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by dleslie 5y ago
Even without a server, modern Emacs can load quite swiftly by making use of deferred loading on demand. I stopped using an Emacs server some time ago because it loads fast enough, now.
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by dleslie 5y ago
About as effectively as Mastodon has prevented pedophiles from using and abusing it: through the thankless efforts and the abuse of volunteer moderators on major instances, and in no meaningful way anywhere else.
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I was suggesting the possibility that they didn't build them. It wouldn't be the only time that a civilization set roots upon the remains of a preceding civilization. That said, a sibling content to yours provided recently discove
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We can only hope there's one that details the process of the laying of the stones.
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by dleslie 5y ago
A sibling comment to yours has noted a recently-discovered Papyri that details some scant information about quarrying limestone for Khufu's pyramid. https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre...
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by dleslie 5y ago
Well hey, that's news to me, and utterly fascinating! Thank-you.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I don't support that theory at all, and didn't mention it. I even gave a completely reasonable explanation why they might not want to discuss it.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated) They likely didn't. The Egyptians recorded many things, including excuses for missing work, wi
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by dleslie 5y ago
FWIW, my kids would play it for twenty minutes and then put it on the shelf. Kids these days have access to far higher fidelity, and engaging, experiences. The novelty of a small, quirky, severely limited little device would be passing. A b
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Content and quality go hand in hand; and form defines function. The restriction on content size is going to restrict the sort of games that will achieve reasonable quality. We can probably expect that most of the best games will be short, s
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by dleslie 5y ago
It's shocking to me how terrible regular cellular call quality is, when on the same network and device I access superior quality through WhatsApp.
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by dleslie 5y ago
My seven and four year old girls definitely understood what the hungry hyenas were doing; but then, I've never really sheltered them from the horrors of nature.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Not to mention Scar being _eaten by a mob of hyenas_ at the end...
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by dleslie 5y ago
American PG-13 movies regularly include hyper-violence, human torture, and gore. But yes, the rating shelters children from women's nipples, everyone's genitals, and naughty words.
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I think I disagree with the fundamental premise that children shouldn't be exposed to, or don't enjoy, grim characters and dark stories. I remember being not much older than the author's seven year old and gleefully flipping
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Bandwidth, storage, and hosted servers aren't free. Neither are staff.
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by dleslie 5y ago
And now I have a new wallpaper. Thanks!
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Sure, that's something to consider. What I've read leads me to believe that less crime is reported due to increasing lack of faith in the criminal justice system. Here in Canada, it's hard to trust any crime stats because of
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by dleslie 5y ago
You're assuming that crime is reported with the same reliability.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I now live in the neighbourhood that I grew up in; when I was a child there were no transients, no unhoused drug abusers living in the bushes that lined the path to the school. Now there is. It's _not_ the same; and based on the stats
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by dleslie 5y ago
> She would be required to report any kid who was walking to school, it simply isn't allowed anymore. This is definitely true, here in BC. Kids under the age of 11 should not be unsupervised at any time; the rules aren't clear,
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by dleslie 5y ago
I'm still a little bitter that Palm failed. I have my Z22 kicking around, still charged, and I noodle with it from time to time. I feel like Android and iOS sort of forgot about the professional and semi-professional market segments, w
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by dleslie 5y ago
The Telecom tradition in Canada is uniquely Canadian, and I think it doesn't compare particularly well with any other Commonwealth state or former British colony. That said, the future for Canadian access to international content onlin
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by dleslie 5y ago
What to do? Fund the development of, and provide to top tier support for open hardware and open firmware. Computers aren't just software, after all; Debian drawing the line at software probably needs to end.
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by dleslie 5y ago
And in Canada it's BCE, Corus, Shaw and the CBC that decide what's broadcast and on cable. As others have rightly pointed out, we have unprecedented access to other services via the internet. However, Canadians are poised to lose
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by dleslie 5y ago
If the PinePhone had a halfway decent camera I would still use it as a daily driver; but because I had to pocket a separate camera for the few months that I did use it, the device now collects dust in a drawer.
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There are known city sites that predate agriculture in their regions.
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by dleslie 5y ago
NFTs do not enforce exclusive access in any way or form; they don't even necessarily convey specific rights of ownership. When you buy an NFT you purchase a receipt for an entry in a Blockchain that is validated by some distributed cod
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by dleslie 5y ago
As a long time Unity dev, now: Wait for a feature to exist for two major revisions. It might still be deprecated in a future revision, or removed entirely; but with two revisions they'll generally have smoothed out all the rough parts.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Not even big; I am aware of indie studios having unity source. It's not nearly as expensive as you might expect, but I'm not able to give hard numbers. :)

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