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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
It's kinda hard because the CPU that makes MacBooks so power-efficient is Apple's own design, not from an external vendor. So Lenovo can't use it, nor can anyone else; they'd have to design their own, or partner with Qu
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Gnome 1 had the best design of all the Gnome versions.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
In what universe has Windows ever been a "it just works" OS? Not this one.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
There's permanent cameras pointed at the street in the red light district in Amsterdam, along with warning signs saying that photographing the women in the windows is illegal.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
They're refundable in Japan too.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>I attended a church with a modestly-sized electronic (non-pipe) organ built in 1980. There was a praise band with drums, guitar, bass, and a very shiny grand piano. The organ had fallen into disuse and it was unclear whether it could be
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
I see; this makes more sense. It's a little hard to imagine these days though, but ages ago, mobs storming the local jail and hanging a suspect wasn't that uncommon.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
It's probably rather difficult and risky to enact vigilante justice against someone who's in prison. I think the problem is with places where they don't have life sentences at all, but rather let murderers back out into socie
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
The company that builds aircraft carriers in the US tried exactly this back in the 1990s. It was a complete failure. They simply weren't at all competitive with foreign shipyards.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Don't worry, the employers will make sure these worker protection laws are all rescinded, so we can go back to workers having to share beds. The workers are happily voting for this, because they believe regulations are bad.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
If your job requires you to go on-site, or even to another part of the company to work with physical equipment, this is going to be a no-go. Not all jobs can be done from your desk.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>For people looking for a simple chat that stays simple, is this a bad thing? If the application does everything you want it to do, then no, it's fine. How much new development does grep get these days? However, it was mentioned th
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Here in Japan, malls are doing fine, AFAICT. They're a little different from American malls though: they tend to have a lot of nicer restaurants in addition to the food court. They also frequently have very specialized shops catering
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Make sure to make a place for your cat on the couch too: he or she will probably love it.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Exactly right. On top of this, they're going to have mandatory bed position assignments. Just like you currently can't choose which desk you're going to sit at, and have to put up with the most annoying person on the team as
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Nah, they can save money by buying larger beds and making employees share the beds. A single king-size bed can fit 4-5 employees.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
I just watched "Frankenstein" (by Guillermo del Toro) from last year, and thought it was pretty fantastic. "Flow" in 2024 was also fantastic.
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
>"This is how its always been" is one of the banes of my existence. It explains why we're here, but not how to do better. This is true, but it's also very useful in assigning blame (or avoiding assigning it improperly
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
There are corporations that are well-known to use lawsuits as a way of silencing people. They have lots of money to keep lawyers on the payroll and bankrupt their opponent.
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
Yes, but this also means that countless open-source projects are in what appears to be a precarious position. What if MS one day decides all this free hosting isn't worth it, and just cuts it off? There aren't really any alterna
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
Says the ableist who doesn't care about people who are physically or mentally unable to drive a car.
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
Don't be silly. Humans haven't forgotten this, only Americans have.
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
>I think someone should try banning absolutely everything but emergency vehicles. No cars, no taxis, no vans, no trucks. Only cargo bikes, hand carts and maybe palanquins. This is honestly crazy. No modern city in the world could functi
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
>But did the tractor owner win the lawsuit? Anybody can sue anybody. Yes, but this requires the accused to pay for legal counsel and go through an expensive trial. Maybe the US should fix this.
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
>The right thing go do is back off the regulation. Let land owners do what they please. If that's a parking space (it almost certainly won't be in the overwhelming majority of cases) so be it. This is exactly how it is here in
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
No, it's in very, very large part due to this. You can see it not just walking around, but especially when you go up in one of the tall buildings or in SkyTree tower and look at the city from above: you can't see any parking lots
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
One really big one that comes to mind: watching YouTube videos without ads. On an Android, you just install Firefox, then install uBlock Origin inside it, then navigate to youtube.com and enjoy. Or you can install an app like Revanced; yo
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
>Do you think it's socially acceptable to ignore everything that doesn't affect you personally? No one has the time to pay attention to every little injustice in the world. For all the people crying about Gaza, how many of t
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by shiroiuma 9mo ago
>Correspondingly, you are arguing that if they increased prices they could increase sales? Veblen goods aren't like this. If they were, everything would be priced at infinity. Veblen goods have to take into account the amount of s

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