they were literally the first company to make a home computer that didn’t require soldering experience or a kit

I’ve never heard that claim before. How is that the case, considering that the Apple I was just a motherboard, and the Apple ][ hit the market six months after the Commodore PET?

100 years ago it was nothing more than a back yard event in your Sunday best and a community potluck with no extravagance beyond.

Fun fact: The reason that wedding dresses are white has nothing to do with symbolizing purity. It was about conspicuous consumption.

Before modern laundry detergents, white fabric that got worn would never be truly white ever again. Rich women would wear white dresses to show off the fact that they could afford to buy a dress to wear just once. Everybody else wore their Sunday best.

This is a lot, but I’m on mobile, which means responding in-depth is a pain. Anyway, the hitch here is in the idea that women entered the workforce only after WWII. That’d be quite a shock for our feudal and working class ancestors. The idea of a nuclear family with one parent staying home was a nice dream for the middle class, fought hard for by labor and progressives, and enabled by the post-war economic boom. Only decades earlier, not only the mothers, but the children were working in the factories. My grandmothers were housewives, but their mothers certainly were not.

That is to say, the growing necessity of 2 income families, and women in the workforce, is just a symptom of the old economic order re-asserting itself, not the cause. Having one parent stay home isn’t going to reverse course, if it were even possible for most families. So, yes, we should do all of these things, but it’s not like we don’t because we hadn’t thought of it. The reasons that we don’t are a lot more intractable.

The 55th World Economic Forum will happen in a few weeks, but the security will probably be, like, almost twice as tight as the average school.

/s

I feel like there’s a lot of information missing here. VLANs operate at OSI layer 2, and Immich connects to its ML server via IP in layer 3. It could talk to a remote server in Ecuador over the Internet, so the layer 2 configuration is irrelevant.

What you have is an issue of routing IP packets between subnets. You just need to set up a rule on your router to allow the Immich server on the Internet-facing IP subnet to connect to the correct port(s) for the ML server on the private subnet. Or maybe use the router’s port-forwarding feature. Lacking further information about the setup, I have to be vague here. In any case, it’s conceptually the same as punching a hole in the firewall to let IP packets from an Immich server in Ecuador get to the ML server on your private subnet, except that the server is not in Ecuador.

Gotta remember to use the proper time. Sometimes that’s not proper time!

This is why !confidentlyincorrect@lemmy.world is a thing.

I first heard about the Y2K bug in about 1993 from a programmer who was working on updating systems. These were all older systems, often written in COBOL, which did not use epoch time, and in fact didn’t reference system time at all. They’d be doing math on data entered by users, and since they were written back when every byte of memory was precious (and nobody expected that the program would still be in use after 30 years), they’d be doing math on two-digit years. It would certainly be a problem to calculate people’s ages, loan terms, payments due, et cetera, and get negative numbers.

Heck, I remember reading a story about a government system once that marked the residents of Hartford, CT as dead, because somehow the last letter of the city name data overflowed into the next column, and marked them as 'd’eceased. Y2K was definitely a real problem.

Osama bin Laden also didn’t kill anybody personally on 9/11, and the attack killed only 2,977 victims, which is almost certainly a lower body count than UnitedHealthcare under Brian Thompson’s leadership. Yet the US military personnel who violated Pakistan’s sovereignty and murdered him are heroes?

What odd moral standards!

“Freezing temperatures” mean “freezing temperatures,” though, and numbers are pretty irrelevant. American schoolkids learn that it’s around 32°F and 0°C, and we easily remember it, but the weather forecasters still say “frost warning,” or “freezing rain,” rather than “it’s going to be 32°F tomorrow,” because there are so many confounding variables. Even the temperature of the phase transition is kind of squishy, since pure water freezes at 0°C at STP (except when it gets super-cooled). And if we’re talking about the fundamental importance of water, then I might argue that 4°C is the important temperature, because it’s temperature at which water reaches its maximum density.

Anyway, not to say that Fahrenheit is great, or anything, just that Celsius is similarly arbitrary, and we lack a compelling reason to switch. (Even though virtually every thermometer I’ve ever seen in the U.S. has both scales on it.)

*French influence. Most of the prominent differences between American and British English (such as -er/-re and -or/-our) occurred because the British preserved (or changed spellings to add) French influence.

Can confirm. Never saw the episode, still know the gag.

If we don’t change our lifestyle, new companies would spring up to replace them. But yeah, that’s my point, no matter how it happens, our lifestyle has to change if we want a sustainable society. Production and consumption are two sides of the same coin.

It’s kind of like asking whether the vital piece of a table is the tabletop or the legs, when you don’t have a functional table without either one. We don’t have a functional market system without supply and demand.

In a weird way, blaming the corporations is philosophically aligned with supply-side dogma, where the corporations (“job creators”) have an intrinsic motivation to produce. As if they just churn stuff out all day long, because that’s what they do when the government doesn’t get in their way, and it’s the duty of people to consume so the output doesn’t all just pile up in some great heap outside the factory.

There’s a reason some call that “voodoo economics.” Whatever their influence today, all corporations producing things evolved in a symbiotic relationship with consumer demand. We could guillotine all of the CEOs, and revoke every corporate charter, but it’d do jack for the environment, unless unless we also all change our lifestyle.

Blaming the corporations makes as much sense as them blaming us. It’s time to move past who’s to blame, and instead start fixing things.

I left my bathroom clock on standard time, because it’s hard to reach. Now I have to remember that it’s correct again.

We couldn’t get new parts from Yugoslavia, for some reason.

Funny thing, when I moved in, my last apartment had a refrigerator that was made in Yugoslavia. It died.

It could be highly inconvenient, since the Isle of Mann and Isla Mujeres are so far apart.

If you’re asking whether the binding arbitration clause would apply to the murder case, then no. Homicide falls under criminal law, where the state is the plaintiff. The state didn’t enter an agreement under the TOS. I suppose Disney could try to argue it applies if your legal estate filed a civil suit; in the real case it argued that the arbitration clause applied because the husband (who’d agreed to it) filed a civil suit as the plaintiff.

Instead, Disney would get away with it the old-fashioned way: because it’s a rich corporation.