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by cmurf 5y ago
Denver worst among international cities for air pollution today, smoke plus ozone. We've had 34 straight days of warnings, with recommendation to only drive ZEVs, not go outside if you're in a vulnerable category which happens to
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by cmurf 5y ago
That's part of why the fires are so bad. Enormous amounts of excess fuel built up from decades of putting fires out every time they pop up.
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by cmurf 5y ago
Well, ironically, the behavior will eventually make the planet less hospitable to humans. Fewer humans, fewer problems. We either adapt to continue. Or we end. Just like millions of other already extinct species. I think humans needed to be
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by cmurf 5y ago
My takeaway from the metaphor is not the end of earth, or even the human species. But a significant reduction in population. Anytime habitat is lost, people starve and migrate. Not all starve. Not all migrate. We will have migration induced
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by cmurf 5y ago
I believe it will become necessary sooner than we imagine. 32 continuous days of air pollution warnings in Denver this summer (ozone and smoke). This comes with a recommendation to not drive unless you have a zero emission vehicle. It'
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by cmurf 5y ago
I've got a Windows 10 system that uses TPM to seal a bitlocker key, out of the box. And nothing asks for a PIN prior to the login window coming up. Having to be prompted for a PIN to do something as simple as a reboot, isn't a gre
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by cmurf 5y ago
The longer the possible time frame in which a particular document will one day become important again, the more important it is to hedge your bets against technology. Considering long term (insurance claims, long term cap gains) record ke
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by cmurf 5y ago
Human story tellers are very attached to humanity, so the stories tend to anthropomorphize aliens. Most alien stories rehash old religious and hero stories. What do we have to offer aliens? In the category of vague as well as less is more,
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by cmurf 5y ago
>Are humans not part of nature? No. Humans are supranatural when it comes to our influence on the planet. While this power is not absolute, it's significant enough to make humans an edge case in nature. >Is the ocassional defacat
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by cmurf 5y ago
Well past it. The bribe is "be a normal everyday docile consumer who minds your own business". This is relatively easy and affordable for most folks
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by cmurf 5y ago
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/07/01/police-do-not-feed-be... Pretty stupid.
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by cmurf 5y ago
It's not a new problem. 20 years ago at a national park with signs "don't feed the wildlife" with a parent teaching her 3 year old to feed the wild life within 3 feet of such a sign. I said "do you see the sign? why
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by cmurf 5y ago
earlyoom is enable on Fedora 32 and 33 Workstation edition; and 33 KDE spin. On Fedora 34, all editions and spins have systemd-oomd enabled. It does take some initial configuration of systemd service units since oomd works by cgroupsv2 base
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by cmurf 5y ago
Problem is there are enough millions of people satisfied with this delivery, that NBC will make enough money and keep their anti-competitive monopoly. Quite a lot of the content is only available with their Peacock app. Free if you have Com
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by cmurf 5y ago
mkudffs (a.k.a. mkfs.udf) on the whole block device, by default it uses --bootarea=erase, and results in a device that automounts on macOS, Windows 10, and GNOME and KDE (at least). There is also --bootarea=mbr which sounds similar to what
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by cmurf 5y ago
So did the American legal system.
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by cmurf 5y ago
Oceans provide a huge amount of food. How long can humans manage even a partial collapse of the ocean ecosystem before there's a cascading collapse of civil society?
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by cmurf 5y ago
Yeah but what portion of what Assange has done is illegal? Being a liar and yellow journalist is not illegal, however unethical or even immoral. On the one hand we have an innocuous, as in inconsequential character, Putin suck up who will p
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by cmurf 5y ago
Maybe Microsoft removed the optimizations for rotational devices? XFS is considering it: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20200514103454.GL2040@drea...
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by cmurf 5y ago
They exchanged communism for an oligarchy that openly steals from the people, syphoning wealth abroad. It's not an improvement.
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by cmurf 5y ago
It's what every industry does. It thinks it's creating value by having more features, when in reality it's just creating more jobs. More middle people who each want a cut.
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by cmurf 5y ago
I recently spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get Android to connect via smb, couldn't figure it out. It's such a stupid PITA it's almost by design and "yeah just use the cloud".
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by cmurf 5y ago
Ok and where is the evidence the spread is significantly due to land border crossings? You really think the U.S. was being infected by Mexicans and Canadians? Refugees? That India is being infected by some or all the countries surrounding t
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by cmurf 6y ago
The American equivalent: demand more road capacity. Rip out the trees! Rip out the bike lanes and side walks! Rip out a row of houses! MORE LANES! This really is generational, I only get it from baby boomer relatives and friends. X don&#x27
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by cmurf 6y ago
The original article: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22385859/apple-app-store-...
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by cmurf 6y ago
I wonder if you can pressure cook it for some fractional period, and then finish it in a smoker for another fractional period that ends up being 1/2 or less the total time of smoking alone, but would stand up to smoked meat. When I was
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by cmurf 6y ago
Rich people already go to low security VIP prisons. Visits with family in parks, better food, internet, and everyone is non-violent. Billionaires aren't put in general population.
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We are concerned about Georgia’s new election law(blogs.microsoft.com)
5 points by cmurf 6y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 6y ago
It's not just incompetency, it's malice, to treat your own customers in this fashion. But this is what happens when there is consistently no consequences for these kinds of breaches. Neither government nor market punishes these ki
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SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials(apnews.com)
3 points by cmurf 6y ago|0 comments

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