graemep

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by graemep 5d ago
It makes costs more transparent, which means the market works better. We had legal changes in the UK limiting what fees could be charged to tenants and it had no noticeable effect. The main impact was to stop letting agents charging both la
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by graemep 5d ago
> When I was in the US, I did actively attempt to diminish my tax contribution as much as legally possible out of disgust at what it was used for Social security? Medicare? The problem with avoiding taxes because of expenditures you thin
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by graemep 5d ago
A few big good/bad decisions are more important than thousands of trivial decisions. Balancing good against bad is not clear, I agree, but that makes it all the more important to think about it when making a big decision such as what j
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by graemep 5d ago
Your definition includes a lot of people excluded by DHH's definition which proves my point about the impossibility of coming up with a definition people can agree on. What do you mean by "built"? What would someone have to d
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by graemep 5d ago
I am arguing there is no clear break at which you can reach a consensus. Suppose groups that had reached the Americas before Columbus, such as the Norse, probably Polynesians, possibly others, had settled in large numbers instead of just a
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by graemep 6d ago
Its not what I am arguing at all
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by graemep 6d ago
> if new evidence showed that the native populations of America or Australia were the result of multiple ancient waves of migration rather than just one, that would change anyone's mind on which ones are truly the native Americans o
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by graemep 6d ago
> Most people haven't even started with the biblical. How bout we start there before “widening it beyond biblical”? Because people have different religious beliefs or none at all. Biblical is not the natural starting point for every
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by graemep 6d ago
Of course it is. Give me a definition of "native British" that is as clear as the meaning of "native American". You are trying to a complex reality into as a simplistic (American?) world view. Also, its normal to use quo
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by graemep 6d ago
I would widen it beyond biblical. Other religions has similar values, and they are perfectly possible without religion. Even within Christianity it comes from tradition too. > we’ve started to dehumanize unproductive people, a slippery s
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by graemep 6d ago
Americans have a problem understanding this because race and racism is so embedded in their culture. I just been reading and hearing about American *historians" who claim "Anglo-Saxon" is a racist term (in the context of disc
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by graemep 6d ago
There is a difference between saying that people are ethnically native, and that they only properly belong if they are ethnically native. What DHH is doing is the equivalent of saying that white (or black or Asian, or whatever) people are n
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by graemep 6d ago
I am one of these people that DHH says in not "native British". I agree he is an unpleasant racist. I do think that the case of the person using a Nazi avatar on a forum is comparable. The former is something they are doing within
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by graemep 6d ago
That is not all he said, and the context of the UK and the US is different - for a start there is no clear divide between native and not. Are the Germanic English native, or Normans, etc? Does anyone say that white Americans are not proper
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by graemep 6d ago
Omarchy Dragon is an example of it being more than dotfiles. Omarchy is for nerds. Its a distro for developers. Read their own site. There have long been better distros for non-nerds.
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by graemep 6d ago
It looks like the money is going to the foundation that sponsors the tech they use ( https://omarchy.org/sponsorships/ ) rather than DHH and dotfiles. For DO $50 a month is probably too little to be worth the effort of
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by graemep 6d ago
KDE does a lot more than launching apps and window management. Mounting storage devices, settings, widgets for managing a whole lot of stuff (power, printers, networks...), managing remote file systems, a huge integrated set of apps (from P
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by graemep 7d ago
The important bits of Chromium are LGPL licensed,originally a fork of other people's code. Google cannot close it as easily.
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by graemep 7d ago
What could plausibly cause that change in just a few thousand years? I cannot see how this could be true without it following that not everyone will have this change as it is far too recent to have spread to everyone every where. Where are
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by graemep 7d ago
That also implies isolated populations would not have the same sense of consciousness until they gain literacy or whatever else has that effect? If consciousness results from language and culture then some cultures will lack it.
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by graemep 7d ago
I would class something quickly run up in a word processor as much the same as the AI "slop" in comparison to a professional designer. I would prefer it but the basic signal that its not professional work is the same.
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A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum(github.com)
131 points by graemep 7d ago|125 comments
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by graemep 7d ago
If you think about whether it is AI, are good at recognising those tells, an thinking about whether it is AI, then its probable you will spot things like that. Most people are not that good at spotting those tells, and when looking at a pos
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by graemep 7d ago
I am not sure. If something is not in the usual AI style its not going to leap out at you that it is AI the same way. Maybe if thought about it, but when someone looks at a poster they typically focus on the information, not the style.
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by graemep 7d ago
I am inclined to agree. Small community organisation cannot afford to pay a professional designer. They might be lucky and have a talented volunteer, but in general its a waste of limit resources.
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by graemep 7d ago
I live in a village with lots of local events and I do not care about the design of the posters. I just care about what the event. I just want some information.
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by graemep 7d ago
I think the problem is partly circular. Most people do not like maths. This includes most primary school teachers - in places I know primary school teachers are not subject specialists so just reflect the population of those with the requi
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by graemep 7d ago
Secrets should not be inside a versioned directory nor usually readable by the process that uses them in production. They should be only in the environment (e.g. by root only readable init config). In development you should not be using the
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by graemep 8d ago
The vision is controversial so a lot of advocates find it easier to promote as an init system. It tends to be the anti-systemd people who keep saying its not just an init system.
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by graemep 8d ago
That is because the exes were not people who had the same drive for money and power. They did not need to cling on to more than they would ever spend.

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