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by cheald 7y ago
Gnome was lighterweight than KDE for a long time. It genuinely surprised me to find Plasma to be as agile as it is, but I was happy to be surprised!
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by cheald 7y ago
I'm not demeaning GNOME at all, I'm contrasting against it. GNOME is a great product, but I didn't like that its recent incarnations seem determined to smooth out the user experience by removing user choice. I tried out KDE (
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by cheald 7y ago
It's worth it to try KDE Plasma rather than GNOME. It's lighter and faster than GNOME by a fair margin, and it's far more customizable. GNOME is great for your OS X convert who isn't used to anything being customizable,
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by cheald 7y ago
It's surprising to me that dnsmasq doesn't provide the ability to override the returned names in the chain. I'd just assumed it did. Seems like it shouldn't be _that_ hard to solve, though. I've written my own bespo
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by cheald 7y ago
I missed that! I'll have to look at tweaking my setup! In general though, DNS filtering + client filtering is an awesome combo.
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by cheald 7y ago
Use a Pihole + your adblocker of choice - defense in depth. It's easy to set up, brainless to keep updated, and helps to protect all devices on your network, not just the things that can run uBlock. I've got mine running in a Dock
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by cheald 7y ago
Well, I don't think other countries have achieved actual price insensitivity, in the sense of "fully inelastic demand". Fundamentally, for any scarce resource, supply, demand, and price are necessarily linked. Medical care is
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by cheald 7y ago
It's just Chromium, so it's not particularly anything new to support.
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by cheald 7y ago
Expecting price transparency to fix things without actually changing anything else doesn't solve anything, sure. The point isn't that prices aren't transparent, it's that prices are artificially high because they're
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by cheald 7y ago
> Well the price list should be up front, but that's the case regardless of whether you're paying for all of the care or just some of it. Agreed. > Wouldn't that discourage preventative care? At the margin, yes. OTOH, p
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by cheald 7y ago
Absolutely. There are a zillion different problems to solve like this, but I don't think they're necessarily unsolvable, though. On the one hand, you do really want people to be relatively insensitive to the cost of medical care t
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by cheald 7y ago
> But is there room to distinguish emergency from non-emergency services? There absolutely must be, IMO. Emergency care is what insurance _should_ be for - the stuff you can't plan for, must have, and can't comparison shop for.
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by cheald 7y ago
Very well said. We outsource our critical thinking at our own peril. People are very good at believing what they want to, and the more we encourage them to turn off their skepticism because something has a little badge on it, the worse off
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by cheald 7y ago
MTG Arena is actually pretty good for getting started. Its tutorial modes teach you enough to start playing. There are a lot of interactions that aren't immediately obvious, though, and card/effect wording matters _a lot_.
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by cheald 7y ago
Salt is definitely more complex than Ansible. Ansible wins the simplicity battle by a mile - for small or low-maintenance setups, I'd go with Ansible. Salt is way less complex than Puppet or Chef, though. However, once you have a decen
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by cheald 7y ago
Windows minions are supported, but I'll confess I haven't done much with them. I manage Linux servers exclusively.
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by cheald 7y ago
I've used all three in the past. Chef was the first I used, many years ago. It's...complex. Despite being Just Ruby, the DSL takes quite a lot to learn, and I don't like that Chef is imperative rather than declarative. It als
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by cheald 7y ago
This is where Saltstack really shines, IMO. Once you have the minion installed, you have a ZMQ command channel on each of those boxes. salt -G "roles:whatever" cmd.run "blahblahblah" Easy to target by any number
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by cheald 7y ago
Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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by cheald 7y ago
> in favour of perhaps some kind of category- or tag-based search Because the people looking for visibility on their conspiracy video would never tag their video with high-visibility keywords like "cute" and "puppies&quo
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by cheald 7y ago
Brazillian jiujitsu has been wonderful for me in this regard. When you train regularly with folks, those friendships can't help but develop.
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by cheald 7y ago
I'd settle for "arguments which steelman their opponents" (at least, within the Overton window). You can't have a genuinely neutral political take, obviously, but you can have one which makes a best-effort to honestly un
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by cheald 7y ago
The human-readable/writable protocol is one of my favorite things about Redis, tbh. I can see cases where a really optimized system could benefit from a binary protocol, but I suspect it'd be a loss for most people.
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by cheald 7y ago
I'd be much more inclined to, yes. The "Tony Stark" fantasy is a neat one - it's just heavily tempered by the reality of how much data and control we're letting out of our control.
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by cheald 7y ago
Deadlifts, farmer's carries, pullups, anything else in my strength routine that improves forearm and wrist strength. I'm operating under the theory that a stronger body is harder to break. Seems to be working fine so far.
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by cheald 7y ago
You gotta be careful with it, though. Excessively high concentrations of potassium can cause hyperkalemia, which can be lethal. That's why potassium supplements aren't sold in large doses; potassium bound up with fiber and whatnot
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by cheald 7y ago
Absolutely. The difference in VO2 max (essentially, efficiency of oxygen uptake) between trained and untrained individuals is stark and substantial. Hits of pure O2 produce a euphoric high, which probably isn't what you want during int
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by cheald 7y ago
> Then, the body increases its base metabolic rate and adjusts to the new food intake level. This is a fairly pernicious half-truth, even among fitness types, which is used to explain away much more than it should. It has some truth to i
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by cheald 7y ago
Most people don't realize that a huge amount of their basal metabolism goes into operating the brain. Just "keeping the lights on" in the average person accounts for around 20% of your total daily energy expenditure! 6k cals&
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by cheald 7y ago
Me personally? Quite a few. Work is 43 miles each way. My mom's 53 miles away. Not that unusual for Phoenix residents, particularly those who live out in the suburbs where housing is more affordable. Weekend activities are frequently 2

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