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by ginko 4y ago
From the outside the champion system in chess seems so weird. I know they do something similar in boxing, but there it sort of makes sense because attending too many boxing tournaments isn't exactly healthy.
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by ginko 4y ago
Where you are in Europe makes a HUGE difference here.
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by ginko 4y ago
WW1 was this weird inbetween of 19th century formation warfare and 20th century all-out total industrial war. The level of information control and propaganda was nothing like WW2, especially in the beginning.
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by ginko 4y ago
>And a good response to that might be: "when you say the Chinese made their minds up, are you talking about a democratic process?" It was the early 19th century. You could count the number of democratic countries on one hand. (
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by ginko 4y ago
Which is what I find strange about the Century of Humiliation. Why is China losing a minor war that killed a couple thousand Chinese soldiers a great humiliation while getting outright conquered at least twice (once by the Mongols and once
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by ginko 4y ago
Can't you mitigate just the Javascript VM? JS is a slow scripting language anyways. Seems like a waste to slow down the entire system.
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by ginko 4y ago
>is the glare real? (and why is it hexagonal). The hexagonal star pattern is an artifact of the struts holding the secondary mirror. More details here: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/
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by ginko 4y ago
* in Australia
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by ginko 4y ago
There's close to 8 billion humans while there somewhere between 172000 to 300000 wild chimpanzees. Surely the life of a chimpanzee is _more_ valuable.
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by ginko 4y ago
Meh, I switch between a Macbook Air M1 and a Linux desktop with 24" 1920x1200 screens and it's fine after tweaking the font hinting a bit.
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by ginko 4y ago
Meanwhile there's people alive today who claim main line descent from Confucius who lived in the 5th century BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Tsui-chang
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by ginko 4y ago
It sometimes feel like me learning Prolog completely ruined me for SQL. Doing even simple things seems ridiculously hard with SQL.
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by ginko 4y ago
>This wouldn't happen if Apple decided to cut their Apple tax to 15% or something. Still wouldn't allow people to install Firefox.
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by ginko 4y ago
>We are not talking about GDPR or "socialism" or whatever. We're talking about regulating Apple so that other mega corporations can create their own app stores on iOS and then do whatever they want. So don't use those
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by ginko 4y ago
Last I checked there weren't 10^12 people living on earth just yet.
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by ginko 4y ago
>whether it has the right-of-way or not Trams usually have the right-of-way. If not by the law of the land then at the very least by the laws of physics.
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by ginko 4y ago
Actually, I think most Gnome 2 refugees eventually settles with XFCE or Mate. I did at least. ..wonder what I'll do after the Gnome team kills XFCE by enforcing Wayland for GTK.
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by ginko 4y ago
>They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput. Continuous integration?
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by ginko 4y ago
Crushed garlic in a jar is a pretty common ingredient in Korean cooking AFAIK. The garlic gets milder after being aged for a bit.
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by ginko 4y ago
>The cost alone compared to a normal block of cheese should be enough to put anyone off Hm, I find grated cheese is often cheaper pound by pound than blocks of cheese. Same for other precut ingredients like bacon for instance. The reason
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by ginko 4y ago
Well, cal -3 shows the previous and next month, but I wanted this month and the next two months. I also wanted them arranged vertically and with week numbers. (And with weeks starting on Monday)
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by ginko 4y ago
I hacked up my own little bash script[1] to show the next 3 months with ncal like this: $ mcal June 2022 w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 22| 1 2 3 4 5 23| 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 24| 13 14 15 16 17
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by ginko 4y ago
Adblocking only works* on vanilla Safari. I haven't gotten it to work on Firefox for iOS. * For some degree of "works", ublock origin is way better
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by ginko 4y ago
I wonder if GPT-4chan could be used for moderation. /pol/ is a containment board and taking those topics to other boards on 4chan is generally not well received. Could you use GPT-4chan to rate how "/pol/-like"
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by ginko 4y ago
>If its made for mainstream popularity, then why has it become the most common default DE among distro when linux is still not mainstream It's pushed by Red Hat who has disproportionate control over the development of Linux. Same re
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by ginko 4y ago
>Luck is also a skill No it's not.
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by ginko 4y ago
Surely this shows that even in a scenario where everyone is equal there will be people who succeed or fail purely by chance. The obvious takeaway should be that there needs to be a mechanism for wealth redistribution.
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by ginko 4y ago
Even without debt (i.e. if a person has no money for a round it won't give a dollar to anyone) the result is more or less the same: https://www.masswerk.at/misc/wealth/
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by ginko 4y ago
>It's quite telling even the most pro-EU people are very opposed to creating anything resembling a real country. What makes you think that? I'm pro-EU and ideally I would like to see it turn into a full fledged country. The iss
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by ginko 4y ago
Well, that's what Article 50[1] was established for. Also why do you find this particularly odd? Is there a clause in the constitution for US states to leave the USA? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_fr

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