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People in their 40s and 50s with no children, how does it feel?
  • This is one of the arguments I have around the decision to not have children of my own. The world is pretty fucked, do I really want to create someone who will not only have to endure the shit to come, but also will undoubtedly add to that shit?

    The counter argument, of course, is to raise the child in such a way that they make the world a better place. Ultimately, though, the problem is too many humans- why add to that?

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    People in their 40s and 50s with no children, how does it feel?
  • Being an uncle is great. You get all the fun of kids, and can give the bloody things back when they start screaming and shitting everywhere.

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    People in their 40s and 50s with no children, how does it feel?
  • I'm a similar age, and similar point in life. I like kids, but I really don't want to have any of my own. I really enjoy being an uncle to many children, though- not related, just made it clear to my friends that I would love to keep my connection with them, and build a connection with their child.

    People don't want to impose their child on others, but if you have a genuine conversation with them about being ok with kids, you'll get to see your friends more often, and if you're into it, they'll fucking live and appreciate the free babysitting.

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    BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale
  • People are going to whine about the towing capacity, but can't beat that price. I'm wary of being an early adopter, but I'm thinking of taking one for a test drive. Lightweight camper on the back, induction stove on board, should be tidy.

    Pity it's such a big vehicle, I'm not a fan of the chunky ute trend.

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    luv me iron bru, 'ate black puddin, simple as
  • What happened to everywhere on the planet apart from Germany to make bread so dire?

    I could eat different German breads every day for a week, and not be bored.

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    Probably last thing the poor Intelsat saw where some Russian/Chinese markings on a object accelerating towards it
  • This satellite was owned by Intelsat, a company created by John F. Kennedy, an American; built by Boeing, a company created by an American and currently run by an American; and launched by the European Space Agency, on a rocket built by a company from France, headed by a Frenchman.

    I'm sure there's South Africans involved somewhere along the way, but I don't think the person you are spitting vitriol about had anything to do with this satellite.

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    Am I insane?
  • Thousands of years in the future, our descendents will return to Earth, to visit museums of ancient culture, and marvel at the Tungsten Cube of Dickbutt.

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    Apple put the Magic Mouse’s charging port on the bottom again
  • Agreed. They make sleek, flashy products for a reason- shiny = better. It's not so much a case of making products that die easily, as it is making incremental upgrades that encourage big spenders to get the latest version.

    I'm pretty system-agnostic, each cult has its flaws, but one thing Apple does not do is make crappy hardware. My last MacBook was still going strong after 6 years, my partner's Air is pushing eight. My iPod Video has been replaced by my phone, but last I turned it on, it was working fine, must be over ten years old.

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    Apple put the Magic Mouse’s charging port on the bottom again
  • I've used the magic mouse in passing, and to be honest after the first couple fumbled attempts of doing a right click, my brain just transitioned to clicking as if it were a macbook touchpad. And it works great. It's not a mouse, it's not a touchpad, it's in between.

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    Hey y'all, I got a new monitor.
  • Sounds like they had their scaler set up to squash everything. Not the best for content, but the best for accepting whatever people will throw at it. Can't say I'm a fan of not giving you all the pixels you paid for, though!

    I miss AV sometimes.

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    Hey y'all, I got a new monitor.
  • Nice. It looks like your led has a little hat!

    Did you manage to get Linux to output the native resolution of the screen?

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    What trendy or meme word do you actually like or find funny?
  • I thought it had more of a 'doing your own thing' vibe to it. As in, you could use it to describe someone spending a vast amount of time perfecting an unusual skill.

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    The Force
  • Study suggests children remotely move matter to extinguish birthday cake candles, to prevent wildfires.

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    What's your favorite fantasy monster race?
  • I am very grateful to my DM for allowing me to play as a gelatinous cube that had absorbed a headband of intellect. Such a fun character to play!

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  • Vague title I know, but I'm enough of a beginner at this to not really know what I need to ask!

    I would like to rent a server, that allows me to spin up different services, including things like Windows to use as a remote desktop. Ideally, I would then be able to just migrate this whole setup to my home server.

    I thought it would be as easy as renting a scalable VPS, but apparently if you run something like Proxmox on those, you'll get terrible performance?

    My understanding is that I'd need to rent a bare metal server, but then my 'scalability' will suffer- I can't just wind up and down the specs as needed, correct?

    My user case: For the next several months, I'm on the road, without a proper computer. I may have some work doing some CAD drafting, hence Windows. I'd also like to have some containers to run some dev tools, databases, web hosting. I'd also like to use the same service to start building my future home server environment- nextcloud, *arr, etc. Once I'm back home, I'd like to easily migrate this setup to a local machine, then continue to use the server as my own cloud and public entry point. And further down the line, hosting a gaming server for friends. In terms of location, Sydney would be great.

    Will a VPS do this? Or do I need bare metal? Is there a single service that will allow me to do both, with one billing? Or am I doing a Dunning-Kruger?

    Thanks in advance for your hints.

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    I'm looking at a permanent install of a Windows machine that runs a few digital signs. I want to achieve remote access and file upload to the Windows box, as well as accessing the internal web server of the displays on the same LAN. This LAN will be attached to a corporate network, but I would prefer if it did not have access to the internet. I'll have to work with the IT department to get this happening, of course, but I'm hoping to go in prepped with potential solutions. Could anyone tell me if these ideas will work, or what I'm missing?

    • VPN tunnel. This would be whichever VPN that their IT supports. Would I be able to simply install the client on the windows box and my machine, and then on my machine connect to the VPN, use TeamViewer in LAN mode for control of the Windows box, and web browser for control of displays? I'm assuming their IT would set up the upstream switch to only pass that VPN connection, so that the Windows box does not see the internet, and I cannot see their internal network.
    • Some kind of IPMI/PiKVM solution- This would be a second computer, attached to the corporate network, but not to the signage LAN. It would just be a KVM for the Windows box. I would then dial into that via its webserver, and control the Windows machine. The control for the displays would be accessed via browser on the Windows machine. I like this solution, as it keeps the networks separate, but I think that uploading files will be a challenge.
    • Or is there a better way?
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    Hoping for an intro to machine learning for object detection

    Hi! Hopefully this is a good place to ask. I've been googling around a fair bit, but haven't had much luck- I'm either finding ELI5 type articles, or in depth tutorials on setting up a model to tell the difference between a frog and a dog. I'm not sure if those are relevant to my concept.

    I would like to implement a ML algorithm to detect a particular type of defect on a production line. Our current camera system isn't quite up to the task, but gives good, consistent imagery, and I have a good historical dataset. The product moves past the camera, it snaps a single black and white image, then the product moves on. This means that most of my images are more or less the same. These defects are obvious to the human eye.

    Could someone please give me, a noob, a bird's eye view of how I would go about using ML to create a model for this? There's so many choices of tools and tutorials that I don't know which would be best suited to this use case.

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