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Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says
  • Imagine if China, Taiwan or Korea would start doing this shit. Or maybe they already have! Maybe the device you are reading this on would explode in the event of war!

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    Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says
  • The US doesn't even recognize the authority of the internation war crime tribunal, you really think they (or any other superpower) would accept binding arbitration in matters of international relations?

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    Academic writing
  • I'm still pissed at being forced to write in a passive voice in university. It's awkward and carries less information, and makes it seem like nobody had any agency, science just kind of happened on its own and you were there to observe it.

    I don't know why anyone would prefer something like "An experiment was conducted and it was found that..."

    To the much better "We conducted an experiment and found..."

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    Does this under VRM mean high FPS?
  • Discovered exactly the same thing when I replaced my dead Gigabyte Z370 recently! Also took me a while to figure it out.

    Both those chipsets were released in 2017 so I guess it's no surprise they were made with the same thermal pads.

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    Mushroom Guides
  • Don't go by any general rules. If you are unsure, take it home and sit down with your mushroom guide book and go through all the ways of identifying it and separating it from similar species until you are sure, or you give up and throw it away.

    Just off the cuff here are a couple of examples that violate the advice given above, golden chanterelle is very spicy but perfectly edible; gyromitra esculenta ("false morel") does not have lamelles, is supposed to be mildly flavoured, but is deadly toxic.

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    Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate
  • It's only 7.4% if you're discounting the large service sector and looking only at goods (which may be what people mean by "exports", idk). That's why our numbers differ, it's 4.2% of all exports, and 7.4% of exported goods.

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    Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate
  • Oil and gas products account for 4.2% of Sweden's exports. The gas exports alone almost rival those of dairy and eggs! Truly a petrostate if I ever saw one

    Are you perhaps thinking of a different country?

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    UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record
  • Getting Saudi Arabia to sign a commitment to human rights and take part in a women's rights forum opens them up to political pressure that would not otherwise exist.

    The powerful nations will never let the UN be a supernational police agency. That doesn't mean it has no value.

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    chmod -R hit me, again... Anyone else who faced these sys-admin woopsies?
  • ls -r actually lists entries in reverse order! It needs -R as well.

    cp and rm accept either.

    Looking at some man pages the only commands I found where -R didn't work were scp and gzip where it doesn't do anything, and rsync where it's "use relative path names".

    (Caveat: BSD utils might be different, who knows what those devils get up to!)

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    chmod -R hit me, again... Anyone else who faced these sys-admin woopsies?
  • Not chmod related, but I've made some other interesting mistakes lately.

    Was trying to speed up the boot process on my ancient laptop by changing the startup services. Somehow ended up with nologin never being unset, which means that regular users aren't allowed to log in; and since I hadn't set a root password, no one could log in!

    Installed a different version of Python for a project, accidentally removed the wrong version of Python at the end of the day. When I started the computer the next day, all sorts of interesting things were broken!

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    chmod -R hit me, again... Anyone else who faced these sys-admin woopsies?
  • Aha! I didn't get that you meant the issue was accidentally using -r instead of -R since both you and OP wrote the upper case one.

    I'm a lot more used to -R so I instead get caught off by commands where that means something other than recursive :)

    I mostly use symbolic mode and honestly don't get why everyone else seems to use octal all the time.

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    D or d come on
  • You really can't though. For several reasons. Which would have been apparent to you had you bothered to actually create your example link to http://аpple.com or to understand this problem.

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    After a naked Chun Li scandalised a fighting game tournament, Capcom sounds the alarm about PC game modding: 'There are a number of mods that are offensive to public order and morals'
  • While on one hand this seems silly and overreaching, I am also reminded of just how much trouble Rockstar got in for the Hot Coffee mod. The game was reclassified as adult in the US and banned in Australia, and I think they got hit with fines as well as a lawsuit.

    Now sure this was content that technically shipped with the game, but since it was impossible to access without modding for all practical purposes it was added by the mod.

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    D or d come on
  • This is likely because docker runs Linux in a VM on MacOS right?

    We've had similar problems with stuff that works on the developers Mac but not the server which is case sensitive. It can be quite insidious if it does not cause an immediate "file not found"-error but say falls back to a default config because the provided one has the wrong casing.

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