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by cbolton 9mo ago
I think you have the right idea, if poorly worded. The economy is not a zero sum game, but the idea works when you apply it not on wealth but on wealth increase. That's more or less the famous r > g formula of Piketty: when the rate
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by cbolton 9mo ago
Yes you're right.
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by cbolton 9mo ago
> inability to express "just shut the fucking system down, you won't have power in 5 minutes" for servers connected to UPS. What about "systemctl --force --force poweroff" ?
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by cbolton 9mo ago
The udev developers decided that it made sense to move udev into systemd. If you disagree and want choice, you can fork udev. Actually some people did that, so you can run xterm with eudev instead of udev and thus avoid systemd (though eude
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by cbolton 9mo ago
I'm curious how that works in the extreme... Isn't prostitution legal in the Netherlands? A brothel can offer you a job and you have to accept?
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by cbolton 9mo ago
In many cases I think Ballistol is better: great lubricant, food safe, works as solvent in many cases, relatively cheap. It does have a funny smell.
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by cbolton 9mo ago
Presumably they could easily get a warrant with that information, if they cared to ask.
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by cbolton 9mo ago
> Biden tried diplomacy with the EU. He tried to get them to agree to a renewed US-led world order, but it wasn't working. Can you elaborate on that? It seems to me it "wasn't working" mostly in the sense that Trump g
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by cbolton 9mo ago
You can use the online editor without login: https://typst.app/play/
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Review: Julia trimming for Advent of Code 2025(viralinstruction.com)
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by cbolton 10mo ago
That's nice, thanks for mentioning it. Is there anywhere we can read about this?
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by cbolton 10mo ago
Look at the Wikipedia page, it's a mix of open source and proprietary copmonents. The OS project describes itself on https://sailfishos.org/info/ as "open source based" rather than "open source&quot
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by cbolton 10mo ago
The operating system (Sailfish OS) is a mix of components, some open and some closed. Search for "open source" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS . They have said years ago that it would be open sou
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by cbolton 10mo ago
The Linux phone that's more closed than Android, it's a hard sell for me.
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by cbolton 10mo ago
> the patent is expired, so the motivation to continue to defend it has waned. If anything, herbicide producers would now benefit if a cheap, public domain chemical were illegitimately banned in favor of more expensive chemicals still un
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by cbolton 10mo ago
Is this sarcasm or are you seriously saying you trust Monsanto on a thread about them committing scientific fraud to influence our perception of their product?
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by cbolton 10mo ago
Do you mean the advantage of writing pi*d for the circumference instead of tau*r or tau*d/2? I wouldn't keep pi around just for this...
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by cbolton 10mo ago
More convenient than degrees. This is unrelated to pi vs tau (using tau or pi doesn't change the meaning of radians, the properties you mention are not affected). What OP is getting at is that the same number of radians, e.g. 1.57 (qua
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by cbolton 10mo ago
Maybe? I've tried removing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome as it seems to cause slow startup for other people but that doesn't seem to fix it.
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by cbolton 10mo ago
Ghostty is quite slow to start on my Linux machine, very close the the first start of GNOME Terminal (or Terminator). Maybe because I'm on Wayland? Are you on X?
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by cbolton 10mo ago
Why don't they pay someone to make a very similar looking font? Font design is not protected by copyright, and most fonts are also not protected by design patents as far as I know.
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by cbolton 11mo ago
> Which would make the Store a "sideloading" channel by that token ? I don't think so, it's still an official channel offered by the OS maker. > adding third party sources will still integrate the same with the sys
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by cbolton 11mo ago
I'm curious what's your actual opinion in absence of hard data. If your grandma tells you a website gives her instructions for sideloading Candy Crush, you'd say yeah fine or advise her to go through the Play store?
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by cbolton 11mo ago
I don't feel like I'm the one playing semantic games here, I'm just arguing that the term "sideloading" is a useful distinction vs "installing through the main channel" (whatever that is: could be the Play
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by cbolton 11mo ago
> Why is Google the arbitrator of risk here ? Because they do the monitoring and take some responsibility? I'm just comparing "install from the Play store" with "install some apk from wherever". If you bring addi
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by cbolton 11mo ago
True, I'm speaking of the situation for the crushing majority of users (outside China I guess), not for literally every user.
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by cbolton 11mo ago
Yeah maybe it gives the wrong idea. It's still better than no monitoring at all. It gets tricky with alternative stores like F-Droid. I guess if you use F-Droid as a trusted source then it shouldn't be called sideloading.
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by cbolton 11mo ago
I'm not too familiar with macOS... How normal/expected is it now to install through the App Store? As mentioned in another comment, for a Linux distribution like Debian there are highly trusted official repositories, and I think u
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by cbolton 11mo ago
That actually sounds like a good idea, the situation is similar with an official channel of "trusted" software for which the distributor takes some responsibility, versus whatever file you downloaded yourself. It's certainly
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by cbolton 11mo ago
It's bypassing the usual channel for app installations, so the term is technically fitting and the loaded meaning is also appropriate since it's mostly used by nerds (maybe too strong a word) and bad actors. There are legitimate u

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