100 Gbit? Is there even such a thing as a 100 Gbit link? I want to know more!

Meh. I lose power every 3 or 4 years on average. A UPS just doesn’t make sense for me. (When I lived in Virginia it was once a month on average, so for sure it made sense…)

The sequel films are trash, but a lot of Disney’s Star Wars stuff for the small screen has been really good.

I mean, it does also cause visual, aural, and olfactory hallucinations. Plus mess with how you perceive time.

Me too! I remember mansplaining to my girlfriend at the time how long it would take to visit a page and download images, and how nobody would wait that long to see pictures of cats. I underestimated how much people really want to see cat photos.

Poland uses coal to produce most of their electricity, unlike the rest of Europe. They don’t have a lot of coast for wind, they are northern and don’t get much sun for solar, they don’t have nuclear plants, and they were avoiding Russian gas for ages. Plus they have had right-wing governments for ages, who don’t care about pollution or global warming.

I reboot every box monthly to flush out such issues. It’s not perfect, since it won’t catch things like circular dependencies or clusters failing to start if every member is down, but it gets lots of stuff.

No. Men between 18 and 25 have to register with the government, but that’s it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System

I didn’t know there was a -delete option to find! I’ve been piping to xargs -0 for decades!

The federal wage for tipped workers in the USA has not changed since 1991. It remains at $2.13 per hour.

Most states have a higher minimum, but 15 states use the federal value:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

The population of those states is about 107 million people, so this is for about a third of the overall US population.

Most people who get a tip are paid by the hour by their employers in the US (and everywhere else that I know). Tips are a portion of the cost of the meal, usually.

Imagine in 1979 that 30% of the cost of a meal went to server salaries. Imagine that now it is 15%. Either the server takes a 15% pay cut or that money gets paid directly by the customer as extra tip.

Pick the minimum amount that you have felt.

Presumably your partner is not going to say, “You said that you would leave for a new person if they were 35% better, and Alex is clearly 70% better than me for you!” If for some reason at that time you felt your amount was 75% better so you stayed.

It’s basically an artifact of how pay is set. The USA has a system where pay for certain professions is adjusted only by a new law. Since in capitalism the capital class has power over policy and the working class does not, the tendency is to resist increasing salary.

Now for most workers this would simply be untenable, but for jobs that get part of their income through tips the workers can make up the difference by increasing the portion of their income they receive through tips.

So over time the tip rate has increased. It’s actually an interesting proxy for how fucked capitalism has become in the USA. The higher the percentage of cost that workers need to receive semi-formally through tipping, the more the imbalance between capital and labor.

It was in the 1970s.

I saw someone point out on a reply similar nostalgic message: this is basically the plot of The Matrix.