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by koralatov 1mo ago
Not the OP, but I use a little Debian machine to self-host. It’s fairly stable when running, but updates are dicey. It has too many dependencies and every major update has had some breakage that takes a while to fix. My own instance is st
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by koralatov 1mo ago
The version numbering here is an absolute mess. Chandler/Monica 2 is actually Monica v5.0.0-beta, which would logically mean that this newly announced Monica 3 is actually Monica v6.x. Chandler/Monica 2 (v5.0.0-betas) never made i
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by koralatov 1mo ago
The version numbering here is an absolute mess. Chandler/Monica 2 is actually Monica v5.x, which presumably means this newly announced Monica 3 is Monica v6.x? Chandler/Monica 2 (v5.x) was a bit of a disaster for Monica. The commu
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by koralatov 5mo ago
A big downside of IKEA’s modular shelving is that they periodically release a new range and discontinue the old one. This happened to me with their ALGOT shelving system about 10 years ago. I bought mine not long before it was discontinue
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by koralatov 6mo ago
Same. I have one that’s about 15 years old, lived in a cupboard its whole life, and it’s slightly yellowed but still going strong.
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by koralatov 9mo ago
An out-of-fashion generalist kind of blog, hosted on an out-of-fashion platform, Tumblr. Updated only sporadically: https://koralatov.com
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Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ holds timely – and timeless – appeal (2010)(latimes.com)
4 points by koralatov 6y ago|0 comments
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by koralatov 8y ago
Arguably the people who value free over everything else aren't good customers and aren't a good foundation to build an actual sustainable business on.
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by koralatov 8y ago
I have a cheap pair of polarised aviators I got from eBay that have the same effect as these glasses. I'm guessing when they were made, the lens material was oriented wrong during cutting -- vertical instead of horizontal, and thus cu
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by koralatov 8y ago
Common Scottish English usage I encounter daily: "that bin reeks", "my dog rolled in fox poo and she reeks", "I was reeking of sweat", "that place reeked".
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by koralatov 8y ago
In the case of Scots and Scottish English, there's a lot of blurring and the distinction is of questionable actual value -- though I would make that distinction personally. I speak Scottish Standard English, and have a parent whose fi
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by koralatov 8y ago
You're right: "reek" does mean "smoke" in Scots. In modern usage, by speakers of Scottish English, it means "smelly". I'm not 100% sure, but I'm confident that "reek" in this context
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by koralatov 8y ago
I would take that with a huge pinch of salt. Census data is self-reported, and most people don't know that Scots is a distinct language from Scottish English, albeit one sharing the same Anglic root and with a lot of borrowed words
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by koralatov 8y ago
In school it's likely you were speaking Standard Scottish English. Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent , not a dialect -- though most RP speakers speak Standard English, so there's a strong correlation between RP and Standa
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by koralatov 8y ago
Here's a repost of an earlier comment[1] I made on the relationship between Scots and English, which also applies here: I think you're confusing dialect with language here. Scots and Scottish English are distinct from one another
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Introducing PlayStation Classic, with 20 Pre-Loaded Games(blog.us.playstation.com)
2 points by koralatov 8y ago|0 comments
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Oral History (2014)(wired.com)
70 points by koralatov 9y ago|23 comments
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by koralatov 9y ago
Linguistic flattening had been going longer before the Second World War -- the introduction of railways helped it a long a bit, but radio really sped up the process. My grandmother told me that radio, listened to by all the family, was the
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by koralatov 9y ago
Small world! My email is in my profile if you fancy discussing where to buy the best rolls.
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by koralatov 9y ago
Canada has the highest number of Gaidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) speakers outside of Scotland. Nova Scotia -- literally "New Scotland" -- has strong ties with Scotland, being originally colonised by Scots and they celebrate that herit
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by koralatov 10y ago
I think you're confusing dialect with language here. Scots and Scottish English are distinct from one another. The latter does borrow some from the former which leads to confusion. Scots is a language, historically equivalent and
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by koralatov 10y ago
The green-topped bottle in the linked piece is 20g sugar per 100g, but I've seen some in the UK that are 25g or even 30g. I don't eat the stuff myself, but know a lot of people who do and they often put on quite a lot -- definite
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by koralatov 10y ago
I don't disagree with you, but how do we decide which structured data format to use as a replacement for plaintext? I have the sneaking feeling that a large part of why we still use plaintext is because it's established already a
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by koralatov 10y ago
I can't tell if this is satire or not.
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by koralatov 10y ago
That's one way of doing it, but means that if the majority of your stock is held by foreign nationals residing abroad, the U.S. gets much less income, even though the majority of the value is being generated in the U.S. using U.S. infr
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by koralatov 10y ago
Oh, I absolutely realise I'm oversimplifying it, but the point stands that, in most cases, it's in Facebook's interest to massively underreport value as part of that negotiation. For example, say they invent a new way of comp
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by koralatov 10y ago
It would definitely need a lot of careful though to get the balance right. As it stands, the UK's maximum capital gains tax rate is 28% vs. 45% for the top rate of income tax. This leads to the situation, not at all uncommon or illega
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by koralatov 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what's a better idea than income tax for corporations? Assuming we do away with it, what's the more efficient and fairer way you'd propose?
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by koralatov 10y ago
Greece would be a pretty good example. Some people were paying taxes, of course, but there was widespread corruption and underpayment of taxes.
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by koralatov 10y ago
> license the U.S.-made IP to that subsidiary for $0. > Boom the U.S. company now has no profits to show and > all profits are in the low-tax jurisdiction That seems simple, but the U.S. government are wise to t

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