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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Exactly. If using Linux means getting stuck with apps that are horrifically slow and your battery life is awful, whereas just switching to Mac or Windows eliminates these problems, that's not going to make Linux a very attractive alte
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
It'd be really interesting to see some renderings of what the sky would look like from the surface of a planet in this system.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Very soon after the Wrights demonstrated their warped-wing technology worked, they were already trying to sell planes to the military. It didn't take long at all for people to figure out they could use airplanes for surveillance and b
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Swamp coolers only work in dry climates, and only when it's not too hot outside. People stopped using them in Phoenix because they really don't work that well in the middle of the summer now. They can also cause mold problems.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>This would really only work for people without commitments i.e. mostly single and young. Or older and divorced with no kids (or no custody). That situation isn't too unusual these days. >The idea sounds great though. Yeah, soun
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Or in finding new and effective ways of selling shares of companies for profit. What's important is that these jobs (finance and advertising) are more valuable work to society than scientific research, as reflected in the pay different
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Exactly. I can't think of many wars where the belligerents were really different from each other. American Civil War: many were actual relatives! ("brother vs. brother") WWI: English are descended from Germanic tribes, Frenc
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>Yeah, there are many appliance repair videos on Youtube. They're often service guys with a penchant for showmanship. They love what they do and genuinely want to be helpful, They're not just being helpful; the ones I've s
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
You couldn't imagine being forced to only get service at your dealership, and you don't: you buy a car that isn't like this (which today means you don't get a Tesla). I'm sure your attitude isn't that unusual
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Well these days, with Amazon, that's what the reviews are for. I've passed on lots of purchases because I looked at the reviews and saw too many negative ones, and bought other things after seeing almost all glowing reviews. A b
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
There's plenty of wired noise-canceling headphones out there which don't have any "smart" features at all. I'm wearing some Sennheiser PX250 headphones now; the only control is the on-off switch. You don't ev
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>So do happily, some do begrudgingly because they do not have the manpower to opt for alternatives. Perhaps, but is it really that hard to just stay with the older init services (sysv, upstart)? Slackware still has sysv AFAIK. Also, if
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>They don't do that currently because customers aren't asking for it. No, they don't do it because they offer their own "partner" services for $$.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
This site doesn't address the countless small sites on $3/month shared-hosting plans. These generally do not provide shell access, so there's no way to use Let's Encrypt, therefor switching to https is not free, which m
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
This site violates Betteridge's Law.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Very informative, thanks.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
You'll have to explain how seeing spectra from distant planets conclusively proves intelligent life. I don't see how it does. Spectra will tell you that a planet has molecular oxygen, for instance, carbon dioxide, etc., which wo
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
The distros, collectively. Red Hat employs him and pushes systemd, and all the other distros (except a few weirdos like Slackware) follow along happily. It's a lot like GNOME, except there's a few somewhat-mainstream distros out
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
The problem I see with any complaints about Lennart's behavior is that his behavior is explicitly rewarded. No one is really "routing around the damage", unless they're taking the dysfunctional route of ignoring problem
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
It's the latter. It didn't take anywhere near 2 full years to integrate systemd into Debian, so obviously there's a far smaller number of people in Devuan working to undo that. The whole systemd shouting match has been domin
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Honestly, Yocto is a complete mess and a terrible embedded OS system IMO. Buildroot is far better, and takes far less time to build.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Now you're either missing the point, or being intentionally obtuse. No, the works of Shakespeare are not, but works that are 50 or 75 years old still are, even though everyone who wrote or created them are now dead. How is this useful
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>Given our advances in sensing and observing technology we are much more likely to 'see' an advanced civilization before we can actually fly out to meet them. I don't think this is really true (though I could be wrong, I a
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>It's silly to think we're unable to change. Nearly all of the CO2 emissions were done in just a generation. We are unable to change. You're talking about change for the worse there (in environmental terms), not change
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
US Government research jobs these days really don't get anything done. You'll spend a career there shuffling paper and accomplishing zero.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>So the #1 thing an American can do to fight climate change is be "pro-city". Move there. I love the idea of higher-density living, the problem is that it's simply unaffordable for a large part of the population. They can
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>Depends on the SUV. No, it doesn't. The requirement is more than 3 kids. A small or midsize SUV has the same passenger capacity as a sedan (5: 2 in front, 3 in back), so now you're talking about a large 3-row SUV. There&#x2
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
They are, but they're also frequently far more expensive, and downright unaffordable to many people compared to much larger homes in more rural areas. In the big city near me, a little condo in a high-rise can easily cost $400k. But
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
The problem with American cities is NIMBYism: existing property owners are the ones with control of the zoning and the approval for new construction. So SanFran can't replace its too-small housing with lots of high-density high-rises
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>The much greater energy requirements to light, heat, and cool big houses should not be discounted so easily either. Heat and cool, yes. Light, no, not any more. Lighting is really pretty insignificant now thanks to LEDs, and getting c

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