caslon

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by caslon 5y ago
Apt is a terrible, single package manager.
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by caslon 5y ago
"One distribution using one package manager is bad when piloted by an incompetent YouTuber who ignores multiple warnings. Therefore, all of free software is bad."
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by caslon 5y ago
The average American male dies at 74.2 as of 2020: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db427.htm
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by caslon 5y ago
Encouraging them to make incorrect attempts is outright worse than allowing them to make good ones. There are a lot of ways in which a suicide attempt can go wrong, and pretty much all of them leave the person wanting to die more , not
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by caslon 5y ago
> But there are a few problems with this. The keyword lists always have glaring omissions. Millions of young adults can still easily find dangerous content, such as tips on how to self-harm or kill themselves. This is an incredibly conde
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by caslon 5y ago
A very large body of HMDs have OLED displays, which have "true" blacks.
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by caslon 5y ago
The concern is obviously not that copyright is inherently immoral, or whatever you're insinuating, even though there are valid objections against the current status quo of multi-century copyrights. The concern is that they're do
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by caslon 5y ago
Personally, I love the site, and I'm glad it is the way it is: It looks and feels better than any plausible alternative. It sure seems like it has all of the benefits and only one of the drawbacks (vaguely inaccessible). A person can j
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by caslon 5y ago
Couldn't he just want... a plain-text interface? Why are we assigning motives to creations where none is stated? ASCII art loads fast and the miniscule stylesheet and script barely slows anything down. Plenty of people who aren't
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by caslon 5y ago
He probably meant: "On a real display, the screen is curved, but the text isn't."
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by caslon 5y ago
He's dead. There's no longer justification for "thankfully."
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by caslon 5y ago
They're a tech company that makes actual technology. You're allowed to be excited. Better technology upstream has a habit of floating down the stack in some form or another, even when lawyers make it hard (ZFS was released under a
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by caslon 5y ago
What kind of induction stove do you have? Mine just has knobs. I push down and turn them clockwise, physically, and it heats up. I push down and turn them counter-clockwise, it lessens the heat, or turns it off. It's the same as the ga
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by caslon 5y ago
What's wrong with it? Scrolls fine on Firefox. I don't use smooth scrolling; maybe that's it?
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by caslon 5y ago
If poverty is going down, how are we paying the bill? Our people are getting wealthier.
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by caslon 5y ago
We've been paying with the deficit for how many decades now? The economy has pretty consistently getting better and poverty has been going down since the 70s despite increasing our deficit spend rising every single year and inflation s
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by caslon 5y ago
For anyone with some extra time on their hands, Flash games still work on Pale Moon.
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by caslon 5y ago
I have a problem with Electron, personally. I think it's a rational thing to complain about. I just don't think that misrepresenting your case is a good thing.
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by caslon 5y ago
Calling Fractal usable is maybe a bit of a stretch, but there are a lot of really good Matrix clients now!
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by caslon 5y ago
There are already like a dozen Matrix clients that don't use Electron. It doesn't take much effort to go to the Clients list and pick one out.
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by caslon 5y ago
I don't disagree that nuclear energy is good; I'm pointing out that you're strawmanning. A solar farm doesn't have to be protected from missiles, because if it gets hit with missiles, only it is destroyed. It harms not
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by caslon 5y ago
If an unprotected solar farm gets hit by a plane, some property damage happens. If an unprotected nuclear reactor were to get hit, we all know what would happen.
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by caslon 5y ago
"You're thinking short-term and you're bad for it. Here's a bunch of unfounded speculation, and I'm going to throw in "plus shared with the government," despite your information already being shared with t
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by caslon 5y ago
I don't live in China. The Chinese are many miles away. I am not worth nuking, and I am not at risk of being involved in a genocide. I live in a surveillance state. I don't really like being surveilled. Big companies share data be
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by caslon 5y ago
At some point, we need to start treating Windows like Internet Explorer or Safari. Things break on it all the time, completely unpredictably, and it doesn't support many useful features you'd expect to be used. We should really ju
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by caslon 5y ago
Thank you for answering that, sincerely. You've knocked somebody's white whale out today, which is one of the most selfless things you can do. In doing so, you've probably freed up minutes or even hours of their thought for y
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by caslon 5y ago
No clue! I haven't thought about the game in years! What worked for me, though, was joining as many raids as possible. Dungeons are good too, if you're tanking. You'll suck for the first few, but after a while you'll sto
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by caslon 5y ago
Movement is important in WoW. If you're not keeping people in front of you, you need to focus on it more. It's one of the layers. The critical thing here is that you really shouldn't be mouse targeting.
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by caslon 5y ago
You should probably be using more AOE. Also, you shouldn't be using your mouse to select targets, you should be using it for movement. Some tips (most of these shouldn't have changed much, but I haven't played in many years):
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by caslon 5y ago
Companies are generally stupid, because any group large enough regresses to the median of its members, or worse, the average of its C-Levels. I'm sure they don't consciously see the cloud as less, but that's still the selli

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