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by crispinb 7y ago
> I haven’t seen the stars in over a decade I'm planning to get up in the wee hours tomorrow to check out the Eta Acquarids. We have a magnificent night sky on clear nights here, but there's always a creeping edge of sadness kn
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by crispinb 7y ago
Nice! I don't have an opvault file right now as I use AgileBits' sync service, but I'll create one next time I'm in windows and give this a try. (An aside: every time someone points out a golang repo I'm impressed b
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by crispinb 7y ago
Hmm. Not a great start - 'select all' on the linux client selects all the page text, rather than the items, so there's no way to bulk edit. Doesn't engender much confidence. [Edit: OK it turns out to be an electron app,
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by crispinb 7y ago
Looks nice. I've been a 1password user for some years, but the lack of a proper linux client is a pest. Bitwarden seems like it would be worth a try.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> When I think of Australia my head goes to the coasts Right. That's where we (nearly) all live. As it happens, cassowaries are also coastal creatures, but exclusively tropical. The tropics have been sparsely populated, though North
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by crispinb 7y ago
Sorry to be a bore, but it really depends on what someone means by 'dangerous'. If you mean 'potentially dangerous if encountered', then I guess it would be. When it comes to birds that might slice your abdomen open, it&
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by crispinb 8y ago
Of course. There are attacks, but the cases are tiny in number. Anyone who has lived here knows that bogans are by far the most dangerous wildlife species here. (It's a shame that Australia is known for its wildlife being dangerous to
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by crispinb 8y ago
That struck me too the couple of times I've seen them in the wild. I found it evoked a certain awe to come across such a strange and magnificent creature just doing its own thing out there in the forest.
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by crispinb 8y ago
The Daintree, like most of our ecosystems, is in rapid decline: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/30/climate-...
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by crispinb 8y ago
Rebel.
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by crispinb 8y ago
The more people know about it, the more they are. Talk to academic ecologists. It's also very gradually dawning on the general population, but slow-motion catastrophes are hard to address with urgency given the many demands on peoples
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by crispinb 8y ago
> I will be interested to see if they have managed to fix the irritatingly slow I/O with this too Is it worse than accessing the files directly from wsl? I certainly found that on the slow side. Though from what I've read on t
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by crispinb 8y ago
Out of date. I don't have the reference handy, but you can now modify wsl files from Windows as long as you access them via the \\wsl$\[distro]\ path.
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by crispinb 8y ago
This could make wsl much more usable. Having always to maintain both windows & ubuntu versions of all my development tools and libraries is one of a couple of substantial Windows frictions that recently drove me to trying to live f&#x2F
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by crispinb 8y ago
To an English speaker it looks more like "wanker"
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by crispinb 8y ago
Misusing a guitar (the finest musical instrument in history) to imitate the Scottish pipes (the least musical instrument of torture yet devised) would be illegal in any just jurisdiction.
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by crispinb 8y ago
True - one of the most egregious atrocities I've ever seen committed against English. I don't read Bloomberg in any case, but have no idea how I'd make myself read that article & maintain reasonable mental health regardle
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by crispinb 8y ago
Caring about children isn't about arguing from premises. Indeed if someone claims to need an argument to care about children, it's a pretty good prima facie case for the existence of a psychological disorder.
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by crispinb 8y ago
> It's not that not caring is "wrong" Er, actually that's just it. It's (to put it mildly) eccentric to think otherwise.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Admitting sociopathy (outside of financial & real estate circles) is generally a losing strategy.
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by crispinb 8y ago
The ER founders chose nonviolent civil disobedience (which of necessity 'inconveniences' people) following decades of empirical research (eg. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780..
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by crispinb 8y ago
Ars' take is essentially that that legacy (win32) issues have made the transition impracticable: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/microsoft-quietly-gi... A pity, not so much (to me) regarding the
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by crispinb 8y ago
No-one studying coral reefs now thinks they have much chance of surviving beyond mid-century given already baked-in ocean heating.
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by crispinb 8y ago
> Insulting half of the political structure isn't going to help anything Bear in mind that having 'half of the political structure' maintaining prescientific views re our planet's climate systems has become quite ecce
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by crispinb 8y ago
> Despotism and gun control are invariably tightly linked "Linked" is a tabloid weasel word in this context. It may or may not be true that most despots favour gun control. I'm not familiar with the evidence in that case.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Probably true, but let's face it, there are few good actors in this story. The Venezuelan government is not remotely interested in the actual welfare of its citizens. The US foreign policy establishment is concerned as always only with
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by crispinb 8y ago
Untrue. Read (for example) Erica Chenoweth's detailed empirical work on civil resistance. Nonviolent resistance has a considerably higher real-world chance of success than armed uprising. It also has the huge advantage of leaving behin
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by crispinb 8y ago
A "rediscovered treasure" news story briefly propelling an album into the lower ranks of UK charts hardly justifies it. When A Love Supreme was released kids were listening to The Beatles, not modal jazz. And not one in a thousan
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by crispinb 8y ago
[ as an aside, I was prompted after writing the above to try again, and added a Fedora 29 partition to play around with. I'm pleasantly surprised by how much immediately works. Early days as yet ]
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by crispinb 8y ago
Coltrane was a towering genius, and I don't think a month has gone by in 2 decades when I haven't listened to something of his, but 'pop appeal'? I think not.

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