Paul_S

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by Paul_S 3y ago
I think I have become a web accelerationist. I hope this newest bit of mendacity succeeds and we abandon this flaming disaster that the modern internet will become. The tiny (just depressing how tiny) subset of its useful functionality ca
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China state banks seen selling US dollars to prop up yuan(reuters.com)
3 points by Paul_S 3y ago|2 comments
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by Paul_S 3y ago
How do the companies justify spending money on diversity executives to their shareholders? Genuinely asking. Do they say it will make them more money?
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Back when Diablo was released it wasn't uniformly praised like it is today. Aside from caricaturised RPG fans' scoffing there was a lot of criticism of its what we call today streamlining and what we used to call dumbing down. Int
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Harvard withdrs papers from its professor after she was found to be dishonest(fortune.com)
2 points by Paul_S 3y ago|1 comments
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by Paul_S 3y ago
I had a look again and you are right. What I was listening to was a mod remix of a sid tune. Do I feel silly now.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
The folder structure is such a mess that I thought it only does midi but I used the search bar and was amazed by the crisp SID rendition. Should add a filter toggle to remove all the midi spam.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Just get a dolby Atmos sound system for your living room and save money in the long term. You can watch any movies you want back to back at any time. Get a big enough couch and you can invite your friends.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
This could work if it was community run and not for profit. A business running this has the wrong incentives.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Sleep sort - invented by 4chan. The rest of the short story also reads like it came straight from r9k
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by Paul_S 3y ago
I never understood that concept. What is wrong with having your own library? I have about 200 books on my shelves I haven't read and any time I want to I can find something interesting. It's s luxury but not anything I'm emba
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Just use levels fyi or glass door - the self reported salaries here will be the self-selected top of scale. And given how vague the question is the information you get here will be useless for anything but reinforcing whatever you already t
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Goodreads is only good (eh, decent?) as a database of books you've read. All the other functionality is pointless and or broken. The recommendation system is a joke and is obviously used to promote nonsense instead of giving you person
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by Paul_S 3y ago
I didn't realise this was marketed to general public. Every distro and their dog supports arm. Anyway, I thought Windows runs on arm now? Although honestly, nowadays general public runs everything in a browser - why do they still need
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by Paul_S 3y ago
No ARM option? Also, the battery compartment is tiny. Put the two together and I'm guessing this is not going to run for long. Love the idea though. If I ever buy a laptop again it will be one of those.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead." (Douglas Adams) If you want to achieve great things, take his advice. If you want to be happy consider the price he
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Not tea ceremony, normal tea rooms. Doesn't have to be traditional either, just a place that serves a wide variety of high quality loose leaf tea. I am interested in recommendations, I hope I can visit again some time.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
I used Google but also just walked in from the street.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
I've not been to Taiwan but I've been to China and Chinese tea rooms are amazing but also people at home drink good tea. I was expecting similar in Japan, except with green tea in place of puerh. I hope to visit Taiwan sometime in
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by Paul_S 3y ago
When I visited Japan I had whiplash from the disappointment at the state of tea drinking. While the visit was the best holiday in my entire life and I had the opposite of Paris syndrome the one thing I was particularly looking forward to wa
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Not if they hatch them from eggs there isn't. And it's not like they're going to keep them outdoors.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Why can't they keep chicken??? Chicken need water and layers pellets (which store fine). You get fresh eggs every day and free manure to use in your greenhouse! I really don't understand why they don't do it.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
How do we stop AI from being evil? Maybe we should be asking how do we stop people from being evil. Haven't really made a dent in this so far. Doubt we can do so for AI either. Especially if it grows smarter than us. We can just hope t
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Thanks. Now it makes sense to me to make a small run first before printing more. Doesn't explain why they immediately paid the author so much money. Are best sellers made by publishers by investing money in marketing it (like what this
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by Paul_S 3y ago
"When her literary agent, Douglas Stewart, sent out the manuscript in January 2021, he felt in some ways as if he were introducing her for the first time. “Despite the fact that Gabrielle had several big successes before, there are peo
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Edit: Maybe I shouldn't be doxing myself. I don't know what matter wants to be either.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
Try not paying alimony and see what happens. Go to jail AND continue having to pay them. No difference here.
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by Paul_S 3y ago
If you remember the 90s you remember the panic over encryption. We still have legislation today because of that idiocy. Except wait, we still have panic over encryption today.
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by Paul_S 4y ago
I have watched the whole series and it is an amazing experience to watch someone's whole life. Most people will never see lives of people of different class, here you can see orphans, working class, privileged. You can see how society
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by Paul_S 4y ago
In my city there's very little point in having an expensive bike (like all electric ones are) because you are either limited to only going places where you can stay with the bike (parks, etc) or it will inevitably be stolen. Any bike o

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