Eelongate

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by Eelongate 5y ago
With Firefox 93, I was restarting the browser 3 or 4 times a day because it kept crashing while playing videos. It would start with videos loading but not playing, and then moments later the whole browser would lock up and leave no choice
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I think military dishes aren't necessarily pointed at friendly satellites. They might be eavesdropping on foreign satellites and the domes might serve to conceal which from prying eyes. I suspect large dishes may have utility in such
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Which sounds great in practice, but do you know why the military uses those giant golf ball radomes? Its to hide where a satellite is pointing and thus where a satellite is in space. [1] I'm unconvinced of that. Classified sate
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Of course. Bias and prejudice is always a real concern. In situations where the teacher gets it wrong and punishes the bullied kid, the kid learns an unfortunate but useful lesson; that some agents of the system cannot be relied on. But
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I think what he experienced is another manifestation of the same phenomena as zero-tolerance policies in schools; institutions ask their enforcers to suspend common sense and strictly enforce the letter of the law/guideline/etc, e
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Does banning used books actually stop any of the communication between gang members? Definitely not, it's impossible to stop unless maybe you go full supermax and utterly isolate every prisoner from every other. And even then,
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Saying that a particular painting is good does not imply that everything that person has painted is good. Saying that a particular painting is bad does not imply that everything that person has painted is bad.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I use uMatrix to block 3rd party image requests by default, so gifs would have the same "problem". Of course it's not actually a problem at all, if the user chooses to block 3rd party images or video, that is their prerogati
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Massive gifs of screen recordings embedded in github readme pages is really obnoxious. Gif is a terrible format for these, the files are frequently several megabytes where a modern video format might have it crisp and legible under 100KB.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Most linux distros do not support it by default. Sure, but the number of end users who don't install nonfree codecs on their own must be numbered in the dozens.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Yes. The performance of playing gifs is awful. Even better if gif autoplaying could be gated by the dimension of the gif. Under 100x100? That's fine, autoplay it. But some nutjob's 1000x1000 gif? Please spare me.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I practice general search engine avoidance; I don't use a general search engine (google, bing, duck, yandex, etc) if I believe a more specialized search engine will give me what I am looking for. In this circumstance, it's easy
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by Eelongate 5y ago
There are different levels of sleaze; I use firefox not chrome so don't try to put words into my mouth. While firefox may be a better choice than the other two, that's not saying much and Mozilla is very sleazy. If you don'
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by Eelongate 5y ago
In my experience, it works pretty well nonfiction that has a narrative structure, like histories, but doesn't work as well for more technical books, like those about programming languages.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks. I've listened to numerous books (mostly but not exclusively fiction) using TTS and I'd like to confirm this experience. It's kind of remarkable, once I be
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Brave shills cryptoshit at me, and Mozilla shills VPNs at me. Chrome is from an ad company. All three set off my sleaze alarm. What a sad state of affairs.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> If I pushed a pop-up notice out company wide with a message my employer didn't approve of, I'd definitely be expecting to be going out the door rather than doing the litigation process. If it were relating to anything other
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Encouraging your employees to be political activists at work, regardless of affiliation, seems firmly in 'stupid games; stupid prizes' territory. I don't think that applies just to progressive activism.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Were any of those other corporate mottos in the code of conducts they made employees sign?
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Determining what is evil is not the exclusive privilege of religion.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Google was pretty good at making people think Google was different.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> it wasn’t derided as some ambiguous concept prior to this lawsuit. It was routinely criticized for exactly that by many google critics online.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> I have also been in over 20 accidents in my 25 years of driving, the vast majority of those having been rear-ended and none were my fault. That's way too many to take your word for it. Where there's smoke, there's fir
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Atheists have a moral code. [Most?] atheists have moral codes . Yours is not necessarily mine. Sorry to be pedantic, but implications of atheist unity really bug me.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Might Google settle anyway, just to avoid arguing in court, in front of the public, that "don't be evil" never meant anything in the first place?
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I'd think painting over old leaded paint with modern lead free paint should help alleviate that concern. Unless you're sanding the old paint before applying a new coat.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
What about non-volcanic pozzolans like fly ash? From what I understand, fly ash is sometimes substituted for some portion of the portland cement that might otherwise have been used, because works similar to volcanic ash to make the concret
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Absence of rebar is a huge difference. From what I understand it's the primary reason most modern concrete structures are expected to last only on the order of decades to a century or two. Some modern structures have been built witho
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I live in Seattle. It's 12C in my apartment right now, I have the windows open and I'm certainly not wearing any gloves. Hell, I'm not even wearing any socks. I'm wearing long pants and a thickish shirt with long sle
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Dress appropriately for the season and you'll be just fine. If you wear warm clothes that cover your arms, your hands will be warmer too. Poor bloodflow to your hands is a consequence of your core loosing too much heat; your body co

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