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by nickserv 2y ago
Japan has their own disagreements with China, don't think they would even if the US would allow it.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Nice. It's always a pleasure to see the print versions of Pepper&Carrot at the local bookseller, knowing that it's mainly done in Krita, and other OSS. And of course the stories are cute! Will pick up a copy when available in
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by nickserv 2y ago
JavaScript required just to read a page describing a CLI tool? I'll pass.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Nah, it's the equivalent of seeing faces in static, or animals in clouds. Our brains are hardwired to see patterns, even when there are none. A similar, and related, behavior is seeing intent and intelligence in random phenomenon.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Looks like that mentality is exactly what caused them to lose out to SpaceX. They thought they were the monopoly and now find themselves out of the picture. Same mentality with their civil aviation business. Their failure to invest in the c
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by nickserv 2y ago
Indeed, and later on in the same sentence: > this is one reason I’m not a huge TypeScript fan Sorry but TS is the only thing making the JS ecosystem palatable. So many bugs caught thanks to typing...
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by nickserv 2y ago
To the downvoters: I am well aware that Linux can run modern games. In fact my gaming rig is a KDE Neon 6.2 install with all latest mesa, amdgpu, etc. I play the latest dx12 games just fine on it. But the original point wasn't whether
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by nickserv 2y ago
Not sure if 500 mods is "mega", but Skyrim runs fine using wine-staging. Indeed no issues with dx9 for a long time now. Never tried LoL, but dx12 games like Horizon ZD/FW run well enough with ultra settings for the former, hi
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by nickserv 2y ago
Gamers typically want to be able to customize their hardware.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Why bother when most people just use whatever the hardware comes with?
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by nickserv 2y ago
... until you need dx12 support.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Yes, mingling with hardened criminals for a few years is the perfect way to work on self improvement.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Yes, I'm wondering if mangroves will start appearing in the Mediterranean any time soon. I'm assuming the seeds would need to come in through the Gibraltar straight, which is not exactly wide... Also the Med is saltier than the At
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by nickserv 2y ago
Alligators were already found as far north as Virginia in the pre-industrial era.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Some of the earlier Mars rovers used inflatable balloons to cushion the landing. They bounced around for dozens of meters on rocks without popping. Not an expert by any means, but would think it should be possible to inflate a gas bag at a
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by nickserv 2y ago
A balloon inflated at 1 bar would float around quite nicely in the venusian atmosphere.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Sheet music often has fingering suggestions when adapted for a particular instrument. I say "suggestions" because on some instruments, like the guitar, there are multiple fingerings possible for the same note. Which leads to somet
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by nickserv 2y ago
Tablature does precede standard notation, by hundreds of years. In fact tabs are older than guitars and were heavily used for lute music.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Yes let's not do anything about a major problem the entire world is facing, lest you be slightly inconvenienced.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Put it in a healthy compost pile and it will get eaten away. Even bone biodegrades, given enough time.
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by nickserv 2y ago
Agreed, there's definitely the emergence principle at work when looking at how groups of people function. The population of a city or a nation is similarly greater than the sum of its parts, and there is an emergent property in both ca
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by nickserv 2y ago
Not sure I understand, what has the EU done to encourage a credit card monopoly? That there's basically a world wide Visa/MC duopoly isn't something the EU has actively encouraged as far as I know, only regulated as you menti
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by nickserv 2y ago
Exactly, the rules are meant to prevent monopolies from forming in the first place.
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by nickserv 2y ago
I get what you're saying, but Apple are a group of people, so they are human. Like the local book club, or Hamas. Anyway, you don't have to look very far to see the many horrible things done to humans by other humans. The word &qu
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by nickserv 2y ago
Yes it's called a monopoly and this is precisely what the EU is trying to avoid.
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by nickserv 2y ago
If you have a liver from a serial killer, and commit murder, can you blame the liver? Asking for a friend.
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by nickserv 2y ago
The market can't do much in this case, as within the US, Boeing has a monopoly, and internationally its only competitor is Airbus. And there is a very strong "lock-in" in regards to pilot type rating. So while there is some c
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by nickserv 2y ago
Boeing employees are penalized and threatened for reporting safety and quality issues, and whistle blowers are retaliated against. In that kind of situation, it absolutely is a management responsibility.
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Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules(theguardian.com)
4 points by nickserv 2y ago|3 comments
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by nickserv 2y ago
From one anti-consumer, anti-choice overlord to another? Yeah... I'll stick to open source, thanks.

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