always more complicated than it seems.

You are certainly correct that runners don’t burn (much) more calories than a couch potato. But weightlifters do, vs a couch potato of the same weight.

The thing about cardio is that the calories go directly into effort. The calories burned are roughly proportional to the effort (distance). But the moment you stop, the calories stop getting burned.

If you are doing weightlifting, the calories spent at the time to lift a heavy object are minimal. But it instructs your body to add muscle to better handle all the heavy lifting you do. Once you have that muscle, you burn a ton of calories 24 hours per day just keeping it alive. It becomes part of your base metabolic rate. It burns nearly the same calories whether you’re at the gym, or sitting on the couch. And it will continue to burn those calories until your body decides you no longer need that extra muscle mass and it atrophies.

I’ve found it to have extremely limited value, but not zero. It’s been useful as a shortcut for things I can already do myself. For instance, I can easily get syntax for a param block, or build a window form. Could I do it myself? Absolutely, and pretty easily. And I can recognize when it’s right vs wrong. But it’s marginally faster to have copilot do it instead of digging up the documentation.

It’s more like a party trick than a trillion dollar revolution. The $20/month for a full time dev is probably around the break even point for the labor savings. It’s not going to save THAT much time.

It seems that some people don’t get the joke. At least, I assume it’s a joke.

It’s my understanding that the vendor branding on FS transceivers is just a string to match what the vendor’s lockout code is looking for. Since Mikrotik doesn’t do that, I went with Ubiquiti in case I decide to move to that in the future.

Fortunately, the fiber will mostly be running through an unfinished basement. I previously tried to run smurf tube behind finished wall, and it was much harder than it sounded. It’s hard to drill a hole that big, things didn’t line up, and parts of it involved extremely tight quarters. I would contract it out before I’d try it again.

Thanks for the quick reply. The available x4 slots are all physically x16, but electrically x4.

While my use case today is pretty narrow, I’d rather not mess with the custom network settings to make it all cooperate on an otherwise completely flat network. The file server is running Ubuntu, and the desktop is currently running VMware ESXi. In the future, I expect to replace it with something else. I did verify that it lists the Intel network chipset on the HCL.

It’s a bit off topic, but I’ve always wondered how it was cheaper to manufacture cars in Canada. I can’t imagine Canadian wages are lower than the Deep South, which has a ton of US auto manufacturing.