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by pjlegato 3y ago
Children don't actually NEED electronic entertainment of any kind. Kids lived that way for a very long time.
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Networking is a continuous, ongoing process. You must pre-plan networking. It must be executed well in advance of actually needing a favor from the network. It is the opposite of a "transactional" interaction, such as buying somet
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Not so. Armed security guards are indeed legal and licensed to carry firearms in almost all US states[1], as well as in almost all European Union states[2], Japan[3], Australia[4], and Canada[5]. So, in nearly the entire 'developed wo
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by pjlegato 3y ago
By far the best way to operate is via in-network connections you already have. This could be former employers who were happy with your work as an employee, former colleagues at those jobs, people you know from your local university or tech
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Licensed private security guards who are armed, trained, and legally able to deal with lethal force are common all over the world.
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by pjlegato 3y ago
The features offered by commercial engines are lightyears ahead of FOSS engines, especially at the high end. If you're running a commercial game studio in such a brutally competitive market as video games, how can you afford to use FOS
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Indeed; this is the bulk of AWS / Azure / Google Cloud's business model, the so called "kill zone" adjacent to their infrastructure offerings. They let startups conduct the risky, expensive R&D to find product-m
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Not quite. "Selling you something" and "satisfying a debt owed" are not the same thing. A sales transaction is not the same thing as a debt. It is perfectly legal for a counterparty to decline to enter into a sales trans
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Non sequitur fallacy; mismanaged and abusive hospitals are not an inevitable consequence of involuntary committment for people with severe mental illnesses who are unable to take care of themselves. There are also many cases of mismanaged a
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by pjlegato 3y ago
If it's that important and you've left it until the night before, you have failed to do your own job properly through inadequate prior planning.
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by pjlegato 3y ago
If it makes you feel any better, people also do the same sort of inaccurate cultural reductivism about the United States -- a vast geographical area containing many strongly differentiated local regional cultures -- on a daily basis.
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by pjlegato 3y ago
This is correct. The core value-add of e.g. Slack is not actually "transmit messages between authenticated users." There were dozens of other applications, both commercial and open source, that already did exactly that when Slack
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by pjlegato 3y ago
SSH has supported MFA for decades: https://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+mfa
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Indeed, Germany, Ireland, and France (among others) exhibit both extremely high productivity[1] and extremely high per capita alcohol consumption[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_pr...
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by pjlegato 3y ago
As a direct result of Stallman's uncompromising disinterest in what values people in the broader world actually wanted to engage with -- instead attempting to dictate his own moral views as a petty tyrant -- GNU _as a project_ hasn&#x2
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by pjlegato 3y ago
It's even older than that: Amazon began doing this in the 90s. Their initial idea was to synchronize warehouse inventory with the online store in realtime, so that users would never buy anything out of stock. That proved logistically d
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by pjlegato 3y ago
"Products targeted to non-experts" bears emphasizing: prior to the early 2000s, "using computers" (for any purpose) was a very niche activity, not a mainstream thing that everyone did all the time every day. Either you w
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Having standardized design and widgets across all UIs makes it easy for a user to figure out what's going on by making your application look, feel, and work the same as all others. Anyone familiar with the general HIGs can just sit dow
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by pjlegato 3y ago
This is an inaccurate and highly reductive stereotype of what the supposed "Anglophone" cultural world believes about friendship. In reality, there are vast cultural differences between different English speaking regions, which fo
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Let's not overly stereotype here. America is a huge place with many radically distinct cultural regions. Certain regions have this "forced positivity culture," notably the west coast. Others, such as the northeast, are famous
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by pjlegato 3y ago
The retail price of renting the GPU includes, among other things, the cost of the power bill that the cloud service pays (or else they'd lose money.) The more efficient GPU will, all else the same, be cheaper to lease.
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by pjlegato 3y ago
Writing "produced on equipment that also processes peanuts" on a food label is hardly inconveniencing others. It's still very much on the parents to prevent harm to their peanut-allergic children. As an aside, the sharp rise
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by pjlegato 3y ago
That statement is not true of Western music in general, only of most (not all) classical and poular music since roughly the 18th century, when "equal temperament," tunings designed to make all keys sound the same, became popular.[
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by pjlegato 4y ago
_With_ publicly funded education, however, everything boils down to what some small group of unelected bureaucrats decide. That is arguably much worse. It's also worth noting that most countries with totally free higher education empha
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by pjlegato 4y ago
Those warnings and replacement schedules are calibrated for heavy use in a mission-critical office environment, where people are printing dozens to hundreds of pages an hour (depending on the specific model) all day, every day; and where an
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by pjlegato 4y ago
Start smaller. Set a timer for one minute, and get them to "do nothing for one minute." Build up from there.
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by pjlegato 4y ago
Mathematica is a comprehensive symbolic manipulation engine and functional programming language written by a physicist starting in the late 70s. It has been used to solve various real world physics problems since the early 80s. It has been
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by pjlegato 4y ago
It should be noted that, empirically, all other economic systems that have been tried are even worse than capitalism as far as people's perceptions of their existence. Capitalist countries have border guards to keep foreigners from c
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by pjlegato 4y ago
"The government" has no money of its own. Everything "the government" does is paid for by private citizens in the form of taxes, without exception. These taxes are harvested from capitalist economic activity.
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by pjlegato 4y ago
Are the big commercial options such as Unreal and Unity significantly better when one attempts to do this sort of "off the beaten path" type stuff?

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