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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • A brick home wouldn’t withstand a tornado either. Like if a tree hits a brick house it would do significant damage to the house. And most brick houses still have a timber roof under the roof tiles so even a small tornado could lift the roof off the house.

    Here is a brick house hit by a small tornado in England

    Reinforced concrete is a much better material for a hurricane and tornado resistant building. Also shape of the house is important. A dome would be the best.



  • If you don’t want to use a password manager it’s not that hard to create long passwords. Just create a nonsense sentence with a misspelling with a character between each word and add some obscure personal info that isn’t directly linked to you, like a phone number of an old childhood friend or pizza place you used to call often when you were young so it’s easy to remember but not info another person can find about you. Then add a special character.

    Like:

    Wideo1Pasta1Is1The1Grawy1555-22334!!!




  • Yeah I recently installed Signal on my kubuntu machine and the Signal website only showed how to install it via CLI no mentioning of the Discover or Snap store. My parents, who only started using the computer for the first time after their 60’s, are definitely not able to install it if they forget that the stores exist and a website tells them to use the CLI as the only option.

    Like the front ends exist application makers just need to point people to it if they want Linux adoption to improve.




  • Okay fine even if the housing market problem isn’t the fault of expats, that they don’t want to be part of the local community and don’t even learn the local language is just straight up disrespectful. Why move abroad then? And I’m not asking them to speak the local language at a high level. They even refuse to learn the basics. I know many expats who live here in the Netherlands for more than half a decade and they can’t even string a basic sentence together. And these are people who pride themselves for being educated and having master degrees. It’s just elitism, they don’t see themselves as immigrants so they feel like integrating is beneath them since that’s what immigrants do. If these were brown working class immigrants people would call them out immediately for their lack of effort, yet because these are white high educated expats it’s somehow okay. And before you say “but their kids will learn the language” Nope these elites even feel the public education system is beneath them so they send them to private international schools where they barely learn Dutch. So even their kids can’t speak Dutch. I’m a son of immigrants and my parents had to work hard to integrate and learn the language and fight for respect and their place in the community. That these expats don’t give a shit about it all and everyone thinks that it’s fine is just a slap in the face of immigrants like my parents.






  • well it’s also that they used biased data. biased data is garbage data. The problem with these neural networks is the human factor, humans tend to be biased, subconsciously or consciously, hence the data they provide to these networks will often be biased as well. It’s like that ML that was designed to judge human faces and it would consistently give non-whites lower scores, because it turned out the input data was mostly full of white faces.






  • I have a first name that is of Saxon origin but this name has also developed in Sanskrit independently from the Saxon name and the name is very common in India. One of my email addresses is [firstname][email protected] I often get email directed to some Indian bloke. And it’s always for a different guy. I think these people don’t have an email and just make one up when they signed up for something. I even get someone’s banking communications.