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by dorfsmay 2y ago
Is there such a thing in Canada?
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Neither is Saint Pierre et Miquelon. There is the island of la Réunion but no name, and the name for Ibiza but no island... I hope those can be fixed, I love the concept.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
I have given up on the idea of a clean home dir a long time ago. I have "networked" directories (pCloud,Dropbox) in my home for everything I care for, and those are organized "perfectly". Additionally I symlink .vimrc an
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Ads and subscriptions seems easier on sites for video than text. Nobody ever made significant money with blogs or other online text form, while some people make a very decent living just producing YouTube videos.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
What? I use it on gnome all the time and never run into an issue.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Given that over 40 years they changed everything but the panels themselves, what maintenance?
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
This is fascinating: Chemical analysis performed in recent years confirmed that the three encapsulants are made of the same base polymers but their three respective suppliers used different additives in the encapsulant formulation, explaini
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Blacklists feel more like reinforcing the echo chamber than moderation.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
On the other hand, most elections in Canada have turned into one week election, officially 6 days of advanced poll and 1 day of election, and the result has been greater participation.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
LibreOffice is amazing, beside being able to open many document formats, it can run headless and has command line options which allow automating some tasks such as converting format that would not be possible otherwise. https://h
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
> creating a recommendation system that is based on concious curation, not statistical metric That's good, but that's still a recommendation of authors/channels, not articles. It's still who vs what. For me the concep
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Backblaze is 6$/TB/month with no egress fee, and are a well established company with a good reputation: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing I'm surprised the don't come up more in a disc
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Why a GPS? Do you ever go anywhere without your phone where a GPS would be useful?
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
The next step will be fan intake in the floor of the bathroom instead of the ceiling. Now, everytime I switch the toilet fan on I think about the researches on airplanes during covid that showed that there was little contamination thanks to
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
I wish jdon5.org were adopted more widely, it's JSON,safe because it cannot be executed, but with comments and trailing comma! Note: YAML is a superset of JSON, which means that any YAML reader can read JSON.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Can you elaborate? Which countries would that be? And have you tried to live in one of them? How did it go?
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
> Bluesky invites have been abundantly available for months now Only in a bubble where everybody already has an account I suspect.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Or split it off like they did with thunderbird.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
You switched because of the change in taste? Texture? Environmental or philosophical concerns? Health concerns (does palm have more saturated fat than cocoa?) I remember reading that Ferrero tried to switch away from palm oil but never mana
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
That work is amazing! Now before you laugh at the original meme and the use of AI chosing the wrong algorithm, read this: https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592904713090347 There is no proof AI was used, but: &gt
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
I too was surprised, I was really surprised by this statement and would love to see more data on it: > while adding vegetable fats to chocolate is something that is a unique practice among British manufacturers, these fats are tasteless,
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Google lets you "buy" movies online. The movie is attached to the email account. You cannot transfer it to a different email account. The very same google that offers Gmail but is also known to block accounts for perceived violati
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Same issue as with tax fraud. Governments prefers dealing with mistakes and small frauds they are cheap fast success, simple to detect, no lawyer to fight back, but the opposite for large frauds. This was explain to me by an accountant when
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
A lot of controls in airliners are via software and electrical signals. As long as the same rigour that is applied to the aviation industry is used and that they don't use an MCAS, I think I'm ok with it.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
That sort of work but not all the time, your messages still end up in spam a lot when trying to reach somebody you haven't exchanged email with before.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
A. OP imagines that there is a point in the future where they read the book without commiting to it. Selling/donating it would put an end to that possibility and force OP to imagine a future where they cannot read it, and hopefully hel
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Memento Mori. You should imagine that you are forced to sell it every day. Eventually you'll either sell it (or donate it (your local library might appreciate it)) or start reading it.
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Do you write your software to use the small sensor from scratch or do you build on top of existing libraries?
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
As another long time Linux user, I've just started to worry how Microssoft is invading my work life: GitHub, TypeScript, Vscode (when I have to interact with people who cannot think outside an IDE), and I've just started to use Pl
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by dorfsmay 3y ago
Wouldn't it be fun if it turns out that Max Headroom signal hijacker, D. B. Cooper and Satoshi Nakamoto are the same person ‽

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