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by dmm 4y ago
Even if you believe that the earth is overpopulated and think a shrinking population is good, you still need to consider the sustainability of that population change. Birth rates below replacement means that the proportion of elderly increa
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by dmm 4y ago
> Personally I would prefer my pacemaker to miscount a beat than shutdown completely... A panic doesn't imply shutting down. If my api panics a system above it(systemd, docker, k8s) restarts the api from a known good state. Memory c
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by dmm 4y ago
> Having a kid in the US is retirement-suicide at best, if you're not rich. Not having kids will create other problems for retirees. Retirement is fundamentally the working supporting the retired. In 1940 there were 42 workers for e
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by dmm 4y ago
More like lazy programmers want everyone to change basic timekeeping practices just so they don't have to fix their code.
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by dmm 4y ago
> He devised [eternal recurrence] in 1881, at a time of personal crisis and romantic rejection, and one must conclude that it was a consolatory comfort blanket. That doesn't sound comforting to me. Wow my life sucks right now but at
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by dmm 4y ago
> As in can I get a Mac like suspend/resume behaviour with Ryzen and Linux? What do you mean? Reliably suspending on lid close? That will depend on the system. My 12th gen Framework with Fedora is very reliable in that way. Battery
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by dmm 4y ago
Unfortunately s3 has been removed from everything after tiger lake in intel chips, replaced with s0ix, which has caused a bunch of problems. For example, https://old.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/k7xrtz/
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by dmm 4y ago
Urine is only 2% urea. DEF is 32%.
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by dmm 4y ago
In old I can see seven links above the fold. In the new layout I see fewer than two. The new layout has way too much whitespace. If you mainly read reddit on touchscreen devices I can see it not making much a difference but on larger screen
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by dmm 4y ago
> We wont stop real world facial recognition by all trying to make our faces more similar either The normalization of mask wearing in public was a great step towards this. I really wish it had gone better. Alas!
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by dmm 4y ago
He setting up a strawman: only criminals(specifically terrorists, drug dealers, traffickers) would care more about privacy than what their vague promises provide. There are endless scenarios where a person may not want their searches being
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by dmm 4y ago
The Kagi founder believes only criminals need privacy: > I think that a class of people, who ask kind of questions that need absolute guarantee of anonymity (I am thinking terrorists, drug dealers, traffickers etc) are: https:/&#x2
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by dmm 4y ago
> it's either too late or we lack the ability to control the climate It's never too late to stop making things worse. And if we don't change our emissions it's going to get much worse.
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by dmm 4y ago
That it can damage the display is currently a hypothetical scenario. I don't think anyone has reported a broken panel. One of the i915 devs on the stable mailing list said: > After looking at some logs we do end up with potentially
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by dmm 4y ago
The Framework laptop expansion card system allows you to have internal, thunderbolt connected cards. I think it's an interesting compromise: https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards
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by dmm 4y ago
The fed funds rate was above 10% on avg between 1979 and 1984. If rates that high for that long were necessary to contain inflation, could we afford that at this point? Wouldn't the rates paid on the federal debt have to go way up as w
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by dmm 4y ago
VSCode is based on a lot of open source code but many of the features are proprietary, such as remote file access and c# debugging. Also nothing other than the official, proprietary builds can use the add-on marketplace.
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by dmm 4y ago
A degoogled pixel phone with CalyxOS or GrapheneOS is a good alternative. You can choose not to use cloud services and better control what runs on your phone.
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by dmm 4y ago
Same here. I replaced the controller in my Advantage with a kint so I could program it with qmk: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-07-09-kint-kinesis-...
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Chrome now has optional HEVC/h265 support(github.com)
2 points by dmm 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmm 4y ago
That approach makes a lot of sense. Does your router assign each ULA or do you configure each host with a static one?
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by dmm 4y ago
It's never too late to stop making things worse. And much worse awaits us if we don't change.
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by dmm 4y ago
> but we can redesign circuits to use higher voltages Rings circuits[0], popular in the uk due to post-wwii copper shortages, use less wiring than the typical radial circuits. Wikipedia says about 25% less? https://en.wikipedi
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by dmm 4y ago
Another solution would be to add an extra positive and negative leap second every year to make sure all those code paths are tested.
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by dmm 4y ago
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark supreme court case that, among other things, denied people of African descent US citizenship. The Chief Justice Taney believed it would finally end the debate around slavery in the US, instead it inflam
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by dmm 4y ago
The problem (mostly) isn't fewer people, it's an ever-increasing proportion of elderly. As long as total fertility is below replacement the proportion of elderly to working-age people increases /forever/.
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by dmm 4y ago
> safety deposit box A firesafe in a friend or relative's basement is a much better choice. Safety deposit boxes regularly get lost, tossed, or sold and the banks have very little liabilty. https://www.nytimes.com/20
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by dmm 4y ago
A lot of sites allow you to create backup codes that you can print out and use once instead of the security key.
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by dmm 4y ago
It is if someone branches off your pre-squash branch.
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Who Owns 4chan?(wired.com)
10 points by dmm 4y ago|6 comments

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