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by prvc 4y ago
Of the two senses I could find of the verb to frog, namely: >To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs and >To hunt frogs for food , neither one makes sense in the context of the headline.
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by prvc 4y ago
I recall having heard it in a somewhat recent solo video address of his, although I don't have the exact timestamp ready to hand.
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by prvc 4y ago
Frankly, it's self-indulgence. Recently, Stallman has been complaining about the diversion of resources away from free software towards retro computing.
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by prvc 4y ago
This line of reasoning is founded on a false premise: namely that the moderators who are not financially compensated get nothing out of performing the duties associated with their role. On the contrary, the endless supply of willing volunte
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by prvc 4y ago
>or They used a disjunctive operator, so what's your problem?
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by prvc 4y ago
Would falsely representing software intended to be proprietary as "open source" in its marketing copy have an adverse impact on the enforceability of its putative license?
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by prvc 4y ago
>Not all mohels use the pipette Yes, this seems to be acknowledged by all comments here. The initial comment you responded to said, "it is legal for them to suck the blood from the mutilated area with their mouth", which, in my
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by prvc 4y ago
In a word, cost.
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by prvc 4y ago
>This is at most commonplace within a fringe group If you describe the practitioners of this as a "fringe group", on what basis do you consider the comparison ( not even identification ) above to a ( hypothetical! ) "cult&
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by prvc 4y ago
There is a more common version which uses a glass pipette for the suction stage, in order (presumably) to avoid direct contact between mouth and wound, but crucially, this offers little or no hygiene advantage compared to the full-on ritual
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by prvc 4y ago
A better question is why would they change?
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by prvc 4y ago
>It's going from N5 to N5P, chosen by Apple over N4. Any info as to why?
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by prvc 4y ago
They lack a culture of advancing technology per se , as opposed to making use of it.
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by prvc 4y ago
Way easier to create software for it, and with more flexibility, for starters.
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by prvc 4y ago
Examples?
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by prvc 4y ago
They probably sell well.
347.
by prvc 4y ago
>Linux support could give some of these devices a second life as retro game consoles, simple home servers, or other things that low-power Arm hardware is good for. An iPhone running Linux bare metal with (hopefully) working drivers for i
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by prvc 4y ago
It seems like a concept like "the metaverse" will become necessary at some point as a kind of abstraction layer for communication via future technologies such as Neuralink. The comments I have seen from Zuckerberg on the topic of
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by prvc 4y ago
This group in particular has depended on the kudos and good-will of their audience, all united by their common identification with "alternative culture". For my part, I have not seen a sketch of theirs that touches greatness. Apar
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by prvc 4y ago
HIV is also thought to have originated via zoonotic transmission from non-human primates. Or it could be a reference to the claim that such diseases are used to create unfair stigma for the communities via which they are promulgated.
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by prvc 4y ago
He contravened their "intent" to make more (fiat) money through speculation, simply put. If they actually wanted to promote decentralization and openness, they would not be undermining trust in it and impeding its adoption by invo
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by prvc 4y ago
"Average" faces tend to be attractive, due in part to symmetry and lack of blemishes. If you mean "plain", however, I am sure you will soon get your wish. Although there are certainly many options available now, to obtai
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by prvc 4y ago
>That’s not the main message. No one cares that iPod touch is being discontinued. No one was buying them. That doesn't follow (and all three above assertions are false, to boot).
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by prvc 4y ago
My understanding is that there is no intrinsic meaning to "crf", and that it is just a rough way of controlling bitrate (in that it refers to internal variables in the specific implementation of the encoder), am I mistaken about t
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by prvc 4y ago
Would you mind giving a few more details as to why x264 is so good, and x265 isn't?
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by prvc 4y ago
For some reason, none of the AV1 encoders choose sensible (practically useful without adjustment) settings as the default, but such settings do exist, rest assured.
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N.Z. cannibalism multiplayer game unexpectedly garners a large userbase in China(stuff.co.nz)
2 points by prvc 4y ago|0 comments
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by prvc 4y ago
"Milk alternatives" (i.e. products marketed as such) are only so in the same sense that any food is a milk alternative, namely that they can both provide nutrition. That's about as far as the similarity goes.
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by prvc 4y ago
The problem is the available library, and also, the need to convert to FLAC and re-tag for proper archival is no improvement over CDs.
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by prvc 4y ago
IPFS has nothing to do with the "fediverse" (although I'm not sure what the latter is exactly), apart from being distributed in some sense.

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