bigbubba

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by bigbubba 6y ago
> all else being equal
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by bigbubba 6y ago
MSG is healthy because it causes no harm and makes food taste better. All else being equal, food tasting better will make you enjoy life more. Enjoying life is correlated with good health outcomes.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Ah that makes sense. I've never tried it on mismatched screens.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Why does a user care that XFCE is on an old version of GTK? I can see why that would frustrate developers, but I don't see how that surfaces to users as a usability issue.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I used KDE for a while and liked it, but KDE 4.0 burned me and I never looked back. I've heard it's much better now, but haven't tried it. Okular, and gwenview were always nice, even during 4.0 days. Amarok used to be gre
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It sure looks like Gnome 3 took the wind out of Gnome's sails. This correlates with my experience as a Gnome user, as it was Gnome 3 where the project really took on a condescending user-demeaning attitude. Gnome 3 is where the proje
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> I tend to also forget the answer after a few months You can add comments to the end of tricky commands with the # character. Then at a later date you can search for commands using the contents of those comments, using something like
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by bigbubba 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom#Epithet
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I cannot read the article due to elsevier being cancer, but I thought it was illegal to deal with ivory at all, no matter how old, because a strict prohibition simplifies policing of ivory (as elephant poachers cannot pretend they merely fo
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by bigbubba 6y ago
"Tell us how you really feel."
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> They are not clearly a party organ. Ask a random person on the street if Zoom is a party organ of the CCP. They will tell you, "no, I'm pretty sure it's an American company, right? Is your point is that something can&#
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by bigbubba 6y ago
150/hr for fairly standard yard work? Shit, I used to do 'fairly standard' yard work for a twentieth of that. Or do you mean hiring an entire team of people at that rate?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Do you really need to get thermal cameras below the canopy to see forest fires? I think even satellites can see fires on thermal. Drones flying above the trees should work too.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The 'Russian angle'? What's this, other Russians have done things you dislike, so you pre judge these other Russians?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I've found that very often the cashier will swipe their own discount card if you tell them you don't have one of your own. You can also, in practice at Safeway at least, ask for a new one each time. I used to collect them just f
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by bigbubba 6y ago
How often are those staff paid with money rather than 'exposure'? AFAIK pewdiepie does not pay his 'staff' editors.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> uncritically reporting anything the government proclaims as fact Not just governments, but also corporations and universities. Very often 'news stories' are just thinly veiled press releases.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
"Proper weight" is subjective. Disagreeing with dfxm12 doesn't constitute dishonesty.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I used to wonder how cyberpunk scenarios of for profit police who would only investigate crimes if the victim paid them could ever come about. Thanks for clearing up this confusion, I never would have guessed that it would be motivated by
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The customer paid not only for the product but also for the service of having that product delivered to them. Asking them to restrict their review to only one aspect of what they paid for does not seem reasonable.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That says 35% of downloads, which might mean as you say. But it may also be using the word as it is commonly used by the general public; referring specifically to browsers placing a file in the user's '~/Downloads' dire
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by bigbubba 6y ago
With regard to particulate emissions, consider the role advertisers play in the deaths attributable to the tobacco industry. I'd wager more have been killed by tobacco industry advertisers than by VW engineers.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's common practice in the advertising industry to exploit people's feelings of inadequacy. This is an industry that doesn't think twice about making an emotionally vulnerable teenager feel like a loser if they think it wil
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sqlite devs have funded their development decades into the future by selling licenses to public domain software. It may not have made them a billion dollar multinational corporation, but must every company have such conqueror aspiration?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Grsecurity also uses this 'loophole.' Seeing this scheme go mainstream is really disheartening; I feel that it really undermines the intent and social value of the GPL.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
From what I understand, it's not just a matter of longer support, but also training. A lot of companies have/had mixed RHEL/CentOS environments, with RHEL on the machines they really want RH support for and CentOS on everyth
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Diatomaceous earth is very effective at killing them. It's fascinating that they're so robust, but just a little inert powder can kill them. Though to be fair, at their scale, it may as well be a pile of razor blades.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The notorious local news story about a woman who flunked out of college because her laptop came with Ubuntu comes to mind. I think that was in the mid 00s.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If your kids have friends, you'll probably find yourself driving around as many kids as that fairly often. I was raised in a family of five and my parents had a minivan because nothing smaller would have been practical. Even if you c
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Once ze rockets go up, who cares where they come down? Zat's not my department, says Werner Von Braun.

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