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by markstos 5y ago
Would you hammer your toe in moderation? There really some things where the less you have, you the better.
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by markstos 5y ago
Science is overwhelming on the side of whole-food, plant-based diets as the better choice for long-term health. This is covered in books like "How Not to Die" and "Own Your Health". The study linked here agrees-- more fr
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by markstos 5y ago
Good points. JSON processing tools I find helpful in addition to JavaScript include Gron aka "grep for JavaScript" ( https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron ), jq for querying, json_pp for pretty-printing and `bat`
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by markstos 5y ago
The "Beginner's Tutorial" README has no code examples, and suggests installing Anaconda, Jupyter and an old version of Zorba to get started... beginning. https://github.com/ghislainfourny/jsoniq-tutorial
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by markstos 5y ago
Yesterday I heard a story of the opposite: An organic grower was not able to sell all of their produce as organic, so was told to pack it boxes labeled as being conventionally grown so it could still get sold at market, although at a lower
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by markstos 5y ago
Ansible playbooks are often written to update all the servers in a group unless you explicitly to tell it to limit it only to a sub-set: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_pat...
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by markstos 5y ago
Sounds like he was considering re-inventing SSH tunneling, which is built-into SSH.
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Wayland as a `screencopy` protocol and the `wlroots` library packages it for other compositors to use. Is the issue that compositors don't implement the `screencopy` protocol themselves or use the implementation provided by wlroots? Re
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by markstos 5y ago
Which OSes can't run Wayland well?
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My wife's name was adjusted by the Department of Motor Vehicles in Indiana because the format she wanted "wasn't allowed in the computer". Of course, the name on your driver's license becomes your legal name for man
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by markstos 5y ago
I once worked for a newspaper while they were researching if dead people were voting in the state of Kentucky. The project would compare voter records with those of the deceased. The State responded to one of their open record requests with
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by markstos 5y ago
With Fish 3.0 and 3.1 it’s even more compatible with snippets you are likely to find to copy and paste. Do you remember something you found that doesn’t work?
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by markstos 5y ago
The United States government studied this question and came to the conclusion of... acid free paper. So it's now law that "permanent" documents in the US are to be stored on acid free paper: https://www.loc.gov&#x2
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by markstos 5y ago
The landscape of funding is shifting. Through Patreon and Google Sponsors, I'm funding developers to work on Linux on the M1 chip, a keyboard driving browser (Qute) and Linux security (Spectrum OS). As a reminder, Chrome OS is Linux. G
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by markstos 5y ago
Congratulations on getting your ports back!
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I used FreeBSD in production for years as a hosting platform, starting in the late nineties. Then it had an earned reputation as being more secure, stable and higher performance than Linux. Yahoo and other large services were using it for t
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by markstos 5y ago
A POSIX-compatible shell like `sh` is a given. `csh` is not POSIX-compatible. By dropping `csh`, the the base system could be smaller. Since the usability of `sh` has improved, it was considered worth switching.
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by markstos 5y ago
I'm not sure why this comment was downvoted. I've read all the systemd documentation and this comment is spot on. System is lacking good documentation along the lines of "the least you need to know to setup and manage a servi
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by markstos 5y ago
Consider when a terrorist drove a truck into a Christmas market: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Christmas%20market%20k... Most headlines were like "Lorry kills 12 at Christmas Market", like there was a
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by markstos 5y ago
> The driver did not physically touch the bicyclist. A headline would be used even if the car did physically touch the cyclist but hit the bike and knocked the off. Also, we don't have headlines that say "bullet shoots child&qu
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I've been employed as a newspaper editor and am familiar with libel laws and the ethics of journalism. What's been advocated for is accurate reporting, not conclusion-jumping. Currently there are headlines like this: "Car hit
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Here’s why the reframing matters: Accidents are “oops” that are to accepted as fact of life. The no reason to change the system. Accidents happen. Crashes are not accidents. They have a cause and the cause can addressed. Crashes can be prev
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by markstos 5y ago
Pre-Covid, I did daily run commuting with a couple different models of XPS 13 with Ubuntu installed and suspended and didn't have a problem. I always used S3 suspend and never hiberation because I quit trusting and trying hiberation on
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by markstos 5y ago
Sway user here. Agree that tiling and customization have helped my productivity.
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Wrong. There are people who would like hardware kill switches but are required to run either iOS or Android apps for work. With iOS in a VM, you could truly "log out of work" and shutdown that part of your phone when not needed wi
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What's the issue with four iPad models? iPads practically are the tablet market. Is four options too many? There were dozens of different Android tablets at the peak. That didn't go well for any of the Android tablet vendors.
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I came here to ask the same!
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Golden retrievers may live happy lives, but we don't slaughter them.
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Harvard found calcium to be more bioavailable in plants. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium/#:~:tex... . What's your source for animal-based calcium being more bioavailable? I had my calcium
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Animal agriculture is a top cause of climate catastrophe. Is avoid global catastrophe a radical idea?

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