Do you have trouble communication metric sizes with Americans?
If so, I have you covered!
I wrote this simple app where you type in a size (e.g. 1.2 meters) and it will output more useful units, e.g. "It is almost exactly the length of 7 medium-size bananas"
#Windows users running stupid scanners now contact us for support regarding CVE-2023-46218 which the scanners say affects #curl 8.4.0 shipped by Microsoft.
It would, if their version was built to use #iibpsl, a prereq for this CVE, which #Microsoft does not.
"The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced today that it has awarded an $83.3 million grant to NJ TRANSIT to transform the historic Brick Church station in East Orange into a modern, fully accessible station that preserves historic features and improves the customer experience. Highlights include replacing the current low-level platforms with accessible high-level platforms and adding elevators."
@capntransit What is historic about that station other than it is old? I've never heard of it before, so it can't be that historic. What are we losing by not tearing it down and rebuilding to modern standards?
@RealJournalism Having been to Grinnell I can tell you they are already getting 100% of their energy from wind - the town is surrounded by large windmills.
I'm gonna share some completely anticlimactic TMI for the benefit of other middle-aged men:
The day before yesterday, I was very stressed and anxious for a variety of reasons, and we were moving some furniture out of a storage locker, and I was feeling lethargic and a little lightheaded and generally out of it, and then I began feeling nausea and indigestion and my jaw was tight and then my left arm and hand started feeling a little numb. Nothing terrible! Just: feeling meh, and those minor symptoms.
And then guess what crazy thing we did?
We went to the nearby emergency room.
Yep.
And they were very nice to me, and quickly administered an EKG and blood tests, and guess what?
I wasn't having a heart attack.
I was just stressed and tired and anxious. That's all.
But if I had been having a heart attack, going to the E.R. could have saved my life. And even though I wasn't, they were very nice to me. No one made fun of me. No one called me a whiner or a hypochondriac. My wife expressed gratitude that I took my survival seriously. And I was home again in less than two hours.
So this is for my fellow typical men, who are inclined to ignore health issues because: John Wayne or something, and fear of embarrassment:
Don't ignore stuff. Don't wait until you're sure. Be willing to overreact. Be willing to waste everyone's time. It's okay! The world won't end! (And you may even get to take a nap under a warm blanket, like I did!)
@dango_ last time I went in for what turned out tobe nothin about 1. when I went in for what turned out to be something I had already met my deductable and so I don't care.
@mhoye@CosmicTraveler@jannem while many people do trips like that doctors and highway safety engineers tell you not to. Take longes breaks for health and safety.
@MoritzGiessmann They seem to exist, but all I've found is places that print whatever you want - if you want something that won't wear off in a few months you need something that doesn't seem to be available.
@MoritzGiessmann The best ways to make a key is mold the letter through the whole key. The molds to do this are thousands of each key, but once you have the mold it only costs a few pennies to make another key. This is why custom printing doesn't make sense - you need a lot of people to spread the cost of the molds. there are some effort to resin print keycaps which can work, but it is slow and resin is toxic enough that I won't allow it in my house. There are other options, but most are either low quality or don't like long.
@juergen_hubert Every city I've seen transit to work is only useful for the high paying jobs downtown - people who work poverty jobs don't work downtown. (people in poverty use transit for lots of other trips, but if you are going to work on transit that is a sign of a high paying job)
We have been leveling cities, torturing, raping, killing, plundering and abducting children for so long, my army seriously needs a break, before all those western weapons arrive, and we lose the war.
Therefore, I think western countries should give us a breather, so I can replenish my troops and get back to full blown genocide in about 6-12 months.
@nixCraft I quit using windows on my personal machines when OS/2-warp was released. (actually a month before - I got OS/2 package with a free warp upgrade when it was released)
@BenjaminHCCarr This doesn't make sense to me - nearly every house gets an AC already. There is nothing different about a heat pump to the installer. Ban installation of regular cooling only AC units and everyone will get a heat pump. The only thing that really is missing is heat pumps need to be larger than an AC (a heat pump sized for cooling will not work below 25F - it will produce heat down to -20F but not enough to keep the house warm).
@nixCraft Back then I used lynx by default. I miss those text only days, I should see if they still work - pictures, sound, and videos make most websites worse.