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by benjohnson 5y ago
As I understand it, it's Apples fault for requiring all browsers delivered by it's App Store to be basically wrappers around Safari.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
This article missed the point. Gutenberg didn't invent metal movable type and that's not why we remember him. He invented making a repeatable casting method with appropriate alloys for metal type that had accurate enough uniform d
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Also their parents can give them guidance on long-term thinking as a balance against politicians promising 'free' things.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
For someone from the west and specifically LGBTQ any area around any mosque that doesn't allow women would be hard to enjoy long-term.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
Maybe they should have phrased it better - but there are some places in Paris (an example I'm familiar with) a typical tech worker would make for an awkward situation at best and a dangerous one at worst. Especially if the tech worker
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by benjohnson 6y ago
Most everybody needs a buddy to help them with the car buying process to navigate car dealership tricks. Dealerships are well oiled machined designed to extract money and they have years of practice. Poor people need even more help give the
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by benjohnson 6y ago
If you do know someone who is broke and needs transportation you can do them a huge favor - gide them through the process and help them pick a reliable car at a fair price. Having someone along to be by their side will help keep the pretato
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by benjohnson 6y ago
As a Christian, I miss Christopher too - he argued in good faith if a bit stridently and in a bit of a twist demonstrated the Christian value of the individual person being just as important as the King.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
As a parent, I've had to deal with my children's explosive diahorea impromptu Jackson Pollock reductions on the bathroom wall. We just clean it up. Just ask the proprietor for some paper towels and some spray and get to work and n
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by benjohnson 6y ago
The 3kWh figure for UK is just electricity - add 12kWH for heating energy from gas to get a more reasonable number given that people in the UK generally don't live in shacks. https://www.theenergyshop.com/guides/av
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by benjohnson 6y ago
Have the ID scanner and camera be all in one - leaving your ID in it physically blocks the camera.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
I hate to say it, but universal ID and a deny-list would stop it easily. You let the bathroom verify your ID, and if you leave the place a mess the you no longer have bathroom privileges. It would let you keep great public access, keep toil
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by benjohnson 6y ago
UK has the same problem with jerks ruining their public toilets causing them to close https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/10/closure-of-pub...
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by benjohnson 6y ago
The reason there's no(few) public bathrooms in the US is that we're not allowed to charge for them (with the noble goal of human rights) as opposed to the EU/UK. So the first malcontent that spreads feces all over the walls a
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by benjohnson 6y ago
I think you made a great observation. If you did want to control the future of information flowing from person to person, I can think of no higher threat than free software. Givin that premise, I would expect to see a lot more opposition to
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by benjohnson 6y ago
Offer the sales guy $50 to skip the presentation - they know your a hard sale and will just take the fifty.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
I have to admit that this quip pisses me off because open source developers have been so very generous to me. That their work is done in public and in front of the world should not give us extra ammunition to put their efforts down. There a
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by benjohnson 6y ago
>>is free as in piano Ok then. Just use your mouse to click though InstallWizard.exe until the talking paperclip tells you to stop.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
As an American, I use Yandex image search for any sort of 'edgy' meme that I want to find again - Google image search has been filtering anything that might offend.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
It may sound strange, but for Mikrotik, I find it more productive to concentrate on setting them up via CLI. It's certainly more trainable. CLI for Port Forward: /ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat dst-port=1234 in-interface=ether1-
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by benjohnson 6y ago
The left is significantly more clever on how they move the Overton Window - doing it primarily by picking the topics that are discussed. For example - the new focus on anti-Asian crime as a wedge issue.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
It's a shame that Mikrotik doesn't have a easy to use global GUI. It's the right hardware, and great firmware and wonderful flexibility - but it needs an easy to use GUI controller to make the simple stuff easy to take over f
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by benjohnson 6y ago
We will need better-than-vision to drive safely - whiteness all the humans that pile up in multi-car crashes when it gets foggy or snowing. Lidar, or something like it, will have to be part of the equation given that the best visual process
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by benjohnson 6y ago
I think that’s a fair point you’re making. At the time, I loved the books - but in hindsight, I wish I never read them at the age I did because they really colored my interpretation of my fellow classmates behavior. Every time someone accid
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by benjohnson 6y ago
If you haven't given Wendy Carlos' Bach a try, you may be enjoyable - in my opinion the historic tuning takes the jankyness out and exposes the melody. You do have to suspend the gut reaction to synthesized music.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
It’s for this reason that people (Bohr for example) who made the atomic bomb saw a ray of hope - it made large scale war too expensive to even try given that your enemy would nuke you back.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
Perhaps part of "Cancel Culture" is an indication that we don't trust the criminal justice system - given that it's reasonable to ask why this person wasn't arrested and tried with aiding her father's kidnappin
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by benjohnson 6y ago
There are USB to SATA controllers that default to read only - typically used for forensics reasons. About $250 if I remember correctly.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
Spin up a FreeBSD box, enable ZFS snapshots and disable SSH? You’d only be able to destroy the snapshots from a monitor and keyboard under normal circumstances.
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by benjohnson 6y ago
A very useful read because the author is brutally honest. For me, while financially independent, I must have something that gets me out of bed every day - give me too much open-ended time and I wither. I suspect that a lot of introspection

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