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HKH2
3y ago
Good luck with that. People here have trouble understanding why Gimp isn't the best of names. If you don't want to see it you can use --no-splash (or something like that).
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HKH2
3y ago
I think it's just Shift.
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3y ago
Inkscape is a little buggy and unintuitive at times, but once you get used to its idiosyncrasies it's fine. For example, if you want to select a layer and move it with the keyboard, you can switch to another tool (like the node tool) a
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3y ago
Yep it does stick out. A big dialog box obscuring the view. Type a font size in the box, and if it loses focus it will reset to the original font size.
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3y ago
Some people just don't have the time to reexamine their values. If you want society to be efficient, you're going to have to have a belief system of some sort.
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3y ago
Because the current bunch aren't eager to have their fingers in the pie.
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3y ago
I wish I could be that optimistic.
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3y ago
Yeah Apple has no leg to stand on in that regard. Making iOS slower for older phones instead of debloating iOS is anti-sustainable.
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3y ago
Well there are backports for some packages that require updates due to API changes etc.
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3y ago
> Outlawing slavery, for example, only working against good people who commit sins of omission? Yes. So much so that you are led to believe that people don't still practice slavery today.
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3y ago
That's good to know. I like Inkscape but its page handling still needs a bit more work.
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3y ago
> This book by David Burns [1] taught me that ACTION comes first, AND THEN motivation arrives. Existence precedes essence?
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3y ago
> in practice people just care too less. I tried to use Apparmor and SELinux, but how policies work is beyond me. Snap's sandboxing seems to be the closest thing to user-friendly sandboxing, but it's still not that user-friendl
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3y ago
> It also seems a bad idea to measure musical goodness by, say, how many times humans will replay a certain audio file. Because people listen to music for words and other sounds that are added to music.
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3y ago
Because America leads the world, it has a lot of influence over it for better or worse.
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3y ago
Right. Science can't stand on its own. It can never be purely objective.
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3y ago
Well it's potentially racist to some, so common sense has to go out the window.
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3y ago
Well it might sound trite, but sociology is predominantly made up of left wing big government types, so there's no surprise there.
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3y ago
> Doing more research on how small groups of people behave, as opposed to what sociology has been doing for the past 75 years. I think that's one of the roles of anthropology.
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3y ago
> Face to face meetings will be the only thing you can trust in future. Except if you have a chip implanted.
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3y ago
No examples there. How do pipes work?
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3y ago
How is it ironic?
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3y ago
Are there any good Lisp shells?
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3y ago
Yeah being able to shut out the noise for a moment can do wonders.
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3y ago
Thanks for your perspective. Yeah it's a decent piece of software once you get used to the idiosyncrasies, just like Gimp.
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HKH2
3y ago
Not GP, but when I want to export etc., I want a dialog box to open and then disappear, not add to the clutter of tabs on the right.
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3y ago
Will Threads eat IG?
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3y ago
Israel is also monocultural.
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3y ago
What about Threads? Isn't that supposed to be the Twitter-killer?
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3y ago
Somehow vertical mice are also good for keeping people away.
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