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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
People are distinguishing between being friends with their boss and friends with their peers. Is there really a difference? Are people really cutting loose and opening up with their peers in a way that they wouldn't if their boss were
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
The last I looked Calibre, including its CLI tool ebook-convert, is literally the only local option, paid or free, for consumers to convert EPUB to AZW3. If you know of anything else please let me know.
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
In the U.S. the cheapest Kobo is just under 100 USD: https://us.kobobooks.com/collections/ereaders . They go on sale somewhat regularly.
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
I agree with your position that MotF portrays what generally needs to happen for us to have a non-horrifying future, though as a matter of probability it's like getting heads on ten coin flips in a row. Fukuyama's criticism about
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Thanks for all the detail. On further thought I read Smil's article uncharitably. I recently finished Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" which is a near-future novel trying to thread the needle of how we mi
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Accurately describing the problem also means saying we use several hundred times more plastic for trivial purposes like wasteful consumer packaging than we do for hospital supplies. A materials science discussion on why plastics are irrepla
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Low-end gaming laptops are arguably PC based consoles.
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
The hope here is that this new team member is going to stick around for a while and contribute new insight to the team. Since he's senior I hope you hired him so you could learn from him. You might want to have a meeting with this new
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Ubuntu 22.04 desktop, the normal installation with LibreOffice and other extras, is about 7.1GB for me in a VM.
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
It's also funny that they want you to specify a "product name, the open source component name, and version number." What if the product you mention doesn't include the open source component with that version? Would they
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
> I dont know if 50.0% deserves to be the threshold but whatever the threshold is Im damn sure it's below 90%. The normal legality is that a state is governed by a national constitution that requires some supermajority to make major
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
The article seems dishonest because it downplays reducing use. For example the author refers to plastic used in maternity wards. Reasonable people will agree that medical plastic for birthing mothers and newborns will be one of the very las
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
It's less that you would feed your dog a cicada and more that during cicada season they are everywhere, covering the sidewalks, and your dog might try to eat them.
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
The U.S.'s historical strategy has been to find or create some credible faction wherever it wanted to meddle and then support it using any means necessary, ethical or otherwise, and coerce other countries to go along with it. In purely
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Based on the title I think OP meant to link https://blog.1password.com/1password-ssh-agent/ . Is anyone actually using these 1Password CLI tools in a serious way? Their CLI stuff has always seemed like a toy to me, like
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
There is a tension between the concepts of self-determination and territorial integrity that makes the question not so obvious. However the concept of territorial integrity has advantages for weaker nations. If self-determination were absol
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Do you encrypt files or add integrity checking before you send them to Google Drive?
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
I'm reading that Graeber book now, it's good. I enjoyed his Debt book too. I recommend "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson as a specific attempt to answer the question "what do we need to make work to
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
It's like they're negotiating with the planet and the sun.
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
I'm not sure if we're disagreeing or just talking past each other. Most men could probably describe shopping for clothes as a woman in a literal sense, if that's what you mean. They probably couldn't connect with the exp
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Red Hat says they do a lot of testing before anything goes into CentOS Stream. That's what I meant by pre-release testing. Since the changes are intended for RHEL they're already carefully reviewing and cherry-picking everything f
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
> Tell that to all the people complaining about yellowface/Apu. It's genuinely on an "Ahh, I am honourable Chinese man, my family is honour" level. I was referring to your Paul Hogan impression comment which I thought
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Men have throughout history had the strangest ideas about women despite, as you said, having sisters and so on. I agree that is weird. Of course a willing male game dev could research anything necessary to portraying women accurately. Or, a
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Do you know of any specific problems with CentOS Stream? It seems like it just moves slightly faster than RHEL but ends up in the same place except for the tiny chance of an issue that isn't caught in pre-release testing. It sounds muc
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Some backstory: Luc Besson directed "The Professional" (1994). His second wife was Maïwenn Le Besco, who was the model, but not the voice, for the Diva in "The Fifth Element" (1997), also directed by Besson. Maïwenn and
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Flagging goes both ways. There's a flagged post in this account's short history where I pushed back on a transphobic comment. Now various comments up from mine and down another branch are all flagged. Transphobic and anti-transpho
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Windows executables can be signed, and Homebrew formulae are theoretically reviewed and check a hash when they download binaries. With curl | bash, maybe the download fails partway through, or a hacker has replaced the executable on the ser
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
Most music services that sell music sell it DRM-free, so even if it's not MP3 to begin with, you can buy it, download it, and then convert it to MP3 or any other format with something like ffmpeg. Also, the vast majority of physical mu
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
> If you want a concrete example of that, A lot of media that features Australian characters are played by Americans doing bad Paul Hogan impressions. It's dumb, but didn't make me want to play Borderlands or COD instead of Ove
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by kX4A8o4mVmX8aW 4y ago
I see from your name and profile that you're from Australia. Suppose you play a game set in Australia and there's a scene where you have snow in January. The first game you play like that you might just laugh, but if every game yo

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