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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago

I think the idea is that you can use it for reformatting small sets of data I guess.

"make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601"

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The only reason things burn up when they enter the atmosphere is because they're moving so fast that the friction from the air generates too much heat.

So yes, if you slow yourself down enough then you could just float down like a feather in the wind.

I have no idea how fast is too fast.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago (11 children)

The answer to this depends on how much the magic device with the oxygen weighs.

Also just going to set aside anything to do with sky diving and space suits and having friends and everything else that I don't know anything about.

I only know this from playing Simple Rockets on android but basically you direct your thrust in the direction you're moving in order to reduce your velocity, and you'll fall down to earth.

Think of an orbit as the balance between falling towards earth and zipping past earth. If you fly past too fast then you just fly past and maybe the gravity pulls you a bit but not much. If you fly past too slow the gravity pulls you down to earth and you crash. If you fly past at the same speed you fall towards earth the two directions balance out and you end up just spinning around earth.

Therefore, If you're in a stable orbit on the space station, and then you slow down, you'll start to fall down towards it instead of "falling" around it in an orbit.

If you only slow down a little bit you'll start moving towards Earth but you'll be moving way too fast for an unshielded human to enter the atmosphere without burning up.

You'd have to slow yourself down, by directing thrust towards the horizon you're headed towards, enough so that you're not going fast enough to burn up.

Whether or not you can slow down enough, quickly enough, depends on how much thrust your magic device can provide and how much that device makes you weigh.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah. Like 30 minutes or something. Why would I want to do that?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I was reading something about this.

The USA was big into eugenics and the Nazis kinda got the idea from them. There was a lot of support for eugenics in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. Sterilisations et cetera.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Telling an employee how they should speak could potentially be micromanaging, but providing constructive criticism for drafting emails et cetera is not.

I don't think that thin skinned is the right word for this. It's great to take pride in your own writing style and natural to feel somewhat offended when someone is critical of it. However, it can't hurt to at least listen to criticism in an objective way before deciding whether it's author is being a toxic micromanaging prick, or may indeed have something useful to say.

Oddly enough, just 2 days ago I told a team member to make some changes to the tone of an email. He's a tax consultant, he was emailing an employee of a client who does their bookwork. It was a long email regarding multiple ways they could improve their records in future in order to minimise our fees. My team member didn't really intend it but he'd drafted something that just made him look like an asshole "I'm better than you" type missive to someone who's doing their best with no support and no formal training.

I explained that a good relationship with that person will be far more valuable and helpful to us in future than whatever improvements in their records might arise from the email itself.

The skills involved in drafting good communication can be continually improved over a lifetime.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago

Plenty of answers here but I don't think anyone has answered this part:

Surely they would have a much easier time pushing their rhetoric and establishing their agenda by keeping a purposeful distance from that sort of indefensible imagery and symbolism.

So here's my take ...

Musk did the sig heil as a fuck you to everyone that doesn't like him. That's it.

They just won the election by basically lying, ignoring, and playing for time. They can literally do whatever the fuck they like for the next n years with impunity.

Imagine if Harris had won and in her victory speech said something like "Don't worry Don, I'll make sure they give you diapers in jail." It would've been a low blow but we would've loved her for it because it's poking fun at the conservatives for no other reason than to stir them up.

I think there's another, longer conversation to be had about why racism (and by extension nazism) resonates with voters in 2025, but I'm too weary for that I think.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I don't even see the code. All I see is heading, emphasis, dot-points ...

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I just don't see the point of obsidian et al.

Just use a directory structure and save markdown files in it.

There are many apps that are great editors for this structure on every platform. IDK exactly what obsidian does but many editors have zettelkasten (fancy cross links) functionality, just no fancy graph.

Ghostty + helix is the sexxy RN.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hol up. Are notes stored in files in a directory structure or a single file? Just that you said "the file" so I'm wondering.

If so, that's lock in.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's the whole point of markdown lmfao.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah.

Sadly I think email will be with us for the foreseeable future. It's broken, sure... but it's just so fundamental to the web.

An alternative would need to be ubiquitous, and that seems unachievable.

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Edit: nevermind. Turns out my email host is already running spamassassin and I can configure it how I wish.

My email is hosted at mxroute. I'm happy with their pricing and service and don't want to selfhost my email. However, their spam management isn't great.

I just realised that it might be possible to run spamassassin myself, which will set spam headers on the emails which my email client (thunderbird) can then use to decide what to do.

There seems to be a bunch of poorly maintained / abandoned ways in which to do this. I thought I'd ask here just in case any one else is doing this and can help me skip to the end.

I was hoping for a docker container (or compose stack) that provides an IMAP proxy and runs spamassassin.

Any ideas and insights welcome. My email juggling could use some improvement.

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