simonra

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by simonra 7mo ago
My impression was that that taboo first got a firm foothold a couple of hundred years later, after the second world war showed what industrialised genocide looks like. How could the fundamental equality of all humans otherwise have been acc
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by simonra 7mo ago
We’ve known since Socrates that writing instead of speaking eroded thinking. We seriously need to stop putting packaging, especially writing, on a pedestal. Instead we should put what little lifetime we have in sum towards focusing on what’
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by simonra 8mo ago
One can argue that the tax revenue losses would be uncomfortably noticeable without the interests extracted from the investments of the oil and gas money. However I’d say it’s more about Norways position on new cars being a luxury good and
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by simonra 9mo ago
For xkcd the alt text is much easier to access on mobile at the m.xkcd.com variant of the URLs (even without the text selection shenanigans)
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by simonra 9mo ago
I wouldn’t put the number so high. I’ve on several occasions seen not very technical people unnecessarily burn money on VPSes or dedicated hosting providers because they couldn’t expose a game server for a evening session with their friends
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by simonra 9mo ago
My question is how long will it take for core necessities like push to talk in discord running in a background tab in my browser while I game with my 50+ closest friends to work under wayland. I hope I don’t develop a need for accessibility
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by simonra 9mo ago
Look up «Braess's paradox», more throughput when removing capacity is long established (century +) in systems with simplistic greedy agents like humans
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by simonra 10mo ago
I’d say in this context that politics concerns stated preferences, while culture labels the revealed preferences. Also makes the statement «culture eats policy for breakfast» make more sense now that I’ve thought about it this way.
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by simonra 3y ago
I’ve found Inkscape to work very well for editing most PDFs in any way I’ve wanted to so far. If you just want to add or alter text the interface is reasonably simple while retaining the power to change mostly anything in the document, and