Socketier

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by Socketier 5y ago
> By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be replaced by GNU/Linux It literally
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by Socketier 5y ago
I'm sorry, why is helm so bad exactly?
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by Socketier 5y ago
That's a really profound sounding way of saying that life is complex and we don't understand it. Or are you saying that we do understand it? If so I'm sure you're in high demand right now.
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by Socketier 5y ago
That's circular reasoning. We're here so it must have happened in this specific way therefore it happened. Sure, an expertly guided experiment in a glass tube can make some basic amino acids but they had to be removed from the exp
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by Socketier 5y ago
This. The amount of trouble one has to go through to break the % cap on internal raises isnt worth it. Especially when you have recruiters lining out the door for your applications to companies who won't quibble about salary expectatio
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by Socketier 5y ago
It would be nice if when you skipped a song it would do a soft pop up or something to ask why you skipped it. You could ignore it most of the time but if you felt strongly about the recommendation then you could at least vent your frustrati
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by Socketier 5y ago
.md is the markdown file extension, so having a .md TLD is a clever and amusing idea imo as Obsidian is, after all, a markdown editor.
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by Socketier 5y ago
Having less variety of food l and "having to eat cupboard food" don't really go hand in hand. It's not essentials, they're luxurious options.
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by Socketier 5y ago
Exquisitely engineered creatures.
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by Socketier 5y ago
That being said, I live in the UK. We know it's going to base its default recommendations based on your perceived location. I personally found that I needed to make an account to get away from the horrendous default recommendations. An
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by Socketier 5y ago
Youtube isn't really the same. I've found that I can watch the things I want to fine without seeing a single political video being suggested.
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by Socketier 5y ago
Gutted.
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by Socketier 5y ago
Waggle Dancing In The Dark (official video) - Bee VEVO
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by Socketier 5y ago
This happened to me as well, only with DSL. The strip lights on the bathroom mirror (newly installed) would disconnect the internet when turned on. Such a weird thing to troubleshoot when you have a few people living in the same house.
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by Socketier 5y ago
Yeah I managed to do the same, it filled up the firewall state table and nobody was able to initiate new connections, only existing ones continued to work. And that's how I learned about stateful firewalls!
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by Socketier 5y ago
Would you agree that the systems at those scales are remarkably well architected to function in such conditions? Flawed analogies are the result of improper understanding and the need for explanatory tools and models, but that's always
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by Socketier 5y ago
Thanks, I'll have a read! I'd like to note though that what ever the case, a beverage that she was expected to put to her lips managed to give her horrific burns. And there was, if I recall correctly, quite a few of the same case
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by Socketier 5y ago
Exactly, it's similar to the media frenzy around the woman who got seriously burned by Mcdonalds coffee and sued them. The reaction was mostly incredulity and mocking her, but the reality was that the coffee was exceptionally hot for
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by Socketier 5y ago
> Thinking of the body as a well ordered mechanism is a flawed view That's a bit of a leap. The order and organisation of the human body is beyond every technology we have ever developed to date. We discover what appears to be disor
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Weasel Words(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Socketier 5y ago
Once you notice the "Weasel words" [1] you'll never see a press release like this one the same way again. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
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by Socketier 5y ago
Maybe if Microsoft would make an MS teams feature that would operate more like discord then that random smalltalk would happen.