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by brimble 5y ago
"Possible" and "what you'll in fact see across a population in two different environments, all else being equal" are different things. Living some places means you'd have to struggle to stay under 5k steps pe
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by brimble 5y ago
The damn 'burbs. Nothing to walk to, everything's been spread way too far apart. Maybe a park or neighborhood pool if you're lucky. Too much non-place taking up space between places is killer. Literally, given heart disease.
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by brimble 5y ago
In a McLuhan sense, I'm not sure the "message" of the medium of the Internet is one that's compatible with free society, ultimately, once we get past the idealism and look at how it works in practice. Which is... not gre
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by brimble 5y ago
So many mega corps being Japanese is a product of anxiety about Japan at that time—maybe not even Gibson's anxiety, exactly, but if you were around then and projected which mega corps were gonna be prominent in your nearish-future sett
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by brimble 5y ago
As in Black Mirror's "Fifteen Million Merits".
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by brimble 5y ago
> Gibson himself says that Neuromancer is an exaggerated critique of Reaganomics The (now-)standard Cyberpunk settings strikes me as, in part, asking "what would it really look like if David Friedman's ridiculous capitalism f
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by brimble 5y ago
> When has Microsoft forced you to cooperate with them? Nothing about my post claimed, or implied, this, so I don't know why you ask. > You try to make some sort of moral equivalence between force in the USSR and the US. No, not
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by brimble 5y ago
It seems like chronic problems with laptops are often the fault of Nvidia or AMD discrete video cards. Even for Macs. Once I started avoiding non-integrated graphics in laptops, things got a lot smoother.
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by brimble 5y ago
Sure, that's fair. I just think it's so minor that it's not any part of the reason. Companies with all their professional branding experts and such do things that are every bit as easy to ridicule, all the time. Mostly it
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by brimble 5y ago
I think that's a bigger problem, though maybe still not a grave one. I wouldn't be surprised if a very high percentage of people write "mastAdon", without autocorrect to save them. We're also all missing the bigger
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, I know. But I'm pretty sure if Twitter'd gone this way and here we had the open-source clone using the name "twitter", we'd all be writing about how hopeless their branding is because it's very easy to ma
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by brimble 5y ago
> The USSR was forced cooperation. The US is voluntary. Which economy fared better? This is a false choice, because both force cooperation, and neither "is voluntary". How they do so, when, and how much, is what's differen
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by brimble 5y ago
As in "to toot a horn". Like a trunk. Of an elephant. Or a mastodon.
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> That's why forced collective action does very poorly compared with voluntary cooperation. People don't like being forced. This is about the same as proclaiming a fringe explanation for relativity effects to be definitely true
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by brimble 5y ago
This POV would be fine in a world where coordination problems didn't loom large. Effective collective action requires some "forcibly". Even when everyone agrees on what's good.
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by brimble 5y ago
Envy . Some changes in language are fine, but these are very different things and it's nice to have words for both of them.
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by brimble 5y ago
I've not heard of this place before, but it seems like a budding or wannabe "think tank". Getting things wrong (drawing too broad a conclusion, using misleading framing) even when you're right (this particular paper unde
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by brimble 5y ago
The US military is largely a blue-collar jobs program that lets you opt in to service in exchange for something resembling standard European social benefits (retirement, healthcare, housing, education). Which sucks for a bunch of reasons, i
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by brimble 5y ago
That way the core authors don't need to know a thing about how the parent program (usually Retroarch, but it doesn't have to be) handles input re-mapping, and you can change all of them in one place—or use multiple for different c
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by brimble 5y ago
Contact-free laser record players exist and have for quite a while, yeah. Main benefit AFAI can tell is avoiding wear on the vinyl.
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by brimble 5y ago
There are sites to cater to those who prefer reading about the build process, too. Uh, so I hear.
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by brimble 5y ago
Lakka is Retroarch packaged on top of a minimal Linux distro—like those distros that exist just to run Kodi, and, in fact, last I checked, it's build on exactly one of those (Libreelec, I think?). Retroarch is a frontend for libretro
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by brimble 5y ago
If anyone else went "wait, WTF? Surely it can't be..." on reading that post: I checked, and yes, it can. Wikipedia: > Although similar in appearance to compact discs or DVDs, early LaserDiscs used analog video stored in th
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm pretty sure there a bunch of very popular, high-traffic sites with tons of content that demonstrates the build process.
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by brimble 5y ago
System preferences -> keyboard -> button labeled "Modifier keys..."
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by brimble 5y ago
I really like that Gitea is operationally simple and can run on a potato. If your team's fairly small, you can use SQLite to make it even simpler. GitLab's way, way too heavy.
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by brimble 5y ago
It's also the case that someone with quite a bit of money doesn't have as much non-work work to do. If you can afford to pay someone to do: all shopping (that you don't enjoy doing), all cooking (ditto), all cleaning (doing
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by brimble 5y ago
They probably enjoy it. Being a CEO or whatever doesn't look like sitting in a cubicle all damn day. Even the latter's much better if you know you have the money to quit whenever you feel like it. That alone makes a big difference
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by brimble 5y ago
Of course, minor misreading doesn't deserve a head-biting-off! Happens to everyone. And you weren't a dick about it, anyway, so it wasn't a big deal.
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> "[...] which company many union leaders regard [...]" Ergo: No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon, which company many union leaders regard as an existential threat to labor standards acr

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