medstrom

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by medstrom 4y ago
You jest, but that would absolutely make sense if you were a psychopath with the singular goal of finding a cure for cancer. Now use this same mindset but change the goal for something saner along the lines of "maximize healthy+happy
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by medstrom 4y ago
You weren't wrong, EA is basically the mindset of donating using analysis. As you fear, at the start the movement suffered from overemphasis on causes that can demonstrate impact. But it's not incompatible with risk-taking, if y
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by medstrom 4y ago
There's nothing substantive in this post, just unexplained opinions...
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by medstrom 4y ago
How quickly is quickly? I've never had a CPU break on me, I still have laptops in storage a decade old that work fine, only they're too slow for the modern web. Perhaps 90C is reasonable for the time you will be using the device.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Yes! I did that long ago, putting my stuff in /home/kept/. I'm surprised at everyone who still puts their files in ~. What a mess.
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by medstrom 4y ago
I did a similar thing. I set XDG_CONFIG_DIR=~/ (normally ~/.config/). It works surprisingly well, though I encountered some edge cases that eventually made me give up. Also some programs don't know about XDG_CONFIG_DIR
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by medstrom 4y ago
A remote-controlled door would become part of you, the instant you hold the remote.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Basically, it means "explain". The connotation is the opposite of straw-man, so OP wants people to start from the assumption that it's true they need all those 7,400 employees, and explain why this would be the case. OP is n
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by medstrom 4y ago
Maybe if you also bring along a camera crew and declare at the start that this is an art piece you're doing.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Far from the 'main difference' -- if there was a project that just forked Nix and made that change, you could say that about it, but not about Guix, which has tons of work-hours invested and pretty much none of those work hours ha
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by medstrom 4y ago
These days there is the similarly general-purpose VSCode and competitors, so this particular angle holds no water.
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by medstrom 4y ago
In the USA, perhaps. Most of the world isn't that lethal.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Another bullshit magnet is "superfood".
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by medstrom 4y ago
Have you ever bought a book? You often get a choice between cheap paperback and fancy hardcover.
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by medstrom 4y ago
I knew I shouldn't have provided my personal identification number on those phone calls.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Because of unfamiliarity? A lot of keyboard nerds are now using this style, so to them it wouldn't be unfamiliar.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Why? Is it mismanaged? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cc > The .cc domain is preferred by many cricket and cycling clubs, as well as churches and Christian organizations, since "CC" can be an abbreviation
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by medstrom 4y ago
I looked for it and wow, there have been many movies with that name. 1991: Strays 1997: Strays 2015: Stray 2016: A Stray 2017: The Stray 2018: Stray 2019: Stray 2020: Stray 2021: Stray 2023 (upcoming): Strays and a 2021-2022 TV show "S
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by medstrom 4y ago
You mean because it's used as an alternative, and the activists' point is that it isn't an alternative.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Are you talking about those with brushless motors? The other kind, geared motors, should not impede anything when offline if I understand correctly. Then you just have a heavy bike, which is a problem in a hilly city but not so much in a
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by medstrom 4y ago
How would you make it impossible to make the UI unresponsive? Given that lots of packages directly want to do stuff with UI?
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by medstrom 4y ago
"clnt" would've been consistent with "srvr", both vowel-less.
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by medstrom 4y ago
To clarify why that's supposed to be cool, "MZ" are the initials of Mark Zbikowski, one of the leading developers of MS-DOS.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Maybe "hard/soft" is a bad word couple because "hard" also sounds like "difficult", implying it's higher-value. Maybe it's better to speak of "firm and fuzzy sciences".
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by medstrom 4y ago
To me "journal" is something 15-year olds will say in order to sound adult, and adults just call it a "diary". I guess I need to update this view.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Suppose that their diets are equally good for health (which is a big supposition). Suppose a hunter-gatherer and a farmer both get sick with the same thing. Why would the first die and the second not? Having access to an excess of calorie
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by medstrom 4y ago
Trajectory, maybe. If generations of moving east-ish (from Alaska) always got you to better lands, where do you suggest walking next? East!
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by medstrom 4y ago
More effort into your posts with less dramatic world-view, please.
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by medstrom 4y ago
You're arguing that it would be sensible to have, and therefore they have it? But not every entity has been created with perfect foresight.
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by medstrom 4y ago
I like how you had to specify that it was funny.

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