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by magduf 7y ago
Using Nvidia with Linux is like buying an Apple phone and expecting to be able to do whatever you want with it. Linux has been "solid" for decades now. Just don't use Nvidia. Some people use it and it works just fine, other
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by magduf 7y ago
>Personally I hate this new move towards Apple/Microsoft/Google being gatekeepers for everything that can run on a machine. It's fucking bullshit. It's what people want. The population is happily giving these compani
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by magduf 7y ago
I always, always wear earplugs to concerts. Once you have hearing damage, it never gets better.
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by magduf 7y ago
That's pushing the analogy way too far. Cars are already made of recycled materials, especially steel and aluminum. But metals in old cars are melted down in foundries and reconstituted to the proper alloys before being used in new ca
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by magduf 7y ago
It's not hyperbole, this is directly from Congressional Republicans. They believe that "executive immunity" means the President can commit whatever crimes he wants in office, and is immune from prosecution until his term is
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by magduf 7y ago
Some of them have already said they'd be fine with him shooting someone in broad daylight on a NYC street, and think that this isn't an impeachable offense.
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by magduf 7y ago
If your car gets a flat every other day, the driver's seat is stuck in the reclined position, it's constantly trying to steer you off the road, and the heater doesn't work, then maybe it's time to give up on fixing it an
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by magduf 7y ago
This sounds like me; I seem to have great hearing (I can still hear those "mosquito" devices used to annoy teenagers even though I'm over 40), but I have a hard time understanding human speech when there's a lot of ambie
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't know why AmericanChopper keeps getting modded down; his points are absolutely valid. I'm not a fan of open offices either, but I've worked in a bunch of different places over the years, and he's right on many poi
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by magduf 7y ago
Easy, just look at the reply in this thread from "AmericanChopper". Every single time this topic comes up on an online discussion like this, there's plenty of people like him saying the exact same thing. And I have to partia
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by magduf 7y ago
>Asking someone why the printer does that would have been good. It would have been an opportunity to show initiative to superiors either way. One way you get to remove something everyone hates. Another way you get to find a less intrusiv
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by magduf 7y ago
I do agree to an extent: he probably should have just hidden the printer away somewhere where it would have probably not been found. Then, if it caused a big scandal, the printer could have mysteriously "reappeared", otherwise if
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by magduf 7y ago
This is no longer true. Most younger people in engineering/CS fields are the "communicator" type and like to work in noisy, open-office environments, and frequently side-by-side. It's usually older and/or more intr
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by magduf 7y ago
It's probably not even real milk...
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by magduf 7y ago
>Yes, you can use noise cancelling headphones but: >2. They don't really block all the noise and you live in anxiety waiting for that one blaring ringtone to squeeze through NC headphones aren't designed to block all noise,
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by magduf 7y ago
>But "you can't have a site" is tantamount to "you can only say this if you find another private party willing to leave it on their site". This isn't really true though. Sure, not being able to find any hos
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by magduf 7y ago
>The "white working class" (especially male) was overthrown by ... no social programs, no healthcare, nothing. They don't have social programs and healthcare because they consistently vote against anyone who proposes these
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by magduf 7y ago
>It's because the average American doesn't value education like they once use to. American's IMO value entertainment far more. This isn't quite true. You're claiming that America used to value education, and thi
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by magduf 7y ago
>In a few years they won't even have access to teachers nor a properly functioning classroom. There is an entire demographic of teachers approaching retirement and we don't have enough qualified teachers entering, and staying,
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Many people disagree with you, and want to live in a society where only exceptional people can live comfortably, and the rest of them live miserably. Many, many, many of the miserable people actually like it better this way, which is prove
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by magduf 7y ago
No, I'm not. These companies push the company's religious beliefs and values onto the employees, and onto their customers when they can.
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by magduf 7y ago
Well the idea is they plug the box in at home, and the box is the server that contains all their shared data (photos, etc.) and lets them control how it's shared with others. Sure, they can access it from their phone, but the phone wo
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by magduf 7y ago
This is pretty much the only thing I use FB for, and even here it's not that much. It lets me keep tabs on people I rarely communicate with, and gives me a way to easily communicate with them if I want to say "hi" after a ye
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by magduf 7y ago
Except when you're in the majority, being white and male and a US citizen (in the US) isn't something you ever get discriminated against for. So this "protection" you talk about is pretty useless; if someone wants to di
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This is just plain wrong. Look at all the religion-run hospitals in America, and how they use religious values to affect their patient care and which services they do and don't allow. This has been affirmed by the court system even.
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by magduf 7y ago
>but it becomes more vividly alarming if we imagine denying electricity or highway access to an unpopular business. This is why even as Cloudflare decided to shut down Stormfront, they publicly worried that it was a dangerous path to go
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by magduf 7y ago
>It's somewhat like piracy warnings on digital media; [pirates] will ignore it but people that consume the content legally still have to sit through the nonsense. Not quite correct: the pirates actually have or enjoy a superior pr
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by magduf 7y ago
Huh? How so? I'm pretty sure I'm not in any.
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by magduf 7y ago
Well, it would open the door for explaining the analogy, since no one gets the "bad apple" thing any more.
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by magduf 7y ago
I sure would be. Why would someone spend that much money on me unless they're a closer relation? Buying small gifts for coworkers is one thing, but buying lunch is a bit much. I wouldn't spend more than $5 on a gift for a cowork

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