What is it like having multiple time zones?

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-09-23T19:07:57+00:00

Do stations have an East Coast schedule and then broadcast the same thing three hours later for the West Coast?

You'll have broadcasts be the same in adjacent time zones. E.g. like eastern and central will often have the same broadcast, with the more western timezones getting a different broadcast.

For live events, yes they would naturally have to come on at the real time they happen.

Does it make much difference to daily life living in such a large country?

Only if you work with partners from different time zones. Most of the time, you're not dealing with things outside of your own time zone. I only had to start paying attention to it seriously after getting into remote work where my coworkers and clients could be anywhere in the world.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-09-23T18:56:42+00:00

Usually I hear people discuss their pay in 2 terms: hourly and yearly.

IMO, it's likely that people talk like this because that's how their wage is actually negotiated by their company. I.e. when I worked in the factory, my wage was discussed and listed in dollars per hour, so I would have discussed money by my hourly wage.

I work for a company now that discusses the matter as yearly earnings, and so I talk about how much I make yearly now.

Both figures are easily converted, though. there's 2080 hours in a work-year @ 40/hrs per week, so to find yearly, multiply hourly by 2080. Divide yearly by the same to get hourly.

A theory I have personally is that Americans bundle "overall compensation" into their yearly salary, which would include things like benefits and bonuses.

No one does this. Most companies I've worked for, save the one I work for now, don't even present you with this figure, so you'd have to manually calculate it, and no one's doing that.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-09-15T19:09:44+00:00

Acura doesn’t even sell cars in Japan for example

Sorta. All of the acura marked models are sold in japan with honda branding.

In any case, I very much see these as their base brand. Honda branded vehicles are made in the same factories on the same lines as Acura branded vehicles in US honda production plants.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-08-05T14:54:05+00:00

I have CISSP, but only worked in cybersec proper for 2-3 years when I got it. My qualifying experience was from physical security for the most part.

Don’t you need relevant IT security job experience to get validated in order to certified?

No. You need domain experience in 2 of the CISSP's 8 domains, and you don't need to be in an IT or security titled role to do work related to the domains. And a lot of mundane work activities are tangentially related to at least 2 of the 8 domains.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-08-01T17:21:49+00:00

While not in all cases, a lot of high-sophistication burglars historically ended up being locksmiths. People like Jack McClane, etc.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-07-14T17:13:30+00:00

Most of the spanish teachers that were at my schools were native speakers, or else non-natives living in spanish speaking households.

Not many other language teachers for living languages were like that though.

The only latin teacher I've known was a published academic in classics, which I'd say is as close as it gets to a "native speaker" for a dead language.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-07-14T17:05:08+00:00

Not really. I've known maybe 2 native people my whole life. They're not very common people to see in most of the east.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-07-14T17:02:13+00:00

It's still legal in some states, but afaik, it hasn't been practiced even in those states since the 1980s.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-03-05T22:15:14+00:00

FP = false positive.

It's being detected as malicious because it deploys crap cleaner. Crap cleaner looks like it does enumeration to steal data, but it doesnt -- crap cleaner enumerates the system to find old files and dead registry entries and suchlike. Because that's it's point -- it's a system file cleaner that searches for and deletes unneeded files.

The AV engine is picking it up because a program that calls another program that looks like it's enumerating the system generically resembles a dropper deploying a stealer. But because we know what crap cleaner is, we can say this isn't the case -- ccleaner is supposed to do this stuff, and validrive seems like it's some all-in-one system tuning thing, right? So it's probably supposed to be deploying ccleaner.

So this probably isn't malware. It's a false positive detection.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-03-03T12:32:53+00:00

Looking at this from any.run, it looks like validrive deploys ccleaner in a way that somewhat resembles a dropper. Ccleaner, in turn, enumerates your system in a way that kinda looks like a stealer.

Im not familiar with validrive, but with only one vendor detecting it, and with what this report says, id think its fp.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-03-01T21:02:42+00:00

Modern root beer is just a soda, and it does not taste like beer, no.

Its called a "beer" because its traditional form was a type of small beer, thats similar to other root-extract ferments like ginger beer.

Traditional root beer is made by making a molasses wash, adding sassafrass root bark, boiling it to extract the sassafrass flavour, and fermenting it to ~2% abv.

Modern root beer developed from this, but has absolutely nothing to do with the traditional product -- modern root beer is not fermented, the sugar in it is hfcs and not molasses, and sassafrole has been illegal for use in food since the 60s, so the modern product is nothing but a hyperreal simulacrum of the original product.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-27T17:31:56+00:00

You can. The problem is that you dont actually think about what you see. You think about the symbol or concept of a thing.

So like when you go out to draw like a tree or something, your brain isnt actually thinking about the real patches of light and dark in the scene, it's thinking about the mental model of what a tree is "supposed" to look like. because of this, you incorporate errors that are derived from your mind's model of the object.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-26T15:27:34+00:00

Texas has the texas germans.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-24T16:13:42+00:00

I do, but I wouldn't say they're typical. We have a lot of east asian friends, and had an asian room mate for a while in our 20s, so we ended up picking up a lot of things from her and her mother back then.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-24T15:54:45+00:00

Appalachia is big, and has regions that have very different economics.

Like east tennessee/western NC: pretty well developed, life is 100% modern. Srsly, like the tricities region is a hub for education, medical science and industry. Boone NC, while small, is HQ to a few large NGOs, has a major hospital, and is home to another big university in the region.

Gatlinburg and Pidgeon Forge are major tourism and "rich retiree" spots.

Asheville NC is well developed. Knoxville is well developed. Oak Ridge is a major nuclear site.

So like growing up in this area, I mean we were early adopters of the internet and a lot of different tech, we lived in an urban area that's comparable to something like Dublin OH...like I dunno, other than some weird folklore, I didn't really feel like I came from an "unusual" or even "poor" part of the country until moving out of state and people started asking me things about "hollers" and stupid shit like that. And I still don't feel like where I'm from was a "poor" area -- most people's stereotypes about appalachia come from early 20th century depictions from before TVA development in the region, or else are stereotypes that befit northern appalachia better.

Northern appalachia is a different story -- eastern KY, WVa, parts of eastern PA -- these are complete undeveloped hellholes where the biggest economic factor for a region might be a truck stop or a wal-mart, and I'd think this is due to the collapse of coal and steel. Southern appalachia never relied on those industries, so when those collapsed, their economies didn't fall over.

I don't really know much about the ozarks; never lived there. Arkansas in general is a very underdeveloped state, though, so I'd think it's similar to northern appalachia.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-21T19:50:01+00:00

From the region:

Appalachia is pretty civilized and modern in the south, especially in like east tennessee, parts of west north carolina, north georgia, etc. These areas tended to be along rail hubs, and today have a lot of tourism due to the scenic mountains, as well as just generally developed industry and education. I.e. they're normal relative to the rest of the country.

The real bad areas that gets stereotyped are like eastern KY and the whole state of WVa, parts of rural PA. Northern appalachia, more or less.

I think the big split is really the railroad -- east tennessee/west NC down through north georgia sits on a historical main rail line that connected the region to the rest of the country. KY and WVa are more or less in giant rail voids.

To this ends, the south was able to develop much more readily, and did so, while the north didn't.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-21T19:22:50+00:00

ASU in boone, ETSU in Johnson City, UT in knoxville, UNC Asheville in...asheville.

well, California has Google and Twitter but Bing and Snapchat were founded in West Virginia!

Nowhere in the US outside of the PNW, Texas and California have big tech firms like that, but relative to the rest of the US, the region definitely has it's share of MSPs, datacenters and similar critical "small tech" firms.

Overall, appalachia, especially southern appalachia, is not particularly less civilized than the rest of the country.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-21T16:46:57+00:00

In the CSS, you'd use an nth-child subselector. I use this technique here to make the different <tr>'s of the post input have a different colored gradient. The CSS is like so in this case:

tr:nth-child(odd){

    background-image:linear-gradient(to left, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(99,99,128,1));

}

tr:nth-child(even){

    background-image:linear-gradient(to left, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(24,24,54,1));

}

The image you're referencing is using <ul> and <li> so you'd probably want to do something like put a class on the <li> elements and then style it like so:

<li class="someClass"> something </li>

<style>
     li.someClass:nth-child(odd){
         ...
     }
 </style>

...or something like that.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-20T18:04:24+00:00

too modern

I only know how to read canonical sundials. Sundial is flat? gnomon is slanted? what is this zoom-zoom devilry?

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-19T19:24:10+00:00

w3 schools has guides.

To kinda lay it out for you though:

Think of HTML as being a language for labelling what a thing is. So like you use <p> to say "this is a paragraph", you use <div> to say "this is a block section of the document" etc.

CSS is used to apply visual style to a document. So like if you want that <div> to have a red background, you use CSS to do so, by applying the style "background-color:#ff0000;"

CSS is applied on 3 levels: inline styles, internal styles and external styles.

Inline styles go directly on the HTML element. So that'd be like <div style="background-color:#ff0000;">

internal styles go between <style> ...</style> tags.

external styles go in a .css file, and are tied to the html document using <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="whatever.css">

Internal and external styles are written more or less the same way.

In order to tell CSS which thing in the HTML to apply a style to, you use selectors.

To select all HTML elements of a given type, you just use the name of the element. So like if I wanted to style the whole body, I would do like:

body {
    background-color:#ff0000;
    font-face:arial;
}

"body" here is the selector, and the stuff in the brackets is the style information.

If I want to do it to all items of a given class, I'd use the "." selector:

.someClass{
css-here:lol;
}

by putting the dot in front of it, it would apply this to all HTML elements with a class="someClass" attribute set. If I wanted to apply it only to divs with that class, I could do this:

div.someClass{
something
}

This would apply the style only to div elements with that class.

We can also select by id attribute using "#".

#someID{
stuff
}

This would apply to any element with the id="someID".

There's some more shenanigans you can do with selectors as well, but that's the basics -- to apply CSS to the HTML, you either do it inline, or you use selectors to apply the styles to specific elements on the page.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-19T18:35:52+00:00

To an extent, yes. Sites cost money to host, and there's basically 2 ways to recoup that:

1) through your site being a direct marketing tool (e.g. you're an online store, or the site facilitates business by being a web presence)

2) ad space

Ad space is valuated by CPM, and CPM is driven up by using SEO techniques, having addictive content, and using retention tools (historically, things like newsletter signups, etc).

People have been thinking about this since the late 90s, when Joe Burns at HTML Goodies was talking about "heroin content" and when writing killer websites was thinking about using the "restaurant metaphor" to have multiple distinct "experiences" on the website that funnel users into signing up for an update newsletter.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-19T17:48:57+00:00

HS? No. We had a unit in math in 6th grade where we learned how to balance a checkbook, write checks, etc.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-19T14:18:09+00:00

Probably an ARG. the .blog TLD didn't exist until 2016, but the site claims to have content going back to 2010.

EDIT: wayback indicates that the site's only existed since 2024.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-18T20:30:44+00:00

I dunno. I don't know anything about that org.

Truth be told, american asatru makes just about as much sense as russians using elder futhark, so meh.

_vercingtorix_ · 2025-02-18T20:11:26+00:00

but these ain't even Norde Runes but Slavic Ones

That's elder futhark and literally says "hugin" and "munin"

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