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by alexvoda 5y ago
Ever since Lion or something, MacOS has been free. Not free as in free upgrade, but free as in free to download and install and use on any compatible machine (only Macs, of course). Windows always had a price, even if that price was include
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by alexvoda 5y ago
Now hear me for a second, I think I will blow you mind. All laptops have a very special feature called external monitor support. And for some laptops, you can even buy docks. Boom! I know, it's amazing.
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by alexvoda 5y ago
Nope, here are the lyrics: https://genius.com/Loituma-ievan-polkka-lyrics And since you asked for it: https://leekspin.com
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But what purpose does giving uniqueness to things that are by nature infinitely and indistinguishably replicable have? The limitless perfect replicability of digital things is one of the key benefits of beeing digital. Imposing uniqueness i
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by alexvoda 5y ago
It is only logical if you assume that the producer is the only source of information that can or can not be trusted. That is not reality. There are many sources of information supporting the same claim even if an important one of them (the
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by alexvoda 5y ago
Ok, let's take this step by step. 1. By backpedalling I mean that at first you said "As are people who blindly support "democracy" and the subsequent actions that are taken by the people elected (typically re-elected) &q
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The question is how the digestion process will go. Will the disease spread to Microsoft?
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Indeed, the principal seems to often be forgotten. The why of monolith vs citadel vs microservices is ignored by some people. This results in K8s-driven-development instead of microservices.
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From the documentation: > The lack of a common language is the most divisive border. The first step towards mutual comprehension is a common language. The first step towards a common language is a common alphabet.
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Yes, and it is a misnomer compared to WSL1. WSL1 was a proper NT subsystem because NT was designed from the start to allow such things.
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It can be used as an argument just fine. And it is plenty applicable: - when talking about politics and coruption and voter engagement - when talking about psychology and stress and apathy - when talking about wealth and philanthropy - when
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That is still democracy! Complaining about individual pain points is helpful. No past present or future democracy is perfect. There is plenty that can be improved. Complaining about democracy means you want to bring about totalitarism or th
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> I propose that a grassroots initiative is started with the intent to develop a new system for implementing democracy, the goal being to run in parallel with the current system and then one day replace it. You backpaddled. So you still
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by alexvoda 5y ago
Ok, let me rephrase, who is the person that has enough knowledge of the about the internals of the database (the names of tables and columns and how they relate to eachother) yet does not have sufficient SQL knowledge to construct basic que
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The world at large is in a long and slow ongoing transition from "this is a strict list of what behaviours are permitted in an intimate relationship and this is a list of punishments for behaviours outside that list" towards &quot
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At this point a visual query builder (like in Access, SSMS, DbForge and plenty of other tools) is more capable.
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I can understand why it works the way it does, but JOINS!!! At this point this tool appears to be very basic. Who is the target audience?
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Well put and a clear and useful article to describe the problem to someone unfamiliar, but there is nothing we dont already know. Maybe there should be a bit more expanded upon why open source software is important and explaining why revert
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Well if we buy Musks narative, I would change that to: The colonization of Mars by Elon Musk (not just him, think Columbus) is SpaceX's, Tesla's and TBC's goal. Musk and whoever he takes along is human, so that alligns with h
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Additionally, I hypothesise that orbital colissions usually result in loss of altitude. A satellite doesn't just migrate to a higher orbit. Higher orbits require higher velocities, therefore require energy input. For a collision to res
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Why is it disturbing? It makes perfect sense. People quote art because the quote encapsulates something they want to express in a nice package. Those people already have the concept of what they want to express in their head but sometimes i
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by alexvoda 5y ago
> As are people who blindly support "democracy" and the subsequent actions that are taken by the people elected (typically re-elected) "by the people". Very well, I'll bite. What do you propose as an alternative?
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JetAlone, your second paragraph is a tipical example of why nonchristians find it unpleasant to engage in discussions, especially on religious topics, with devout Christians. I do not believe there is a way to convey to you what a nonchrist
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> we stopped having major prophets because the Son of God Himself came to reveal the Father and to save us Islam obviously disagrees.
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There are hollow critics and there are critics that have seen how deep the rabbit hole goes and have found there is nothing of interest at the bottom. Catholicism has it's own unique flavours of gloom with purgatory. But the issue beei
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The point of the hygiene optic is just that. The all knowing, all powerful, all loving God incarnate by definition should know all about hygiene and germs and quantum gravity and Pokemon and Covid and everything, by definition. Yet, instead
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> one can leap to any interpretation he wants. That is the very point of dogma beeing incoherent. Any interpretation can be derived. Therefore you need a profitable hierarchical beurocracy to tell the people the right interpretation. Eve
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So nice of you to backpaddle in the first 3 paragraphs. But the opening comment I critiqued was quite direct about the lack of Christian values of professor fearing Covid. > The OT specifically instructed people for such diseases as you
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> It seems that it [Judaism] has evolved as a reaction against Christianity and morphed into a very different religion. That line of thought will not lead to a good place.
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As I said elsewhere, he just replaced one superstition with another superstition. You are correct that the meaning of that passage is to critique hypocrisy, but in doing so, the nugget of actually valid advice that was accidentally embedded

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