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by Delk 6y ago
Has it always been that way? I seem to remember RationalWiki (or perhaps some other similar site?) as an occasionally snarky but generally high-quality wiki on rationality, fallacies, science vs. pseudoscience, the logical or other mistakes
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by Delk 6y ago
When I replaced the SSD in my laptop with a larger one and needed to resize the partition (and filesystem, etc.) to use the capacity of the larger SSD, I had to do that at least on the filesystem, LVM and partition table levels. Or at least
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by Delk 6y ago
Yeah, The Register can often be witty and irreverent, and I wouldn't complain about that, but that kind of wit only works if there's an actual point behind it. Jumping on the apparently popular bandwagon of squeezing out "dra
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by Delk 6y ago
There may be an asymmetry, but there's also a matter of choice and control. You can (at least presumably) control whether you will break a contract (NDA or otherwise) in the future. You cannot control something that has happened in the
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by Delk 6y ago
Out of curiosity, do you have a personal connection to the town? > It will take many decades before most shops/amenities/people have moved to the new city, and in the transitional period both the old and new will be bad. Who wa
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by Delk 6y ago
I've noticed Windows 10 being somewhat slow when it happens to be updating, or running some other kind of a periodic maintenance (or "maintenance") task. Sometimes this manifests as sluggishness right or soon after a restart,
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by Delk 6y ago
As a technical choice, that's true. So the argument shouldn't be hard to win, assuming you're dealing with reasonable people, who are also answering to reasonable people. Those people (e.g. the leadership) also need to care
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by Delk 6y ago
You either have way more grit at arguing than most people or you haven't worked at a large and cumbersome organization. I know most people at those kinds of organizations just don't have the grit to fight every one of those battle
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by Delk 6y ago
To be fair, emailing binaries (apart from known types such as images, PDFs, etc.) is a rare enough use case for legitimate purposes and an easy enough way of spamming malware to clueless random people that it's probably a reasonable de
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by Delk 6y ago
I don't think English would be the barrier. My parents would have known SOS decades ago, and I don't come from an English-speaking country. I am from Europe, though, so I don't know if it might be more specific to Western cul
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by Delk 6y ago
Yeah, thanks. I know about those as well, although I haven't tried them except for a quick trial. I could see them as complementary to other exercise, but I don't think I could personally find the focus or motivation to do them as
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by Delk 6y ago
I'd argue the ultimate goal of academia and academic research isn't making technology. That's based on a very narrow view of academia (focusing entirely on engineering and the sciences with immediate technological applicabili
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by Delk 6y ago
I used to do aikido. It gets a bad rap in martial arts circles, but at the time the group and style I started doing it in was a pretty good fit for me. The combination of physical and social activity, mental focus, and something of a challe
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by Delk 6y ago
That's true, but I don't think GP was referring to those special cases where the risk is to the brain, even though those are the what the linked article of course discusses. As their parent comment said, any sport that compels you
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by Delk 6y ago
Possibly, but it doesn't have to be only that, or without any merit. Cold baths and even winter swimming [1] (in icy water) are a thing in many parts of the world. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_swimming
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by Delk 6y ago
Especially since OP already indicated that they're feeling unmotivated. If you're feeling unmotivated and force yourself to work harder on something that doesn't motivate you to fulfill some kind of a moral standard, that mig
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by Delk 6y ago
I don't think it is. I've had times in my life when I certainly didn't constantly distract myself, and being of a contemplative type, sometimes also delved into existential thoughts. But I didn't automatically (or genera
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by Delk 6y ago
It's hard for me to tell exactly what makes me feel about it the way I do. Maybe the message is actually benign but the amount of denialist crap that I've seen in the past makes me react to it strongly as something similar and unt
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by Delk 6y ago
TL;DR: Some people are making claims that "the world is going to end in twelve years" or something, but it isn't. Lots of stuff about the author's experiences traveling in the Congo even though most of it isn't that
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm looking at things from across the pond and then some, but I think it's some kind of a reaction -> counter-reaction -> counter-counter-reaction thing. I don't think it's meant to discredit BLM although it might
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm not even sure how accurate the map is, though. St. Petersburg is at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland, and it would seem that it should be in the same square as Helsinki. St. Petersburg is definitely bigger. I guess it ends up
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by Delk 6y ago
Lots of things in the semantic web and RDF realm suffer from that. The technologies and ideas have been largely built under the (probably implicit) assumption that the data can be made perfect, but it never is.
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm not using the Apple ecosystem but I thought that was at least originally part of the premise of the App Store. Curated content, at Apple's discretion, where they could decide that something should not be included if it somehow
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by Delk 6y ago
Oh, the irony of bug #1 if that happens.
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by Delk 6y ago
That's a fair point. I was referring to "most" distros in terms of the plain number of distros with reasonable mainstream visibility (and therefore possibly the majority focus from mainstream userspace developers), as a kind
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by Delk 6y ago
> I’m not highly conversant with ARM linux, but in my mind I imagine it’s still largely a second class citizen In terms of distros maybe yes. Most distros are targeted at laptops, desktops or servers, and few of those have ARM processors
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by Delk 6y ago
Opera Mini still exists. I guess it's not very commonly used nowadays in terms of market share, but on the other hand, individual web pages are much heavier and require more processing nowadays.
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by Delk 6y ago
I see. I'm sorry you've seen such a drastic change. I'm 37 now and went for years in my 20's without needing to visit a doctor more than a couple of times in total. I can see some of the changes that come with age but
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by Delk 6y ago
Genuine and slightly off-topic question out of curiousity: how often do you have strep, a sinus infection (that doesn't go away on its own), or some other condition that requires treatment with antibiotics? I think I've needed a c
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by Delk 6y ago
Interesting. My X240 has had none of those issues so far, nor anything else significant, after six years of daily use. (I think the fan is running more and faster than when it was new, and the internal battery isn't in great shape anym

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