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by dmos62 6mo ago
What makes it a clickbait article? >There is a federal law that prohibits people from communicating with dolphins. >It’s called the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Signed in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, the federal law was created t
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Am I the only one unhappy with mechanical keyboards? I find them all tactily unpleasant, plus what's with the stripped down layouts? Basic $10 office keyboards with all the keys and the classic layout are my go to. Keep the chopped dow
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Have you considered kneading some dough for strength training?
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Erm, it's illegal to talk to dolphins: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2026/04/02/is-it...
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Linux has been better for old hardware since early 00s. Just don't expect hw acceleration to work for older GPUs.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
How do you learn to share what you do, when you're not used to sharing at all? Should one accept that noone will read 99% of what one shares and just use sharing as a way to record and reflect on own process?
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by dmos62 6mo ago
I heard it argued that Germany didn't have the raw resources and production capacity to go for quantity. Especially later in the war. So quality it was.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Hell, even Adobe and the like do that. It's a first-class feature to have multiple versions of a product (eg photoshop) installed at a time.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Sad to hear about people getting stuck in weak ecosystems. By the way, I switched from Jellyfin to plain SMB + Nova Player (Android), which has basically the same interface, but no user profiles, and works over SMB, obviously. No transcodin
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by dmos62 6mo ago
WW2 produced some diplomatically-brilliant world leaders. I think you could say that any situation that's headed in an unsustainable direction is being affected by accelerationism. In fact, the old observation "a fool will become
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Decentralize third-party code reviews by using web of trust or similar, then finance independent organizations that oversee reviews.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
In Europe everything has a warranty of 2 years for private individuals and 1 year for businesses: it doesn't work as a useful metric: there's no device that I rely on that I expect to run for less than ~5 years, except maybe tooth
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Interesting to see programming and acting worlds cross-pollinate.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
What do you call a fallacy where it is implied that the future will be like the past?
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by dmos62 6mo ago
I guess this would be fine if there was no such thing as anonymous betting, right? Some public official weaseling his way onto a bet he has insider knowledge on is fine, as long as everyone knows that he's doing that. Or am I wrong? Ed
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by dmos62 6mo ago
What would you say if every manufacturer did this? Build your own? Further, you can't blame a person for not knowing that a machine has these planned obsolescence traps or repair-hostile traps: the manufacturer does not tell you the co
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Hot take: it takes mental gymnastics to think that planned obsolescence is not fraud.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
"Get rich off it" sounds shady as hell. What are you offering?
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by dmos62 6mo ago
It's ironic how they've been so instrumental in bombing Ukraine's civilian targets (for years) and now they're likely to get their civilian infrastructure bombed, by a third party. Strange times.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
It's almost funny how both of these descriptions can apply to either country.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Innocent until proven guilty (in a court of law)?
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Love this movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_with_a_Vengeance
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by dmos62 6mo ago
If we get into it, I think that beliefs are a better abstraction that wishes. Beliefs structure relationships. How does a person believe that he relates to another person. So when I think of "wishing someone well", it's an En
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by dmos62 6mo ago
I agree there's no universal default or normal. That was my point too. We are in agreement that betrayal and purposeful harmfulness don't have a default reaction. I expressed how I choose to react, and you expressed how you choose
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by dmos62 6mo ago
If you would rewatch Mad Men, you might notice that Donald Draper is not well adjusted. It's not subtle either. What makes you say that wishes are finite? Do you ration them out to your loved ones?
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by dmos62 6mo ago
You make it sound like wishing harm or wishing wellness are activities while not wishing anything is just the default passive state. To me the default posture is not indifference, but wishing wellness. We throw around words like "inter
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Don't you wish well on people you don't want to associate with? It would be interesting if you didn't, imo.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Have you considered whistleblowing?
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by dmos62 6mo ago
Same. I enjoy thinking how different an alien could be, and how I'd discover things that were so constant in my life that I wasn't even aware of them, until someone completely different appeared.
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by dmos62 6mo ago
There's something about these basic self-locking/self-unlocking mechanisms that's so satisfying. It's like they exercise my brain in a way it's not used to exercising, like that really good stretch you do sometimes

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