medem

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[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

I'll just throw in the mandatory 'He didn't choose Orange Life. Orange Life chose him'.

 

TL;DR: India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. Aggregated percent of total: 50.4

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 39 points 1 day ago

Well, now that y'all put it that way, I think it was pretty naive from me to think that these companies, whose business model is basically theft, would honour a lousy robots.txt file...

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What advantage does this software provide over simply banning bots via robots.txt?

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 day ago

I first thought this article was about their self driving cars and I was like who tf gets in a self driving car with their baby. It's not. It's about Tesla cars in general. Scary stuff.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago

I think they meant 'because'

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 4 points 6 days ago

A real mystery indeed.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 week ago

There are now studies (I/you need to look up the references since I'm now in a hurry) which posit that, especially in bigger organisations, 80% of the work gets done by 20% of non-managing individuals - because of exactly this phenomenon.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 24 points 1 week ago

The scam isn't 'hard work'

The scam is the 'a job gives you(r life) purpose' narrative.

Nope, times a thousand. Meaningful relationships, having realistic (but still challenging) goals, self-expression, responsibility for the well-being of others and engaging in meaningful initiatives, among many others, do.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually did, but people don't normally have conversations about why NATO is a good/bad idea on first encounter 😆

 

The prequel to the 'A Quiet Place' saga got me thinking.

spoiler alert!

There is a scene in which many humans march towards a safety point. Each individual human would have been relatively quiet, but because there are a lot of them (potentially hundreds), they end up being, as a whole, loud enough to alert the monsters so they get all killed.

This would suggest that many sources of noise which are near to each other and generate more or less the same amount of noise end up adding up so that the end result in dB is more or less the sum of the individual dB levels.

But then again, it's fiction.

Back to reality, I work in a room full of different servers which have also very different levels of noise. I have noticed that from my standpoint, the noise of the quietest server seems to disappear whenever the loudest is running, so it kind of does blow my mind how our perception of noise works...

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