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by caslon 5y ago
That absolutely is how the real world works. I'm not well-off myself, I keep track of prices, and this recently happened in my own town.
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by caslon 5y ago
Alternatively in the real world, one grocery store will die because a Wal*Mart opened an hour away and is replaced by an hour's drive instead of a brief walk to pick up groceries because people can't resist a dollar cheaper and te
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by caslon 5y ago
Web is just GNOME Web.
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by caslon 5y ago
Is there any institution that failed so hard and so quickly at what it was initially set out to do more than OpenAI? It's an absolute travesty.
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by caslon 5y ago
You're just choosing different arbitrary lines. You can't play a triple-A video game on a PDP-11. You can't view things over ftp using Firefox. You can't do X because Y. Literally everything is a choice of "If you
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by caslon 5y ago
Browsers have been free for longer than reCAPTCHA has existed, and browsers with audio and JS have been free for longer, too. I don't like JavaScript, and I block reCAPTCHA, but it's ludicrous to pretend that Google hasn't ma
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by caslon 5y ago
reCAPTCHA (Google's CAPTCHA) has been accessible to the blind for nearly the entirety of its existence if not the entirety outright.
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by caslon 5y ago
The vast majority of people looking for that are just... regular people. Awful people, yes, but no smarter than your average bear. There are hundreds of thousands of those images being transmitted fully-encrypted on WhatsApp, a fully-le
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by caslon 5y ago
Radio wasn't overhyped, it was overlegislated. We aren't allowed to use a lot of the spectrum, and what little we as citizens are allowed we are unable to secure. Radio was legislated into uselessness. We could have had a lot mo
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by caslon 5y ago
Better! Life expectancy at birth (in years): Alabama: 75.1 Mississippi: 74.6 Tunisia: 76.7
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by caslon 5y ago
Tunisia's life expectancy is 76.7 years. The United States's is 78.7 years. A difference of two years compared to the most wealthy nation on the planet is minor. In fact, your average person in Tunisia is likely to outlast your av
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by caslon 5y ago
"laptop-grade" is mobile, in CPU terms. That's why Intel marks their laptop chips with an "M" at the end.
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by caslon 5y ago
VR headsets are just a flat screen with a pair of lenses on them.
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by caslon 5y ago
Hardly specialized and expensive, it works fine with a $300 headset aimed largely at serving as Facebook's next social platform hooked up to your PC. It's like saying a Wii game isn't a video game, or that games you can'
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by caslon 5y ago
dnf is a large and complex tool to manage a format that has miles of backwards compatibility (and, for extra inconsistent fun, random cases of incompatibility, since they forcibly broke spec at some point, without changing the extension of
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by caslon 5y ago
It seems to me that most people finding Arch unstable find it so because they rampantly abuse the AUR. I'm not implying this is something that you, personally, would do, but it seems to be the case in most "Arch is unstable"
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by caslon 5y ago
I'm calling it now, people looking back on this thread six months or a year from now will have found your speculation false.
528.
by caslon 5y ago
"Half-Life is a PC game, not a video game in my book." Seriously, Alyx is pretty obviously the future of video games. Have you tried it? It's incredible.
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by caslon 5y ago
dnf adds a layer of complexity that's really unnecessary; pacman keeps things much simpler.
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by caslon 5y ago
Sid is still far behind most rolling release distributions, and anecdotally I haven't found it more stable than any of the ones I usually use.
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by caslon 5y ago
It's...just a Linux PC, running a Linux distribution (SteamOS 3, Arch-based). It says that on the site.
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by caslon 5y ago
You have to consider that PC hardware is currently spiraling out of control in terms of price, and $400 for the specs it has presently is a fairly decent buy even if you don't care about the form factor.
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by caslon 5y ago
Nope, it's on the dock. One USB-3, two USB-2. There's no power consumption reason for the dock.
534.
by caslon 5y ago
First impressions: Really good hardware for the price. They fixed the worst thing about SteamOS: It's now got an Arch base. They're definitely overcharging for storage, but I imagine it'll be easy enough to modify one, so it
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by caslon 5y ago
Isn't there a villain, though? A creepy internet stalker writes a story about her stalkee's life, monetizes it and gets critical acclaim (and, again, a seven-figure advance for a collection of short stories that only had value du
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by caslon 5y ago
The FSF has been on that case for a while now. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/single-board-computer-gui... > In many geeky circles, single-board computers are popular machines. SBCs come in small form facto
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by caslon 5y ago
Yes, actually, as Moore's initial FORTHs were written for machines that only had a single case. That said, the above poster isn't quite on the mark, either.
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by caslon 5y ago
"I had reservations about ANSI. I worried that it would be a disaster and not merely a dubious advantage. All of my fears of the standard and none of the advantages of the standard have come to pass. Any spirit of innovation has been t
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by caslon 5y ago
By your logic, here, an independent actor doing something to terminate the employees and stakeholders of Intuit would be completely blameless, if not celebrated by the people of the United States. It's not even a slippery slope to impl
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by caslon 5y ago
I think the above poster was more talking in terms of market share. I only use free software, so I don't really have an incentive to shill against Linux here, but it's worth noting that among the premiere desktop gaming platform,

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