Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Not sure whether my audio is desynced or if the referee is blowing the whistle way too early in this game.
For anyone using the DHCPv6 client app (be.mygod.dhcpv6client) on a recent version of Android, here's something that might save you some frustration - I learned it the hard way.
In theory, you'd only need the app to run occasionally if your leasetimes are reasonably long, so it's tempting to try and save battery by not exempting it from background restrictions. I figured I'd be clever and rig up a trigger to fire it every day plus whenever I reconnected to the network, which is probably cheaper than running a separate app constantly. And lo and behold, my wifi just couldn't hold a connection anymore.
After a lot of troubleshooting, it turns out that, when the app is killed off by the system, the underlying library removes any addresses it's acquired. On its face, this doesn't seem so bad, as the network should revert to IPv4-only after those addresses are removed. But it gets worse: because you stop receiving IPv6 traffic immediately, but the connectivity check takes a while to invalidate the cached IPv6 address it's monitoring, Android will interpret the fact that it's no longer receiving responses as evidence that the network failed. So your phone disconnects from the wifi - and if the whole cycle triggers on every connection, you'll never get more than about a minute of connectivity before it all comes crashing down.
So as far as I can tell, there's no alternative but to exempt it from background restrictions, and leave it running constantly even though you only need it to exchange a couple packets with the router every 24 hours. If anyone figures out a way to overcome this, I'd love to hear about it. Otherwise, I hope this helps someone else facing similar frustrations.
@mitch oof I feel that
@mitch that's fair. I'm not much good at interpreting radar returns so I usually just want the quantitative precipitation probabilities.
@mitch what's missing from the Android ones? Never had an Apple device, but I've always found Geometric Weather (wangdaye.com.geometricweather) very satisfactory.
@deli_rum selection bias. Suppose the opposite were true: it's usually a greater personal risk to do the wrong thing. In the majority of cases then, people who do a thing because it's right and people who do a thing because the incentive structure rewards it have no disagreement. There's little point in a deep discussion of "the right thing" in circumstances where the alternative is obviously stupid. So the expression would be disproportionately used in that minority of situations where that's not the case, and if you only look at those situations you'll see the same trend as if the personally risky thing was in fact usually synonymous with right. So the observation therefore isn't strong evidence in either direction.
TL;DR: The conditions under which the expression is used aren't necessarily representative of all the conditions created by society's incentive structures.
@Diggler67 I think the panel would benefit from an ex-ref, too. There are ex-players, ex-coaches, career broadcasters - but no retired officials that I can recall. Maybe Foxcroft will get an interview for his retirement, but that's about it. Having someone on there regularly could really improve the public perception of the officiating, and that perception definitely needs all the help it can get these days.
@Bahais_Mexicali Si: Preferencias > Preferencias > Otros > Configuración por defecto de publicaciones > Privacidad de publicaciones
@Diggler67 we have a similar option here for motorcyclists - there's a coursework option or a test option. As I understand it, the coursework option is meant to be the default for new riders, but if you already have the skills, you can challenge the exam directly to save fifty bucks and avoid burning a month's worth of Saturdays.
I would guess that the average test-qualified rider is safer overall, but mostly from selection bias: the experienced riders will go that route while most new riders will take the course. On the other hand, for someone who's never ridden before, it's possible to learn just enough to pass the test without picking up all the save-a-bad-situation skills you'd learn from the course, so among new riders those who are coursework-qualified may well be the safer.
@mitch I learned "drop it and run right home or else accident" but Americans leave out the O so I don't have a good one.
Now we just need one for how to spell "mnemonic" ;)
@cyrilpedia reminds me of this local gem, albeit without the race angle:
'Second, none of these council members was ever elected-they were all appointed, by one another. The last time a council member was elected by voters was in 1979, and even that involved a pair of write-in candidates. The clan's position is that they don't bother to run for election because no one else in the village wants the job. With just nine or 10 homes, they say there are few volunteers for council.'
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15134952/town-without-pity/
> Why is the general feeling that something has to be not created to be real, while creation is the only thing anything we see is real?
At a guess: because the word "artificial" has picked up connotations of "fake"? It's not just a neutral word cognate to artifact, i.e. something manmade. For example, artificial flowers are distinguished from "real" flowers, not just having come to be through man's effort instead of natural processes, but in fact completely different articles - cunningly shaped bits of plastic made to deceive the viewer. So a term that in principle just tells you how something was created is also taken to carry information about whether it's real, and our understanding of what is real has become linked to our knowledge of its creation - even when that term itself isn't used.
@mitch @benjamin I'm perfectly happy with that spelling if your audience isn't unusually familiar with Arabic. The Q represents a sound that doesn't exist in English, and K is a much closer approximation than KW (the naive rendering of QU).
Equally, I think many older romanisations of Chinese are better for general use than pinyin - rendering "that sound like CH but different" as CY, CH', TJ, etc. gives an English speaker a much better chance at approximating it than Q.
In both cases, as you move to an audience that's more familiar with the language in general and your transcription system in particular, the mental effort of using a glyph to represent a sound different from its role in English decreases, and the benefit of being able to distinguish between the allophones increases. So, "Qur'an" would be more appropriate for a scholarly discussion, but I'd prefer "Koran" in a mass-market newspaper.
@nomi the point is that in negotiation, the union's incentives no longer line up with its members'. E.g. "sure, we could play hardball and wring a better offer out of the company, but it'd cut the company's profit (and thus our dividend) down so we've decided to just accept management's proposal."
@nomi is that lawful? I know there are rules against a company sponsoring a union, because it creates a potential conflict of interest. If a union is getting a dividend, they could conceivably find themselves in a similar place where winning a concession for their members hurts their finances.
@shayman why the cannon, actually? It fits the Blue Jackets' theming perfectly, but I don't see the connection to Jason and the Argonauts.
@peterdrake diagnostically, it might be useful to try 'sudo shutdown -h now' to see where the problem lies. If that works, it suggests the desktop environment's power button isn't triggering the OS to shutdown. If it doesn't, it implies that your OS can't talk to the hardware, so you're maybe missing some firmware or compatibility layer.
@mitch @benjaminhollon it's one of our nonstandard features at QOTO. It's not as useful as you'd think, because replies don't inherit the scope, so threads end up mostly-public with orphaned replies, and if an observer can deduce what you said based on my reply, it defeats the purpose.
@mitch I can certainly see them - I would guess this text was composed to illustrate the feature deliberately, since there's some mid-line hyphenation that doesn't seem to serve any other purpose.
I'm curious now as to what other typist "best practices" I learned that would be badly received in the design world:
- Interleaved replies, rather than top-posting?
- Aligning columns of numeric data to the decimal point, not left- or right-justified?
- Wrapping text to 72 columns to allow space for a few levels of reply quoting?
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