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by paavoova 8y ago
Try using mpv + youtube-dl to stream Youtube. It even has playlist/mix support.
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by paavoova 8y ago
I don't quite follow your line of reasoning. Accessible food reinforces behavioral habits, so of course the cage with the food would quickly become their home. How then, exactly, can you quantify that they "love" their cage,
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by paavoova 8y ago
You're justifying what is animal equivalent of institutionalization (I'm sure there's a more technical term for it for animal behavior). I recall reading about a behavioral phenomenon, where a neglected, abused animal (a larg
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by paavoova 8y ago
Unfair? Why should a technology touted as the future be half-measured to something as "50%", as just "good enough"? When you have the human element at play, fault is easy to judge, as is blame easy to lay. When, say, a d
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by paavoova 8y ago
But for how many years is unpowered data integrity guaranteed for modern enterprise flash storage? Magnetic media excels at archival. In fact, plain old paper does, too, provided it's stored properly. I bring this up only because stora
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by paavoova 8y ago
I have both "177 Wear_Leveling_Count" and "233 Media_Wearout_Indicator" on an old Samsung SATA II consumer SSD. On a newer one, there's only Wear_Leveling_Count, but there's also "241 Total_LBAs_Written&qu
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by paavoova 8y ago
I wouldn't eat whale simply due to its mercury, PCBs, and other bioaccumulated pollutant content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519659/ For a 60 kg person, consumption of 100 g of whale
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by paavoova 8y ago
Iceland and Faroe Islands, as well. Somewhat gruesome "traditionalist" hunting is practiced [1]: baby birds just out of the nest are scooped out of the water and have their heads torn off while still alive. But the sad thing is,
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by paavoova 8y ago
Windows is "bad" for the same reason all that you listed is. It's a fallacy to excuse anti-user, anti-privacy practices under the argument that "Well, others do it too".
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by paavoova 8y ago
Kill Windows...and replace it with Steam/Linux? Don't pretend that a proprietary data mining platform that licenses titles behind DRM is in anyway better than Windows [1]. No, my fears are that this will only serve to grow the pro
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by paavoova 8y ago
This got me interested into what it takes to become lineman. For Canada, it's: - extended driver's license requirements - some high school requirements (graduate, math and sciences) - physically fit year-round - pre-apprenticeshi
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by paavoova 8y ago
Perhaps it's relative as far as entertainment value is concerned, but not as far as artistic merit is. I for one don't enjoy wading through an endless stream of consumerist drivel helmed by yes-people who just want their big break
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by paavoova 8y ago
entropy_avail returns bits of entropy to a maximum of 4096(?), but this reads 1000 bytes. Why check if it's greater than 1500 if you're going to use it all anyway? Am I missing something here?
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by paavoova 8y ago
You can apply this kind of cause-and-effect relationship to literally everything. Overeating is bad. Lack of self-control is bad when it leads to overeating. But "Tasty food is a factor in overeating" does not make tasty food, sal
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by paavoova 8y ago
Doesn't potassium work similarly then?
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by paavoova 8y ago
All proprietary tools whose developers have chosen not to support Linux and you have chosen to become dependent on.
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by paavoova 8y ago
If the trend moves towards a total societal reliance on smartphones as tools of everyday life, and a couple decades down the path it becomes impossible to opt out while still retaining a normal lifestyle and career, then it matters. It matt
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by paavoova 8y ago
Nothing, besides refusing to succumb to the idea that a mobile device is a necessity of modern life. The benefits don't outweigh the immediate concerns, but of course many disagree.
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by paavoova 8y ago
> Life with a smart phone is so much better than life before a smart phone. But at what cost? The software and OS is a locked-down ecosystem for most consumers. The hardware even more so. Such mass adoption forces one to conform in orde
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by paavoova 8y ago
If you use computers "a lot", the percentage of time required to learning a select few Linux userspace administrative tools, as well as the time dedicated to configuration and maintenance, is less than nothing compared to time spe
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by paavoova 8y ago
Why not keep the bitrate higher? Or are you re-encoding already over-compressed video? In which case re-encoding and adding noise only reduces the amount of detail and bloats the encoded size with, well, noise.
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by paavoova 8y ago
Is this similar to DNR schemes? Because that's a lossy process that reduces find detail, and is notorious for having been misused in many bluray releases of analog film remasters. And adding digital grain "back in" doesn&#x27
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by paavoova 8y ago
The process to produce the casks could be accelerated in the same pressure-aging process on wood pieces, which can then be used in place of the casks. And as the surface area of wood pieces is far larger than that of a barrel, and since pre
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by paavoova 8y ago
I don't doubt that many producers aim to improve their process and flavor profile and aim to modernize. But how can they when something like Scotch must be aged 3 years in wood to be sold as such? That is, you can replicate the traditi
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by paavoova 8y ago
I have a strong skepticism towards aged spirits of any kind due to the traditionalist nature of their production, as well as due to the inherent biases involved in anything food or drink (e.g. wine tasting [1]). Aging is solely a factor of
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by paavoova 8y ago
Some of the author's reasoning amounts to arbitrary justifications. They have a section describing the difficulties of integrating contributors patches, suggesting they're unwelcome, which is quite the high-horse stance to take wh