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by coffeecat 7y ago
Around the time when the marketing industry exploded in the 20th century, it became a hygienic necessity to strip the oils out of your hair and replace them with a synthetic alternative (conditioner). I haven't used shampoo for about 1
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by coffeecat 7y ago
> Sure there are some cases in which we can draw a fine line between black and white zones (like rape). This is the quintessence of gray area. Sure, we have violent rape versus mutually consensual, mutually enjoyable sex as black and whi
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by coffeecat 7y ago
> It's not something small like a basic income, which has become popular for certain VCs and people in Silicon Valley to promote, but real massive and transformational programs that would actually cost those people something. Frankl
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by coffeecat 7y ago
I have a non-rigorous pet theory that the combined effects of lead plumbing and leaded gasoline produced generations of Americans, from the late 19th century to the late 20th century, whose population-wide intelligence levels were adversely
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by coffeecat 7y ago
If you're only brewing for yourself, and you like your coffee strong, I'd suggest trying a moka pot. They have no plastic except on the exterior, and have been shown to extract the highest levels of antioxidants compared to other
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by coffeecat 7y ago
I don't think the difference between those two groups is particularly significant. Both groups unapologetically ignore an area of well-established science. Both groups are philosophically equivalent (humans can keep burning fossil fuel
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by coffeecat 7y ago
> and so it makes it bloody difficult to, say, leverage my finances in order to buy an electric car (when my reasonably-efficient gas car is working fine and has decades of useful life left) This is tangential to your point, but given th
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by coffeecat 7y ago
I'm curious if you considered or attempted to use pdfplumber's table extraction methods to separate tabular from non-tabular text. That would be my starting point on a problem like this, as picking the relevant rows of a table is
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by coffeecat 7y ago
Any particular works that you would recommend starting with?
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by coffeecat 8y ago
> So yes, you can run sway with the nvidia module loaded, just please unload it and test again before you report bugs. If that were the language used in the issue tracker, then fine. It's sensible to request that users repro
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by coffeecat 8y ago
It's one thing to tell users to get lost, if they are making unreasonable demands (or any demands at all, for that matter). It's another thing to make vitriolic, divisive comments about all (not some) nvidia users, or to ban all u
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by coffeecat 8y ago
I do use the Intel GPU for all things graphical. But as I stated, I require the proprietary nvidia driver as well. Your issue policy is "If the nvidia module is loaded on your system, you are not permitted to file bugs of any sort&quot
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by coffeecat 8y ago
I do GPGPU work and I require the proprietary nvidia driver, which I use only for CUDA computations. I'm also excited about wayland, would like to start using sway as my daily driver, and have even considered contributing. However, you