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by jancsika 1y ago
Somebody back in 2015 mentioned a relevant response to Richard Stallman from David Kastrup[1]. It's brilliant. Did he convince other GCC devs with that post? Mentor younger devs on free software strategy? What's happened in the te
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I'll take a stab at it very quickly-- The subsidies for green energy in the Inflation Reduction Act targeted a lot of red/purple states. So you get a burgeoning battery industry going in Georgia, solar and wind in Arizona and Texa
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> Being extremely good at something increases the gap between said something and everything else. You're also potentially over-specializing at one level while at the same time neglecting other levels. Musicians run into this problem
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Wait, what's absurd about it? I feel like this is the real-life version of my favorite joke from Andy Kindler: "I know they said don't re-invent the wheel, but does it have to be so round ?" Edit: emphasis
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Retail card processors often charge a flat fee per swipe/tap/whatever in addition to the 1-2% percentage mentioned above. E.g., a five cent flat fee doesn't matter on a $20 lunch, but it's over 3% of a sale for a single
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It'd be nice to have a process like the following: 1. I free solo a bunch of junk in vanilla javascript with state flowing hither and thither until I'm out of coffee 2. I test the exact behaviors(s) I wanted to make possible in
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Does webrender work with the Librem 5? Last time I checked it didn't-- Firefox disallowed it because the etnaviv driver didn't have all the features available needed to enable it. It appears there's been a lot of work on etna
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> IMO, adding a queen to the Borg destroyed the Borg. Having more than one episode about the Borg destroyed the Borg. 1st appearance: there are some things out there that human civilization isn't ready for. You wanna see an example?
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> As in I'm obligated to throw the damn ball. Just imagining your retriever feeling obligated to sit patiently by your side as you contribute to the pack by deconstructing your life while staring lifelessly at a flashing screen.
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> Couldn’t it be the other way round, that changes in health caused by other external factors erroneously get blamed on COVID? It is possible, but not to the degree that all long Covid cases are being confused with external factors. >
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> Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong? You sue the Red Hat-like support company with whom you ostensibly signed a contract. If your question is who does the Red Hat-like support company sue if they want accountab
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> Almost all copies of the critical biography of John MacArthur, "The Stockholder", have disappeared. After an intense 30 second investigation into this mystery, I have discovered a physical copy on campus at UCLA. Do I dare ch
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They cover the possibility of people potentially migrating to Mastodon with this gem: > But not everyone is looking forward to the idea: “I’d go back to Usenet before I went back to Mastodon,” wrote Bluesky user Count Von Horse Knuckler.
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I think a big reason it's lost to time is because it was poorly-specified and therefore a non-portable art. E.g., there's no way for you to easily send me the desktop state of the open window sizes and dimensions you have in min
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Your argument doesn't make much sense. Short term changes in Gaza/Ukraine/PFAS proliferation will all have very little effect on the current daily lives of most Americans. But those same short terms changes in all of the
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> I, the user, can already control the content width by resizing my browser, thank you very much. Nearly every techie and non-techie I know has a bazillion tabs open 100% of the time. The likelihood that even the top 10 are all single-co
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Not sure I understand what you're saying. * THC threshold for a first-time user to register as "completely stoned": $foo * THC level of someone who smoked the maximum amount they could 30 days ago, and hasn't smoked or e
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> A dose that might give a regular user a gentle buzz could render a first-time user completely stoned. So until we have more research, we legislate to the case of the "first-time user completely stoned," no?
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At least with hex dump you know you're gonna look at hex dump. With XML you dream of self-documenting structure but wake up to SVG arc commands. Two positional flags. Two!
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The Reverse Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect-- one vastly underestimates the work it took to reach a conclusion in a book they haven't finished reading. Then, without reading another page, they assume everything in the entire bookshelf is at t
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Also, "all of them"-- as in, when you pay multiple parties offline with the same exact crypto-dollar, all of them will get paid. Even better, when you're back online the network will run a sanity check to protect against th
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As useful data for sober civil libertarians who want the choice to route through a DUI checkpoint to exercise their rights. I wouldn't code it because there's no way to disallow the service for the set of people over the legal l
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Did you play the game? If I'm understanding it correctly (a big if), every single time the author is forced to leave out edge cases when talking to management it is a form of masking. They have to suppress their natural urge[1] to list
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> Sure, it may be my car, and I may have control of the radio, but I don't always act upon the need to adjust my environment. But in the context of the beginning of a game, people without autism are probably confused. Why isn't
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Do you do the same with emotions? E.g., a) What is this emotion, b) no, that's the undue amount of stress from this particular encounter, c) larger, basic emotion that is the reason you're ruminating about a total stranger taking
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HN'er on Monday: I'll just do maximum friction to improve bones. No pain no gain, baby! HN'er on Tuesday: Ow all my cartilage and tendons are damaged. Help!
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That's easy. Just search instead for 100 duck-sized horses capable of tiny acts of kindness and understanding. Much higher success rate, much lower variance.
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> so Did you ask a lawyer-- any lawyer-- before writing the sentence surrounding this word? I assume the answer is yes. But I also think I remember reading a blog by you where you wasted hours attempting to reverse-engineer some hardwa
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They could make it an even 26 by the end of the night if they play their cards right. bats eyelashes, casually implements b-tree
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Let's give it a shot. The year is 2003. Svn and cvs are proving to be way too clunky and slow for booming open source development. As an ethical accelerationist, you gain commit access to the repos for svn and cvs and make them slower

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