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by loudmax 5y ago
Actually a lot of Americans detest Trump because he literally tried to stage a coup d'état on January 6th, 2021 to overthrow a democratically elected president.
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by loudmax 5y ago
As far as I can tell, the GNOME philosophy is that the proper level for the operating system to manage fundamental operating system tasks like hardware detection, filesystems and network interfaces is at the desktop level. So that's w
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by loudmax 5y ago
Absolutely this. Not just the rise of authoritarian leaders, but promoting both extreme left and extreme right political opinions leading to questioning the legitimacy of democratically elected leaders and the destabilization of free societ
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by loudmax 5y ago
Private companies are not the arbiters of free speech, and they should not be compelled by the government or anyone else to distribute views they don't like. This especially goes for businesses whose revenue models are based around ad
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by loudmax 5y ago
If you're pulling carbon from the atmosphere, the process would theoretically be carbon neutral. I think this is one of the goals for SpaceX's Starship vehicle. In practice, I'd have reservations about widespread manufacture
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by loudmax 5y ago
There are lots of good people on the Republican side of the aisle. Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, and everyone involved with the Lincoln Project. Trump's admiration of Vladimir Putin should make Republicans realize what America could have
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by loudmax 5y ago
On HN it's generally considered bad form to dispute downvotes. IMHO there's nothing wrong with your original comment, except perhaps brevity. Maybe somebody was of the opinion that you needed to make the argument that a Walkman i
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by loudmax 5y ago
I don't know that compact discs were more expensive to produce than vinyl or cassettes. I'm sure they were at first, but costs must have come down drastically by the time you could buy big spools of RW+ CDs at Best Buy for $20. C
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by loudmax 5y ago
Lateral inhibition enhances the contrast at the visible borders between objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_inhibition
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by loudmax 5y ago
> New Glenn is heavy reusable orbital rocket That's " will be a heavy reusable orbital rocket". New Glenn hasn't flown yet, even in prototype. I'm looking forward to seeing it in action. But I'm not hold
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by loudmax 5y ago
Anker is a Chinese company incidentally. People often disparage "cheap Chinese" knock-offs, but the salient feature here is cheapness and dodgy branding, not the fact that they're made in China. Geopolitics aside, the Chine
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by loudmax 5y ago
The Pi's MicroSD card is accessible through the floppy drive opening (using tweezers). That in itself is pretty awesome.
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by loudmax 5y ago
This is Electropedia's definition for "geosynchronous satellite" at https://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ie... : a synchronous satellite of the Earth Note – The siderea
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by loudmax 5y ago
The challenge here would be getting all those miscellaneous hardware drivers to be ported to SerenityOS. Some hacker might write Serenity drivers for their particular desktop, but that won't do you any good unless you have the exact s
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by loudmax 5y ago
I don't think there's much hope for people that go out of their way to insulate themselves into echo chambers. The key is removing the economic incentive for corporations to deliberately build these echo chambers and set them aga
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by loudmax 5y ago
Paying for universal education, health care, and basic income via taxation is not totalitarian. With sensible regulation all of these can be accomplished without giving up on the free market. That is, the free market as understood by Keyn
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by loudmax 5y ago
So many communication platforms are proprietary walled gardens these days. Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Discord, and so on. Their incentives do not align with what's best for their users, or society in general. We absolutely need ope
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by loudmax 5y ago
Sure, but if you're not on a Mac, brew shouldn't be the first tool you reach for. You can use brew if you've transitioning from Mac and you need to time to get acclimated, or if the software hasn't been integrated into
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by loudmax 5y ago
I believe that the kind of company that Brendan Gregg would work for would have excellent reasons to use or not to use a particular piece of software. There are a great many more companies that don't hire people of Gregg's calibe
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by loudmax 5y ago
I don't think there was any scenario where the invasion was a benefit to Russia. But if it had gone the way most analysts had expected, with Kyiv falling after four days, it could have been a benefit to Vladimir Putin. With the invas
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by loudmax 5y ago
Once you start looking into them, "simple" things like adjusting volume and organizing monitors turn out to be more complicated that one would think. Proprietary OSs like MacOS and Windows put enormous effort into hiding these co
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by loudmax 5y ago
I think it's important to keep the electrification and subscription aspects distinct. Electrification of bus fleets is an absolute good. Electric buses may cost more in the short run, but for the sake of children's health, not to
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by loudmax 5y ago
This entirely depends on your use case. For many gamers, Windows PCs can't be replaced by a Mac, let alone Linux. Hopefully Proton/Wine will bridge that gap and maybe even be ported to FreeBSD. There are lots of servers running
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by loudmax 5y ago
Stadia's problem was never technical, it was entirely due to bad management. The fact that they got games to play reasonably well at reasonably high resolutions is an impressive achievement, and it set the foundation to build a domina
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by loudmax 5y ago
It's also exhausting when there are centers manufacturing bullshit on an industrial scale. It's simply easier to manufacture lies than to track down the truth. I don't think the correct answer is the repression of lies, or
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by loudmax 5y ago
There's no question that discrimination against Ukrainian refugees of non-European origin is reprehensible. The trouble is keeping a sense of the scale of this injustice compared to the scale of the invasion. Failing to give aid to A
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by loudmax 5y ago
> most countries have laws on how media should work Much of how the internet works reflects its origin in the United States where freedom of speech is a paramount value. In America, the notion is that it's better to combat lies wi
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by loudmax 5y ago
Not a book, but The History of English Podcast is excellent: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
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by loudmax 5y ago
Probably yes, but audit2allow is very hard to reason about. You can run it and hopefully it will enable you to allow the things you want to allow without also allowing things you didn't want. Red Hat doesn't seem to have any inte
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by loudmax 5y ago
I've noticed the difference in my plug-in Prius. In summer I had up to a 30 mile battery range. This winter it's been down to at worst 22 miles. Overall, I'm very happy with my plug-in hybrid as my commute to work is about

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