Let me just pop a quick “H” on this box, so that way we all know it’s filled with hornets.

Can we cool it with the alliteration? Who wrote this copy? Randy, looking at you… 🐋

https://youtu.be/zJIZj2iIF6M

4 drinks (for women) isn’t a lot. That can be as little as two martinis or three margaritas.

5 (for men) isn’t really a lot either. That’s less than a 6 pack of beer. Or like 3 cocktails depending on how strong they are.

Most people I know will likely have at least one day a month where they drink this much. A birthday party, a holiday celebration, a wedding, a big game, etc. I wouldn’t think twice about a couple drinking this much on a date night. Heck, I’ve been to stuffy work functions that gave me 3 “drink tickets” (which would have put me over the limit). Throw in populations like alcoholics, college kids, service industry workers, etc, and I find it really hard to believe that’s only 5% of the population.

I’ve seen this stat a lot, and anecdotally there’s no way it can be accurate. It really makes me wonder about the methodology of data collection. First, it seems like the heavier of a drinker or drug user you are, the less likely you are to set aside time to participate in a long survey. Second, regardless of the assurances of confidentiality, I’m not sure people would always be honest about the extent of their drinking. In AA, one of the most important steps is admitting you have a problem…

For anyone interested, here’s the paper that explains the survey methodology: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt47098/Methodological Summary and Definitions/2023-nsduh-method-summary-defs.pdf

And here’s an FAQ: https://nsduhweb.rti.org/respweb/faq.html#q6

A few interesting notes:

• Among people who were selected for the interview but did not complete it, the most common reasons for not responding were (1) refusal to participate by the respondent or by the parent or adult guardian of the adolescent respondent (26.1 percent) and (2) did not participate because the residents were not available, never at home, or did not respond to the web survey (18.9 percent)
• For both data collection procedures, communications with potential respondents stressed confidentiality. Consequently, respondents’ names were not collected with the interview data. For web-based data collection, the website’s https encryption provided sufficient security for information entered from compatible devices via any Internet connection
• The interview questions will take about an hour to complete
• Interview respondents who completed the interview received a $30 incentive

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Have fun! :)

Also, do you remember what platform you saw it on?

That would be awesome; thank you!

What medium is this? Also, if this is OC, are you willing to sell this? My sister would absolutely love this.

I agree with this for long-term parking, but I’m not upset by occasional short term parking in the street. I can’t really expect my neighbor’s holiday guests to squeeze 4 cars into a one car driveway.

It also depends on the location I think. My street is extremely wide, so it’s not a big deal. On narrow or crowded streets I would probably feel differently.

Holy cow, they really went and found the worst picture of John Oliver I have ever seen to use for this article, lol.

Side note: John has some very nice poems about Ted Cruz in case you’re interested!

So many questions. Why is that his favorite story? It’s not in the Bible, it’s an imaginary story about people plotting to kill Jesus… Also, wtf is that laugh at the end? He sounds like he is literally insane. And so tonally bizarre considering it’s a memorial service.

Yeah. I mean, the sad thing is that Bernie knows he’s too old to carry the torch for much longer. This video showcases several moments where he’s pushing so hard to get young people involved in politics to keep his momentum after he’s gone.

Me after beating

only to immediately lose all my rosaries in

and then spending the next 3 hours barely failing to

Maybe that’s why it says, “at first.” They couldn’t find it until it got loud. :)

This is kind of an odd take imo. FOSS is important because it doesn’t matter who the creators or maintainers are. Even if all of the people OP listed were in that room and agreed to write backdoors into their software for the government, others could just fork those projects and the community could move on without the bad actors. (I know that’s easier said than done, but it is feasible.)

I’m not about to start cheering for Richard Stallman just because he’s not MAGA. He had some pretty bad takes about the Epstein scandal.

What a quarter century of watching companies incorrectly implement “agile” software development does to a MF.

Oh, nice! Thanks for explaining that. I didn’t realize there was a way to run a cluster without HA.

I’m not sure how well that works if the cluster is only designed to be temporary, since removing a productive node from a cluster is a bit risky

Good callout. Just did some reading on the concept of maintaining a quorum, which I didn’t know about. Definitely need to be careful if I go with that approach, but it does sound interesting! I’m not entirely opposed to leaving the old laptop as a node and then using it for experimental stuff or maybe running just one specific standalone service on it after moving the critical stuff to the new server.

Sounds pretty straightforward. Thanks for the info!

That’s a fair point, but I kind of want to tinker around on the laptop without worrying too much about breaking things and figure out what all I actually want to self-host. That will help me figure out what sort of hardware I need.