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				Where is Administrator themotte.org ??
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ah, the duality of man.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it's funny that you say that, because based on your stories about your life I tend to imagine you as a sort of Errol Flynn figure. Just going around to different exotic places and seducing beautiful women there, lol.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I want to read about secular monks. Can you share the original (but mistaken) link? It sounds really interesting.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 12, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Can the semen even escape the bonds of JB Weld? I didn't think such a thing was possible!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I doubt the Orthodox Jewish community will let this slide, though. They're essentially single-issue voters.




It's not like they can do anything to him. He's already been elected for his second term as president, and he couldn't have another even if they did vote for him. It's not like we have recall elections for presidents either. So why would he care?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 12, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Everything else aside, on the semen retention: what stops you having nocturnal ejaculation?




Clearly, the only solution here is to epoxy your penis shut. Only then can you reach your true seminal potential.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably something on the order of $20-40 a month. Depends how fancy it is set up, and how much traffic we get.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This made me laugh way harder than it should've. Well done, I thought about nominating this for AAQC but figured the mods would just be annoyed if I did.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Yeah, that basically lines up with what I've heard. If anything the reputation suggests that one should be prepared for actual violence. Trash talk I expect, friendly trash talk between rival fans is part of the fun! But throwing stuff at people, cursing, etc is a shame.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				NFL Weekly Thread: Post Season + Super Bowl
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are Philly fans as bad as their rep suggests? I've heard stories but it's hard to know whether the reputation is earned or if it's exaggerated.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I definitely agree with this. I think that calling the Jan 6 riot a "coup" or similar terms is pure sensationalism. It is even worse when you have the direct contrast of other, similar riots all throughout 2020. The very same people condemning Jan 6 condoned those riots, if not outright approved of them. I try to be charitable, but I genuinely can find no charitable explanation of this double standard which seems plausibly true to me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think he's saying that his total time working gets him $25, not that he gets $25/hr.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				NFL Weekly Thread: Post Season + Super Bowl
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


MOTTE ROOTING INTEREST: If you enjoyed any of my posts, root for the Eagles.




It will be a cold day in hell before I root against my beloved green and gold. For one thing, I'm pretty sure there would be a warrant out for my arrest the next time I visited home. ;)


Honestly I am rooting for the Lions just because their fans deserve it. I respect anyone who sticks with a team that sucks as badly as the Lions have, for as long as they have. Unless they wind up playing the Packers, in which case see previous statement.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My wife was very nice and got me some children's books in Spanish when she was visiting Mexico last year. It's very humbling how I can't even make it through the back cover blurb without being stumped on things I'm reading. I took Spanish as my language requirement in college, and I started practicing again with Duolingo a year or so ago, but it turns out I still would be put to shame by a 7-year-old in my grasp of the language.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I've never read The Handmaid's Tale, what did you think of it?




I really enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale. I thought the setting was interesting, and I found it to be surprisingly hopeful at times (given that it's a dystopian fiction work). Shame that the show became such a travesty, but I never have high hopes for book adaptations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
89 books in a year is quite a few. I'm a fairly voracious reader and I don't come close to that. That's 1.7 books per week!! To make that happen, I would have to give up almost all my free time outside of work to reading. And that's simply never going to happen - I enjoy reading, but I also enjoy programming, playing music, spending time with my wife, cooking, building models, and playing video games too. Reading is fun and important, but not so fun and important that it deserves to crowd out every other use of leisure time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I see... I misunderstood your comment.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


if you are going to home school you'll need to dig out chances for your kid(s) to socialize adequately.




This was always the case. If you're going to homeschool, you have to make sure you socialize your kids in other ways. When I was growing up, my parents did that through groups with other homeschoolers, through church, and through other youth activities (scouts, 4-H, etc). I don't think that it's worse than before or anything, I think that this was just something you always had to do if you were going to homeschool your kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Congratulations on the victory! I don't struggle with drinking myself, but I have a similar struggle with eating sweets so I get how hard it can be.




I was (am? well, hopefully was) a 5-8 drinks a night kind of guy which, while clearly not good, doesn't really seem like "real alcoholism" when you google alcoholism and read stories from people downing a fifth or two of vodka and blacking out every night.




Just a word of caution here: minimizing one's behavior is itself a red flag for alcoholism. My brother in law was an alcoholic, to the point where he just died in December at only 38 years old. But the entire time he insisted that he didn't have a problem, and that he didn't drink as much as (insert example here of people who drank even more excessively than he did). So I would just encourage you to avoid the temptation to say "well my drinking is ok because X".


Regardless, well done on the progress! Keep going strong, brother!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I know some Spanish (and am continuing to work on it), and it is fun. But I also completely agree with @stolen_brawnze here: immigrants need to be expected to learn English and try to integrate. The fact that they aren't expected to do that in America right now is incredibly frustrating. I don't think that "just learn Spanish" is really an adequate answer to this problem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 5, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oh yeah that's a good time too. When I was in college, I worked in the IT department and every so often we had to deal with a student who brought in a router and plugged one of their LAN ports into the campus network. That got your port shut off by the school pretty quickly, and iirc you had to come in and promise to stop using your router to get it turned back on.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The real enigma is Fridman’s own popularity (which is the reason, along with him being a generous interviewer, why so many important people come on his show).




He's interesting (YMMV and obviously does, but I find him super engaging) and he tries to be open minded when he talks to people. I will never understand why people criticize him saying "oh he never pushes his guests". That's a feature, not a bug. I can't stand interviewers who just badger guests trying to get them to say/not say certain things. Lex has some questions to set up discussions, and then he just tries to listen to people and understand them. He does push back on occasion, but mostly he's trying to see things from his guest's point of view (even when you can tell he doesn't particularly agree with it). That is rare and enjoyable in this day and age.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 5, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, I meant two machines on the local network. I've never tried that one before. I unfortunately have first-hand experience with machines on different networks using the same IP addresses, as one of my old employers was too cheap to buy new IPv4 subnets and we squatted on the DoD 22.0.0.0/8 subnet. Our network team had a very fun day when the DoD started using that subnet publicly, or so I heard from my old coworkers (I had left by that time).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 5, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Default gateway does what it literally says. A gateway, in IP routing, is a term meaning "traffic for X network should be sent to the router at Y destination IP address". You can have potentially many routes on a system specifying what traffic goes where. The default gateway, then, is the gateway which your traffic will use when no other routing rule matches.


I'm not certain about what happens when two machines claim to have the same IP, actually. But I can take an educated guess. When you try to reach out to an IP address, your machine first needs to figure out which Ethernet MAC address it should send that traffic to (it does this using a protocol called ARP). Most likely, what would happen is you would start to see traffic for that one IP address go to both machines sporadically, depending on which is responding to ARP requests first. I'm not certain but that's what I would imagine.


DHCP works by sending out a broadcast on Ethernet asking for a DHCP server. When the server replies, it will give the client an IP address to use. That's the gist, though I don't know the exact details of the DHCP communication (I couldn't write my own software or anything).


UDP goes through NAT the same as TCP does. If you're making an outbound connection, the router will pick a port to listen for reply traffic, and forward replies to your client machine. If you're making an inbound connection, you need a port forwarded to the destination at the router level in advance.


A VLAN is a way to isolate Ethernet networks even if they are plugged into the same physical hardware. The switch you are plugged into lets you configure which ports are part of which VLAN, and only ports which are part of the same VLAN can talk to each other using Ethernet. You can also configure a port so that multiple VLANs are allowed, in which case the device plugged into the port must add a tag to any traffic it sends specifying which VLAN it is for (and it is only allowed to send traffic on the VLANs you configured on the switch).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 5, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


How does it broadcast its request if it doesn't have an IP address?




Because network communication doesn't always require an IP. Think of the network as different technologies arranged in a stack, each building on the last. Specifically, the stack generally looks like:


Ethernet


IP


TCP/UDP


Other protocols on top that (e.g. HTTP)


For DHCP, your machine broadcasts at the Ethernet level which works based on the MAC addresses baked into every network interface. It receives a reply in the same way. And even once you have an IP address, those IP packets will be riding on top of Ethernet frames which are sent out to the local network in much the same way as DHCP traffic is.