VortexDream

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by VortexDream 5y ago
I bought a bunch of N95 masks the day after I heard China was locking down Wuhan. There were still plenty of masks at regular prices at the time.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
This assumes a uniform global response. Not even the US can get their pandemic under control. There are so many breeding grounds across the world where Covid is completely free to mutate that it doesn't matter if a handful of countrie
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by VortexDream 5y ago
In the real world, the items aren't moving, it's the belt that's moving. So the belt just keeps spinning even if it's completely filled with items. The cause of this bug is the fact that items move while the belt is stat
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by VortexDream 5y ago
Maintain context. I might have several terminals up, each ssh'd to a different server. At least one terminal per software project. It helps that I use a tiling manager, so I can keep them all visible at the same time.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
This is the issue I was hoping the Epic case would solve. They all missed the plot though, so we're stuck with this bullshit.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
The tools around Usenet are amazing and easily blow any legal offering out of the water. I don't currently use it, but when I did years ago, it was fairly easy to setup a completely automated system to download any shows/movies I&
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by VortexDream 5y ago
Ah, yes. Form over function, the driving principle for many insane UX "improvements" over the past 20 years. Personality is great. It's not more important than clarity or other related concerns though.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
This makes me think it isn't an accident Keller left Intel after such a short stint with nothing to show for it. I'd imagine the cultural issues run so deep now that even he couldn't turn the ship around.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
Except in many cases, we didn't have the tools or technology to be able to test theories that eventually turned out to match real-world measurements. But the theories existed beforehand anyway and weren't any less science.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
It's something about modern standby. I have a laptop with a 10th Gen i7. I put it in my bag once and when I pulled it out after my trip, the fans were running at full blast and the laptop was extremely hot. I'm also fairly sure it
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by VortexDream 5y ago
In what way is it nonsense?
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by VortexDream 5y ago
Definitely. Money isn't the solution to everything. It's necessary, but if there's no actual buy-in by the people and/or the ones in charge, it's like throwing money into a pit and setting it on fire.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
That seems interesting. I'd give that a try. I'm not satisfied with any clients I've tried so far.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
The only reason why the Marshall plan worked is because there was a world war and nearly everybody in Europe decided "not again". Other countries have not made this experience and for them military conflict (or threat of conflict)
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by VortexDream 5y ago
It's because of this subset that the world works the way it does. This subset is larger than you'd think and looking at countries beset with racial or ethnic or religious strife, it seems to me that nearly everybody has the potent
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by VortexDream 5y ago
It's not like I'd make friends on FB itself. For example, there'd be an impromptu meeting of random strangers in town for whatever event and you'd make friends through that. This was only a few years ago. Or some woman r
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by VortexDream 5y ago
I guess you missed the part about meeting new people? I'm in contact with people I know over other apps. But there's no replacement for that discoverability of local groups and events or facilitating the meeting with new people.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
I assume he means this, where Apple banned a podcast app because it "duplicated existing functionality". https://www.networkworld.com/article/2346233/apple-shows-tru...
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by VortexDream 5y ago
No, there's a huge difference between locking out competitors entirely from offering the same kind of app Apple is and, say, removing an app for being adware. Anticompetitive behavior is more subjecting third party apps to rules that t
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by VortexDream 5y ago
It's because of this kind of stuff that I wanted the Epic case about anticompetitive behavior to be successful. Unfortunately, they blew past this whole issue and focused solely on the issue of the store tax and payment processing. So
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by VortexDream 5y ago
I unfollowed everybody, joined a bunch of local special interest groups and met a ton of new people who lived in the same city. Facebook is actually an incredible tool to connect with other people. But the more I saw how FB behaved, the les
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by VortexDream 5y ago
All of these projects AFAIK involve enticing a company like TSMC to build new plants, not building their own competitor in the market. I don't think there's any appetite in Europe to invest tens of billions in building their own c
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by VortexDream 5y ago
You mean as opposed to the last 20 years where it wasn't the standard? That ship has sailed. If Linux wants to stay relevant to end users (particularly gamers), it needs to be accessible. Proton makes gaming on Linux accessible, regard
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by VortexDream 5y ago
I don't understand why you're being so antagonistic. Cut it out.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
Awesomewm is and always has been my favorite window manager. My biggest issue with it, i3 and other barebones WMs is that there are a lot of edge cases covered by traditional DEs that you suddenly have to solve yourself. And often they&#x27
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by VortexDream 5y ago
People generally don't see long-term or on a societal level. Do you think most people wanted seatbelts or the founding of the EPA? A lot of times these are issues that are outside the purview of individuals, outside of their visibility
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by VortexDream 5y ago
They don't even have to do their own security updates. If they stick to vanilla Android, they have much less work than if they customize the ROM for every one of their devices. There might even be an industry-wide push for Google to ma
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by VortexDream 5y ago
These are massive companies with revenue in the billions of dollars. If this was regulated, they would figure it out. Frankly, in a lot of cases, it's their own fault that phones aren't updated anymore, not because of any inherent
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by VortexDream 5y ago
No, why? The science is mostly funded by public institutions. Academic research belongs to all of us as a civilization.
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by VortexDream 5y ago
I assume he means the font. I took a brief look and I'm not reading all that text in that font.

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