Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Strangely enough (?) I have not had many problems with PDF, certainly no more than with other document formats. I often use tools like pdftk [0] (as found on many Linux distributions) to split sections out of PDFs, create new ones out of si
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Install 'Linux' [1] on the machine then? That is, assuming you're using a model which is supported by some form of Linux. That way you get to use the hardware without being bitten by the software. Linux distributions are not
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
So? Thu Guardian is the equivalent of the New York Times of the Washington Post in the USA, that does not mean you can't believe anything they print. News sources have biases, as long as you know those biases and (very important) know
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
After 4 years of hearing that Trump only got to where he was due to Russian interference without Twitter doing even a single fact check, let alone any banishments I think Twitter has a remarkably itchy trigger finger when it comes to Trump
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> Downvote away, but I really do want to love Linux. I just don’t want it to be so hard to love. Folks don't go for proprietary systems like Windows and MacOS because of theatrics around distributions, they just choose one of those
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The opposite is true, Android sleeps unless something explicitly keeps it awake - i.o.w. a process holds a wake lock. Where PC operating systems go to sleep when there is nothing to do for a while, Android sleeps until being woken by user i
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It is more of an interesting trend than it is an "exciting product". Once upscaled ARM processors and/or SoCs become available for use in other- or non-branded products it will become truly exciting as that will open up for b
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Then opt out of it by blocking all that tracking and those analytics as well as those spurious a/b tests. While you're at it you might as well block any and all "social functionality". This way they get to play with thei
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Both tractors I use have around 68hp on the engine, ~65hp on the PTO. Both have front loaders, one of them has an excavator on the back. I run them in the fields (mowing, turning, baling, etc.) and in the forest (logging, skidding, forwardi
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> night doesn't become day in a single instant. How about 75 years? > shows that you obviously grok the gravity of the situation. The situation is thus: humans are one mean species, capable of great deeds of kindness as well as
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Of course they have the capacity to check facts, the means to do so are found on the same network where the fact-to-be-checked was found in the first place. Some people will check those facts, many others won't. If what is written is p
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Add to that the "do as I say, no as I do" attitude from the state government which seems to revel in the opportunity offered by the SARS2 epidemic to exercise power over their constituents upon which those constituents go from dem
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Konrad Zuse was one of the pioneers of computing. He was a German who worked under the Nazis. IBM did a lot of profitable business with the Nazis. You used a device based in part on work done by and for Nazis to post that message, if you po
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It doesn't work well with a wok though, nor does it - or any other ceramic-covered stove (halogen, IR) - cope well with those who have an "active" style of cooking where the pan is moved almost as much as the utensil. I was a
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
No, it isn't a misunderstanding, just a statement of fact. If you want the highest price/performance ratio branded products are usually not the place to go, especially not products from companies which produce "luxury" g
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> . It should be the most powerful desktop you can get for that tag. It should not, the most powerful machine you can get tends to be the one you build yourself from components sourced from competing suppliers. This is one of the reaso
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Not much more than that fascists can use them. For the rest all this rhetoric about fascism, racism, trans-activism and other critical-theory related issues does nothing but drive a wedge between those who are in support of deconstruction a
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Make sure to include diversity of opinion in your hiring criteria so as to avoid creating a bubble. This is true diversity as opposed to identity-based "diversity". Make sure to get people who themselves are open for true diversit
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
He is being downvoted by people who consider the choice of a specific vendor a religious issue and will vote down anyone who in their eyes disparages their vendor of choice. It is a sad fact that the existence of this phenomenon only leads
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Well, widen your horizon then, read something completely different. Alternate history, real history, a classic or 2, hard science (without the fiction part), some philosophy, etc. I tend to move from genre to genre to avoid getting stuck in
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
What you are asking for is not equality - equal chances for men and women to become suicidal - but equity, equal numbers of suicidal men and women.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Static pages do not have a code base, they're just data to be served on demand.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> must be one of those US problems no one else has. More like "must be one of those made-up problems which we'll try to launch into actionability", I don't think the USA has a different attitude towards siesta than e.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> I've always wondered which part was the weak link. Well, now you know... especially in 3d gear (when the cross drives the planetary hub by engaging on the top of the cog axles) the clutch is under high load. I often rode that bik
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The Rohloff can not be shifted under load. You can shift by quickly letting off power, shift and then resume like you can do with other planetary gear systems. Here's a discussion on the subject of shifting under load, with opinions fr
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
...which at ~€1100 costs more than many people will spend on a bike, weighs more than a full set of sprockets and a derailleur, is less efficient due to the staged planetary drive, can only be repaired by sending it back to the factory, can
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I've destroyed a number of Sturmey Archer planetary drive clutches - the square cross-shaped bit which transfers force from the sprocket holder to the drive - by just using them, leaving me wary of planetary drives. While I've als
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Nagasaki was not necessary, Hiroshima ended the war. The war would have ended without it as well but the number of lives lost during an invasion would have been far greater than those lost during the bombings.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
If nobody had nuclear weapons the second world war would have lasted longer and the invasion of the Japanese mainland would have cost far more lives (on all sides) than the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did. The cold war would probably
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> Mainly to get off HPHP Did you consider "moving back" to PHP instead of emigrating to Python? Given that the code was originally written for PHP that sounds like the easiest way out of any problems caused by HPHP. Was it poli

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