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by deeg 5y ago
I don't think we can. What is (or isn't) revenge porn? Are we policing that effectively? Do people get in trouble for posting cute pictures of their kids in the tub? We should get away from thinking that moderating perfectly is
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by deeg 5y ago
I have Ubuntu on a ~2017 MBP and except for the camera it works great. I had to fiddle with a few settings for quite a while to get sleep mode working well but other than that no problems. If I could get an M1 working as well with Ubuntu I
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by deeg 5y ago
Is it possible your area is not overwhelmed because vaccinations are required? Here's a medical system overwhelmed in part because vaccination rate is (was) so low: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/coronavirus&
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Surely mistakes have been made (proving that they are human) and we should always be ready to reassess something as important as a pandemic response but this seems ungenerous. The multitude of factors that make up the disease and how our b
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My guess (I have no experience in the biotech industry) is that this is largely because you can't run an hour-long experiment with the candidate to test their competence. They must rely on a conversational technique. I don't know
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We can potentially say that in hindsight but politicians at the time could not come to that conclusion. After 80+ years the US was still the only major democracy and it was teetering. Unionist politicians, embodied by Lincoln, were afraid
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I disagree here. What could the North have done differently (post 1792) to seriously address the slavery issue? The Southern states had enough political power to put off any major reform; e.g. they had enough clout to engineer the dreadfu
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by deeg 5y ago
That's a decent summary of the role of slavery in the war and I would only nitpick a few things. That said, it sounds like the author might have come to those (correct) conclusions by reading a single book. This can be dangerous and
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by deeg 5y ago
All else being the same I would expect the great lakes to rise. My guess is that the lake levels are so strongly tied to rainfall patterns that it's pointless to predict their future levels right now.
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Does Dell offer a "clean" version of Windows for the extra price? I can come up with competing reasons for why they would/wouldn't do this.
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Is this really much different from regular automation? It's a robot that performs a menial, simple task. Feels like click bait to me. Edit: new title is much better.
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A long time ago MKS Utilities had an awk compiler that would compile an awk script into a Windows exe. Dunno if it actually compiled anything or just packaged the awk interpreter onto the exe. That was my first intro to awk. Was nice to
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I couldn't disagree more. Today's American society has way more liberty than it did in 1912. Blacks, women, Native Americans, LBGTQ+, other minorities: all live better today than whatever period you want to choose. Native Americ
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I've set up an alias to source my script (xd.sh) like: alias xd=. xd.sh Sourcing the script allows it to change the current directory.
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One of my very first jobs let me buy Norton Utilities, which had "Norton CD" (ncd, I think) that was a smarter version of the cd command. When I left that company I was so addicted to ncd that I wrote my own. I have long left Wi
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by deeg 5y ago
Thanks for the reply, especially given that I worded my question poorly. In my barely educated opinion the health risks of the radiation level measured in the boar meat is so low as to be ignorable. It might help people (like me) to be able
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by deeg 5y ago
How does the radiation from boar meat compare to sunlight? E.g. eating 500 grams is similar to sitting in the sun for 5 minutes, in very rough comparison.
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Crime is going up in cities all over the country, including those in red states that never had a sniff of "Defund the Police". I'm unconvinced that it's a direct contributor.
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Shameless plug: I'm working with a small team on a data framework that replaces the ORM with an abstraction the eliminates the impedance mismatch. You can take a look at https://github.com/zeidon/zeidon-joe . I&
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by deeg 5y ago
Yeah, my question after reading this is why can't I buy a modern version of this toaster? Would it be too expensive? Just seems odd.
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I've done some reading into cast iron performance and everything I've encountered says there's no noticeable difference between the smooth surfaces of the old pans and the rougher new pans once they are well seasoned. The th
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I compare modernist architecture and architects to James Joyce's "Ulysses": lot of writers and critics love Ulysses but to most of us it's incomprehensible. To have any chance of appreciating Ulysses you have to have an
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by deeg 5y ago
I almost never wade into the cesspool that is YT comments but just this once I read through a number. Every single one made fun of the governor and the PAC that put together the video. That was mildly heartening.
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Ah, sorry. That's what happens when I go stream-of-consciousness. :) The experience with Ubuntu+MBP is way better than Ubuntu+Thinkpad. As far as I can tell they are using the same drivers (I've tried installing multiple differe
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I have Ubuntu 21.04 on a Thinkpad X1 and a 2017 (?) MBP and the difference in trackpad quality is astounding.
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Don't forget the massive bureaucracy at traditional banks. I worked at a small company that was building a payments platform for a large US bank. The amount of turf-protecting between the different payment types within the bank was m
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I'm a math and tea geek and since it's so very rare when the two worlds overlap I'll take the opportunity to mention it here. The British argument of tea-or-milk-first helped lead to a formalization of random experimentation
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I don't know about the biological definition of "herbal" but in practice herbal is used as a catch-all for tisanes, teas that are made without the Camellia sinensis (tea) plant. It's not a hard rule, e.g. rooibos teas a
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I understand the long-term concern but it needs to be balanced out with the known dangers of contracting COVID. While it's possible--if extremely unlikely--that the vaccine will have detrimental effects we <know> that COVID caus
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"mostly meaningless" is an overstatement. The FDA oversees a lot of drug applications and gets it right a vast majority of the time. No human endeavor is perfect; if there's evidence that 20% of approvals are wrong then I&#

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