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by pygar 3y ago
perfect language translation in any context of any context.
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by pygar 3y ago
The middle classes in Australia have a lot of expendable income and not much to do with it. So "safe" investment properties have become very popular. This has resulted in a lot of peoples investments being tied up in real estate.
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by pygar 3y ago
It would be nice to have this in something like coreutils so that I can be reasonably sure it's included in most systems.
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by pygar 3y ago
All these traditional cooling techniques will reduce the temp by a couple of degrees Celsius right? When you're facing 40C can your body even feel the difference?
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by pygar 3y ago
Probably a dumb question, as I'm not really on the enterprise side of Linux but: Isn't Canonical in the same business as Red Hat? Why doesn't Canonical seem to care about alleged "freeloaders"? Come to think of it,
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by pygar 3y ago
On a semi related note, WordPress recently acquired an activitypub plugin that does exactly what it sounds like. [0] So as a corporation you don't really need a mastodon instance to broadcast your stuff. I think most organisations will
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by pygar 3y ago
The fable of the "The Scorpion and the Frog" comes to mind every time I consider the current reddit problems. It's simply the nature of the beast, we all knew this was coming at some point. A lot of reddit user seems to be un
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by pygar 3y ago
personally I "buy mid-range, and replace when it breaks". Not obsessing over your possessions is freeing.
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by pygar 3y ago
Academic staff don't have access to that info do they? How could she tell them apart?
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by pygar 3y ago
> “If I went through and only passed the students I knew had put in a sincere ongoing effort I might have passed [about 2%].” The only reason I went to university is so I can apply for entry level jobs that require a university degree. A
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by pygar 4y ago
The link discusses shows that get cancelled early before a satisfactory resolution due to bad ratings. This is reasonable as usually they get cancelled because they are bad. The other side of this is shows that run too long due to the inert
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by pygar 4y ago
Although Gen X is categorises by apathy and cynicism, subsequent generations still feel that Gen X just managed to squeeze in with the boomers before the door narrowed. Especially regarding property prices. A lot of it is probably just time
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by pygar 4y ago
All of eBay's customer service problems boil down to the point that they have very little control over the process. The seller ships directly to the buyer. The money has already been exchanged. Dispute resolution is labour intensive an
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by pygar 4y ago
Every TV show/Movie franchise has two endings, when the story ends and when the money ends. Just stop watching when you're done. It might even send a signal. There is no prize for watching it all. We don't need to watch every
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by pygar 4y ago
It looks like they want to replace the desktop metaphor over time. I bet Windows will eventually resemble a fullscreen MS Teams.
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by pygar 4y ago
Most of the non-western world regards homosexuality as somewhere between an unpleasant vice and an abomination [0]. Asking a Qatari official his opinion on the subject is either going to solicit a non-answer or negative one. Even if he pers
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by pygar 4y ago
I've watched a few of his videos and I'm sure a lot of people get a lot of value from them but I've stopped watching them after noticing they are Wikipedia articles converted into a PowerPoint presentation. There is no origin
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by pygar 4y ago
Rowan Atkinson has either a stutter or stammer (The two are used interchangeably but they are different) [0]. I suspect this influenced the physical (and mostly non-verbal) comedy of Mr. Bean as well as his earlier standup. He also blocks o
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by pygar 4y ago
I work with a guy like this, someone who is always "cracking jokes" and it can be annoying. Especially when someone in your team is trying to convey something they want taken seriously. I'm probably venting, but consider this
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by pygar 4y ago
> Since I'm in the tech bubble, everyone else I hang out with is quite well to do and smart, but any time I've met people outside of this bubble I feel depressed and sad. So what? You hang out with allegedly smart people, we pr
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by pygar 4y ago
I really wish that a jq type program was included in coreutils (or similar). I have wanted to to use it a few times but could never be sure it was going to be installed.
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by pygar 4y ago
Remember that a lot of these accounts are told with rose tinted glasses. The world would not have been that different whoever won. The same type of abstractions would have been build on top of whatever was left standing and we would have mo
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by pygar 5y ago
I have never heard of this "one page" rule. Maybe it's meant for those people who cram every detail and buzzword in their resume mistakenly thinking that if they chance on the right combination of words it will help them. Min
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by pygar 5y ago
Do you have an "IT guy" who knows how to manage systems? Perhaps I'm assuming a lot from your one sentence but it sounds to me like you are a bunch of techies who decided they can do their own IT and now realise you cant. I w
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by pygar 5y ago
> Is it just me, or I feel like Google does not provide anymore good results for me. I am starting to suspect that there might be nothing to find. I just don't think people (other then the tech oriented) are creating websites and ru
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by pygar 5y ago
Something to note is that your credibility doesn't go with with you in a new job. You need to build it up again more or less from zero. Focus on being competent and as long as you are pleasant, the natural comradery of having a shared
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by pygar 5y ago
I cobbled together a bash script that used the cloudflare API to update the A record when my IP changed. It worked well. Prior to that i used https://freedns.afraid.org which is free if you are willing to share your domain (peop
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by pygar 5y ago
The word "terrorism" wasn't yet in the common vernacular. The people in the video were having a hard time articulating what they saw "That was a..dead on kill, he did it on purpose!".
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by pygar 5y ago
I ended up building mine with extremely standard html/css (no js but that was by accident). I didn't want to fall into the old trap of the writer who obsesses over his tools and never ends up writing anything. Basically I just cop
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by pygar 5y ago
Learn to read, write and speak. Learn to speak to people. Learn how to build and maintain relationships (I don't necessarily mean romantic ones). I know it's glib, but HS is a good time to focus on those social skills because you

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