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What would aliens do, scientifically, if they landed on Earth? in c/Totallytruefactsnolies@lemmy.world
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They'd need to know our culture if communication is an eventual goal. Assuming they have LLMs, this should be easy as we've been blasting a wide radius almost 100 lightyears.

Direct interaction would change us fundamentally and they know that, so they'd opt for a subtle approach. Probably politics with a mix of anthropology.

There's a nice short scifi novella by Chad Oliver called Blood's a Rover that explores this a little.

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    Boredom. [260] in c/Mimi@lemmy.world
    Ungrateful in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    It's Friday Again in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    [–] 6 points 5 hours ago*

    GET 👏 EVENING 👏 HOBBIES 👏

    Something that challenges you every day, where you can learn things and develop yourself.

    Time goes a lot slower when you're watching yourself progress

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    Tell me about your day in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    UK can rejoin EU without adopting Euro — but only on one condition, Barnier says in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
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    People face loss of job security, and a highly diversified work force is less likely to unionize. Workers have everything to fear from foreign labour.

    The solution of course is to give every migrant worker legal status so that they can't work less than minimum wage, but a) that will never fly here, and b) that only puts a cap on how low wages can go, without any path to raising them

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    UK can rejoin EU without adopting Euro — but only on one condition, Barnier says in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
    Rage bait ravings in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    [–] 3 points 16 hours ago*

    Typical conservative mindset:
    "I deserve more than others"
    "Why?"
    *lists: work ethic, morality, taxes*
    (realises these are not unique to them)
    *lists: community, language, culture*
    (realises these are not unique to them)
    *birthright! divine grace! chosen one!*
    "There it is!"

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    Can anyone read this? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    [–] 15 points 17 hours ago*

    It's a haiku relating to the famous court case between Mr S Nakes and Mr N Ot, as represented by his lawyer Oscar Zamebdis (common misspelling) who liberated Mr Nakes from participating in a reading test due to his sunburn.

    The watermark of circles in the background reference how much he won in the settlement

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    Bradley Gavin Knoeson avoids jail after drowning, bashing dog in WA in c/world
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    Scoring cheaper internet (feddit.uk)
     

    I don't know why internet providers don't value their existing customers, offering only the cheapest deals to new customers, but you can play hard ball with them.

    1. Call them within the 30-day no-exit-fee cancellation period and talk about your contract ending
    2. Wait for them to offer you a shitty deal. Sound disappointed, make sure they can hear you clicking and typing, and talk about looking for other options instead. Thank them for their time, and amicably end the call.
    3. Wait a few days.
    4. Someone will call you back and offer you a less shitty deal. Make it clear that price is the main issue, and express interest in their slower packages. Get them to go as low as they can possibly go on a slower package. Sound unconvinced.
    5. Start lamenting about the current package, wistfully talking about how you wish things could remain as they are and that you don't want to keep changing providers every 2 years.
    6. Wait for them to offer the best shitty deal on your current package, and express interest. If they refuse to budge any lower on price, get them to throw in an extra like a public IP4 or something.
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    Anyone else gone completely off HN these days? (feddit.uk)
     

    I still used to frequent it all the way up to last month, for some interesting discussions. But now... it's really become AI-pro^[Yes, I know it's been that way for a while, but either I'm feeling it more or the bots have gamed the website to the point that all you see are announces from big tech companies or people going on about their AI solutions] and any post that even hints about AI existentialism gets immediately cut down.

    I find it hard to browse the site anymore, and lament the loss of expert tech discussion in my weekly routine.

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    Delegate a process to a file, for later reattachment? (feddit.uk)
     

    Is such a think possible under Linux?

    Yeah I know I can tmux / nohup, and I know that if I dig deep enough I can manually reattach some of the file descriptors under /proc to get a working terminal for that process again....

    ... but is there a tool that automatically does this somehow?

    e.g.

    run -d ./bash long-running.sh  >  proc.file
### later
run -a  proc.file

    Edit: Y'all really know how to recreate the feeling of StackOverflow circa 2018

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    This NHS hospital is weirder than I thought (www.youtube.com)
     

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/56825766

    There's a Victorian chapel in one of the hospitals at GOSH, designed by the same guy who did Westminster.

    Marvel of engineering, but built around miasma theory (need lots of light and aerated sections to keep bad air at bay) which fell out favour when germ theory came into being (sterilise everything, and you're fine), so the big spaces became impractical.

    By then the chapel was Grade II listed, so they couldn't knock it down. So they smashed everything around it, underfitted it and moved it down, and then rebuilt the hospital around it.

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