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by pard68 3y ago
Why are people (or maybe it's AI, ha!) writing hit pieces about a non-profit who attempts to make classical works widely and freely available? Not sure who/what "quartz" is but it's giving off major writing-for-hire
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by pard68 3y ago
This is a fairly common, and I believe correct, use of the word "tag". The MSDN reference uses the term in a similar manner (as do countless other definitive resources and tools). Consider the first sentence of the MSDN's pag
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by pard68 3y ago
Ya I kinda hate that. Needs work. But also I use my seven and six year olds at my litmus test, they laugh, it ships, so these things do happen. Be sure to click all the little marginalia cartoons!
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by pard68 3y ago
Love the colors and your graphs. Here's mine, https://drollery.org (I have not put much effort into the mobile version, it's a bit wonky since a recent styling update, best enjoyed on desktop). This is mostly in exerci
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by pard68 3y ago
Ya I love finding sites that are uniquely someone's, not SEO optimized knock-offs. I personally might not find the design appealing, but I appreciate when someone makes their site theirs. Likewise, most will not enjoy my site's de
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by pard68 3y ago
I assume it's the Navy doing the work, maybe the Army. If either branch is like the Air Force then they'd get some nice additional money for working there. You get a nice pay bump for working in Alaska and the North Pole. I assume
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by pard68 3y ago
The military get paid too.
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by pard68 3y ago
My roommate through all of college was a man from Taiwan. We were and still are good friends. He started dating a girl from Japan around our Sophomore year and the next thing I knew our room was full of cases of canned coffee. Turns out the
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by pard68 3y ago
Did that this morning. Been using Doom for years as my config base and got tired of not really "knowing" emacs and not being able to quickly solve problems. Finished my own mostly vanilla emacs conf this morning.
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by pard68 3y ago
I agree, the article comes off as being particularly anti-CCP. We can discuss the merits of that position, but it's disingenuous to not point out that Western-centic models do the exact same thing.
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by pard68 3y ago
This is very ironic. The LLM output samples I have seen from OpenAI and Facebook are horribly censored as well. Article on HN a week or two ago highlighted how FB's model refused to answer questions about the Bible citations or about p
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by pard68 3y ago
Visibility is so bad in some new vehicles. The windshield on my old Chevy truck is greater than 180°, it's fantastic, especially since it's such a large vehicle, you really want to see as much as possible
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by pard68 3y ago
That's true, but this isn't a solution, it's my hobby. No one has suggested that people should buy only antique vehicles. But to clear up this, it's a relatively inexpensive hobby if you are discerning and can wait. Only
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by pard68 3y ago
Never once suggested it would. All I said was that this is why I personally avoid new cars. I dislike things I cannot fix and I dislike things that actively harm me. If you or anyone else feels this way, the onus is upon you to solve it. Mo
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by pard68 3y ago
Really depends, you can find some 80s and I think even till 93, trucks without any computers. I have a 1954 Chevy 2-ton and the early 90s Chevy 3500HDs and the early 90s GM box trucks are great donors because a lot of stuff is sized (axles
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by pard68 3y ago
Highly unlikely in the US as a whole. California, maybe. Most other states this won't be the case.
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by pard68 3y ago
That's your choice. You can buy new, convienent, modern cars that spy on you and will be dead in ten years. Or you can buy old, reliable cars that lack most modern amenities but can be repaired forever with a metal lathe and a welder.
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by pard68 3y ago
Or have skills and time
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by pard68 3y ago
I also have an '54 Chevy, a '62 CJ, a '69 wagon, a '68 Suburban, and a '84 Ford. I have a pretty good track record of keeping old things running well. Eventually my new cars (01 and two 03s) will cease to be repaira
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by pard68 3y ago
Things like this are a part of why my newest vehicle is an '04 Suburban.
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by pard68 3y ago
Should I write a new screenshot tool for the screenshot tool's readme?
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by pard68 3y ago
I personally have found there is something of an art to a good readme. So folks can make one that is informative and visual, others can't. I have a project or two that suffered because my readme designing skills suck, then talented fri
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by pard68 3y ago
Yes, I am in favor of doing our best to return America's savannahs back to their previous state, though that state was not quite "wild" as you rightly point out, as Native Americans tended to the land and practiced regular bu
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by pard68 3y ago
My point was simple that you can do that while still raising animals for food. They taste great, have a wealth of nutrients, and they can improve the ground they are on at the same time.
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by pard68 3y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. There is no possible way to raise animals the way we do at a scale that can sustain the current demand for meat. But at my small scale, I can make a profit while matching the sales price of mass-produced animal produ
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by pard68 3y ago
Do you normally find questions to be attacks?
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Totally possible to raise animals without this though. There is a massive percentage of the land that cannot grow much other than grasses and shrubs. Animals can convert that to calories we can consume, leaving more biologically diverse lan
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by pard68 3y ago
Apple, cherry, pear are all hard crops because of bug predation. My rudimentary understanding (I am a farmer just not a fruit farmer, so I just know what other farmers tell me) is that these non-native fruit trees have to contend with bugs
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by pard68 3y ago
The real issue that I see with GMO is the reason for it, namely creating crops immune to poison. I am all for GMOs that produce a better plant but the practical result of GMO is a plant that can tolerate poison.
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by pard68 3y ago
Are you saying the points matter the inbetweens don't? It doesn't matter what's happening in rural America or the middle of Africa, or Siberia, you have an average of various distributed points across the globe?

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