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by orra 6y ago
> autism is now a treatable disease? I didn't say cure. But there are therapies for autism: therapy, for a start. > Is LGBTQ++ also treatable according to you? That's a crass straw man. Being LGBT+ is not a disorder. Indeed,
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by orra 6y ago
A plethora of women have come forward, with their stories of sexual harassment and manipulation by RMS. (See links in other posts; e.g. the first link in the open letter's appendix.) This isn't just about him describing a "
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by orra 6y ago
Stallman seems to have a history of being manipulative and sexually harassing women. https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... He also has some troubling views that at best make him an inappropriate
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by orra 6y ago
Urgh! With SMTP it is even worse, because people talk about “SSL” vs “TLS” in the config dialogs. But they don't actually mean SSL vs TLS. They mean a TLS connection (like HTTPS uses) vs StartTLS (where you start out SMTP plaintext the
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by orra 6y ago
Any idea what the required GPU time would cost (if not donated)? Is GPT-3 just a commodity soon?
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by orra 6y ago
Well, there’ll always be a long tail. But if you start with the popular apps and frameworks first, you get the most bang for your buck. It wouldn't surprise me however if sandboxing is only a good model for GUI not console app. IIRC th
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by orra 6y ago
TBF you could put support into the two common GUI toolkits, to defer to a Flatpak portal.
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by orra 6y ago
I mean the thermal (and hence, electrical) inefficiency of keeping hot water warm all the time. Similarly, even with good insulation, a combi boiler is more efficient than having a hot water tank.
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by orra 6y ago
> Couldn't that be possible? I mena, in principle, presumably. > that QEMU already does Potentially a couple devices. But for most of the hardware, probably not. Regardless they might—I would—find QEMU harder to hack on, harder t
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by orra 6y ago
Convenient but inefficient.
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by orra 6y ago
Yeah, we use the kettle all the time, for quickly bringing water to the boil. Always for pasta. Sometimes for potatoes (though they are probably better gradually heated from cold). A power boil option would be a decent alternative. I'm
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by orra 6y ago
From web searching, North America is 120V but two phases. So you could redo the socket to 240V without running new cable through your walls. But that's kinda academic if nobody sells kettles that have the North American 240V plug.
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by orra 6y ago
Sure. But what about 1.7L? That's what my typical kettles does, at maximum. It's great for boiling water for cooking; at 230V it's faster than heating on the hob. But if it took 7–8 minutes, that'd be frustrating.
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by orra 6y ago
> 27 minutes to boil water? Again, what? They're exaggerating. But your typical North American electric kettle is—ballpark—twice as slow as a European kettle. Your standard North American sockets provide half the voltage but not dou
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by orra 6y ago
Haggis is made from offal, and is absolutely delicious. You can't buy the real stuff in the U.S.A., however, because apparently eating cooked ground up lung is dangerous. Drivel.
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by orra 6y ago
> better meat cuts. Better is quite subjective. Yes, we humans nowadays generally prefer to eat muscley meat. But other animal parts like offal can be quite nutritious. Traditionally the Inuit, for example, had a diet incredibly high in
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by orra 6y ago
True, though is there any point? ripgrep's homegrown regex engine only supports true regular expressions. To give backreference support, ripgrep can optionally use PCRE. But PCRE already comes with its own drop in grep replacement...
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by orra 6y ago
True, but then you have the occasional headscratcher that the command behaves differently in your script than when you run it manually.
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by orra 6y ago
Not having to specify "-rHInE" on every invocation is one killer reason to use ripgrep, over grep. It's a concrete advantage of you not having 100% compatibility as a goal. (The other killer reason is the blitzing speed.)
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by orra 6y ago
> My very own system did not work with Pulseaudio when I tried to switch, that was years later. I still use only ALSA because of that experience. At that time Pulseaudio was garbage, it should never have been used then. It only got accep
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by orra 6y ago
I can't agree with your pedantry here. > When an integer can be reliably represented, that presumably You are right that the wording is not precise, but now you're putting a lot of meaning into what you admit is an assumption.
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by orra 6y ago
> Media are reporting that wealthy migrants are still being welcomed Ouch, that article links to one from May 2020. It said the Avatar film crews were allowed to fly in, whilst families were separated.
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by orra 6y ago
> But this is being spun to imply that it's a serious threat to people who are otherwise in extremely low risk categories for severe covid. There's no solid evidence for that. It's a numbers game. When hundreds of millions
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by orra 6y ago
> I really don’t think we’ll look back on this and think, “Eh, a half a million people died, oh well,” particularly not with a more historical lens, but I could definitely be mistaken. Agreed, it's horribly callous.
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by orra 6y ago
> A lot of the people claiming to have debilitating "long COVID" were never actually tested positive for COVID in the first place. Worth keeping in mind it was impossible to get a COVID test for a large fraction of the first
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by orra 6y ago
> All the "long covid" stuff is essentially fear mongering. There's no science behind it. That's not true. Studies are showing large fractions, say 10-25% of COVID patients are suffering symptoms after a month. COVID
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by orra 6y ago
> So even a disease that threatens .1% of the population with death The IFR for COVID is likely ten times that, at least in societies with decent numbers of older people. > Almost nobody notices or remembers blips of abnormally high &
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by orra 6y ago
It's pretty contagious, to be fair. Still, I think you're right when you say perhaps unnecessary: some countries have successfully suppressed COVID without eliminating it. That said, it's some but not many countries. I&#x27
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by orra 6y ago
LSP supports semantic highlighting: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi... Though AIUI the basic syntax highlighting is done by the editor (e.g. VSCode uses Textmate grammar support).
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by orra 6y ago
Thanks, checkrestart looks useful. I wasn't aware of it. Given that it's in a goodies package though, I assume it's not integrated with apt—at least by default. I'm thinking of that apt prompt that says "There are s

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