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by DavidVoid 8y ago
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - H.L. Mencken.
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Personally I'm a fan of the dotted zero since it looks clean and doesn't get confused with an O or an Ø. I guess it could get confused with a theta but how often does that show up in variable names?
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> That's what you get when you want to be PC I'd hardly consider this "trying to be PC". https://i.imgur.com/cgGx4JR.png This is more about bowing down to America's backwards views on sex and nud
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
I'd argue that they are since searches for some "adult" terms are now censored but searches for nazi terms are not. For example: https://www.tumblr.com/search/breast/recent https://www.tu
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
Would the 10TB Seagate ST10000NM0086 (of which they have 1,220 drives) not count as enterprise ones? Or the 12TB HGST HUH721212ALN604 for that matter.
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
The best resource for that would probably be Backblaze's quarterly hard drive stats. Here are the ones for Q3 2018: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failure-rates... Scroll down a bit and you'll
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
I really like one of the highlighted quotes from him since it pretty much sums up my view on computer peripherals: "Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect
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I can highly recommend hypersphere's silencing rings but they are pretty expensive so it's probably more worthwhile to check out the cheaper ones made by KBDfans or KeyClack. Here's a video demonstrating the before and after
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ You'd figure that four years after this article came out the larger social media companies would have solved this issue. A section that stood out to me:
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Or alternatively https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
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>There's no way they can ban him for saying that They didn't ban him for saying only that. Here's a part of their official statement on the matter. >Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Tw
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What narrative, the narrative that people with large audiences of impressionable young people shouldn't casually say the n-word and pay poor people to write anti-Semitic messages as a joke?
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I have a feeling this quote will start getting more relevant again. "[D]emand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread." - Emma Goldman, said to a crowd during the panic of 1893.
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
I like the concept of foot pedals as a form of computer input but I then I'm reminded of this story (fake or not) about why you probably shouldn't use foot pedals as a push-to-talk button in games. https://www.reddit.co
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> How do you manage without arrow keys? It has pretty easy to use arrow keys in a function layer. I just hold down the Fn key with my right pinky and use my right index and middle finger to hit the arrow cluster (see https://w
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
> Ugh light gray keyboard is ugly if the rest of your computer hardware isn't in light gray (which is common these days). I think it looks pretty good but I have the version with blank keycaps which I use on a white desk so I think
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
If you're interested in getting a tiny keyboard then there are actually quite a few other "too" small custom keyboards which unlike the one in the OP are fairly usable. Some examples: The ortholinear layout Gherkin: http:&#x
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>In Chrome, Firefox and Opera you're getting 720p max. You can actually get some content in 1080p in Chrome and Firefox with a browser extension. It is somewhat unreliable however and some videos still get capped at 720p. Chrome ext
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I'm not sure. I believe it's pretty good but I've only ever used it to watch Formula 1 streams (since F1TV most likely won't be available in my country until next year).
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> Many of his criticisms of social media will feel familiar to distant observers of American politics. Twitter and Facebook have made us cruder, less empathetic, more tribal. Have they though? I get that stuff like Twitter's charact
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Ace Stream works really well for watching live broadcasts. On demand video would be more difficult though since not everyone is watching the same content at the same time.
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by DavidVoid 8y ago
>So there's no debate to be had on affirmative action, and everyone who supports it is racist and wrong? ofc there is. But you can't deny that the people who often pop up in reddit discussions about race issues have no interest
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It's interesting how you can almost completely forget about something that or someone who used to be such an important part of your life, and yet it doesn't take much for you to suddenly remember all about it/them. Here'
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>Or there is a sizable portion of the European population who don’t want mass immigration. This isn't a "one or the other" kind of thing. Yes, there are people who oppose mass immigration, but Russia also has a habit of tr
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>With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. Wouldn't be too hard considering the amount of valid concerns regarding her practices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critic
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>I would still hesitate to say that we should lay the blame on these forums though, or undeniably conclude that that's where we should be making changes to prevent such problems. I wouldn't say lay the blame on the forums for t
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>I wonder if a connection has been found in even a single case. I'd argue that the psychopaths who're attracted to such forums have their hateful beliefs reinforced and amplified by them. Whether or not they would've ended
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by DavidVoid 9y ago
You'll probably enjoy this video with Richard Feynman about how different people think differently even for something as basic as counting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y
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> The examples in the article seem more punk, if anything. Some of the websites linked in the article remind me of dada collages (Hausmann's "ABCD" for example[1]), which are a usually lot more chaotic and free-form than b