My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.

More here, including (which I didn’t know until now) cardiac catheterization.

I’m sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs

Innovation, perhaps; progress…that’s something else.

I’m gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:

“This.”

How’d I do?

Blender has entered he chat (unless things have changed since I used it last).

I’m curious what you’re doing on an SBC that explicitly requires x86, though?

Not parent, but I used ARM SBCs for a bit, and while it was nice, my x86 experience with a nuc has been much, much better. HW acceleration works on some RPIs, and sort of worked on my Orange Pi 5+, but only when using an ancient kernel which had some hacks (like, kernel debug messages saying “DISABLE THIS FOR RELEASE!”). And afaik RPI 5 doesn’t support hw encoding (not to mention no SSD support).

Basically, my experience was that the hardware was neat if sometimes limited, the energy consumption was great, but the software/kernel support…ugh. YMMV of course.

1. Certainly depends; and it depends on traffic volume!

2. Definitely something to consider; many folks (myself included) use a free/cheap VPS as the endpoint, and reverse proxy to home, via some VPN (WireGuard in my case). Works well, and lots of guides online.

This realization/acceptance led to us having kids.

I can only remember this because I initially didn’t learn about xargs — so any time I need to loop over something I tend to use for var in $(cmd) instead of cmd | xargs. It’s more verbose but somewhat more flexible IMHO.

So I run loops a lot on the command line, not just in shell scripts.

Yes, but your wine futures would be worthless, what with his unlimited water-to-wine abilities.

Yeah, I think the issue is that the other racist, xenophobic, antivax, generally incompetent policy choices are actually kind of what he campaigned on.

The tarrifs — even though he campaigned on them — are antithetical to his promise of lowering cost of living expenses.

That said, it’s the WSJ editorial page — their coverage of the Second Coming of Jesus would be its impact on your 401(k), so this type of coverage (and not e.g., social justice) is their bread and butter.

No, but I think it’s good when someone with credibility among certain people reiterate something, even if it adds nothing of value to you and me.

Democratic and left-of-center politicians (or “liberal elite economists”) can say this until they’re blue in the face but Trumpers will dismiss it as I dunno, woke butthurtism or something. But when someone like Buffet says it, at least they (maybe) have to think a little bit before coming up with some mental gymnastics to dismiss him. And maybe along the way they’ll question, if only a little bit, the sanity of Trump’s policies.

I prefer the phrase “testicular manifold.”

We had kids — we wanted to make friends in our 30s, so we just made the friends. Problem solved.

(In all seriousness, your friend — or at least, acquaintance — group explodes when you have daycare/kid activities.)

The Gulf of Lesser Canada does have a certain ring to it…

I think mplayer has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believe youtube-dl can output to stdout.

The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.

Oh absolutely; the folks who sat at home, are outraged that a fascist is in power, and are too dumb to understand how voting works to realize that they enabled it — they are infuriating.

That character is from the 20s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_Kilowatt

It’s kinda a weird take? Like if I’m in a discussion about some scary things AfD are doing and a left-of-center German joins the conversation, I’d like to think I’d have the ability to…you know…hear what they have to say about things.

There are a bunch of Americans who asked for this; there are a bunch who stood by and did nothing to stop it; and there are a bunch who tried to stop it, did not, and are devastated.

I guess at the end of the day it’s just a meme.

Ah, right, that’s why it looked familiar — pretty sure I’ve seen articles from there posted in one of The Onion communities in lemmy.

Only disagreement from me (in California, USA) is that I wouldn’t diminish the actions of our neighbors to the north by calling them “petty” in this instance. Nothing petty about standing up to a bully in whatever capacity you can. 🫡