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by rmk2 13y ago
Does your laptop support Wake-on-LAN[1]? I know I have it activated (and sometimes use it), which means though that it doesn't power down 100%, since the NIC still has to be reachable by magic packets. That's just one reason why i
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by rmk2 13y ago
Mhm, indeed! The more you know! :)
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by rmk2 13y ago
The differentiation between a "hollywood narrative" and the "attempt at an accurate account", however, brings us a new set of problems: Who gets to decide which is which? Do we have to rely on authorial intention? Do we
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by rmk2 13y ago
Ad hominem aisde, your edit seems to actively counter your other point. My whole point is that both sites spin a narrative a certain way because they both would like history to look a certain way. The reason why I "extensively quote&
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by rmk2 13y ago
Certainly, a given anecdote might be right or wrong. The thing that seems to follow here, however, is an implied claim that because of the falsity of a given (singular?) data point, somehow the overall narrative becomes unsustainable. Howev
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by rmk2 13y ago
Self-reflexion. White's point is that these narratives and meta-narratives exist and are simply something we do. The way to go forward from there is to incorporate that into one's own writing by reflecting the implicit (or implied
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by rmk2 13y ago
Something bothers me about the conclusion of the review... "In this theory I treat the historical work as what it most manifestly is: a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose discourse. Histories (and philosophies of history
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by rmk2 13y ago
I wanted to recommend that! ;) But to expand a little, orgmode has two modes of LaTeX-integration. The first one gets normally passed from text, so you can just use e.g. \emph{} in your orgmode source file. The other is a dedicated LaTeX-en
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by rmk2 13y ago
I'm really rather happy with openSUSE. I have a VPS and a RPi running Debian stable and beta respectively, but my main laptop has been running openSUSE for years and I prefer it if possible. I think this one has been updated at least s
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by rmk2 13y ago
The Debian Wiki might have a similar use case here: https://wiki.debian.org/subkeys Have a look if that helps you!
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by rmk2 13y ago
That's what I was thinking when I was rather sorely disappointed by the measurements. I still use a Nexus One (AMOLED) and am generally very happy with it, though I would like to get Android 4.* (which I can't without repartitioni
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by rmk2 13y ago
Mhm. This one is a bit of a long shot, since it requires you to use emacs, but if that isn't a hurdle, have a look at org-mode.[1] Org-mode has a pretty intuitive mark-up syntax and can export naturally to pdf (via LaTeX), odt and html
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by rmk2 13y ago
GPG doesn't do disk encryption (full or any), and LUKS is linux-only. That's what keeps people from "just migrating away"... It doesn't matter what you or I personally prefer, if you want what at least seems to be t
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by rmk2 13y ago
Excellent, alongside the Humanities, then, we can also close down physics, because, clearly, if benefits can't be measured, why waste money? Many of the "impact" arguments assume that the only victims will be the humanities,
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by rmk2 13y ago
I'll reply to you regarding public transport, but this goes for all of the other replies, as well. The repeated failures every winter and overall frailty of the network seem to be a consequence of years of mismanagement and increasingl
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by rmk2 13y ago
They don't. The German apprenticeship system[1] requires formal certification and a coordination with Berufsschulen (trade schools). This would require a far longer existence and half-life than most startups have. [1]: https:/&#x
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by rmk2 13y ago
If you actually would like to stay in a place, perhaps it would be good if that place actually functioned? Berlin with its brilliant handling of its airport (delayed), public transport (broken), water supply (to be bought back) and famously
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by rmk2 13y ago
The tech sector does absolutely nothing for the unemployed or to allay the wider social problems in Berlin. The last big wave to hit Berlin was the move of parliament from Bonn, with countless media companies settling in Berlin in its wake.
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by rmk2 13y ago
No, it means you see your mother x times a year and your father y times a year...
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by rmk2 13y ago
The problem with usefulness (like with "impact", in my downvoted comment way towards the bottom) is that it is exceedingly hard to define . Where do you draw the line between "useful" and "useless"? Are langua
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by rmk2 13y ago
The idea of a (re-)integration of the two sides of Snow's dichotomy (alongside a critique of the concept of "The Two Cultures") can be found in Herbert Marcuse's essays[1]. There, Marcuse talks about the sciences' f
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by rmk2 13y ago
What you propose is to simply replace the dichotomy science/humanities with another, that of applied/theoretical, which necessarily moves the division and fault lines. That way, in addition to the humanities, a number of theoretic
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by rmk2 13y ago
I do not disagree. However, I have learned my lesson from previous discussions on this site, and I am quite sure that most of the upvotes-without-comments do not simply upvote because they think that this dichotomy is something to be questi
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by rmk2 13y ago
Why do you think it was posted here, without comment, just as a simple wikipedia link? The whole point is that it is widely understood as the quintessential idea of the sciences finally overcoming the constraints enforced upon them by the o
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by rmk2 13y ago
Well, thankfully that problem will soon be solved in England! The government has enacted a programme that should soon bear fruit, thanks to the introduction of "impact" and weighing publications in a new, innovative, carefully con
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by rmk2 13y ago
I'm using an EDIS[1] KVM and am quite happy with their small offering (I don't really need a whole lot of disk space). Speed is good, reliability/uptime is good, support is quick and friendly, and they have good locations all
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by rmk2 13y ago
I beg your pardon? VW is trying to establish a workers' representation in their plant, with politicians actively working against it because they fear that this will, over time, drive up the general level of income, which, in turn, wi
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by rmk2 13y ago
I'm not sure that is in the US, but I'd wager the very British notion of the "housing ladder" has much to do with the skyrocketing prices in London. The idea, in essence, is that you buy a house (ideally under market val
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by rmk2 13y ago
Here is an article[1] about how the senators and politicians in Tennessee try to avert installing a German-style Betriebsrat (workers' representation) in their Chattanooga plant. The plan is to have it with UAW. Have this lovely quot
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by rmk2 13y ago
> Without reading the paywalled study, I'd assume that reading literary fiction would give you insight into how people who write literary fiction (and those who share their demographic) see themselves, but not into their actual beha

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