ProfessorScience

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[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I took a trip to Norway a year or so ago. I was flying first to Denver, where a friend who lived in Denver would meet me in the airport, and then we'd fly to Munich, and from there to Oslo. That was the plan, anyway.

Well, when I got to my gate at my local airport, I found that my flight was delayed by a couple of hours. Obviously too much to have any chance of catching my connecting flight.

I called the airline, and decided to take the flight to Denver that day, and rebook the remaining flights for both me and my friend for the next day, going through Frankfurt instead of Munich. I stayed overnight in Denver, and we set out the next day.

Aaand of course then the flight out of Denver was delayed, and we missed the flight from Frankfurt to Oslo. We were rebooked onto a flight from Frankfurt to Munch, in order to catch a later flight from Munich to Oslo. Fortunately that one was on time. But then the flight to Oslo was delayed; you know, one for the road, I guess. At that point we were just glad that that delay wouldn't make us miss another flight.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No option for "a little AI, maybe, where it makes sense, but don't go crazy with it" option, I see.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Every janitor and secretary? Every investor? anyone who worked at any of the banks he used?

Yeah, that's obviously what I mean.

The Clintons have been under the microscope for decades.

"Oh, those poor rich and powerful people! Surely we can look the other way about just a little bit of palling around with a pedophile!"

This is just a distraction

Yes, that was one of the hands. Well spotted.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

On the one hand, Cormer is a shill and is clearly trying to divert attention away from Trump and toward the Clintons. On the other hand, anyone associated with Epistein should have to face the music.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

This seems pretty reasonable to me, but I'm skeptical of anything with Tom Cotton's name on it. But it seems like incentivizing data centers to build their own power generation (using mechanisms that may be more suited for data center use rather than residential use) could take the edge off of their impact on residential electricity costs. Is there a downside to this, or is this a "broken clock is right twice a day" thing? Maybe it lets them bypass environmental regulations as well?

 

I'd be interested in hearing recommendations for other music that is similar to the instrumental bit of this song starting at about 2:43

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 280 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

... it’s just going to be, I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me.

Bitch, you are the encyclopedia britannica of reasons for a president to be impeached.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

This seems to me like the same kind of question as the one about werewolves in space. If you're going to make up some lore, make up whatever you want!

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 101 points 1 month ago (21 children)

Its supply and demand. The AI data centers are paying their electric bills, but at the same time they represent a significant increase in demand for electricity, so electric companies can raise their prices.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

But first they have to finish the hearing on whether water is wet.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I agree. He should have been tried, and convicted, and put in prison. It was a miscarriage of justice that he was not. But even if all that had happened, it shouldn't make someone ineligible for office, otherwise it could be abused by a corrupt government. Ideally it would make someone unqualified in the eyes of the electorate, but... well I wouldn't count on it these days, unfortunately.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

And despite that Trump was allowed to run for president!

I wouldn't want criminal charges from preventing someone from running for office. Otherwise someone like Trump, once in office, could just get his justice department to file charges against any candidate that he didn't like. It is a failure on the part of the voters to have elected him despite the criminal charges (although not the only failure, certainly).

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Sound cutoff issues (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ProfessorScience@lemmy.world to c/pop_os@lemmy.world
 

Hello! I'm pretty new to pop_os and linux, but am trying to switch over from windows. I've been having some sound issues where it seems like sounds get cut off. It seems to most noticeable with something like doing duolingo from my browser (lots of short sound clips of words and such; if I click on words quickly, then spotify playing in the background will stop playing briefly). I've tried disabling sleep, as described by https://support.system76.com/articles/audio/, without luck. I've also noticed that I see errors listed in pw-top which sometimes correspond to sounds getting cut off. That is, sometimes I notice a cutoff without seeing an increase in the number of errors, but when I notice an increase in the number of errors it usually corresponds to something getting cut off.

Is there a way to see what the errors from pw-top are? Or suggestions for other things I should look into? I've looked at dmesg and systemctl status --user pipewire.service (and pipewire-pulse) but the only error I see is a nvidia-drm thing which seems to be innocuous. I've also uploaded my alsa-info results, if that's useful.

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