jancsika

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by jancsika 3y ago
> There used to be a sign posted in a parking lot near me that said "METER'S TAKES QUARTER'S ONLY" that used to drive me nuts. Right, a meter's coin slot takes a quarter's unit of value. :)
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Further, there is nothing wrong with national ISPs as long as we don't put up road blocks for municipal ISPs. In this reality, ISPs have put up road blocks for municipal ISPs. In North Carolina it's especially shady-- any ISP
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by jancsika 3y ago
I mean, it should be. But there are plenty of performers who apparently rely on Linux boxes and gumption.
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The point is to care about the worst case within that variation. Most software cares about the average case, or, in the case of the Windows 10/11 start menu animation, the average across all supported machines apparently going 20 yea
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by jancsika 3y ago
Your division puts audio performance applications in a grey area. On the one hand they aren't safety critical. On the other, I can imagine someone getting chewed out or even fired for a pause or a glitch in a professional performance
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by jancsika 3y ago
Isn't the first "o" is a long o? As for the 2nd "o", I don't know. Whatever the case, you should say the entire word slowly and loudly since they are all capital letters. Like, imagine yourself as an inept alie
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by jancsika 3y ago
I'm not convinced that this material-reductionist view wouldn't just be functionally equivalent to the way a majority of citizens live their lives currently. Now: a chance encounter with someone of a different faith leads a citize
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Global warming (incorrect): We wasted some fraction of human time and resources implementing carbon capture that wasn't necessary. Minor economic hit compared to the counterfactual situation where global warming was never consider
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by jancsika 3y ago
From the history of FOSS phones, I feel like we need to start much smaller here. How many lines of code would it take to build a FOSS golf cart?
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> This allows the speakers to be driven to much higher peak levels than the worst-case safe volume level, greatly extending their dynamic range. So software devs are going to drive the speakers past the worst-case safe volume level t
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by jancsika 3y ago
You get into the situation because, in a relationship, a stench that lasts past a hard limit will get associated with a lot more than the garbage.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> loading all the search backend for their application launcher Wasn't the whole initial selling point of systemd parallel startup? Why can't this launcher thing just get set to start up as early as possible, with lowest priori
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by jancsika 3y ago
Upshot: you are supposed to take out the trash using a realtime scheduler, and the common question means you have missed many deadlines! It's as if you are forcing your spouse to somehow smell a janky web page.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> The biggest game changer is actually just using a cooking oil - there are plenty of alternatives that will have absolutely no impact on the final taste... I'm pretty sure I can taste the difference between popping corn in peanut o
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by jancsika 3y ago
If you're getting a deal on olive oil, chances are you're not getting a deal on olive oil.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Hm... is Ladybird more feature complete than Servo at this point?
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by jancsika 3y ago
How do you donate money to sci-hub without crypto? I mean, I'd love to change my snarky one-element list to a zero-element list!
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by jancsika 3y ago
But they've already caved for Firefox and Chromium.
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by jancsika 3y ago
It takes black Americans way longer than everyone else to wash and do their hair. (Guessing 2-5x longer for doing hair, and perhaps an order of magnitude longer to do a full wash.) The cost to black women to get their hair done is generally
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by jancsika 3y ago
It definitely has uses cases. E.g., use it to donate to sci-hub, ... ... It definitely has a use case.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Things can also stay bad in favor of some companies/organizations' bottom line. In fact, that's the point of FUD.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Are you talking about this? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36464527/ If so, that study appears to point to rinse aid as the culprit in the damage, not the detergent.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Makes me wonder-- is there a simple forum or something where only Ham Radio operators can sign up and post stuff? It'd be neat if the 2nd step to signup was to get on and verbally ask one of the other operators to confirm your account.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> fly to India with a satellite phone and turn it on after you land. I'm going to rankly speculate you don't know what happens, because if you did it would have been to juicy too withhold. Or, if I'm wrong-- what in the wo
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by jancsika 3y ago
I'll take a shot and someone with domain expertise can opine on my low-effort take. In kaibee's first paragraph, there's a missing question: Is it collusion to pay someone to set rates accordingly by using information and dec
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by jancsika 3y ago
If 99% of the drivers in the U.S. are indeed terrible, then anything that makes 100% of the drivers strap into their seatbelt upon entering the vehicle is improving safety. In that case, the regulators would be competent. Enshittification w
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by jancsika 3y ago
> It strikes me as so odd that people readily pay for netflix, hulu, HBO etc, but when the idea of paying for youtube comes along, who directly profit shares with small creators you adore, people fall over backwards in disgust. It's
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by jancsika 3y ago
Why switch? You're currently already using Firefox's own auto-updater. Since you've already done the manual set up, Debian's package manager would add nothing AFAICT.
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Do they have to pay you for it?
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by jancsika 3y ago
I really wish web denizens would use memes with their own local color which, when applicable, are also true . I mean, I'm sure Matthew knows some really long, legendary Linux Kernel Mailing List thread that is at least somewhat relate

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