Arubis

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by Arubis 5y ago
Setting aside the arguments around infringement equaling/not equaling actual theft, is the actual incidence of piracy high enough that it's on beancounters' radar? I may be wrong, but my impression is that streaming made it a
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by Arubis 5y ago
Heh, go figure. And my original question here is downvoted enough here to be sufficiently invisible. I don’t have sufficient karma to unflag your post, but I appreciate the pointer; it at least makes for good reading.
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by Arubis 5y ago
I hope you’re right, and that it’s not coordinated.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Metacommentary: I’m seeing _a lot_ more attacks on the so-called average HN user, on the HN system, etc. here than I’ve noticed in any other thread recently. What’s up with that?
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by Arubis 5y ago
Installing a ground loop is a _significant_ expense, oftentimes well beyond the reservation price for residential buyers.
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by Arubis 5y ago
You can do two things, if so inclined: I’m in the midst of having a heat pump system installed in line with my existing gas furnace, the so-called “dual fuel” approach. The heat pump should suffice for most cool days, with the furnace avail
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by Arubis 5y ago
Agreed. The posted decision (permanently DST) is stupid, but less stupid than switching.
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by Arubis 5y ago
How, then, would you define "homeless"? And does it have a different meaning from "does not have a home"? edit: Perhaps clarifying, are you using the term "homeless" to define a _state_ or a _trait_ of the pers
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by Arubis 5y ago
Pax Americana was mostly nice.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Came here to say roughly the same thing. That it’s Google and they’re not charging you for it can at this point be considered suspicious, if not conclusive.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Does naturalization in this particular context confer citizenship with voting rights? I’m curious if blocking shifts in the electorate is a motive for this move.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Tangential: for those of us _not_ running into functional issues with Pinboard, [Paperback]( https://readpaperback.com ) remains one of my favorite addon services for a SaaS pretty much ever. One-time payment unlocks ad-free Insta
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by Arubis 5y ago
This sounds frustrating, and it's strange that adding new accounts hasn't changed anything, but FWIW my (positively ancient, rate-grandfathered but with archiving activated later) Pinboard account continues to function as expected
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by Arubis 5y ago
Not a servicemember, but the framing from someone who was: while you're a member of the US armed forces, your body is the property of the US Government.
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by Arubis 5y ago
s/could/would/ My layman’s understanding is that huge warheads are a less efficient usage of nuclear materiel (in terms of sheer destruction) than a larger number of mid-sized warheads.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Indeed; for well over a decade, I would impulse-buy anything from Panic or The Omni Studio.
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by Arubis 5y ago
No, but a lot of us figured out that it's currently a lot more profitable to sell to businesses than consumers.
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by Arubis 5y ago
This is a huge part of it! I spent a couple years doing IC-level failure analysis, which involves cool toys like electron microscopes, ion beams, strong destructive chemistry… a lot of it was neat, but the feedback loops were hours at best,
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by Arubis 5y ago
And there's a fair cohort of us (note, US-based perspective here) that _did_ go through the traditional electrical engineering education, learned the hard math and analog/mixed-signal engineering needed to put together something l
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by Arubis 5y ago
From TFA, an outstanding quote in its own right: > Good writers make you want to read, but great writers make you want to write.
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by Arubis 5y ago
I'll probably give MöbiusSync another shot; my first experience with it was heavy on battery usage and notifications, light on functionality.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Can you clarify what your question here actually is? Otherwise it appears to be baiting folks with a hot-button issue.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Your work is contributing to the org-mode renaissance; users of the world appreciate you! Now if I could just get multi-platform sync working correctly (iCloud doesn't play nice with Linux)...
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by Arubis 5y ago
I keep wondering this also. I’ve seen this line trotted out on social media _constantly_, and it’s utterly absent from more reputable publications. Are there real sources here? Not hypothetical—I’d be interested if you have them-but in thei
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by Arubis 5y ago
This may be the case, but "this tool is a potentially massive privacy and security intrusion" is a drastically different conversation than "calculators mean students can't do arithmetic anymore".
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by Arubis 5y ago
A post (not my own) I find worth revisiting in this very subject from time to time, on the various approaches to product ideation: https://jakobgreenfeld.com/gut
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by Arubis 5y ago
> if a NATO member is attacked, then member states are obligated to come to the member's aid. It's essentially tantamount to saying, if you are at war with a NATO member, you are at war with the whole bloc, This is the deterren
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by Arubis 5y ago
Settings -> Advanced -> Format Messages with Markup may be the first thing worth doing for you when Slack comes back online.
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by Arubis 5y ago
That looks like a cool resource; thank you! We’re pondering making a move at some point in the next year or so, and this is gross for that particular mill.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Ha! We’re still working up to that—this was “babysitter arrives after the kids are asleep & we’ll go somewhere in walking distance”. Same vibe, though.

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