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  • Our crew is currently heading to a consulate for more German Visa steps. In just our family, two STEM phds, multiple kids going into engineering, and other college grads are moving out of the US.

    I’ve lost funding for my research here. Yet again due to Republican anger at education. Every time they take control of power they fuck over my career. So, I’m done. I’ll go do software engineering research in a country that wants me.

    When you look at the list of groups attacked and burned by the Nazis in the past, we check multiple boxes. I’m not subjecting my children to that.

    We’re insanely privileged to be able to make this move and I know most others left behind don’t have this luxury.



  • Because when I move left in tabs, the cursor isn’t clear which tab I’m on. It also tried to sit off the left edge of a terminal in some editors because it aligns with the right side of the character (the tab), instead of the left.

    I do see how tabs are a better option : they allow the one editing the file to decide how wide the indentation is. That’s actually good User Interface design, by separating the data from the rendering layout.

    I can see the argument both ways, but I like to use spaces so the visual and editing interfaces are more standard.




  • 15+… I was there, Gandalf… We had these kinds of setups 25+ years ago. How time flies.

    Before that, it was often XTerm style systems. The local machine only booted an XServer and then connected to a central UNIX system. All programs ran on the UNIX server, and were rendered on the XTerm/XServer you were sitting at.

    The original XServer systems were efficient enough to run over serial lines, not just Ethernet.

    Another setup was to put multiple monitors/keyboards/mice on a single UNIX/Linux tower and have it launch multiple XServer sessions so you could have a single computer with up to six people sitting at it.

    I also managed a Rembo lab for a bit. It used a PXE shim OS to get a menu from the Rembo server. From there, you could boot the main OS, or download a new hard drive image from the server. I would build new drive images and upload them to the server, then updating the lab would mean rebooting the computers and clicking a “grab latest” button. It actually worked very well for distributing OSes. We had both Linux and Windows images students could pull down.

    Lab management at scale is a continual struggle to keep everything functional and patched.


  • azimir@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlRage For The Machine
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    7 days ago

    That’s part of the power of the term. Globalism is a valid term for a view about how integrated international markets foster economic and social benefits, while Globalist is often used as a racist dogwhistle. Racists often use small variations of accepted terms to conflate and low key their hatred in public venues.


  • Oh yeah. The hierarchical thinking inherent to the Conservative mindset is one of authoritarianism. They want to know their place in the hierarchical structure, which they wholeheartedly believe places them above someone else. Even though they have a boot on their face, at least they have their boot on someone else’s face too.

    They truly believe there must be a hierarchy. They can’t seem to envision a world without boots on faces or that maybe we should work for a place without boots on faces.