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by bscphil 5y ago
> "how much space this will take if I copy it to other filesystem" This is ambiguous between "how many bytes are all these files in total" and "how many bytes does it take to store a single copy of all these file
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by bscphil 5y ago
> All of the major operating systems are good enough or can be made good enough by installing a few packages. And that's exactly the problem - macOS and Windows don't have "packages" in the sense that they do in Lin
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by bscphil 5y ago
They even missed "base rate", which is the way I usually see this explained to ordinary people without stats backgrounds. Really disappointing.
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by bscphil 5y ago
I disagree. They genuinely don't believe it is genocide. There's even international disagreement about the proper characterization of it. Most countries sufficiently propagandize their own citizens to inoculate them against the vi
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by bscphil 5y ago
> To paraphrase what they told me, most people only install ad-blocking and privacy extensions. Welp, zero interest from me then. And probably most others here as well. I don't use Firefox from hatred of Google or even fear of monoc
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by bscphil 5y ago
> since there's nothing much to say on that, they specialize in something else This is not really true. There are plenty of different forms of relativism and plenty of philosophers who have taken a stance in ethics that is consisten
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by bscphil 5y ago
> neither democrats or republicans are actually evil Surely this claim requires moral relativism, right? If women have a right to an abortion, then attempting to outlaw it outright in virtually every case is surely evil, and thus (most)
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Suicide isn’t a predestined thing that we’re helpless to prevent as a society. There is real suffering and we can do something about it in aggregate. I agree with most of your comment but somewhat disagree with this. Suicide is not, it
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by bscphil 5y ago
No, just have the server reject anything at the /SendMessage endpoint over a certain size; presumably the client is resizing / recompressing images to hit a specific target.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Until haptic touchpads become available outside of MacBooks, touchpads are always going to suck under Windows and Linux. Incorrect - though I'm sympathetic. The ideal touchpad is a click-less touchpad with physical left / rig
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by bscphil 5y ago
> That's the point, they don't pay, and they don't get support. But they still complain You've put your finger on the core of the issue with FiloSottile's suggestion. The problem is that to sell something to a bi
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by bscphil 5y ago
My reading of the situation is that for 99.99% of data currently transferred by Bittorrent, v1 works just fine. And for many use cases, the ability to do something like change an already created torrent would actually be detrimental. It&#
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by bscphil 5y ago
It's worse than just meaningless, it's actively trying to get a bullshit SEO advantage, which is essentially zero-sum at best and makes things worse for users. If my app is named "CoolBrowser", the title on Google Play s
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by bscphil 5y ago
Wow. That's really frustrating. It's kind of wild how difficult it is to properly tune standards to create the correct incentives. I wonder if this is the sort of problem that's just the result of profit-seeking by manufactur
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Smokers are less likely to be obese Yes, but if you have a choice between being a normal body weight and being a non-smoker, you should choose the latter. In fact, the effect is so strong that it has a distorting effect on the correlat
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by bscphil 5y ago
I could buy the case for a label with "A - 2018 rating" and the number with equally large text underneath it. The issue is just that the rating is often completely non-informative, unless you always buy the latest-year model of
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by bscphil 5y ago
Is any car small enough that the ratio of car-weight to human-weight becomes low enough to protect a human in the event of a crash? By the time a human body has managed to significantly change the momentum of the car, I would expect the d
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by bscphil 5y ago
> almost every appliance on the market has managed to meet the most stringent label(A grade) so it was common to see say, dishwashers all rated A++++ or A++++++ or something equally stupid. So last year the labels got significantly revis
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by bscphil 5y ago
You're quite right. I had run `pactree sudo`, forgetting that the correct command was `pactree -r sudo`.
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by bscphil 5y ago
How do you fully replace sudo with doas on Arch? A bunch of packages depend on sudo, including glibc, and it's not obvious to me that they don't depend on the specific /usr/bin/sudo command being available.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Simple Mobile Tools For anyone who hasn't seen these, I recommend them as well. The default calculator works fine for me, but "Simple File Manager" and "Simple Gallery Pro" are fantastic apps that strip out the
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by bscphil 5y ago
Looks like Arch Linux is building it themselves with --with-wasi-sysroot. The changes they made to the build script for the 95.0 release are pretty instructive: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit
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by bscphil 5y ago
Here in southern California, we have those 3, but we also have a 4th one which is very important: the "fuck you for honking" honk. If someone else has made a mistake or is on the verge of making one, and you honk at them to warn t
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by bscphil 5y ago
I assume the tradeoff is probably panel quality, right? I doubt they have OLEDs on the level of an LG or Samsung TV.
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by bscphil 5y ago
My experience is that not only are the panels generally worse, support for things like color calibration or Dolby Vision is almost impossible to find. Which is understandable because it's not obvious what advantage HDR would bring to d
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by bscphil 5y ago
Same. Similarly, since VS Code is the obvious comparison here, I really hope they're planning to open source the basic version of this once it's out of beta. I could really see myself using this if it manages to be both open sourc
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by bscphil 5y ago
Despite quoting the ruling at length multiple times in the article, there's not a single link to the actual ruling on that page, so far as I can find. Never change, Wikipedia. This seems to be the opinion: https://scholar.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Couple of thoughts: 1. I'm not really sure what making this so interactive accomplishes. The result seems akin to a listicle: "X Great Movies to Watch When You're Feeling Y", except with a lot more clicks required and, i
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yes - that's exactly what I said. I'm not sure where you think you disagree. The point of fish is that configuration isn't allowed. I, personally, don't use it.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The point of fish is that there is no configuration required. I think it would be more accurate to say that the point of fish is that there is no configuration allowed . If you don't like the out of the box configuration, I would

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