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by b215826 4y ago
> to color grade Hollywood blockbusters I'm not sure if that's an argument for/against the Mac Pro, considering how terrible Hollywood color grading is. [1] [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mexic
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by b215826 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Interesting link too.
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by b215826 4y ago
> start a blog using these instructions as a guide How does starting a blog solve OP's problems? And why should it be self hosted?
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by b215826 4y ago
I know that this article is about Google, but the same arguments apply to digital media bought on almost all major platforms -- Amazon, Netflix, Apple all have similar shady practices. If you want to truly own a media file for "life&q
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by b215826 4y ago
I don't want to join the dogpile against the woman criticized in the article, but yes, it has to be mentioned that she has written some batshit crazy stuff about how theoretical physics is imbued with white supremacist ideas. Stuff tha
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by b215826 4y ago
The new T series models all have soldered RAM AFAIK. Lenovo seems to be putting SO-DIMMs only on select P series (i.e., actual mobile workstations, not T series branded as P).
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by b215826 4y ago
You'll pry xsetroot -solid "#333333" from my cold dead hands. Seriously, like the author, I too find wallpapers pointless. I also use a TWM (i3 to be specific) and hardly see the desktop, so that makes wallpapers worth even
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by b215826 4y ago
> I really don’t think she’s a criminal By this definition most white collar criminals aren't criminals. In any case, you shouldn't worry, she will get out in a few years for "good behavior".
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by b215826 4y ago
The third-rate university (with a $1.81 billion endowment) where I am unfortunately studying for a PhD, closed its libraries in August 2021 for "renovation". If LibGen also shuts down (and becomes unavailable on Tor), it'll
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by b215826 4y ago
Many sans fonts including Helvetica, Inter, Franklin Gothic, etc., do not properly distinguish I and l.
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by b215826 4y ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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by b215826 4y ago
This doesn't work. The only way to disable autoupdates on Firefox is to install a policy file: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Make_Mozilla_Firefox_Stop_
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by b215826 4y ago
Flu kills around 35,000 people a year in the US, which amounts to 100 deaths per day. Covid is killing five times more people right now.
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by b215826 4y ago
You can get rid of Economist's paywall by disabling JS.
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by b215826 4y ago
> You can still enable these protocols per user From what I understand, Microsoft will disable basic authentication starting January 2023, and the next few months are sort of a "grace period" to migrate to Microsoft's new
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by b215826 4y ago
The Indian government (and Indian courts) is infamous for these random harebrained stunts. In the past, it has banned archive.org [1], continues to block the French ISP free.fr, etc. VLC was likely banned because people use it to watch pi
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by b215826 4y ago
Ankidown [1] lets you create cards in Markdown using a text editor. [1] https://github.com/ankicommunity/ankidown/
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by b215826 4y ago
On Firefox, setting permissions.default.image in about:config to 2 blocks all images. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Permissions.default.image
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by b215826 4y ago
SpaceVim aka "I like Vim's 1337 h4x0r creds, but I want to use it like I use VS Code."
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The Intellectual Obesity Crisis(gurwinder.substack.com)
1 points by b215826 4y ago|0 comments
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by b215826 4y ago
https://github.com/derhagen/derhagen.github.io/commit/71c934... I don't understand what's so controversial about this post that the author had to take it down. Seems like a level-headed criticism o
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by b215826 4y ago
TeX? Troff? PostScript?
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by b215826 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/xwnPy8H.png
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by b215826 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29441050
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by b215826 5y ago
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/547531/e-mail-provider-r ... Why does this study exclude ages 35 to 55? Seems like a big gap to me. So this study is only comparing Zoomers, Millenials, and Boomers, and c
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by b215826 5y ago
> stallman.org, fsf.org, gnu.org Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. > breitbart.com, stormfront.org Lulz.
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by b215826 5y ago
Another one that died silently is Winamp. Oh man, I still remember those funky Winamp skins from the early 2000s.
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by b215826 5y ago
But wasn't MPs detected in human placenta before? [1] > In total, 12 microplastic fragments (ranging from 5 to 10 μm in size), with spheric or irregular shape were found in 4 placentas (5 in the fetal side, 4 in the maternal side a
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by b215826 5y ago
There are toothpastes that contain plastic microbeads [1][2] and an FDA ban (for < 5mm size beads) came in effect only in 2015. Some toothpastes also have polyethele "specks" to provide color [3], [1]: https://www.c
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Why Socks Go Missing in the Wash and How Likely It Is to Happen(news.samsung.com)
2 points by b215826 5y ago|0 comments

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