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by ars 8mo ago
> They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should. That just means the business will raise prices.
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by ars 8mo ago
> My feed is disastrous. I've tested this many times. Your feed has what you watch. If it's disastrous, that's because that what you actually like to watch. Stop watching a topic and it will go away. About 2 months later Y
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by ars 8mo ago
The idea with IMAP is multiple clients can work with your email - for example your desktop and your phone can both see the same messages and manipulate them, even offline. Gmail basically is IMAP with a couple extras, and your desktop (via
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by ars 8mo ago
I think hard all the time, AI can only solve problems for me that don't require thinking hard. Give it anything more complex and it's useless. I use AI for the easy stuff.
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by ars 8mo ago
Not at all. IMAP can do a lot of complex operations on the email while leaving it on the server, for example you can have the server search the email, flag it (mark it important, or read, or unread). POP can download the email, and that&#x2
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by ars 8mo ago
> If the user hits the power switch or the kernel panics while the heads are moving or the FAT is updating, that disk is gone. This isn't true, I commented lower in the thread, but FAT keeps a backup table, and you can use that to r
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by ars 8mo ago
FAT has two allocation tables, the main one and a backup. So if you shut it off while manipulating the first one you have the backup. You are expected to run a filesystem check after a power failure.
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by ars 8mo ago
Almost all the gains in the SNP500 are NVidia, and other huge tech. https://www.investopedia.com/your-s-and-p-500-index-fund-mig... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/your-portfolio-may-be-more-t
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by ars 8mo ago
Home/End don't work correctly (external keyboard). Cmd-Tab switching between applications instead of windows is utterly stupid. (Yes I know there is some magic keystroke that will do it, but who even wants the standard behavior? L
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by ars 9mo ago
I had to sideload telegram, the version on Google Play has restrictions (censorship I believe) that the sideloaded version doesn't.
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by ars 9mo ago
Ask them. Same way they asked the teens in this study.
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by ars 9mo ago
Yup, that's pretty much it - once they are dead from 100 pounds, going to 200 changes nothing.
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by ars 9mo ago
This is a bad study. What it actually measured was that heavier social media use is not correlated with mental health. It DOES NOT say that social media use is, or isn't, correlated with mental health because it did not track teens who
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by ars 9mo ago
> This is why people with webcam covers on macbooks are fools So you think it's fine if someone accidentally activates the camera, as long as they know about it? All it takes is an accidental click on "Video" during a team
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by ars 9mo ago
I watched your video, the only thing on it is a drone warning people away from a dangerous area.
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by ars 9mo ago
Downvoted for not saying Apartheid in your buzzword bingo.
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by ars 10mo ago
I liked the McDonald's ad quite a bit because it encapsulated how I feel about this time of year - although I've never in my life eaten in a McDonald's and don't intend to start.
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by ars 10mo ago
The artists will use AI. Artists have always used new media when it became available, AI will not change that.
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by ars 10mo ago
This exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_... It was derided as a "system for mass censorship", and got shot down. In hindsight a mistake, and it should have been implemented -
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by ars 10mo ago
It's been a very long time since I've stayed in a hotel room with a window that actually opened.
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by ars 11mo ago
The title is misleading unless you read it carefully. They are not banning bringing power banks, they are banning using power banks. On the plane you have to keep the power bank on your person, but not use it. This would be a lot more d
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by ars 11mo ago
> more information than the IAEA. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-report-says-iran-ha... Yes. They want to build nukes. I'll never understand how the Iranian bot campaign[1] managed to convince so
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by ars 1y ago
And the supreme court ruled against the bump stock ban. Which is also why the Forced Reset Trigger was not banned - they didn't think they could.
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by ars 1y ago
Eating teflon is harmless, it goes out the same way it goes in. (It's not a PFAS, since it's missing the alkyl chain tail.)
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by ars 1y ago
There is more to know, does the code special case this? Does it use the file name? Major minor number? Or does it actually read zero's from it and place them in memory?
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by ars 1y ago
I think the total reported deaths from food issues - as reported by Hamas mind you - are in the 1,000 range. Which is still a very small number for a war zone. > The goal is not to kill hamas, that was just the excuse, it is to clear the
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by ars 1y ago
It's so weird how people think the casualty rate in Gaza is high, it's actually incredibly low, virtually no other army in the world could achieve such a low collateral damage rate in urban warfare against guerillas.
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by ars 1y ago
And presumably Mizrachi Jews don't exist? Don't fool yourself, you are repeating antisemitic slurs. The Jews in Israel never left, and Zionisim is something like 2,000 years old (it's as old the Babylonian exile). Israel is a
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by ars 1y ago
Really? Nothing? It's the same people, on the same land, practicing the same religion, speaking the same language, with the same alphabet, with the same capital, with the same place names, with the same cities, with the same core texts
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by ars 1y ago
> I don't know what you're making or misrepresenting in your statememt about Jordan and Jerusalem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_We... "The Jordanians immediately expelled a

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