cykros

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by cykros 4y ago
I saw it suggested elsewhere that for how stupid this all looks, it was a big scheme to give cover of liquidity for the big capital folks (Blackrock, Vanguard, etc) who are also whales in TSLA to get out of TWTR without losing their shirt i
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by cykros 4y ago
I understand banning the use of the word "steak". But sausage? Really? Maybe things are different in France, but last I checked sausage translated to "a bunch of stuff that may or may not be food stuff inside an intestine
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by cykros 4y ago
Don't forget to grind that coffee in a hand crank burr grinder, so you can control every aspect of the process. And don't even THINK about using water that is even a degree away from 200F (I know someone who uses boiling water --
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by cykros 4y ago
Let's be fully clear about this; while Russia's invasion has some direct effects, the bulk of the economic effects are from the response to its invasion, primarily in the form of sanctions on fuel and petroleum derived fertilizers
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by cykros 4y ago
The insiders buy on the way up, and dump on the retail investors before things come crashing back down (who are drawn in by the reports of how much money is being made on Wall St. Not all of them execute flawlessly on this of course, but t
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by cykros 4y ago
This, and the amount of newly public companies that received nosebleed valuations despite being pre-profit (and often enough, pre-revenue even) thanks to speculation (and the fact that these companies were impressive if only because they we
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by cykros 4y ago
Is it just me, or is the first time that "OpenBSD" and "New" were in the same sentence? I love OpenBSD, but in fairness, its biggest virtue is usually its rock solid stability and security, derived from everything in it
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by cykros 4y ago
Would it be worth the legal costs? Probably not. Our courts don't operate based on who is on the right side of the law. They operate based on who has more cash to burn.
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by cykros 4y ago
Last year, inflation was running at under 5%. There was no fuel crisis, and no food crisis, spurred on by the war in Ukraine. Covid was widely believed to be going away a bit quicker than has quite turned out to be the case. Should we hav
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by cykros 4y ago
I'm not sure about borrowing as much as possible (though publicly traded companies sure did buffer their balance sheets with low cost debt). I am sure though that I won't be pre-paying my mortgage at any point, given that it&#x27
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by cykros 4y ago
Ebooks are great, but I find I read a LOT more with a cheap e-ink ebook reader than I ever did on the phone. I've got the Nia by Rakuten Kobo at this point, which retails for $100; the Nook Simpletouch was great too until my wife disap
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by cykros 4y ago
Google Podcasts (or really, any podcast app, as long as it has access to what you want). Learning stuff while being able to get OFF the couch is huge for health, mental and otherwise. I just got back from a 4 mile walk during which I got
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by cykros 4y ago
It's existence as an alternative for those who want it doesn't bother me so much. It's watching other projects that existed for years without relying on it tacking it on as a dependency that got worrisome. It DOESN'T p
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by cykros 4y ago
Based on what I was hearing on some morning podcasts the other day (sorry, no citation handy, but it was something mainstream...NPR perhaps), the smallpox vaccine was something like 75% effective against monkeypox. Which makes it MORE effe
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by cykros 4y ago
2007 is old these days? I think that's when my netbook I bought refurbished is from originally, and I never had an issue running Slackware 14.2 on it, without even bothering to figure out anything to tweak. I'm still salty that
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by cykros 4y ago
Sbagen, by any chance? That program was quite handy, but it does take a little elbow grease getting it to run these days. I have done it though with the help of "padsp" (ships with pulseaudio). I always loved the "-p drop&q
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by cykros 4y ago
It's a relatively minimal gui mp3 player application.
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by cykros 4y ago
Private companies SHOULD be able to choose who they do business with. They should also be subject to the rules everyone else is. As soon as they start getting preferential treatment through regulation, they should absolutely expect restri
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by cykros 4y ago
It certainly doesn't operate as a utility, but rather, a publisher that relies heavily on editing. And you know what? That's probably fine. BUT...they shouldn't get section 230 protections, which are for common carriers.
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by cykros 4y ago
Sometimes, you just go online because you want to read about something. These days, it feels that most place on the web are designed to, well, do most anything other than let you have what you want to read without at the very least distrac
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by cykros 4y ago
Seems like you got the easiest ways already, but perhaps the most fun way is through the Synchronet BBS system, which will run on Windows, Linux, or *BSD (not sure if this includes OS X...probably, with effort). It's primary purpose o
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by cykros 4y ago
The whole all but violent upheaval caused by systemd (not rehashing it here/now) seems to stem from the Unix philosophy not being adhered to. Pulseaudio similarly used to draw a lot of ire (perhaps still does; I haven't seen as m
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by cykros 4y ago
We had a solution prior to pulseaudio, but it was the ALSA dmix option, and anyone who's ever set it up can probably tell you how sparse and cryptic the documentation for it is. If you're having trouble finding anyone that fits t
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by cykros 4y ago
Not in 1994 it wasn't.