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by nerdbert 3y ago
Obviously there are faster and slower broadband connections; by "equally fast" I assume GP meant that various services can be reached without ISP choking or throttling, thanks to EU-wide network neutrality rules.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's probably your router. The ones supplied by ISPs, as well as many cheap off-the-shelf ones, are terrible at managing load.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
There are too many combinations though. à á â ã ā ă ȧ ä ả å ǎ ȁ ȃ ą ạ ḁ ẚ ầ ấ ẫ ẩ ằ ắ ẵ ẳ ǡ ǟ ǻ ậ ặ You'd need to hold down combinations of 5 different modifier keys, and shift can't be one of them because that's used to capi
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The main problem with the German layout IMHO, and all layouts in its family, is the infuriatingly tiny left shift key. The Netherlands has the same disease. I map the useless key next to it as a shift as well, at least that way I can type w
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Almost every interaction between more than one human that involves resources is either abusive or positively redistributive to some degree. If intentional redistribution with the goal of increasing equality is immoral, that leaves abuse as
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> AGI Wait, I missed that one. Was it yesterday?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I have never spent more than 90 seconds cleaning our large cast iron pan. And that's only if it's really egged up. Whatever convenience we're talking about, it's trivial.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I don't even understand what convenience they offer. I cook a lot and find stainless steel just as easy to clean. Let it sit with some water in it after you take out the food, and by the time dinner is done it wipes clean with a sponge
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Teflon is not a PFAS anyway, so that's not really the issue. No but PFASsen are used (and typically discarded poorly) in the production of Teflon.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
They're not even the number ten bird killer.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Caribbean is too annoying. I know exactly where an island is but can't figure out which of three nearly overlapping circles is the right one.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
That doesn't make sense either. You need a vast land area to collect water for you before you can generate enough electricity from it to be worth the cost of your equipment.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It worked for a few days and then stopped loading replies. Maybe it's because I'm in the EU?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I don't understand what you mean. They make an awful lot of their money selling what I'd assume to be general purpose computing devices. I run mostly mostly open source software on mine. Almost everything made for the linux ecosys
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I bought an iPhone because Android vendors kept leaving me high and dry after a few years. I'm now on year 6 with the iPhone and it's still working great. As I understand it, I have another year or two before Apple stops supportin
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by nerdbert 3y ago
How is a laptop a substitute for a work phone? The whole reason for work phones is that people carry them everywhere. I am confused by this entire concept, I guess. I mean, I understand what it does; I simply don't understand why.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> what do You mean? I mean that Anne Hidalgo is a woman.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Himself?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Singapore made that cultural shift within a generation.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Paying for it makes sense because it establishes that the company agrees that accounts have value, and that the company will be even-handed in managing that value. Appropriating it with an offer of some laptop stickers or a Twitter coffee m
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by nerdbert 3y ago
People I know who grew up in NYC - most of whom were in primary school 30-40 years ago - mostly took the bus or the subway to school, yes, unless it was close enough to walk.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> I may be out of the loop, but can't schools just install Linux mint on these things and use them to teach kids python and *nix?? Yes but that one kid quoted in the article thinks it's like Fritos.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Not the biggest source of fiscal waste but a huge source of e-waste which is almost impossible to thoroughly recycle.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
All you really need is to drop an insulated plug over the hole in the roof during the cool months.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> It sounds like Elon had the domain and it was burning a hole in his pocket. Yeah I wonder if he "sold" it to Twitter, and if so, for how much.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If there was already a building there and nobody was using it, they could have it. Typically it didn't cost much to put up a basic house.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
And yet it still works because it's based on something that human writers did.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
This is only a concern because of a failure to provide homes for homeless people, which is well known to be the cheapest and most effective policy but is not practiced in the USA because of weird puritan fetishism. It's not really abou
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> If a program can’t pay for itself The problem is that the most valuable benefits of public transit, such as reduced congestion, reduced pollution, saved lives, etc., aren't priced in such a way that the transit system can charge t
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> This is the only way to offer the high quality of service we have The other way would be to make drivers pay for the advantages that public transportation provides them: Significantly less traffic congestion, etc. Per-km, per-kg charge

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