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gilrain
6y ago
And the answer is yes.
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6y ago
"Consider as" does not mean "is". Your lack of reading comprehension is not the fault of the poster.
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6y ago
"metal chain mail pot scrubber" ... "without a super abrasive cleaner" Um.
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6y ago
Incidentally, if your want your aluminum or stainless steel clean again with almost no effort, use Barkeeper's Friend. It's an oxalic acid product, and it wipes away stains with a sponge that you'd work hard to sand out. Obvi
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gilrain
6y ago
Test in other browsers; I know of at least two bugs related to color accuracy in Firefox. They get brought up all the time in support forums like r/Firefox.
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6y ago
Anti-vaxxers don't think they don't work; they believe (without evidence) that they are more harmful than helpful.
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6y ago
My backpack uses birch wood for its internal suspension system. The designers found that, more than just being green, it was as performant as synthetics and just as economical. Wood is a resource to rival modern materials science, or be us
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6y ago
We are not pretending it's a tip, we're acknowledging the reality that these workers are exploited and attempting to ensure they can make a living. This can be at the same time as we try to pressure companies to do right by their
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6y ago
If you can spare the money, sell it and give it to your favorite charity. Feels great, and 'tis the season.
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6y ago
This is not a next gen game. The console version is for PS4 and XB1; people playing it on the new consoles are using backwards compatibility. A next gen version is planned but hasn't been released yet. The game is functionally broken i
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gilrain
6y ago
They laid off their Rust and Servo developers.
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6y ago
Yet the "nonsense" is the one with the cogent argument and citations? Interesting.
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They use collective action to protest, and doing so they make themselves more powerful than any individual.
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gilrain
6y ago
Keep in mind it's the hexite gas produced which is even more alarming.
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6y ago
It's still a big pain if you like to keep your kernel relatively up to date. I switched to btrfs; it just working is worth the few extra warts over ZFS.
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6y ago
It's a different individual plant which gained popularity by tasting good or otherwise being useful.
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6y ago
Yes. In person, referring to someone with a limp. They were implying that said person would be unable to attend a hike (they were wrong).
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6y ago
In retrospect it was probably a mistake to choose a name which is either a niche aspect of the BDSM lifestyle or an ableist pejorative. That it was deliberate is even more baffling.
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6y ago
There's no reason to chase immortality. We always exist within the timeline of our lives; the present is not privileged in real physics.
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6y ago
Naturally it increased after it switched to Chromium and became the Windows default. Choose your own source: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=edge+surpasses+firefox
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6y ago
Edge has a higher usage share of the desktop market than Firefox.
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6y ago
And Webrender.
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6y ago
Except multiple parts of it had already been integrated into Firefox, providing its most recent performance gains (Webrender, Stylo).
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gilrain
6y ago
Why are you confident that this is not a placebo effect?
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6y ago
That and not caring who is hurt along the way and from whom their hoarded wealth was exploited.
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6y ago
Your sneering condescension is in poorer taste than the object of your scorn.
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6y ago
They have now reverted to AGPL. I'm glad they didn't decide to die on that hill. https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1#issuecom...
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6y ago
You seem to be asking "why not do something harder instead of something easier." If that's not what you mean, try rephrasing? If it is what you mean, the answer should be obvious.
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6y ago
That two services based on git have git in their names seems reasonable. That's the only commonality... "hub" and "lab" are both one syllable, but very different in sound and connotation.
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6y ago
That takes a lot of coordination between the many contributors to all migrate to a new space. I'll celebrate if and when it happens.
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