darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
At least in real life you get a chance to face your opponent, even if it's a goliath and david mismatched weight-class scenario. An angry mob may be outgunned by the police, but at least they can still throw bricks. What can realis
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's only a fallacy if there is no demonstrable slope.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I mean, nobody uses sqlite for rails in production (except when they do because their load is genuinely low.) It's mostly there for when you're just running something for yourself on your own dev machine, most often for testing p
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Wireguard+NFS is the sort of setup I really wish I had years ago. It's so damn convenient to set up and to use.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "I can't imagine having literal work as a hobby. " Think of it the other way. Instead of taking work home with them to create a hobby, maybe they found some way to get paid for their hobby. Maybe this is fun for th
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> they support mysql purely to make it easier for their smaller users to setup and manage instances. That's not a real reason to support mysql, which is no more pleasant for non-DBAs to set up than any other traditional RDBMS.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That sort of shit is relevant only to lawyers. A salaried sound designer could have lied to Microsoft just as easily. The nature of the offense isn't actually being changed in any practical sense between the two scenarios.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That page should have a list of books you own. On the left side of each row for each book, there should be a light gray button that looks like: [...] It's under the "Actions" column, second to the left. Click that and th
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by darkpuma 7y ago
mobi<->epub conversion is rarely problematic in practice. However mobi is not a wrapper around epub as some are claiming. They merely have low impedance mismatch.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Instead of using the Calibre GUI, which is nightmare fuel, I recommend Calibre's command line conversion tool `ebook-convert`: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.... It's kind of
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Most zombie fiction is premised on a contagious pathogen or a botched scientific response to such a pathogen (28 Days Later, The Last of Us, I am Legend, Shaun of the Dead etc.) Some use accidental exposure to radiation or extraterrestr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Then again, when some lunatic American colonists tried an alternative system of governance everyone knew was absurd and evil, it worked out surprisingly well." Are you sure they did? At the time republicanism was in vogu
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's ignorant. The Taiping Rebellion was comparable in death toll to the world wars, despite the technology involved being significantly more primitive. No poison gas, no aerial strategic bombing, no blitzkrieg, dive bombers or m
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't know if all smoke indicates a fire, but there has been a lot of smoke coming out of Tesla.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The premise of this technology is however startlingly close to the cult-classic zombie horror movie Re-Animator .
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by darkpuma 7y ago
What impact, if any, would this have on Clojure?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Good journalism is also more than just low-key denigrating a man for being a mechanical engineer with an M.B.A.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
A couple year ago I started buying computers with the smallest hard-drives offered, because my primary storage is now on an NFS NAS across a VPN (if I'm not home.) Everything is in one place and the storage is cheaper. NFS thankful
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The original iPod was a flop. cmdrtaco's infamous dismissal of it wasn't as wrong as people remember. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#/media/File:Ipod_sales_pe...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
At the least it used to be very common for consumers to replace their own battery, an option that now has an unreasonable process for most consumers.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You should give weechat a whirl.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I really wish I could restore functionality to a MBP by changing the way I hold it, but alas, the situation seems far worse than even antenna-gate.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Presumably people think the magsafe connection is better. I wonder about that though. I have a magsafe mac and my cable wears out after a year or two. Do the USB-C charging cables have the same problem?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Check it with `youtube-dl -F`, a 8K stream is available, but may not be presented to you in the browser UI: format code extension resolution note 272 webm 7680x4320 4320p60 32524k , vp9, 60fps, video only, 850.48
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "most people" I think it's fair to say from your description that your bandwidth demands are greater than average. (Also I think you swapped your up and down, unless you've got a really strange connection.)
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Most of us are not lawyers. If a lawyer is being imprecise with legal terminology, then they need to be called on it promptly. If however a non -lawyer is misusing terminology but their meaning is clear, correcting their terminology is
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yeah, that's definitely true in my family at least. Radiating space heaters are one good solution to this problem since they allow you to warm up without requiring all the air in the room be heated up too.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In the US, 20-24C is a pretty typical AC setting, with commercial buildings usually closer to the cool end. I don't put on a jacket (other than for fashion) until 15C or so. For me, 26C would negatively impact my productivity.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It would suck for heavy use 'whales' like me, but most consumers would save money since they'd no longer be subsidizing my behavior. The selfish part of me is pretty comfortable with this status quo.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "If you're waiting for a multi-GB game patch to download then there is a huge mental shift between waiting 20 seconds and 4 minutes." It's not exactly a life altering shift though, is it? Four fewer minutes of g

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