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by bscphil 3y ago
> $6,200 is not going to be a comfortable experience - but there is no fundamental reason it should be impossible, crushing or stressful. Given than the average monthly rent for a 2 bedroom apartment is ~$1300, how does this make any sen
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by bscphil 3y ago
This doesn't respond to the main point of your comment (the livability of a $6k a year for a family of four), but I think it's interesting anyway. > feeding a family of 4 should cost around $20k This sounded absolutely crazy to
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by bscphil 3y ago
You're right, looks like I got the acronym wrong. I'm referring to OETF.
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by bscphil 3y ago
> almost in the opposite direction I think you're mixing up OOTFs and EOTFs here. sRGB or HLG can refer to either the stored gamma, but more often means the EOTF "reversed" gamma that is used to display an image. When we r
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by bscphil 3y ago
I think the great advantage of "simulation", for the programming-literate, is not that you can simulate your way to a correct answer, but that the process of creating a simulation is likely to show you the error in your reasonin
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by bscphil 3y ago
My personal rule, for what it's worth, is that if someone sends me a plain text message, my reply is inline, because I assume that anyone knowledgeable enough to shift the default from HTML-encoded to text is going to want that. For ev
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by bscphil 3y ago
I'm glad you've been able to see this issue fixed, but I'm wondering (genuinely) why you didn't bother reporting this issue, which kept you from upgrading software that you were paying a subscription for (!) for over thr
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by bscphil 3y ago
Do you have a good sense of what boards are worth looking at for media center use cases? In the last few years it's become the norm to need to be able to drive a 4k display with HDR metadata, and decode 4k HEVC with HDR in hardware (
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by bscphil 3y ago
> If your goal is to distribute software across multiple distros and operating systems, bundling dependencies makes sense. Of course, an important "exception to the exception" is when you're making software that can easily
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by bscphil 3y ago
It's not, taken in complete isolation, evidence for global warming. It's an example of it. When people call something evidence in this sense, they mean it colloquially - that it is an exemplar of an overall body of evidence th
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by bscphil 3y ago
You're being overly pedantic, I'm saying they don't use the traction with the ground to take off.
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by bscphil 3y ago
Most people wrongly believe that the situation is similar to that of a car on the highway. If a car is capable of going ~80 miles per hour, and you put it on a treadmill going 80 miles an hour in the other direction, the car will run in pla
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by bscphil 3y ago
A treadmill wouldn't help the plane take off. What Mythbusters showed was that it's not a hindrance to the plane, because planes don't need ground traction. They do need to be moving forward, relative to the air they'r
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by bscphil 3y ago
Both-sides-ism is not some kind of "free points" move in an argument. It's entirely consistent to believe (a) that a "tame" political statement supporting immigrants is acceptable in release notes, while also beli
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by bscphil 3y ago
This only works because browser vendors have taken the totally bullshit approach of "you're only allowed to use ECH if you have DoH enabled", even though they're really unrelated technologies. Related Mozilla bug: https
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by bscphil 3y ago
It's odd given that OsmAnd is the most feature complete OSM app for Android that there are so few custom map styles for it. I know the weird format it uses is a contributing factor (I think everyone else uses Mapnik compatible styles).
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by bscphil 3y ago
I don't think it's the same at all - the crucial point of difference is whether artists deserve to get blamed for this situation. Various people in the thread have claimed that they do, that they're receiving kickbacks from
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by bscphil 3y ago
I used to use Restic many years ago, when it wasn't clear what the future direction of Borg (a.k.a Attic) would be since development had mostly stalled. At the time it was missing some features and Borg managed to fix its issues quickl
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by bscphil 3y ago
You can do it, although the ergonomics are not terrific: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/recreate.h... (see the examples).
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by bscphil 3y ago
Yeah, that obviously works for a small number of people. I'm talking about the large scale demographic changes though - they're clearly the result of changes in food availability in one's environment. In an environment like t
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by bscphil 3y ago
> I think fat people have something wrong with them where the whole process of eat food -> feel sated is off. This isn't something that's wrong with fat people, it's something wrong with the food environment they'r
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by bscphil 3y ago
This argument is puzzling in that I really struggled to understand what it is that the author thinks is so terrible about Goodreads. If the conclusion of the argument is supposed to be that we (Goodreads users) should all feel the desire to
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by bscphil 3y ago
I've been to restaurants that do this, and the menu price typically does not cover service charges, unfortunately. You just expect to see it tacked on the check.
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by bscphil 3y ago
I mean, it's usually part of the premise of "worker owned" that there's going to be a heavy reduction in what you might kindly call administrative staff.
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by bscphil 3y ago
> Starting today, we will opt you into the sharing with and use of your CPNI by Alphabet affiliates to receive this information. Your opt in will go into effect 30 days from the date you receive this email. What a weird, disingenuous use
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by bscphil 3y ago
> inherently unstable This comes far too close, in my opinion, to the view that men just can't help themselves and therefore don't really deserved to be blamed. I think you can take the view that a systemic treatment of the pro
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by bscphil 3y ago
100% agree with this. The biggest issue seems to be that they make no visible effort to find and disable user-uploaded copyright content, so it's effectively a free-for-all file sharing site. A lot of the cases are especially egregio
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by bscphil 3y ago
I don't find this credible whatsoever, and I think you should stop making this claim. The only piece of evidence in your linked comment is the now defunct blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629163107/
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by bscphil 3y ago
That Kenyan workers don't have more favorable counterfactuals for employment doesn't place companies' behavior beyond critique, because the (collective) behavior of companies that employ workers in Kenya is partially determin
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by bscphil 3y ago
This seemed likely the case to me as well. I'd be interesting in hearing any counterarguments (or better still, actual studies) concerning distribution efficiencies.

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