theneverfox

Imagine a rodent with duck feet. It's between the height of your navel to your sternum - about 300lb. The hair is very coarse. It has a stubby tail. It eats like a goat but acts like a happy cow - they enjoy pets but would run away before acting aggressive

But what if we make a better world for no reason?

We should probably just keep drilling

What a stupid headline... The article is about how the Paris accords aren't aggressive enough

Holy shit... When I got my wisdom teeth out, I literally broke down in tears after being awake for 20 minutes without Percocet

Friend, it's ok to take opiates sometimes...

Kratom could be an option. You make it into tea, the first cup is a weak stimulant, the second (on an empty stomach) will start to work as a weak opiate. The third or fourth might give you stronger relief. The red strains are supposedly better for pain relief

You can't OD on it, it's commonly available in head shops or online. The addiction potential is very low, you'll make yourself nauseous before getting what you'd get out of normal opiates. It's most closely related to the coffee plant - the toxicity concerns are all about contamination, the plant itself is pretty innocuous

I can give brewing instructions if anyone wants to go down that path, I drink it for anxiety but others say it helps with pain management

I definitely have an expectation of privacy in a locker room...

No, what we want is benches. And for people to not sleep on them because they have somewhere better to sleep

Hostile architecture isn't hostile to the homeless. It's hostile to humans, the goal is to make it uncomfortable to be there

That doesn't really match the master/slave relationship. The distributed instances aren't slaved to the master. They're each doing their own thing, but as part of that they have a hierarchical relationship when it comes to synchronization

Distributed computing gets more into the concept of swarms. Each piece is autonomous, and the swarm self-organizes. We made up a bunch of paradigms around this that were basically obsolete by the time we needed them - I think the relationship here is leader/follower, but I've never heard that terminology outside the classroom

They're sharded. It's like host/mirror, except each mirror is an equally correct part of the real picture

One of them is the leader, but it doesn't control the rest of them. It just coordinates them

When you get into swarm concepts, like sharding or activitypub, it doesn't make sense to describe the relationship between nodes anymore. The relationship between any two nodes is "part of the same swarm". You describe the nature of the swarm as a whole, or the behavior of individual nodes

Fuck the webcam, what about the mic?

Pooh bear found out his missiles were fueled with water, and some of his launch silos never existed. He did a purge of the military and got real quiet about launching an invasion

Now they're showing their special forces threading lines of needles and riding electric skateboards.

I'm not saying China wouldn't invade Taiwan, but I really don't think they're going to in the near future

Primary/secondary means they're all doing their thing, but one is preferred. There's no instruction going on between them

If you have a primary and secondary web servers, you'll use the primary first, but the secondary or secondaries are a fallback

If you have a primary and secondary drive, you have two drives, one of which is more important (probably because you booted from it). The secondary could be a copy or just another drive, either way the OS or a raid controller is managing it, one drive doesn't manage another

Similarly, we have dispatch/worker- the difference between that and master/slave is that they're different things. A master should be able to work without a slave, and a slave should be capable of being promoted to master - a dispatcher can't do the work and the worker can't take over if the dispatch goes down

The funny thing is we don't use master/slave much anymore, the whole premise is that the slave doesn't start to do what it does when it starts up. I can't think of any examples of it in the past decade - other paradigms, with a different relationship and a different name, have replaced it

Honestly, we aren't much different now - the main thing is we've tried to make "no" a safe word

I like watching stream highlights, occasionally I'll watch one live. But they're generally pretty boring, even as background noise - they're on there for hours at a time

I don't think the relationship itself is bad, but it's a relationship between you (massively plural) and an individual. It's like being part of a crowd. I get that people like it, but I don't get much out of it