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by markstos 7y ago
"I promise this is the OTHER Van Gogh by the same name, not the one that comes in news stories about the theft when you Google it."
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by markstos 7y ago
I hadn't ever considered that. I'm also not sure I want my desk cat walking across the flattened screen.
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by markstos 7y ago
More expressive communication.
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by markstos 7y ago
Similar boat. A 2k screen like the X1 Carbon would have been a good compromise on screen quality and battery life.
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by markstos 7y ago
Didn't survive? The most popular desktop distro, Ubuntu, switched their DE from Unity to Gnome.
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by markstos 7y ago
He keeps saying "you" in the video, like we all have room in our garage for a 2 seat flying car and a personal airfield. Yawn. I was more excited about the Faraday electric commuter bike I saw at a bike rack today: https:/&#
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by markstos 7y ago
Expect a transition with a human still onboard to last for a while.
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by markstos 7y ago
As a bike/ped advocate, I believe self-driving cars will ultimately be safer than humans. Yesterday I was nearly hit crossing street twice: once by an inattentive driver and once by an intentionally reckless speeder. Oh the other hand,
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by markstos 7y ago
Now we'll see if Thunderbird will make saving sent mail opt-in for each message, for privacy. How many of your email conversations need to be preserved forever? We certainly don't walk around with an audio recorder to record every
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by markstos 7y ago
On the other hand, malicious actors have been remotely draining banks, especially small banks, remotely due to their poor IT practices. So a bank system that is "up but insecure" is only a recipe to be horribly hacked later. I ra
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... and last updated in 2004.
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Most businesses are small businesses.
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by markstos 7y ago
That's good advice for people who prioritize maximizing salary and emotional detachment. Some companies aren't trying to underpay employees, they are charging a fair price to their customersrather than fleecing them. Or they corpo
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by markstos 7y ago
Also nothing but opportunity for those looking for kernel flaws, of which their many. The Linux kernel monoculture is a devastating weakness.
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by markstos 7y ago
What was weak about the article and study?
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by markstos 7y ago
I have more energy since shifting towards a vegan diet-- mid-day slumps are rare now and I have more energy after work in the evening as well. Work on complex coding and DevOps tasks continues as before.
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by markstos 7y ago
Notable that the word "Perl" appears nowhere in his write up of technical legacy. He was once Chief Architect at Six Apart, developers of the Perl-based Movable Type blogging platform which once rivaled Wordpress.
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by markstos 7y ago
So you don't use AirBnB?
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by markstos 7y ago
A goal of slowing down climate change is to keep current species from going extinct. It's about stability, not just continuity.
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by markstos 7y ago
They would be lower lactose and a lot of humans are lactose intolerant to some degree, so there's that.
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by markstos 7y ago
The large scale China Study had negative finds on human's drinking milk intended as a baby cow growth hormone as well: "Dr. Campbell says that in multiple, peer-reviewed animal studies, researchers discovered that they could actua
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by markstos 7y ago
This is consistent with other research that found that vegans live about 10 years longer on average. It seems no-milk is even better for longevity than low-fat milk. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-f
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True.
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This is the old packaging design where disk space and bandwidth were expensive, so you tried to have one version of each library or package on disk. This design leads to cascading complexity and breakage when many package depend on the same
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by markstos 7y ago
Complex apps can bundle their own dependencies-- that's what the Flatpak and Snap package formats do. You can also run Firefox in a Docker or LXD container with it's dependencies. By sharing the X11 or Wayland socket with the dock
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by markstos 7y ago
Not only are AirPods very profitable, but with a non-user-serviceable battery, they are also disposable. This way users can enjoy buying new $200 AirPods every couple years and Apple gets the recurring revenue to pour to climate initiatives
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by markstos 7y ago
"Hyatt’s innovation in subterranean lighting made him rich as his vault covers were used all over the country. With his newly acquired wealth he spent much of the rest of his time and money fighting for the abolition of slavery."
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by markstos 7y ago
I've switched to QMK-powered keyboards and plan to stick with them. My big feature was being able to program shortcuts that I like for Chrome OS that Chrome OS doesn't allow customizing natively. Using the layer system I have &quo
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by markstos 7y ago
The primary page linked to would be improved it linked to any kind of documentation like what you've mentioned. I followed the link, saw a pretty much blank page and left.
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I rarely see "logic bombs" in the news, but I remember the day the customer called angry on April 1st, complaining that their spreadsheet quit working. It seemed unlikely to be an April Fool's Day joke, but I knew the code ha

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