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by igor47 1y ago
Also, the brine. Though I assume if water becomes scarce enough, we'll just dump the brine back into the environment and nature be damned as per usual
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by igor47 1y ago
Lol jinx!
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by igor47 1y ago
Reminds me of "Rainbow's End" by Vinge. There's a machine that's like a giant worm, which slithers down the stacks in a library, vacuuming up all the books. They pass through shredders, and then the shredded remains
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by igor47 1y ago
Whoa the list of required permissions for you extension is long and scary.
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by igor47 1y ago
In the article they rank some smartphones by how much they flicker for dimming, I assume it's the same when computer screens dim?
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by igor47 1y ago
That sucks; I feel your pain. I, too, strongly dislike overly bright lighting. I wonder if there's room to at least engage with the neighbor to talk about friendlier light options? You might also be able engage with these folks to see
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by igor47 1y ago
O man I recently tried to use fractional scaling on Wayland, and it went very poorly. Electron apps like slack or signal do not support it, and flameshot also works very poorly. But I guess at least fractional scaling is to an option... (Wh
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by igor47 1y ago
Whoa thanks, I hadn't heard of standard ebooks, looks very useful
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by igor47 1y ago
As detective Blanc says in Glass Onion, "nobody has read" Gravity's Rainbow
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by igor47 1y ago
I believe we've now fully explored this space
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Protecting the natural world. Freedom, including the ability to own and use tools as I wish. Community.
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> For example, using an LLM to help you write a Dockerfile when you write Dockerfiles once a project and don't have a dedicated expert like a Deployment Engineer in your company is fantastic. This made me think of gell-mann amnesia:
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by igor47 1y ago
Could not get through the drm and tracking click through agreements on this site. Seems like there's no way to view this article without agreeing to be survieled for marketing purposes
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by igor47 1y ago
This is false. A prediction of "securing our border will save money" is false. It really, really is. Check your sources and approach this as a scientist trying to verify your idea, not as a partisan and trying to defend it. You wi
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by igor47 1y ago
That's really not more chilling. I recommend actually reading the document. There are multi billion dollar cuts to IT programs and CISA/cyber security infrastructure, along with massive cuts to basic research, EPA protections and
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by igor47 1y ago
I've wanted this so much! My main questions are about permissions. I use environment-specific variables and secrets, I would need to reconfigure them locally and didn't see how. The other issue is workload identity federation.
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by igor47 1y ago
I read a bunch of docs and still didn't understand what this does...
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by igor47 1y ago
I run mailman, which requires extra setup with ARC. In practice Gmail works pretty well. I've had more issues with smaller email providers like ... Umm Microsoft. Yahoo. Once someone working for 18F couldn't get my email on their
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by igor47 1y ago
i've thought the same thing about email. i run my own email server, so i'm one of a very few number of people whose email is opaque to gmail. on the other hand -- almost everyone i exchange email with uses gmail, so actually gmail
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by igor47 1y ago
agreed, especially the first book. the other becky chambers books in the "long way to a small angry planet" series are also quite good.
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by igor47 1y ago
i tried "half built garden" and just could not continue reading it. why is everyone so obsessed with their genders and pronouns?
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by igor47 1y ago
The "Delta V" books by Daniel Suarez. I've been recommending "The Deluge" by Stephen Markeley, which is simultaneously very dark and quite optimistic. "Walkaway" by Cory Doctorow
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by igor47 1y ago
Does anyone know of a similar tool to manage associations on Linux? I'm tired of having random files opening with random tools whenever I install them. Recently, csv files began opening with krita for instance...
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by igor47 1y ago
I've switched to aider with the --watch-files flag. Being able to use models in nvim with no additional tooling is pretty sweet
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by igor47 1y ago
Yeah, get your grubby tech hands off my autonomously driving electric car that sees stuff with lasers
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How does this compare to aider?
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How do you get your data off it?
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by igor47 1y ago
while it may be true that the US is "insanely expensive" (citation needed!), i'm curious how you square that with the linked data showing a sharp drop-off since the beginning of the trump administration. is the theory that th
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This unfortunatey highlights an assymetry between the two parties. The Republicans want to delay and disrupt, the Democrats want to keep things running. Shutting down the government works for Red team because that's their goal. If Dems
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Is your Google email forwarded to the fastmail? If someone invites my personal email from Google calendar, my Gmail account gets put on the invite. I always attributed it to the forwarding. It's odd but also pretty convenient as I stil

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