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by kixiQu 5y ago
> This is the entire point of DST. To adjust when we work, keep places open, and share waking hours around the sun. Perspective may vary here, but it seems to me it's to avoid having to adjust when we work by having the government
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Look, invoking "straw man" is a bit of a cliche around here, but to say: > As an example, how seriously would you take an aircraft flight controls software engineer who willfully chooses to never learn how an airplane flies? Wh
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by kixiQu 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/emres/longhourstraining/light.html > The light/dark cycle of the sun has a powerful effect on the circadian clock, sleep, and alertness. If you understand these effects, you
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I mean, okay, let's change which hours they're fixed to! Let's not break the entire concept of noon because America sucks at collective action problems.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
One thing that I really admire/respect about your search is that it's really good at capturing a particular kind of good web page. I wonder if there's more precise language than "quality" to express that: inexactnes
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I have a personal site I'm trying to pursue an old-style feel with, but it never qualifies by the heuristics people use, mainly because: * image-heavy (with careful expressive intention! https://maya.land/latin/ )
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by kixiQu 5y ago
The tragedy of the commons as an inevitable phenomenon is a myth! Doesn't contradict the thrust of your comment, just an interesting thing to know. https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false...
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I don't find this is true because I see the updates from the people I follow as they're adding stuff over time. For casual browsing without building relationships or a follow-list, I agree it's not as good as e.g. Reddit or w
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I'm in a Seattle tower and the extent to which our windows open is a joke . You can't actually get any ventilation from a 16 inch wide window allowed to open up to twelve degrees. I like the idea of being environmentally friendly
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by kixiQu 5y ago
> just realizing we shouldn't breathe contaminated air Well.... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curio...
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Laws work together with norms. The norms of architecture that mandate e.g. windows for living spaces are here being violated so extremely someone's stepping down over it. This is therefore not an average project. Concern seems reasonab
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by kixiQu 5y ago
opinions here seem to vary based on where on the west coast the speaker lives
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by kixiQu 5y ago
https://theriveter.co/voice/its-time-to-banish-the-western-c... This is on the first page of Google results, so it's at least a sample.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
They do specify which parts to read. Focusing on excerpts would be typical for a survey -- seems fine to me.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
"Presumed innocent" refers to the government not being supposed to punish an unconvicted defendant beyond what's practically necessary for safety (though reading up on pre-trial detention is... illuminating). It does not mean
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by kixiQu 5y ago
> The best way for small single actor instances to survive is to be invite only or approve each member account. Yup! That's exactly the approach Kazemi is advocating, too. It makes sense if you think about the trust that there needs
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I had similar trouble when I was trying to make it work on a Fedora VM. When I gave up, admitted to myself I was a pleb, and switched to Ubuntu, it was entirely smooth. Dunno how/why.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I saw this here and was annoyed enough to [blog about it]. There's probably a joke there... [blog about it]: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/21/twitter-threads-chest...
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I admin and use a Mastodon instance. It takes a while to get used to the differences from Twitter, but it's far more polished than people seem to expect. The reading I tend to recommend if people have questions is Darius Kazemi's
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I like being able to respond to specific bits of what people have to say. While it has the distraction and noisy downside of a conversation occurring linearly in time, to me, that ability makes it better than a linear conversation in that w
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by kixiQu 5y ago
And it costs sixty three dollars to see the real thing: https://www.iso.org/standard/73224.html
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by kixiQu 5y ago
> And anyway, regardless of outcome, it will surely be more entertaining to watch a trillion dollar company go fully down the rabbit hole of some kind of cyberpunk fantasy than to watch them continue to dig the hole deeper on their socie
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Built on top of Hypercore by the same devs as Beaker browser? You have my attention! Seriously, this kind of thing is real cool.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I'd love to see this sentiment graphed against the actual numbers of people leaving the Bay Area.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
> Gemini's proponents purport to be interested in a set of values. Proponents defend Gemini's design in terms of those values; the values form design constraints that inform all aspects of the project (including, for example, i
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Because they'd publicly sworn to SLU businesses that they were going to be dragging employees back.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
> First, we need to ratchet back Section 230 as Haugen suggests (or even further), which would simplify the business model. I give the [EFF] money not because of the bad players in this whole mess, but because of the people with good int
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by kixiQu 5y ago
No, but I also wouldn't consider that a real lossy dither. I mean like 3-4 colors, small pixel size blown up sharply, etc. etc.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
A. It looks like Safari didn't support webP at the time? https://caniuse.com/webp Either way, they explicitly mention it anyway. B. If the comparisons keep the pixel size constant, they're not relying on the cool
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Really? IME images compressed real hard with modern techniques look pretty terrible. Dithering is much less efficient if you're looking for low loss, but if you're trying to get something quite lossy, it looks better to my eyes.

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