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by mdiesel 4y ago
OnePlus 6T here and finally thinking it's time to step up. My previous phone was the OnePlus 2T so seems right to go up to the 10T now and do every 4 versions. I've not had anything quite that drastic, but there are definitely a f
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by mdiesel 4y ago
A defining feature of cults is how difficult it is to leave... :q!
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by mdiesel 4y ago
I'm very confused by Spotify's audio books though. Can't buy or even see the price through the app, which can't be good for getting people started on it. I then went on the website version, and the Sanderson novels I can
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by mdiesel 4y ago
If you're waiting for someone to find a case of someone joining the KKK because they once heard about a blacklist, of course that is never going to happen. This is about one facet of learning that happens over 20 years of someones chil
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by mdiesel 4y ago
Not bleeding across "all that much" might well be true, though I disagree since it's kinda the whole strength of the human brain applying learning from one area to another, that's why we're more intelligent than ani
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by mdiesel 4y ago
Language absolutely affects how we think, the brain makes links subconsciously and learns all the time from all inputs, so I don't think it's sensible to dismiss the idea of language making small differences to how we think. The m
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by mdiesel 4y ago
And then discovering that if you used latex for a presentation you could animate in tikz...
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by mdiesel 4y ago
50 years ago is not 500 years ago is not 5000 years ago. In the last 50 years we've had some incremental improvements to our understanding, in 500 you're going to before Newton. 5000 and we were just developing complex farming soc
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by mdiesel 4y ago
But on the flip side, good luck making any kind of sensible Gmail account for example, which means either fastmail needs multiple domains or their service will see new customers reducing over the years as people can't get sensible emai
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by mdiesel 4y ago
They haven't seen any incentive to change, but will grumble about Amazon and point to that as the biggest threat to their business. If they aren't, they should be. I'd rather do business with anyone BUT Amazon, and its tellin
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by mdiesel 4y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by mdiesel 4y ago
And most people that do then look back on their lives and point to certain things they did that sets them apart. Like an old person healthy at 100 saying they studiously avoided beans and that's the sole reason they're still fit a
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by mdiesel 4y ago
I guess what the question is, is whether there's a chess position where every piece is in a legal position, but could never be achieved in practice. I can think of several, for example if you had all 32 pieces on the board, but pawns w
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by mdiesel 4y ago
The gp specifically mentioned land ownership, which makes the comparison more interesting.
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by mdiesel 4y ago
Haven't had that problem before, far more of a problem when I try to register with site specific email addresses like d+hn@nblows.com which I've tried to get in the habit of doing.
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by mdiesel 4y ago
Becoming rich in capitalism beyond what you can earn from your own labour often requires exploiting some imbalance in the system. That imbalance is very regularly something we find out about later and the general public considers unethical.
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by mdiesel 5y ago
The timing would imply that Benedict XVI resigned (at least in part) due to the scandal involving blackmail of homosexual members of the church. The wiki page on the resignation doesn't go into that at all, but does link to the scandal
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by mdiesel 5y ago
The difference versus acedemia of old is that science used to be the hobby of rich gentlemen who were under no financial pressures to pay their mortgage and feed their families. Nowadays, I have no doubt everyone is in their field because t
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by mdiesel 5y ago
I use PDF XChange Editor, and convinced my company it was worth it to pay for it (which it is). Aside from editing capabilities and everything else you'd want, it opens and searches large files far quicker than anything else I tried. O
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by mdiesel 5y ago
What's the rough downtime an email server can handle without losing any emails? The greylist filter relies on most people's emails resending after a few mins if the first is rejected, so guessing a short enough downtime has no imp
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by mdiesel 5y ago
Yes, a multi-party system if far better. But over time, if the rhetoric is "if you aren't for us you're against us" and "a vote for SmallParty is a vote for Enemy" we trend towards two. We justify it to ourselv
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by mdiesel 5y ago
Do they have a safeguard against becoming like the US? By which I mean doubling down on core support base rather than seeking to convert opposition, and using populist rhetoric rather than traditional debate. If not then it is only a matter
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by mdiesel 5y ago
Link please? I run Windows for work, which includes connecting to industrial networks with no Internet connectivity. If this happens, it's going to be a nightmare.
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by mdiesel 5y ago
Lures still exist and apparently work in osrs, but they've gotten far more complicated. Unsurprising as osrs gold still has a real world value. Really its the equivalent of the Nigerian Prince email scam and its ilk. KempQ on YouTube d
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by mdiesel 5y ago
Interesting, as there was an article linked either from HN or Pocket about how a lot of "gas is better for cooking" was deliberate advertising campaigns: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06&#x
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by mdiesel 5y ago
Even the most gullible among us don't fall into the conspiracy theory trap by reading 140 characters (I hope). YouTube videos with decent production quality, which these days is accessible to anyone, lend some credibility to the conten
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by mdiesel 5y ago
See also: Cambridge Blue
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by mdiesel 5y ago
Having friends injured in traffic accidents is leading more people to drink as a coping mechanism!
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by mdiesel 5y ago
The Name of the Rose is a great read, that to me summarises the relationship nicely.
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by mdiesel 5y ago
If you do accidentally connect to a network, before you realise this, there's no way to get it to forget. Rebooting doesn't work. The only solution I found was walking 30m away to the other side of the parking lot out of range of

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