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fit2rule
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fit2rule
7y ago
After years of misery trying to just have a plain old music collection, fighting Apple all the way, I've built myself .. a plain old music collection. Just a filesystem with all my music, collected over the decades, carefully organise
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7y ago
Then this should be re-evaluated. They had no need for written communication systems, because they have (had) the most robust word of mouth, oral history of any human society. 40,000 years of oral traditions accurately reproduced over the
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7y ago
Indeed.
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fit2rule
7y ago
That may be the case and I don't doubt your view, but you'd be surprised at how good the Surimi manufacturers are at producing "sushi analogs" these days ..
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fit2rule
7y ago
That Apple and Google would move the goalposts so often, and with such vigor, that it'd result in classes of programmers who do nothing BUT support the mobile platform for development. It has been a nightmare of keeping up with the maj
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fit2rule
7y ago
Reconstituted fish product (Surimi). You probably ate a ton of it. BTW, its really bad for the environment because it encourages overfishing.
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fit2rule
7y ago
You can easily do tiling WM's on MacOS with Hammerspoon, too.
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fit2rule
7y ago
I have also done this. I found it immensely fatiguing to have a massive screen on my desk, it was almost like information overload. But instead of a single 32" screen, I got two 24" monitors side by side .. for some reason I can
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fit2rule
7y ago
Fair enough. Shouldn't be too much harder to use the actual surface physics next, then ..
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fit2rule
7y ago
This looks like you just took pong and glommed some 3D models on it, and the physics isn't really that interesting - especially when you consider all the different reflections and angles that the spout and handle of the teapot could pr
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7y ago
Disclaimer: 30+ year veteran at fixing these fucking bugs. My opinion: just NO. MULTIPLE failures to understand the problem have occurred in this article, and they deal with representation . A) It is never acceptable to 'round up'
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7y ago
I'm using Hammerspoon on MaOS to give me a semi-tileable windows interface. Here is my config: local hyper = {"ctrl", "alt", "cmd"} hs.loadSpoon("MiroWindowsManager") hs.window.a
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fit2rule
7y ago
Obviously, because then US users would be treated 'unfairly' and could end up using the EU as a way to get around that tracking, too ..
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7y ago
.. and as we can see from this token investigation, the media in Australia is also under attack for its own investigations of ADF war crimes, a situation for which Australia has been lambasted by international journalistic organisations - w
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fit2rule
7y ago
You were lied to - Assange is in the target of a large, highly profitable military-industrial-complex. Actual justice is not on the table; anyone paying attention has known this for years.
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fit2rule
7y ago
Not going to happen. They will bow to the needs of the USA, as Brazil has now done in its prosecution of Greenwald. Wikileaks is sitting on a ton of info about the ADF's war crimes as well, and the Australian government want nothing m
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7y ago
I truly hope there will be more leaks in the future. So far, we're seeing the tip of the ice-berg - but I predict that if Assange dies without justice, there are going to be repercussions. There are a lot of angry people out there,
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7y ago
I've navigated this thing a few times. The first time I just stayed on it for 20 minutes, trying to work it out, and yeah .. basically just confused as hell for a while. Subsequent trips were easy. If you're intimidated, just ge
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7y ago
"National Security" = we don't want to be embarrassed about our heinous crimes against humanity being revealed, so we keep the subject of those crimes hidden away, at all costs, because "National Security". If the
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7y ago
I can't find it in Steam for free -does anyone have a specific link to the Steam store somehow? There are a lot of fan-made versions which are Free, but that's not what this is about is it?
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7y ago
Interesting, I would reverse those terms entirely: culture is explicit (it has to be continually re-told in order to persist) whereas structure is a consequence of the natural form of life, imposed upon the laws of the physical universe. I
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7y ago
Medieval Italian artisans had their free market: the wealthy lords and the church. Competition among themselves for these resources produced innovation.
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7y ago
Artisans, not just commoners, provide the juice for free market societies. But artisans require resources. A lot can be told about a society on the basis of its resource management; slavery is an extreme response to a lack of resources, o
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7y ago
The idea that the inequality trap was avoided, is demonstrated in the relics left behind - and in that regard the article does indeed present data to suggest that wealth was distributed because the culture was based around the distribution
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7y ago
Attention is not easily managed labor. This becomes extra complex in cultural environments - industrial/work - which do not strive to promote commonality of attention among the group members, such that it fosters communication, and ul
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fit2rule
7y ago
I've been cut out of some pretty significant deals in my time, one of them would've made me quite wealthy, and all I can say is - sucks to be this guy. Greed and hubris are probably one of the biggest barriers to entrepreneurial
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7y ago
It was intended to be disposed of this way. I too wonder whether it was demolished by way of explosion, or if SpaceX instead used this opportunity to see what a non-optimal flight pattern would do to the structure ..
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fit2rule
7y ago
I think you misunderstood the announcer - the recovery takes 2 hours, but that's not how long it takes the boats to get to the capsule at its splashdown location. The boats get there pretty quickly. The time required is for safety chec
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7y ago
I still have a box of floppies for my SGI Indy, which are an amusing side-note in all of this storage shenanigans .. and I also maintain a large Zip and Jaz collection, among other things. These are all safely being retired because of the e
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7y ago
Every now and then I catch up with xscreensaver and I'm convinced jwz is a madman, intent on eventually implementing Emacs.
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