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by masswerk 3y ago
For a smoking gun, I'd expect evidence. This is just reporting on a diffuse claim of hearsay, allegedly by what might be labeled a party with geopolitical interest in the public narrative. It may be disinformation just as well. (Especi
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by masswerk 3y ago
Mind the second part of the quote, > Apple has a huge advantage price / performance wise with the cheap m based Mac book air. The MBA is in the US $999 with M1 and $1099 with M2. (You can get them even at about $800 in sales.) Thi
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by masswerk 3y ago
Paris Metro introduced driverless on all their MP 55 train sets in 1967.
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by masswerk 3y ago
BTW, one of the benefits of a functional, socially mixed public transport system is being confronted with a diverse population, which helps with not becoming trapped in a bubble. (Which may be exactly the "failure" according to M.
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by masswerk 3y ago
This is what you'll get, if you consider public transport just a residual option for the "failures in life" (© M. Thatcher): not depending on personal transport becomes a privilege of those living in a walkable city in a suit
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by masswerk 3y ago
Can't you see there is no special problem? Even after a military conflict, you've to either actually go into that country and start an intensive political reconstruction (e.g., Germany & WWII – which is not an option here, bec
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by masswerk 3y ago
Sorry, I'm not aware that armed conflict would have solved anything after WWII, with the possible exception of the Cambodia intervention (but this was a short lived action with intensive political reconstruction following up to this.
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by masswerk 3y ago
You may also note that Zelenskyy was running and was elected on a ticket to stick to Minsk II and fixing relations with Russia, and this wasn't followed trough (eventually appeasing Azov, instead). The conflict is not just the invasion
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by masswerk 3y ago
And I'll add 1 to the number of people who say, "because I can't guarantee the outcome of a political process, I'll go for brute force, because I can't guarantee the outcome of this, as well." Where is the logi
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by masswerk 3y ago
You are aware, that H. was actually disappointed that he didn't get what he wanted, namely war? (France and the UK would have missed on getting an entire cycle of the arms race into the field.)
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by masswerk 3y ago
So, to stick to the conversation, how is this different from the demand to know or guarantee the outcome of a political process beforehand? However, I'm not here to discuss specific politics, just principles of reasoning.
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by masswerk 3y ago
And you haven't mentioned anything that guarantees a specific outcome of the conflict.
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by masswerk 3y ago
> you're not mentioning Russia retreating from invaded territory) You are aware, you are implying things. (By the same means I could suppose you want the invasion to succeed a 500K dead later, since you weren't ruling out this
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by masswerk 3y ago
Force an armistice onto both sides instantly, spare a few 100K lives and a few economies, sort things out. This could have been over for more than 400 days. Seems pretty simple.
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by masswerk 3y ago
And the only way to sort this out is by fighting to the bitter end, until either of the two biggest countries in Europe runs out of men? (This, BTW, may take some time, while we're maximizing casualties.)
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by masswerk 3y ago
Anecdotally, there's a certain armed conflict in Europe, where peace movements of any kind are in the absolute minority – on either side. (Oh, progress, I guess…) It's not just the US.
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by masswerk 3y ago
This has been some years ago. Notably, I observed this in relation to search suggestions. You could enter a search and get zero results, but a day later or two, you'd get at least a suggested search term (regardless how accurate or mea
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by masswerk 3y ago
Finally, a good reason to upgrade (again).
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by masswerk 3y ago
Another thing, I noticed: a weird prioritization of certain sources. E.g., I've a website that is now up for 24 years (there's even some content older than this, which has moved there), it has my name on it and my name is in the m
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by masswerk 3y ago
This, I have noticed some years ago. It seems much like, if the number of returned results doesn't meet a given threshold, some kind of optimizer runs over night on these searches in order to provide a more extensive result set.
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by masswerk 3y ago
That's the way with about any real leap in productivity applications. About every time you add "smart" to something, you take from skilled domain experts. Just think of when Photoshop 4.0 added layers and now composing was fo
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by masswerk 3y ago
> 14% - that's the first time i've seen a hard number like that. It's significant. On the other hand, "zero or small negative effects on the most experienced/most able workers". In other words, if you&#x27
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by masswerk 3y ago
Fun fact: This also happened with the Austro-Hungarian monarchy for some time, where the civil naval ensign was communicated as the flag, compare [0] and [1]. It can be still found on Amazon, etc, as "Austria-Hungary Flag". [0] h
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by masswerk 3y ago
My pet grievance is Apple's progressive transition from direct manipulation and drag-and-drop to the most evil click-and-wait-to-reveal-and-reorient-the-pointer-to-eventually-drag scheme, e.g., for proxy icons.
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by masswerk 3y ago
Yes, where I come from, Limette has been the traditional name, but it has been mostly replaced by "Limone", when it comes to supermarkets, etc. I guess, these are pretty much interchangeable now.
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by masswerk 3y ago
In German, lemons are still citrons (Zitronen), while Limone applies to limes only and there is no such thing as a distinct concept of a lemon (which may or may not explain the fame of German engineering ;-) ).
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by masswerk 3y ago
There is a (now rather dated) theory of an hierarchy of arts, where music, being the most abstract and at the same time the most intimate and sensual (AKA spiritual) one taking the crown. If you adhere to this idea to some degree, there may
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by masswerk 3y ago
Actually, it should be a label (or a button, depending on the use case).
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by masswerk 3y ago
> <i> is used by some systems now for icons This is somewhat alarming. <i> is still a valid tag and used, e.g., for marking up titles of artistic works, etc. (which is not a use case for <em>, nor for <cite>.) Sim
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by masswerk 3y ago
I wonder, if assembling an array of paths for outlines may improve things. You can check for a point being in inside path, use paths as hit areas, and you can apply fills. Notably, there wouldn't be any need for keeping various mask im

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