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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I have a gopher hole. So do a few hundred other people on this planet. The Gopher-sphere's a slow, thoughtful place.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I wasn't talking about cartels. A corporation is a union of owners. We've just been trained not to see it that way.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Which is fine. I'm happy when they have that choice, because that's balanced. Owners have the choice to go it alone or combine too.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Corporate shareholders are permitted to form a union of owners. It works for them. Workers should have the same rights. That's just balance. As far as the bad strategy comment goes, I've been working in both public and private uni
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Another Debian stable user. I've been using LXDE for years. Nothing changes. I like it that way. LXQT or XFCE would be my next choices.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
This is so true. You never understand a subject as thoroughly as you do after you've taught it. The act of distilling what you know and determining how to explain it clearly to others is as good for you as it is for them. Also, you hav
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Canada's Senate has a mandatory retirement age of 75. So that's a perfectly workable solution.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
This is my experience too. I've been using Classic Shell and then Open-Shell on Win10 at work for years. I was using Classic Shell on Windows 7 before that. It seems to just work for me. I've had no problems. I have a little nuc-s
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
One solution is to use Open-Shell instead of Microsoft's start menu: https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ Stardock usually makes a replacement start menu too.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
About 1980, I bought a Mad Digest called "Madvertising, or Up Madison Ave." Here's a link: https://archive.org/details/madvertisingorup0000deba I know that it helped shape the cynic that I am. Those guys
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I like the reddit rule for downvotes: you should only downvote if a post doesn't contribute to the discussion. I frequently upvote posts that I agree with. Mea culpa. But I rarely downvote a post. I could probably count the downvotes i
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I think they are discontinued. I needed another one for work a while back and ended up buying one of these (at $15, not the current price): https://www.amazon.ca/Computer-Accessories-Wireless-Keyboard... It's actually
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I've been using these for close to a decade now. We have two. They're so good, but very hard to find now. When the time comes, I'll scavenge parts from both to keep one going.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I saw a lot of articles like this in the past. My friend had colon cancer and survived, but it was tenuous. So when I turned 48, I asked my doctor about a colonoscopy. He said, it's 50 now. When I turned 50, I asked my doctor again. He
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I'm not sure. I do remember a friend with a Tandy 1000 and CompuServe having email back then. I don't recall BBS systems requiring email for registration. Most of the ones I went to a few years later (early 90s) didn't requir
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
This is redirecting for me now. At best I can get old.reddit.com. I think I'm done. Maybe Teddit.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
Feature suggestion: it would be good to have the option to have a note "stick" to a point in the document. I know that that's not always what people would want, but I could really see it being useful in certain circumstances.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
This is a faulty parallel. Someone who smokes until they're 98 is not engaged in a quest to change the general outcome of smoking for all others.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I liked the quiet day. I guess a lot of people didn't. Still, I would have preferred the question to have been put to a vote.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
What irked me was that a lot of major corporations got together to subvert the law out of self-interest. If the people wanted to change the law, fine. Call a referendum.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I didn't advocate for breaking the law. I said I disagreed with the whole thing. I was pointing out that the approach had worked in the past, because the previous poster had argued that "breaking [the law] before it has changed is
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
Oh. There were a small number of corner stores that were allowed to be open. I don't know how they decided that. But you could always get the basics on a Sunday. Gas stations were also allowed to be open although they rarely had conven
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
> But breaking it before it has changed is risky and foolish, and does more harm than good. As I recall, this is precisely how British Columbia got Sunday shopping. Stores and shopping malls broke the law repeatedly. There were fines, bu
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
> If news companies don't want people accessing their content through the web, shouldn't they simply take down their web sites? That's clearly not the issue. The news companies obviously do want people to access their site
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
There's a gopher mirror.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
IKEA used to ship solid wood products -- and laminated pine-strip items too -- in flat boxes. Back in the 90s, I bought a solid wood bookshelf and a laminated pine strip coffee table from them. They were structurally sound and very durable.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
My 100-year-old house in British Columbia was built entirely of Douglas Fir. At this point, you can barely pound a nail into the studs and joists. The density is incredible. New lumber feels insubstantial in comparison.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I read through the article expecting to read that the genetically engineered variant was sterile. That would be the sensible thing to do.
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
I am a long time ThinkPad user. I've replaced screens to add IPS, re-pasted CPUs, changed out 'clunkpads' and all the rest. Not so long ago, my employer bought me a Dell Latitude. I think it's a 54xx. It has a pen-capabl
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by ipcress_file 4y ago
Correct. You need to go back another 10 years to get to the Pentium 4. I bought my P4-M laptop new in early 2003.

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