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by CivBase 4y ago
Computers and calculators should absolutely be embraced by modern math education. Once someone thoroughly understands long division, there's no sense in forcing them to tediously repeat every division operation by hand. But it's s
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by CivBase 4y ago
If that got you, you might like their April Fools video that is nothing but ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A
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by CivBase 4y ago
Surely there should be a statute of limitations on that. The idea that someone could demand money from me for a mistake they made seven months ago sounds ridiculous, no matter how big the mistake.
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by CivBase 4y ago
> All of those are tools which did not lead to potentially the same final product produced for a miniature fraction of the labor costs. In what practical sense are paintings distinct from photography or digital art? It's easy to see
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by CivBase 4y ago
There is so much doomsay around these image generation AIs and I don't really understand it. Did photographs devalue painters? Did digital art devalue painters? Did movies devalue theater? Did YouTube videos devalue cinematographers? D
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by CivBase 4y ago
Heh, I guess. My last two phones had the jack at the top, so it's instinctively where I put it. I do like being able to rest it on a surface while holding it vertically with an audio cable connected. But charging it at the same time fr
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by CivBase 4y ago
I did the same thing but with two changes: * Home button doubles as the power button (press and hold) * Headphone jack at the top
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by CivBase 4y ago
I think those are both true but for very different reasons. The competition for oil changes has become so intense that there's basically no profit margin on it. People can have their oil changed "professionally" for so little
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by CivBase 4y ago
I'd have an easier time feeling relieved if the limited parts selection and prices weren't obviously calculated to make self-repair extremely undesirable. Not to mention you can't order a part until you've registered wit
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by CivBase 4y ago
Is there anything holding back an OpenWrt-style project for TVs? I can imagine something like that becoming popular among hacking communities if TV manufacturers ever resort to installing SIM cards. For now I just don't connect my TV t
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by CivBase 4y ago
Huh, I didn't realize the Corsair One had been around that long. The GTX 1080 would definitely be a more compelling case for an upgrade. Hard to believe it will be three generations old soon. And yeah, it's odd that a GTX 1080 wou
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by CivBase 4y ago
tl;dr: You can improve performance by clearing up some space from a full storage device. Also, video game streaming exists and can be a more affordable alternative to buying a boutique PC from Alienware. Counter point: it's okay to tur
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by CivBase 4y ago
Curious if that's still the case if you disguised the User Agent as Chrome. I used to have to do that on FF mobile to make any of the Google products usable.
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by CivBase 4y ago
This title is absolutely false, at least where I live. My wife and many of my friends and family are teachers. There is a ton of competition and all of them have had a hard time getting a stable job teaching something they don't hate.
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by CivBase 4y ago
Can you really consider the "mass market" to be a key to power for Pine64 with their current lineup of products, though? The OS hackers seem to be Pine64's only key to power right now. And does supporting them really consum
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by CivBase 4y ago
As an outsider, it sounds to me like Pine64 has failed to explicitly state how much support they are willing to offer each of the popular distro projects. The Community Edition releases implied a pretty high level of support for each of tho
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by CivBase 4y ago
> When you’re trying to make a mass-market hardware product at bare-bones pricing, you have to be ruthless about simplifying the hardware and cutting costs. But is that really what PINE64 should be trying to do? So far their support hasn
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by CivBase 4y ago
When was the last time you saw a review that audited the Bluetooth implementation on a device? I couldn't even make that kind of purchasing decision if I wanted to.
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by CivBase 4y ago
As a replacement for my laptop, I hate this. But as an auxiliary tablet, this is much more interesting. If I had a good use case for a tablet, a folding one that runs Windows sounds much more appealing than a flat tablet running Android or
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by CivBase 4y ago
Even with smaller portable monitors, I'd feel a lot more comfortable having one in my backpack if the screen wasn't exposed.
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by CivBase 4y ago
As an American, I have only ever seen the opposite. Pretty much everyone where I'm at just mows over the leaves. Blowers mostly used to clear streets and sidewalks. Rakes are sometimes used to collect leaves and burn them, but even tha
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by CivBase 4y ago
Yeah, the author's answer wasn't very satisfying for me. I use tabs for things I'm actively using, keep quick-access stuff on the bookmarks toolbar, and keep long-term stuff in directories or the bookmarks pane/menu. No
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by CivBase 4y ago
> This made me realize that the rules are arbitrary and what matters is if people can understand what you're saying. I disagree. Kind of. Like all languages, English is a tool. The more complicated that tool is, the harder it is to
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by CivBase 4y ago
I think international economic competition has less to do with "world domination" and more to do with 1) having real international influence without resorting to military action 2) being resilient against international influence f
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by CivBase 4y ago
> It was several weeks after the daughter's first period. Probably pretty relevant. And the signs of puberty start showing up before then. It certainly would be relevant, were they actively discussing puberty at the time. > Even
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by CivBase 4y ago
> It sounds like you are agreeing with me that the school did NOT teach that "if you feel uncomfortable in your body, it means you are transgender." I'm saying we simply don't know. It's not hard for me to believ
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by CivBase 4y ago
> The article states: [...] Not that the daughter came away from school misunderstanding the lesson. How is a parent supposed to know exactly what was taught in a particular lesson other than by hearing about it second-hand through their
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by CivBase 4y ago
> Yeah, I don't believe that happened. It's not hard to believe that an 11-year-old being taught about transgenderism might come away with "if you feel uncomfortable in your body, it means you are transgender" as the
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by CivBase 4y ago
I hate this. If you want the car to drive itself, push for that. These flakey, half-way measures are the worst of both worlds.
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by CivBase 4y ago
> If the show sucks, then it sucks - it doesn't take away from the original writing. I disagree. Tolkien's work is not just a story; it is a fictional world. Merchandise exists outside that world, but new stories in that world

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