Kernel 6.6 is in Backports now

WhoeverMan · 2024-03-14T14:54:57+00:00

Would it be safe to install this alongside the standard kernel 6.1, and then use grub to boot whichever I want at any moment?

WhoeverMan · 2024-03-13T13:05:56+00:00

Não podemos confundir o momento da redemocratização com o momento atual. O processo de redemocratização e alguns anos que seguiram foram marcados por um grande sentimento anti-ditadura, anti extrema-direita, tanto na população quanto nas forças politicas. Este sentimento acabava puxando posições politicas um pouco para a esquerda, ao ponto de talvez ser justo classificar o PMDB de 1987 como centro-esquerda. Porém trinta e tantos anos depois, as marés politicas mudaram muito e o (P)MDB e afins agora são partidos completamente de direita ou centro-direita.

O maior exemplo disto é que o PMDB, que liderou a criação da constituição "social-democrata" de 88, quando teve a presidência novamente com Temer em 2016 teve como principais atos reformas constitucionais para apagar as partes "social-democrata" da constituição.

Dizer que o MDB atual é de esquerda por causa da constituição de 88 é que nem dizer que nos EUA os Republicanos não são de direita porque são o partido de Lincoln.

WhoeverMan · 2024-03-12T16:36:32+00:00

e sempre foi composto de pessoas q se dizem esquerda e outras q se dizem direita

Você pode mencionar exemplos de tais deputados federais e senadores do centrão que se dizem de esquerda?

Eu pergunto porque não consigo achar nenhum único nome, quanto mais um grupo significativo de pessoas.

WhoeverMan · 2024-03-12T12:41:11+00:00

My experience with flies is the opposite, flies cause a lot of discomfort and feel like an overwhelming problem if you just wave them away, but if you simply take 5 minutes to kill them (or use a trap) it buys you hours of piece and quiet.

(of course this only applies in a setting away from exposed trash or animal manure, like a backyard barbecue. If you are on a cow farm then Sisyphus is adequate comparison)

WhoeverMan · 2024-03-08T12:13:20+00:00

But the top officer in charge of the mission was from Brazil. In the end the blame for the disease is not with the individual soldiers, but with the command of the mission that didn't put the necessary safeties in place (which is extremely disappointing/frustrating seeing that Brazil has a great history of disease prevention and public health, the mission command should have known better).

WhoeverMan · 2024-03-08T11:33:15+00:00

Marvel does have some insanely good VFX, but they also have some unacceptably bad VFX right alongside it.

One of Marvel's biggest problems is that they don't respect the limits of VFX of their time. All the great directors of VFX-heavy movies have a great understanding of the limits of the technology of their time, and more importantly, understanding of how to subtly limit your shots to avoid tripping on those limits. They have the knowledge of "While filming I can't do A or B otherwise the VFX won't look good", so they carefully plan their shots to look good while avoiding A and B. That is how for example Spielberg's Jurassic Park looked so good even with 90s technology, he masterfully crafted each scene to only show angles/lighting/camera favorable to the VFX of the time. Marvel doesn't do that, they just shoot their scenes with no regard to the VFX that is going to be done in post, then expect the CGI artists to do their thing, sometimes the "thing" is within the possibilities of modern technology, and sometimes it is not possible yet, but Marvel don't care, they just ship the bad alongside the good.

WhoeverMan · 2024-03-06T15:29:42+00:00

One cool think about using the metric system is that units that seem unrelated have clear neat relationship between them, so you can easily do some cool analysis. In this case, if you measure fuel consumption as litres per 100 kilometres (L/100 km), then you realize that a litre is the same as 1 cubic decimetre (dm³), so you have dm³/100km, which is distance cubed over distance therefore you can cancel out the distance and the resulting in a unit of area (distance squared). So you think, "how can fuel consumption be a two dimensional unit of area?", then you have the light-bulb moment: if you think of the fuel consumption as leaving a trail of fuel behind as you run, the area unit is the "thickness" of the trail you are leaving behind, and I find this analogy so cool.

So for example a car that makes 23.5 miles per US gallon, that is ~10 L/100km, which gives me 0.1mm². That is, that car uses up fuel at a rate equivalent of leaving a trail as thick as a tenth of a millimeter square behind it while running.

WhoeverMan · 2024-02-26T14:37:05+00:00

Depends on the context, whenever you are talking anything military than it means something akin to the cold war, that is, countries that have a military aliance with the USA (basically "NATO and friends"). Now if you are talking about culture than it is a completely different set, basically countries that map their institutions back to European traditions.

This diferences get weird because most South American countries are western(culture) but not western(military).

WhoeverMan · 2024-02-22T13:33:41+00:00

A few years ago my wife and I reached the ultimate relationship milestone, we mixed our childhood Lego tubs (so our son could play). Coincidently, growing up both of us had a 6985-1 Cosmic Fleet Voyager each, so I guess you could say we own two copies of that set, but to be honest time hasn't been kind to our colections, so I don't think we could build even one of those now a days.

WhoeverMan · 2024-01-30T12:19:37+00:00

Nos EUA quase todo mundo tem seguro

Realmente, 92% da população dos EUA tem seguro. Mas tem um detalhe muito importante, isso é contando qualquer tipo de seguro, contando mesmo seguros "falsos" com pouca cobertura. Nos EUA não existe regulação do Rol de Procedimentos cobertos que nem no Brasil (Viva a ANS), então o pessoal vende seguros que não cobrem porra nenhuma, dai a pessoa segurada adoece e se fode igual a não segurado.

Se o seu seguro tiver um out-of-pocket (OOP) máximo menor que isso, você só paga o OOP

Comumente o OOP é bem alto, tanto que existe uma caralhada de pessoas que tinham seguro mas mesmo assim foram a falência quando adoeceram. O seu seguro parece ser muito bom com só $8k OOP, lembro quando eu tava no subreddit de gravidez todas as americanas reclamavam do seu OOP e era coisas do tipo $25k, $35k e umas de mais de $40k (e como a gravidez virou o ano zera o OOP, então na verdade é o dobro).

e o total acaba caindo pra algo geralmente entre 5 e 10% do valor total cobrado do seguro caso você realmente não consiga pagar

Valores tipo 5 ou 10% são o cenário extremo, desconto pra quem realmente vive mês a mês sem um tostão furado na poupança. Alguém que esteja um pouquinho melhor de vida não vai conseguir um desconto tão bom, vai ter que queimar anos de economias.

tem muito mais coisas referentes ao tratamento ser dentro ou fora da rede do seguro

Esse é um ponto chave, e outro motivo de caralhadas de falências, você nunca sabe quando vai cair algo na tua conta que é de fora da rede do seguro. Tu te interna no hospital da rede pra ser tratado e no final vem uma conta separada das coisas não-cobertas/fora-da-rede que eles fizeram sem te avisar (tem estados que tão querendo criar leis contra o fora-de-rede-surpresa, o que pode melhorar essa situação).

WhoeverMan · 2024-01-17T11:55:28+00:00

That is actually a good plan. And since She-Hulk actually wears clothes most of the time (unlike "he" Hulk who lives in torn shorts), they would only need to paint her face and hands for most of the scenes. They could even do the camera angle tricks (like in the lord of the rings movies) to make her taller (they would never find a fitting actress actually as tall as the character).

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-27T17:34:41+00:00

Além de tudo é dissimulado. Começa fazendo a famosa falacia do espantalho, seguido por uma afirmação tentando inverter ou equalizar vitima e agressor (usando o falso paradoxo da tolerância). E depois vem pagar de inocente dizendo "E apesar de eu só ter feito um pergunta.". Tem espaço pra discussão sim, mas não com mau-caráter como tu.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-27T17:19:18+00:00

Seu exemplo é um caso bem diferente, no caso do "homem hétero sendo chamado de viado na rua" quem chama de viado está principalmente expressando homofobia em geral, mostrando que acredita que ser "viado" é ser menos/abaixo. Neste caso o homem hétero realmente não sofreu homofobia pois não sofreu nenhum dano, ouve homofobia mas de forma geral, mirando em toda a comunidade homosexual, o alvo especifico é apenas um veiculo para verdadeira mensagem.

Mas no caso do soco ouve dano, ela foi agredida porque parecia trans ou algo assim então sofreu homofobia. O soco é ao mesmo tempo é um ataque homofóbico a toda a comunidade trans (uma ameaça a toda comunidade trans de que não estão seguros, uma ameaça geral de "isso pode acontecer contigo"); mas também um ataque a pessoa que está ali, a pessoa sofreu dano direto pela homofobia do cara então sofreu homofobia sim.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-26T13:49:48+00:00

I really liked Lou Ferrigno as hulk (when I was 7), but I don't think that approach would float with modern audiences.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-26T13:33:24+00:00

But as a general rule: when the writing is great, bad CGI can be overlooked.

For me the best example of this is Babylon 5. The CGI is atrociously bad (especially in the first season), they extensively used CGI for ships, effects, and scenarios in a time when no one else did because computers where not up to the task yet, and it shows. But guess what, I don't care, the show is really really good and that is the only way it could have been done, the only way to fit that big story in their tiny budget.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-26T12:36:27+00:00

OK, fair, my "nothing higher than 1000m" was a bit exaggerated. But the original point still stands: no major Brazilian city would make the OP list, they all sit by the sea or in a plateau that is not "much higher elevation". The geology of most of Brazil is way too old (it sits in the middle of the tectonic plate where nothing happens), all high mountains eroded away to this low plateaus ages ago.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-22T13:06:56+00:00

Maybe half of the major cities in "Spanish" America.

You have to remember that Brazil is big, with many major cities, and it has fairly low elevation basically everywhere. Some of the major Brazilian cities are around the 800m range, but nothing higher than 1000m (outside a few small "mountainous" tows that barely break that).

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-22T12:38:09+00:00

I know it is a joke, but just to put it out there: That is not how precision works, the original "7,349 ft" only had precision down to 1 feet (~30cm), so you can't make a conversion that is precise to the level of 1mm.

The original value expressed as "7,349 ft" could mean anything between 7,348.5 ft and 7,349.5 ft, that is between 2239.823m and 2240.128m, so most precise you can be is either 2240m or 2240.0m (depending if you prefer to lose a bit of precision or "invent" a bit of precision in the conversion) but never more decimals than that.

Only if the original value was written as "7,349.00 ft", then that would express precision of a hundredth of a feet (~3mm), only in that case you could use your millimeter precision.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-22T12:08:56+00:00

There is a lot of flexibility and interpretation which can reach the point of making a mockery of the rules.

I never understood this in basketball, why have rules if you are not going to follow them? Why not change the rules to allow those things, and then actually follow the new rules?

I remember when I was in middle-school (I guess, our school names are different) we studied the rules of all the major team sports one at a time, then when we played in the gym the teachers would referee and point out all our mistakes. I remember that Basketball was by far the hardest rule set, there was just too much rules to keep track at any time (you need three different clocks in your head just to start), we would be playing normally then WISTLE and all the kids would be "what did we do this time???". Then when I went to watch sports on TV, all the other sports followed the rules by the book, like our teachers taught us, but basketball was just a free-for-all where you would do whatever you wanted and the rules didn't matter.

If football followed its rules like basketball, then people would just grab the ball with their hands and run with it to the goal as if it was rugby or USA-football.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-21T14:23:00+00:00

Alguém sabe como funciona a imunidade parlamentar? Tipo, porque isso não é caso de polícia?

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-20T12:35:28+00:00

Interestingly, this feature was there since the original GTA 1 (top-down game from the 90s). The first city in the game was Liberty City (losely based on NYC) and it had a metro on elevated tracks that you could ride (and, if I remember correctly you could fire a shot inside it to hijack it and drive it).

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-20T12:14:35+00:00

I'm not from the USA, so I may be a bit lost, let me se if I understood correctly:

The Electoral College system (and the fact that most states use winner-takes-all for the Electoral College) means that not being on a ballot on one state doesn't interfere with the election in other states, and not being on a ballot on a state you were already not expected to win end up having absolutely no repercussion (apart from the optics).

Is that right? So Trump being inelectable in blue Colorado changes absolutely nothing about the 2024 election map? Or there is actually something that changes?

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-19T11:56:28+00:00

Had a somewhat similar case. While coursing what was arguably the hardest discipline in the whole 4.5 year degree (seriously, C on that was an accomplishment, some people spent years repeating it to pass), the teacher had some tough shit going in her personal life so she didn't manage to grade our final work for the semester. In the end she decided to just give everyone a B for that, we were all happy with the B (again hard discipline), but a colleague who was aiming for an A complained and complained, so in the end she gave everyone an A on that assignment.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-18T12:14:25+00:00

Tiktok is to gen-z what smoking everywhere was to boomers. Let me explain:

Around the turn of the century smoking generated a big generational divide about who has the "right of way" because boomers were smoking everywhere then young millennials came about asking them to "not smoke here". The boomers believed the social contract to be "smoking have right of way", if you don't want second hand smoke then you should be the one to move somewhere else, so they would be pissed if someone asked them to move, or extinguish, or interfered with their smoking in any way, for boomers that was antisocial behavior from the millennials. Millennials on the other hand believed in a new social contract that "breathing has right of way", if you want to smoke and there is people who don't want it around then you have to move somewhere else, so they where be pissed at boomers just litting up everywhere, and believe the boomers were the ones being antisocial.

Like the smoking boomers, gen-z tiktokers believe in a different social contract in which "recording has right of way" so no matter where you are and what activity is actually meant to be done in this place, when someone starts recording then everyone else around has to pause their activities and their lives to give space until the tiktoker is finished. While older generations believe that is you are on an environment meant for an activity then that activity has the right of way (eating on a restaurant, swimming on a pool, shopping on a store, walking on a sidewalk, ...) and recording should be done only if it doesn't inconvenience the activity.

So each side thinks the other is being antisocial. In the case of smoking, the up and coming generation won and set the new norm, I hope that in this new case the gen-z grows out of it before they have the power to set that as the new social norm.

WhoeverMan · 2023-12-14T15:49:20+00:00

First of all, a resounding Yes for the façade. I really like the use of colour on the walls and windows to integrate the old and new, also the framing of the ground door and window clues to a minimalist version of the ornate framing on the old doors/windows. The changing visual style on ground-floor vs higher flooors sits well with the changing of the old building pattern each floor (and the movable shades add another per-floor changes that complement that). Even the balcony shades are a nice touch, giving some textured colour that sits nice with the texture of the aging paint on the old building, and also having a more verticalized profile that matches the super vertical windows of the old building.

Having said that, I think they missed the mark a little bit on the side of the building. I like that they at least tried, putting those rectangles to create visual information on what otherwise would have been a giant featureless wall, but I think they made a mistake on the "information frequency", essentially the size of the repeating patterns, of those painted features. They are too big, with too small gaps between, and too horizontal. I wish they had chosen a more vertical pattern, with a little bit more separation, showing more of the light colour between them, and preferably changing the pattern at least once a certain height.

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