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by brimble 5y ago
Old Gentoo user chiming in. My "I won't be using my computer today" builds were either major desktop environment (or anything that forced me to rebuild the GTK or QT shared libs), and... OpenOffice. Good lord, that one took f
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by brimble 5y ago
Assuming there's a grand strategy behind this at all, it feels like more of a "steer the industry" play than a "spy even more" play. If I'm right, the ones who should be worried are Red Hat(/IBM) and Ubunt
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by brimble 5y ago
> Also, 5 or 7 years from now, on which OS will Chrome or Chromium run better? Fuchsia or Linux? Linux's GUI layer is such a huge weak spot, and it doesn't look like Wayland's gonna fix that (it seems like it's not ev
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by brimble 5y ago
> Baseball is ruthlessly competitive, and while I was a really good little league player, I had no chance against kids who were in multiple travel leagues, etc. I probably played 50 baseball games from age 9-12. The best players played a
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by brimble 5y ago
Nature: living every day like you're in a slasher horror movie. Really, really bad. It only seems fun and wholesome to us because we're on top and almost none of us spend much time genuinely engaging with nature in even the way th
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by brimble 5y ago
This seems to undercut the "doing it ethically would significantly increase prices" argument for why it doesn't happen. Does this mean we could legislate the worst kinds of egg production out of existence and, once things set
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by brimble 5y ago
I'd think dogs are mostly able to because they're still around humans and can scavenge off our garbage. Any breed that's not damn close to a wolf, I'd expect not to be able to find/catch enough food to survive lon
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by brimble 5y ago
It's fairly likely that, by the time I die, none of the voting I've done will have changed the outcome of a single election or ballot question. On the off chance it does, it'll almost certainly be at the county level or lower
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by brimble 5y ago
> And my high school's regular courses (granted a fantastic high school) were actually much more difficult than a state school's courses. I went to a barely-known state university and was very surprised when some of my intro-le
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by brimble 5y ago
Check in once every few months. That's plenty. Done. [EDIT] Exception for local news. Maybe every week or two. Use the extra time to read books on political science, economics, and history. Maybe some media studies. You'll be a be
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by brimble 5y ago
This happened to a lot of songs, including a bunch where the famous version is basically the only song anyone knows by the artist who popularized it (a "one hit wonder" but for a song that wasn't even an original). I may be w
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by brimble 5y ago
Email and default-deny for unknown addresses solves this problem entirely. No reason other protocols couldn't do the same. It's only a problem if you need to host content by any rando, then try to show it to as many people as poss
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by brimble 5y ago
The one who's easy is the youngest. I assure you the first born got a lot more positive 1-on-1 attention. [EDIT] Also: > The starting suggestion positive discipline might have is to block out some one-on-one time in the week, one
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah—the news that Fuchsia was embracing Flutter as the main way to develop applications was when my interest in it when from very high, to middling. May as well just be web apps at that point, for how they burn resources, latency, and over
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by brimble 5y ago
Note for the confused: the "observer effect", as in modifying a system by poking it in order to measure it, is not the same thing as the uncertainty principal. Evidently, somehow, Heisenberg himself got the two confused (?!) which
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by brimble 5y ago
With one of our three kids, everything from those nicey-nice parenting books works perfectly, and always has. It goes exactly how the books say it will. It's wonderful, and so damn easy. Not so much with the other two.
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by brimble 5y ago
No. In the distant past of the 1990s and earlier, lots of stuff was closed on Sundays. Get this: many gas stations used to close at night. Lots of grocery stores used to be closed by 9 or so on a week night, if they were even open that late
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by brimble 5y ago
> Then there were dumb plans to make Firefox interesting (I think? What else were they doing?) like the idea of "colourways" being available for a limited time only, which was simply preposterous. Nothing about this—the feature
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by brimble 5y ago
OK, maybe there's something to being able to catch yourself when falling, or prevent the fall in the first place through grip strength. But this: > It's not just bracing yourself. Scientists have linked stronger hands to health
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by brimble 5y ago
IUDs or injected, persistent "pills", yeah, I'm not sure literally taking a pill every day is as common as it once was now that they can inject something that lasts months and doesn't require remembering to take it, but
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by brimble 5y ago
For tons of people in committed relationships, the woman takes the pill and they don't use condoms. This just lets the guy do it instead (or in addition, if you want to be extra safe). I'm truly not following what's hard to u
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by brimble 5y ago
Lots of guys have gotten vasectomies for decades, and I don't see a lot of correlation between making that choice and being a "hippie", in my family & friends circles.
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by brimble 5y ago
Sure, I'm more hung up on the "just shoot some photons into a mirrored box and they'll bounce around forever". That... can't possibly be very close to what they actually did, right? This is one of those cases in w
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by brimble 5y ago
> To do this, we stored light particles in a tiny box made of mirrors," explains Dr. Julian Schmitt of the IAP, who is a principal investigator in the group of Prof. Dr. Martin Weitz. "The more photons we put in there, the dens
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by brimble 5y ago
It is very important, in some contexts, to distinguish between Republican voters and Republican politicians. What you hear if you talk to the former can be wildly different from what the latter deliver and even what they make planks of th
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by brimble 5y ago
Now you need to git-bisect. And the range includes versions that ran in production with three different versions of your DB daemon (MySQL, PostgreSQL, whatever). The version might matter—in fact, look at that, the oldest few commits error
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by brimble 5y ago
Modern UI design is optimized for screenshots in a PowerPoint, and from there, to screenshots in a portfolio and on marketing pages where the audience that needs to be satisfied is marketing themselves, and especially people very concerned
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by brimble 5y ago
Mobile Safari didn't used to do that. I wanna say they introduced that bug a year or two ago. It annoys me constantly and it's worrisome that they haven't fixed it yet.
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by brimble 5y ago
Miming mobile OS lock screens is one of the weirdest damn things about modern desktop trends. It's so obviously a bad idea. I can't even figure out what useful functionality anyone thought that would provide. It's a fucking
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by brimble 5y ago
> Also, the "magical" appearance and disappearance of these items doesn't help the ability to form a stable mental model. I've observed that any kind of "mode" that isn't extremely clear, visually is

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