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by ordu 2y ago
Well, I manage it sometimes, but I then I forget how I did it. I think the way to do it, is to try to download something with ff again, but stop at the file chooser dialog to figure out where it points to.
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by ordu 2y ago
> can't figure out how to unzip a zip or even finding out where files get downloaded to. I have issues with that. FF doesn't show the path in the list of downloads. There is a button to start a file manager, but I have no fil
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by ordu 2y ago
> professional training as a therapist does not produce a statistically significant improvement in ability to treat mental health conditions. It produces a statistically significant improvement, just not with people who are already gif
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by ordu 2y ago
Java doesn't enforce the rule "mutable XOR shared". But if you have a link "child" in the parent node, and a link "parent" in the child node, then parent.child.parent == parent, and compiler cannot know it
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by ordu 2y ago
> Does Rc really resolve the core problem this post is talking about, which is that it's really painful to naturally express tree and graph structures in Rust? No, but Gc will not resolve the core problem either. The core problem
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by ordu 2y ago
> a generator with fuel storage on site probably makes more sense Storing fuel is dangerous in general, but I believe that liquefied gas is more dangerous. It is more tricky. For example you need to store it in a ventilated environment
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by ordu 2y ago
> I don’t know anyone that wants a partially functioning stovetop Maybe some repair shop wants to buy it cheap, to repair, and to sell for profit? Or not buy, but to repair it to you for a fraction of the price of a new stove top? &gt
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by ordu 2y ago
He has a potential motive to lie or to distort the truth. Or maybe he has not, but an outside observer cannot know it for sure. So if he will speak freely he will become a target of attacks based on his supposed hidden motivation, and it ca
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by ordu 2y ago
Sometimes I fantasize about what lunar architecture might look like. Low gravity will enable architects to do pretty wild things. But with this material it may be even wilder.
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by ordu 2y ago
Neither is more authoritative, but if we lay aside science to rely on our common sense, then we'll get to "we don't really know, but my guts say me that X is true", aren't we? If we look at the scientific consensus
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by ordu 2y ago
It is the same with programmers who writes open source programs just for fun of it. And I remember in 2000x there were people who thought that it is a bad idea. There were even lawsuits filled by programmers who couldn't sell their pro
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by ordu 2y ago
I laughed at the inscription on the blackboard (the photo in the article) "Gödel's proof -- too important to be left to mathematicians".
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by ordu 2y ago
> There has to be something deeper to gambling addiction. If so, then what is it? I believe that B.F.Skinner and his pigeons answered this question. As a legend tells us, once upon a time Skinner's apparatus that controlled reinfo
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by ordu 2y ago
> They can be _represented_ that way (but not uniquely, e.g. c=(a+bi) vs abs(c)=r, arg(c)=Θ) or they can be treated as fundamental (defined by axioms), or as a sub-field of the quaternions, etc. Hmm... If we are looking for the simplie
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by ordu 2y ago
Complex numbers are just tuples of real numbers with some rules how to add and multiply them.
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by ordu 2y ago
> Changing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is not the only way to change the climate, and is unlikely to be the cheapest way to change the climate. We are changing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and it is the main driver for t
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by ordu 2y ago
It is easy. It is just a tl;dr version of "how to install gentoo". :)
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by ordu 2y ago
Yeah, glibc was a bad example. Probably libz.so or something would be better.
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by ordu 2y ago
There is an easy way to deal with this in Gentoo. Boot from usb or something, run mkfs.ext4 (or .whatever fs you use) on your / and /usr partitions, mount them, unpack stage3 on them, chroot into them and run `emerge $all-my-packa
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by ordu 2y ago
It kinda work, but not in a source based distro. If you can atomically rebuild @world with changed definition of off_t, then there will be no problem. But source based distro doesn't rebuild @world atomically. It rebuild one package at
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by ordu 2y ago
> You're assuming that there is a qualified specialist in the area in question. This is a necessary assumption, because you cannot be a specialist in the most fields. You can probably be a specialist in one narrow field, if you sp
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by ordu 2y ago
> I really hate these type of questions. The open ended questions that is about myself is not something useful. Yes, it can be helpful for a professor, who could see what is interesting for the audience and modify their lectures accord
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by ordu 2y ago
It seems to me as too black-and-white view: either you understand the science, or you don't understand it, with no ground in between. I want to understand nature, but I have limited amount of time to spend on this goal. So what? Wouldn
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by ordu 2y ago
> you should just ignore it. I believe we shouldn't ignore it. I know about physics from pop-science mostly, so I have limited choices, either "space stretching", or (if I just ignore pop-science) "I have no clue wh
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by ordu 2y ago
> I'm guessing it would create a bunch of angular momentum and throw out almost all their masses as gravitational waves. Will be a fun experiment for someone in a few hundred years. I'm not a physicist but it sounds to me lik
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I didn't say that it is bad. I said I can't understand it. I also cant understand quantum mechanics, it doesn't mean that QM is bad.
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> The article explains the constraints (speed, accuracy, comfort, avoiding online criticism, attractiveness, etc) that the author lives with. Did you intend to point at a more general situation that you've encountered? Yes, I refe
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by ordu 2y ago
It is always fascinates me how far people could go in a pursuit of their definition of a beauty. I'm not surprised at all when someone builds a keyboard from scratch because they do not like the arrangement of the keys: whether they ar
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by ordu 2y ago
> They don't make sense logically In practice such situations can arise in one of two cases: 1. some non-sense creeped in 2. logic is applied to a self-contradictory set of axioms and definitions. (1) is not very interesting, but
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by ordu 2y ago
> I see this repeated often - blame placed entirely on management and not the workers. Why do you believe that? Because it is management who hire and fire workers, who pays them salary, who says them what to do, who does the quality ch

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