JellyBeanThief

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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
I'm conflicted about it. On the one hand, I'm angry that society would simply give up and leave people behind. On the other hand, societies have always done that in one rationalized way or another, and at least this way is slightl
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
Oh man. All I've used Linux on was a ThinkPad, and so I quickly discovered that MMB pasted. But I assumed it was just pasting from the clipboard. This explains so many times when what I Ctrl-C'd and what I MMB'd weren't
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
> Don't hate the player, hate the game. ...the players have a hand in ruling the game. Corporations and businesspeople lobby government bodies and politicians as a matter of course. You can't separate the one from the other. If
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The NYPD is piloting a 420-pound robocop to roam Times Square's subway station(gothamist.com)
16 points by JellyBeanThief 3y ago|17 comments
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
Define "small heavy loads". How small is small in terms of volume? How heavy is heavy in terms of density?
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
What I want is for ads to be sequestered in places for people who are actually looking to solve something. Just take all the ads in the camera magazine and put them at the end, neatly categorized. If I'm interested in buying a new lens
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
I just love whenever the roundworld equivalent of something I first encountered on the discworld pops up in front of me.
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
> This was especially true if the mathematics textbooks I've had to deal with. I shudder to think of how many people have struggled with math and written themselves off as mathematicians without ever thinking that maybe some of the
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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers(arstechnica.com)
166 points by JellyBeanThief 3y ago|113 comments
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
The U in USB stands for Universal. Doing everything is explicit in the name itself. And compared to how we connected things 15 years ago it's certainly master of all.
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
> Constructive inquiry is different than the whine Dawkins is discussing. Then Dawkins needs to get off Twitter, because it will never give him what he wants. He hasn't found a problem in society, he's found a problem on Twitte
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
Only when you take the quote out of context. For the majority of the article he focuses on gender. And in the very same paragraph as that quote comes from he invokes J.K. Rowling. It is entirely reasonable to assume that transgender peopl
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
The fundamental problem Dawkins is struggling with is that he is asking for reasoned disagreement on Twitter, which is well-known for a desert of reason. If he truly desires thoughtful discussion, he needs to do it with real people in the r
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
Anytype is local-first and plans to be self-hostable.
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
Give the plaintiffs significant shares in the company, transferred directly as a flat percentage from the other shareholders. You will find it very hard to reach C-suite level at any publicly company where you cost your shareholders that wa
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
That's simply not a defense of Cruise. How things work in a hypothetical universe doesn't absolve them of how things worked in this universe. It's a self-driving car. One of the things it should be able to do is move out of
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
It's not hypocrisy. But what it is is an expression of "got mine, screw you". This person isn't offering to use the sale of their $36 million home to build an indoor court that would solve the noise problem they care a
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
If you want moderate views to prevail, you need to be working for ranked choice voting. The system we have now rewards extreme candidates. All the internet does is supercharge that. If we don't adopt a voting system that enables voters
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
One of these days I'll get serious about trying to configure KDE to actually look usable. Every time I try it (about once every 1.5 years) I keep getting struck by how everything is the wrong size or is spaced incorrectly relative to e
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
Man, you guys should give a masterclass on launching open-source forks with professionalism and positivity.
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
The thing is I never picked up tools like Obsidian or Anytype because I wanted them to do my thinking for me. On the contrary, I use them because they help me be rigorous in my thinking. The process of methodically recording and organizing
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
A call to general action is the same as no call to action. "We" and "changes" are so vague that they diffuse responsibility to everyone, and therefore no one. It feels good, and nothing happens. I'd like to encourag
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
No. But try and define "proper" and you'll soon run into problems. My local rural high school is blowing up over transgender bathroom access, and there are some parents who are actively encouraging their children to call emer
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
2004's Bejeweled 2 soundtrack ([available in IT and MO3]( http://www.futurecrew.com/skaven/index2.html )) was my gateway drug.
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
I don't know if ice cream is the best metaphor. You obtain the ice cream, you eat the ice cream, you excrete the ice cream. End of saga. But social media is something you invest time and information in. You build a reputation, you form
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
What ever happened to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control ?
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
I'm seriously hoping it's a success. I grew up on Apple, but five years ago I jumped to Linux and ThinkPads and haven't looked back until now. I want a Linux-based XR environment, but that won't happen unless the hardwar
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
Here's the collection so far: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Computer+Shopp...
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
> Either you believe in property and access/benefit rights or you don't. Information isn't property. Property is a concept we use to maintain order and peace around scarce resources. Information is not scarce anymore and n
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by JellyBeanThief 3y ago
That film is stuffed full of jokes about British history. People wanting more might like to pick up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That

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