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by arbitrage 3y ago
I would also suspect that, if they were used for building purposes, some of these artifacts would be found in situ with poles still inserted into or through them, thus being evidence of their use and removing all ambiguity. As there is only
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by arbitrage 3y ago
> X.org - which is quickly becoming deprecated for Wayland I'm not sure 'quickly' really is the right word choice there.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
oh gosh this was so great. thank you!!!! you are awesome for putting this together.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
In some localities it is illegal to do this. Also, schooling for younger children isn't exclusively about the obtaining of actionable knowledge. For some children, it can be disruptive to yank them out of school. Other families might h
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by arbitrage 3y ago
I doggedly still run my 20+ year email platform for self-use. I ran into the same problems with Google/Gmail. I am ashamed to say that the solution I settled on was to just give up and pay them for smarthosting. I still host my own ser
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Allegorically it's a cheap bar of soap that tastes worse than a more expensive bar of soap that is dyed to not be an ugly colour.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
OK, I'll bite. What are you doing with those emails, then? Are you blasting out spam to them? Do they engage? Are the analytics better for those who have subscribed to e-mail compared to those who haven't? What does the data show?
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by arbitrage 3y ago
And yet here you are, reading and participating in a thread for which you do not come here.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
During the pandemic, my dog became accustomed to having a human around 24x7. I cannot leave my dog for hours at a time without finding that he has thrown a tantrum -- urinating or defecating in places inside the house, or destroying somethi
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by arbitrage 3y ago
I believe GIMP is the oldest F/OSS app I have used more or less continuously since I first logged into a Linux system decades ago. It's amazing how dedicated they are after all these years. Hats off to you, people involved with
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish. It's the Microsoft way.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
In the 500 years since this event happened, you are the first person to think of this as an actual reason. Congrats, we can close the case, finally. Thank goodness for you.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
> that issue is orthogonal to Amazon [...] but maybe added to their decision. So, not orthogonal?
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by arbitrage 4y ago
You. Took. Intimate. Photos. In. A. Car. Made. By. A. Company. With. A. Horrible. Track. Record. Of. Security. And. Actually. Acting. Like. A. Professional. Company. What. Did. You. Really. Expect. Would. Happen.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
> A good start would be to ban feeds based on algorithms; instead your feed would be a chronological list of new posts from channels you've chosen to follow. The replacement you've described for an algorithm is still an algorit
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by arbitrage 4y ago
I have not heard a single affirmative reason to keep AM in cars as a technology at this late a date. I look forward to finally hearing one ... some day.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
So your 'test' of tiktok was mostly invalid. It takes a few days for "The Algorithm" to become astonishingly good at finding things for you to watch. TikTok also seems to 'run out' of new material to show you e
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by arbitrage 4y ago
> reading summaries of certain books Careful with this. You have to trust that the summary is correct. Which, as it turns out, isn't as foolproof as one might hope for. It turns out that a sizeable percentage of human reviewers and
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by arbitrage 4y ago
> I found Mac was a lot worse than it used to be and definitely not stable. Can you clarify this comment? I haven't seen any stability problems in macOS for years.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
> your statement is simply not true in this context. Thanks for clearing up the misconception with your cogent and well-reasoned reply.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
> The same way anyone lacking knowledge can confident say that they got the right information from anyone with experience: You don't. No, that's not the same way that anyone lacking knowledge gains confidence in the things that
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by arbitrage 4y ago
Google refusing to do anything is not the same as Google being unable to do anything.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
I'll bite. I've implemented user hostile features before. > what goes on in the heads of the people who make these kinds of features. The people who make the decision to implement these kinds of features are bad people. Full st
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by arbitrage 4y ago
You're begging the question.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
Technical Debt is anything your boss doesn't like this week.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
Neutrinos aren't dark matter.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
so what you mean to say is that you're just making things up as you go? neat.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
You can run a network dongle off the USB port (some phones) to have two network paths. A phone is never going to be a great node device for a mesh network, though.
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by arbitrage 4y ago
> I've been thinking of building a "poor man's cluster" It's not a bad idea, but what would you do with it?
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by arbitrage 4y ago
What's the shame -- paying for your grandma, or posting about it?

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