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781.
by dsr_ 3y ago
Buildings have purposes and limitations. They can fail by not accomplishing their purpose sufficiently or by being limited in a way that defeats their purpose. Limitations are economic, legal, or physical. Two of those can be bent or change
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Frequently leaving your parents or ex or roommates in the old place.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
If you build a $5 million dollar house, and a multimillionaire buys it as their fourth house, this does not reduce housing costs for anyone. If you build a thousand new apartments in Sri Lanka, this has no practical effect on the cost of ho
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by dsr_ 3y ago
XFWM themes support different thicknesses for the window with focus vs those without. In my custom theme, the focus window get a thick accent-colored border all around, and non-focus get a 3 pixel black/white/black border that gua
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I have it running very nicely on an ASRock 4x4 R1000M, which is a fairly cheap NUC-ish sized box with a Ryzen R1606G - 2c4t, from 26 to 3.5GHz. Decent 4K desktop graphics via amdgpu.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The second part is easy to judge across companies; the first part is harder. For example, I won't work for a company whose health insurance only has religiously-affiliated hospitals. That's almost 1/5 of US hospitals, and it
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by dsr_ 3y ago
It was a good comment with the sarcasm included.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I live in the USA, so if they don't have excellent health insurance, it's a non-starter. I'm past the likelihood of doing another degree myself, but having a robust education reimbursement suggests that they are investing pro
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The inherent design flaw is that announcing via SPF "Oh, yes, and Google is allowed to forge email on my behalf" allows Google to forge email on your behalf. All else follows. The enemy of security is convenience, and it's ve
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The reader mode button works. Do you not use it frequently? It will make you happier.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The term is derived from American evangelical Christians of the late 20th century, and will always be tainted by them. Even if there's something good to say about de-religionized practices, right now it is a likely indicator that the p
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by dsr_ 3y ago
People don't use turn signals in Massachusetts; that's considered giving information to the enemy. The navigation app has a clock, GPS location, and acceleration and orientation sensors available to it in the phone. If you miss yo
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by dsr_ 3y ago
No, it shouldn't. The car can feed media and mixing controls to the amplifier; there's no need to send that elsewhere. Strict separation of concerns. You want to play a "door is a jar" announcement? Tell the amplifier to
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Cars should have third-party entertainment systems. Everything about 'infotainment' systems is a terrible idea, because integrating something that changes three to five times in the life of the vehicle is stupid. Put a nicely an
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The Harman targets are averages, and useful reference points. If you know that you want a q 2.0 -4.5dB at 3KHz, you can start by adjusting any system to the Harman target curve and then applying your own preference -- and this will be much
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by dsr_ 3y ago
It's all static content (and badly in need of refurbishment, which I will be responsible for) -- but, yes, please don't abuse the good folks at MIT's CSAIL who donate the hosting.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The protocol is simple enough that there are multiple implementations. I like this small one, which does all the necessary things: https://github.com/b1n4ryj4n/koreader-sync
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Software Development Worst Practices(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
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“Test Quote”(google.com)
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Tech writers are much cheaper than software developers(universeodon.com)
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LLMs Have No Interiority(blog.randomstring.org)
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Which is more useful for the people living in rural Africa: Starlink receivers that cost as much as a village's entire disposable income, or a government which prioritizes education and health? Ukraine used to have pretty good Internet
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by dsr_ 3y ago
MacBook M1, afternoon sunlight behind me but not directly glaring. Brightness is at about 60%. It's readable. It's not great. I've seen a lot worse (slightly dark grey on lighter grey, faded tan on medium blue, cyan on bright
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by dsr_ 3y ago
>Do you think companies read Cal Newports blog and are like "gee I guess building a new twitter clone exactly like it is could lead to increased world negativity... better not do it" Well, yes, that's his intent: to influe
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by dsr_ 3y ago
"An Essay In Which I Present Points About The Social Media Service Formerly Known As Twitter, Arguing That Newer Systems Should Not Attempt To Duplicate It Because That Would Reduce Their Value To Society." or "We Don't
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The one really negative bit: "And so we recruit people from some really great companies — McKinsey, USAA, Tesla and Amazon — and train them to run these small businesses."
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I'm convinced that it's both, for different households. One of our cats will run into the kitchen any time someone opens up tuna, or warm butter, or mayonnaise. That's scent. She makes a noise which summons all the other cats
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Think about tape as an archiving tool, rather than a backup-and-restore tool. (The three major tiers are A: I accidentally deleted a file or directory yesterday, so I need to get a copy from snapshots; B: the machine I was working on explod
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by dsr_ 3y ago
An iceberg head is much like a cabbage head: pull off the outer leaves and you've removed the dirt.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Or you could just carry the credit card and pay at the end of the month, skipping the business with 'stablecoins'.

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