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by bityard 1y ago
> If you let your mind wander you might lob off a finger before the pain signal reaches your brain. I'm curious if you have ever used a bandsaw? Woodworking bandsaws just do not cut that fast. It would take multiple seconds of susta
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by bityard 1y ago
The difference between then and now is that on the 90's and 00's Internet, you had to go and actively find that kind of content yourself. Now it's the first thing you see in your feed after logging into FaceBook, YouTube, In
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by bityard 1y ago
The take-away is that not that they are poorly moderated (which is true). The point is that these short-form videos deliver no actual value to those consuming them but come with plenty of mental health downsides. (Literal PTSD, for starters
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by bityard 1y ago
You are lucky. Most people don't have the introspection to draw the link between a video they consumed and the resulting anxiety afterward. They just keep coming back for the dopamine hit without realizing that they are effectively vol
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't have direct experience with a scroll saw but I own (well, made) a bandsaw and it's my favorite power tool. There's a lot you can do with it but more importantly, it's incredibly safe: The blade stays in one place
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by bityard 1y ago
jjcob is taking a permissively licensed project and selling a closed-source product derived from it. That's why they are arguing against copyleft in this thread.
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by bityard 1y ago
Why do you believe you can't sell copyleft software?
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by bityard 1y ago
The users of the closed fork always had the ability (if not duty) to inspect the program's licence before using it.
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by bityard 1y ago
In addition to the points already made, passive voice is painfully boring to read. And it's literally everywhere in technical documentation, unfortunately.
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by bityard 1y ago
Whatever is going on in the that GIF must be very impressive, but it goes by so fast it's impossible to tell for sure.
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by bityard 1y ago
It was not at all originally intended to be a movie, it just translated to movie format very well, as some books do.
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by bityard 1y ago
In my opinion, The Martian had better writing. You could tell Weir was having a blast writing it, and his enthusiasm translated directly to the main character's love of science and enduring sense of humor in the face of almost constant
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by bityard 1y ago
There needs to be a DBA version of the saying, "RAID is not a backup"
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by bityard 1y ago
A clamp meter does not expose you to any live uninsulated wires unless you are doing it very wrong. (Although they also tend to be not very accurate for low current measurements. So this isn't a use case I would recommend them for.)
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by bityard 1y ago
When we say Chinese government subsides, we are not talking about tax reductions or interest free business loans, we are talking about the Chinese government itself operating the business and selling the products at a steep loss in order to
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't know if it's due to social media distraction, very effective advertising business models, or lack of financial literacy but I have noticed that over the last 10 years, most people have been willing to pay literally any pri
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by bityard 1y ago
Along these lines, foam core board is a super common and effective material for making drawer organizers and little boxes. It's very cheap and holds together surprisingly well with hot glue or super glue. Adam Savage is a huge fan of i
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by bityard 1y ago
Is there any way to run this inside a docker container? When I tried, it barfed trying to run `xdg-open`. And I don't see any auth-related options in the `--help` output.
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by bityard 1y ago
Can they do that without allowing third party reviews before the publication date?
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by bityard 1y ago
That appears to be the unspoken thrust of the piece once you've waded through all of the mock surprise and intrigue.
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by bityard 1y ago
I think we can generalize this into the overall computing environment. When I was younger, I was that kid building my whole OS from source via Gentoo, with all the CPU-specific flags and optimizations. I had a very detailed window manager c
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by bityard 1y ago
All large ISPs have fancy network visibility and DDoS mitigation solutions.[1] But getting them to actually USE them for problems that aren't lighting up their monitoring dashboards is another story entirely. (1. I know this, because I
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by bityard 1y ago
Being copyleft doesn't mean it's not compatible with business models, it means it's not compatible with exploitative business models.
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by bityard 1y ago
Do we have any assurance that you won't sell it again?
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by bityard 1y ago
Very good point. We had several power outages lasting a few hours lately. (One was just last night.) Every time this happens, my phone's mobile data is totally unusable because the whole neighborhood switches over from scrolling facebo
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by bityard 1y ago
Tangent: My father's family is German and all of the males in the family only used their middle name for everything except legal and financial documents. For example, Carl Hans Schmidt (to pick a semi-made-up example) would introduce h
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by bityard 1y ago
Coming from a comedian, is there any possibility that was a joke?
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by bityard 1y ago
I could be off-base here because I've been in tech too long but my understanding was that addressing people formally as Mr/Mrs/Ms has been outmoded in business virtually everywhere except in legal matters and (sometimes) when
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by bityard 1y ago
Could be worse, it could be "blazing fast!"
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by bityard 1y ago
Not a silly question, I came here to ask too. Curious to know whether I need a GPU costing 4 digits or if it will run on my 12-year-old thinkpad shitbox. Or something in between.

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