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by krferriter 2y ago
When I search 'dc plane crash' in Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo I don't get results buried under ads. When I search 'air conditioner for sale' I do get ads at the top of each of those, but that's more okay becau
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by krferriter 2y ago
Licensing. No root daemon.
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by krferriter 2y ago
To be clear that YouTube video is not really a critique of Richard Feynman, especially not his scientific career, it's a critique of people who knew him writing books and making content using his name and making money off it as if it c
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by krferriter 2y ago
Yeah both the UK and US are notorious for NIMBYism. People filing lawsuits as like a hobby, because they want to stop all development. In these countries it's far to easy for a small group of complainers to grind the entire system to a
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by krferriter 2y ago
I think this is one of the crazier ones. It's just canola oil! It's the same as spreading that much canola oil on the surface, the spray is mainly convenient because it spreads it out evenly for you without you needing to contact
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by krferriter 2y ago
The mission of the Linux Foundation is not to mount a rebellion, it is to make Linux good.
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by krferriter 2y ago
Waking up in a state of confusion looking down at my new body after my own death. "What is this, some kind of altered carbon?"
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by krferriter 2y ago
Likes could just be part of the RSS feed
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by krferriter 2y ago
For everything that isn't social security, medicare, or the military, continued federal support requires explicitly convincing enough members of Congress that it is important so that they will campaign in their committees for even basi
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by krferriter 2y ago
Is 5.6 million a lot? Where are they located? There are 127 million "households" in the US. And 258 million adults. I know there are unmarried/non-partner adults currently sharing living space who would prefer to acquire thei
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by krferriter 2y ago
How much does it cost to argue in court that a particular entity is an abuser though? Someone has to be willing to cover those costs up front, otherwise people will just keep settling if they don't want to go through that process.
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by krferriter 2y ago
Yeah, important distinction
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by krferriter 2y ago
The US Supreme Court's decision was that there was not grounds for them to interfere in the case, because the state courts had already provided sufficient due process. They made no official ruling about guilt or capital punishment.
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by krferriter 2y ago
There are no IQ tests that measure IQ through genetics though. They are all measuring it by asking knowledge questions that the subject answers. There aren't many people that claim IQ isn't measuring anything. Just that it is not
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by krferriter 2y ago
Having the order matter and matching the first `true` branch makes for more readable and less-wordy if statements. Otherwise when you have two conditions which have any overlap, such as A and B, for the A branch you need to add `and not B`
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by krferriter 2y ago
Yeah I think window half/quarter screen snapping (with keyboard shortcuts, which XFCE has) fills all the benefit of a tiling wm I want, without the constraints and with the flexibility of a floating wm. And I do heavily use tiles/
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by krferriter 2y ago
This is an interesting idea for a feature, that I think I would like too. I like to save things to maybe look at later and a TTL would manage automatically dropping them from bookmarks in case I never actually want to look at it later.
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by krferriter 2y ago
It's possible that you are biased towards dowsing and thus not a good control for the experiment. You want dowsing to work and thus try harder when dowsing than when not.
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by krferriter 2y ago
Sobriety tests are notorious for being very subjective and not having well defined criteria and cops failing people even if they aren't drunk. The subjectivity in the test is a feature that allows cops to justify their arrests or uses
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by krferriter 2y ago
In an era where mass media basically didn't exist, most people couldn't read, and information about how these things work could not easily spread, it might have been easier to convince people that a fake test was really what you w
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by krferriter 2y ago
That was a pretty accurate presentation of how polygraph machine testing works. The machine isn't doing anything useful in terms of determining if what is being said is true or not.
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by krferriter 2y ago
I don't think this is right. Placebo effect definitely exists for conditions that are largely influenced by mental perception. The common example is pain. You can reduce people's perception of pain by deploying the placebo effect,
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by krferriter 2y ago
If the interviewee's behavior is not indicative of truth then the test serves no purpose other than allowing the interviewer or whoever commissioned the test (like a prosecutor or employer) to invalidly convince other people that the i
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by krferriter 2y ago
AltTab and Rectangle bring productivity on macOS up to an acceptable level. I assume anyone using macOS without them is in a constant state of frustration.
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by krferriter 3y ago
That's a terrible user experience. I don't remember that happening when I used Firefox through .deb files or the Arch AUR packages. I don't want it actually updating in the background. I'm fine with it checking for updat
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by krferriter 3y ago
I have never used git bisect, which is maybe why I'm wondering why people care so much about curating and cleaning up git history.
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by krferriter 3y ago
Yeah I just don't care really. I have noisy dev branches, force pushing rebases from an upstream branch, and usually just squash merge and throw the history away when merging back to master. I've never come across a situation wher
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by krferriter 3y ago
I knows schools and businesses that bought these. Should have just bought normal 4k touchscreen displays with rolling stands. Then you can use whatever software you want on it. Could even run google's browser-based jamboard on the non-
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by krferriter 3y ago
Yeah I don't like using find's predicate options, I often just do find | grep somefile because I can also use all the pattern syntax I use elsewhere in grep commands.
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by krferriter 3y ago
Too bad Amtrak is so expensive to use

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