Tharkun

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by Tharkun 7y ago
I don't understand the appeal of anorexic laptops. Sacrificing repairability, cooling, features, and connectivity. All so it can be thinner and lighter? What's the use case for that? Are there really millions of people who walk ar
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by Tharkun 7y ago
You could try uploading a bunch of images and downloading them again, finding out where they differ. This should be reasonably straightforward. However, FB likely modifies the image in various ways (resizing, maybe they recompress the image
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Sure. But standing around, mouth agape, while a barkeep is getting harrassed by a drunk angrily swiging a bottle at their face is placing a pretty big burden on everyone else. "See something, say something" is the least anyone can
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Indeed. I certainly did not mean to imply that Belgium is particularly violent. These anecdotes span about two decades. Having spent most of that time living in dense population centres, usually in the poorer parts of town, has certainly ad
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by Tharkun 7y ago
This is all anecdata, but the article and the study are totally contrary to my experience. Over the years I've witnessed a variety of incidents where bystanders did nothing -- however once someone makes the first move, it seems to beco
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Y Gymraeg is a lovely language. Music to my ears. There have been several pushes for common languages. Latin once dominated at least the sciences and clergy. French was the literal lingua franca for a good while in various contexts. English
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I feel like it's much easier to start learning Mandarin than Maths. I can't really put into words why I feel this way, given that there are great resources like Khan Academy out there. Maybe it's easier to gauge fluency in
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I'm going through the formalities of shutting down my failed startup. We're finishing up the few contracts we have, telling customers we're not extending their service, and trying to figure out how to split what little assets
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Got any evidence to back up those bold claims? People die from high fevers. People with compromised immune systems can get killed by the common cold. People die without food or protein. And what even is acid-forming food?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Is it, though? There have been fires in the arctic for weeks (month?) which haven't been put out. I'm sure firefighters try to put out forest fires asap when they're near human settlements but the world is a big place, and t
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There may be no need to genetically engineer trees for construction at this point, at least not in north america. Some kind of beetle (or was it a fungus?) has killed off a mind boggling number of trees which can be used as engineered wood
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Yeah, because that's a lot easier than just running "firejail firefox".. And does your snippet work on Wayland?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Another good reason to use Firejail. You tell it which folders FF gets to access, and Bob's your uncle.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
How can they possibly know whether the artist licensed their samples? Or whether the artist is paying the original artist royalties for the use of their music?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
It is indeed Loom, you know, because a loom is used to weave threads into cloth. It's possibly also a loony project, but who am I to judge.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I had an MRI scan last year, and not a single label or sign in the hospital said "MRI", they all sais "NMR". I find it hard to imagine that the use of the word 'nuclear' would deter hospitals from using it, giv
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Being driven by curiosity is a wonderful thing. I don't know how he managed to keep it up his whole life, and I very much envy his ability to do so. In my case, I find my ability to act on curiosity to be waning as I get older. Commitm
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by Tharkun 7y ago
And occasionally got a case of botulism as an aside. Be careful when canning your own food, especially if you haven't done it before.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Who even moves windows around on a desktop? Surely everyone is using tiling window managers these days, instead of relying on that sort of nonsense? No? Oh well, I'll keep hoping for tiling to become mainstream.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That's been the argument for every Linux problem for at least as long as I've been using Linux. WiFi drivers used to suck. To the point that you had to be careful which WiFi card (yes, card) you bought, because only a couple of mo
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There are always irregularities in the heart beat. A perfectly regular heartbeat would likely be unhealthy, given that hear rate variability (HRV) is a desirable trait.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Why do they even need a laser? You can use a simple webcam to get an HR reading from the face. Here's an article from half a decade ago: https://www.geek.com/apps/measure-your-heart-rate-using-a-we...
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The wolf population is slowly increasing in western europe. Here's some wolf news for those who enjoy that sort of thing, in Dutch: http://www.welkomwolf.be/node/238
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Or get some chickens and let them roam. They supposedly enjoy eating the little buggers.
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I doubt that. That's a very critical feature for a small subset of emergency calls, where the victim is the one making the call and is unable to communicate their location. But in the majority of cases, something as simple as a text me
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Astrid isn't POTS, but it is a POS. /snark What I was trying to say was that users are only able contact emergency services through POTS (and, by extension, GSM, obviously). The fact that operators and emergency services use Ast
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by Tharkun 7y ago
This has happened several times over the past couple of years in Belgium as well. Bugs and mishaps happen, and I'm sure the systems were designed to be fault tolerant. But perhaps it's time to stop relying on POTS alone for emerge
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That's a very subjective thing. De gustibus et coloribus...
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How heavy are the buildings housing the reactor? How much of that material is radioactive/unsafe after a couple of years of operation?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
"Mostly"? It's not like spent fuel is the only kind of nuclear waste...there's also tons of radioactive building materials, contaminated water and whatnot. Probably not as dangerous as (spent) fuel, but radioctive and vo

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