mlinksva

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by mlinksva 4y ago
Newsflash (just looked it up), an iphone se is $429, a used one is cheaper, and factoring in support duration, may be cheaper yet. A friend who would've been among the last people I'd expect to use an iphone blogged this https:&#
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by mlinksva 4y ago
No, I'd just call it software support duration, or more narrowly software security update duration. "Software repairability" basically means FOSS (though I don't want to underestimate what creative people will do without
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by mlinksva 4y ago
How so? Apologies for not being specific, I was referring to support for security updates.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
The positive (and there's plenty of criticism; search and read) point being made about iphone is that it has a longer support duration. This seems highly complementary to repairability -- both seem important to maximize useful life --
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by mlinksva 4y ago
I feel we'd be remiss not to read to the end of a paragraph: However, engineers and scientists (such as Omer Emre) attributed the town escaping unscathed to geological factors, such as Erzin's relatively higher sea level compared
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by mlinksva 4y ago
https://www.sanskar.me/posts/robyns_plans_for_2023 was posted last week.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
The paper http://collins.lternet.edu/sites/temperate.lternet.edu.colli... which sadly the article neglects to link to says this: > Several differences between bison and cattle behavior potentially explain why bison
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by mlinksva 4y ago
TIL Google Search will OR up to 10 site:s.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
I'm not the target audience -- I consider most commercial content to be pollution, and piracy as free marketing for/perpetuation of such pollution -- so of course I don't subscribe to any of it, or have any interest in pirati
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by mlinksva 4y ago
> picked up by System76 I missed that. Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066593 and some updates and upstream contributions in https://blog.system76.com/post/november-at-syst
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by mlinksva 4y ago
It apparently started out fundamentally different though https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/a-progress-studies-history...
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Not the slightest clue about the commenter, but coincidentally their username led me to learn about this fictitious student https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Burdell
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by mlinksva 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallite
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by mlinksva 4y ago
From pretty much the first time I'd heard/heard of Glass (conceivably Koyannisqatsi) I found him kind of boring, and didn't listen carefully, except for the Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass album, because I love KQ. Appar
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Aside, curious what this bit of the post refers to: > Pros for Swift are focus on secure programming outside of just obsessing over memory safety like Rust. I've never used Swift at all but would enjoy learning what it brings to the
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Is there a good description of those built in controls? I skimmed around and https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.3/ug/adminguide/atta... https://www.phpbb.com/support/d
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Yeah, I think the re-render(?) breaks flow as completely as traditional reader mode, it doesn't matter that the uncluttered version retains some of the look of the original. If the text doesn't stay in the same place, flow is bro
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Yet another reason why non-headphone/amplified audio in work/public places is terrible.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
I've never used Pocket, and upon seeing it in the Firefox UI, immediately searched for how to hide it. I'm the wrong person to ask. :) But if I were to embrace such features, I'd have a naive question: why do I need to unclut
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by mlinksva 4y ago
I like it. Ought to be a built-in browser feature, in addition to generic reader mode. But then so should uBO-level ad blocking...so you may have many years. Have you considered donations/sponsors/patrons? Presumably more an occas
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by mlinksva 4y ago
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_of_cont... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Number_of_hum...
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Indeed why not. Yet another possibility: remove copyright restrictions on any work featuring alcohol or an alcohol brand.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
This is why I don't understand the opposition to stiff carbon taxes... Let's do both!
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by mlinksva 4y ago
And the article doesn't strike me as adding anything of substance over https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices... (which at least it links to).
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Ah, sorry. I assumed you were talking about Esperanto. Oops, I will re-read before replying from now on, etc.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
What are some example of borrowings from specifically _Iberian_ Romances? Not having looked into it beyond reading a bit about Esperanto's history, I'd always believed what the likes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by mlinksva 4y ago
That's an interesting analogy that I hadn't seen before, simplified as Perl : Python :: C++ : Rust in terms of conjectural market adoption. As someone who did a lot of Perl in web 1.0 times, and haven't really been a full tim
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Does not contain "tax" therefore not serious.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
Whoops, I meant reasonattllm.
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by mlinksva 4y ago
https://rapamycinstudy.org/ is collecting data on off-label use according to https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/04/collecting-data-... (reasonatllm who runs that site hasn't commen

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