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by stakkur 4y ago
I like the concept of this laptop. I really want to like the laptop itself, enough to buy one. But for me, it always comes down to the experience of the user interface--the keyboard, trackpad, and screen. And that always brings me back to M
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by stakkur 4y ago
http://www.5z8.info/ip-stealer_c7y3xy_horse-slaughter
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by stakkur 4y ago
Medical imaging is not copyrightable (in the US, and I would be surprised if it were anywhere else). This explains a bit: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2018/01/who-owns-the-copyright...
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by stakkur 4y ago
Maybe what's losing market share is the monolithic 'CMS'. Content, for lack of a better term, has long since outgrown the hoary confines of tools like WP.
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Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media(disinformationchronicle.substack.com)
213 points by stakkur 4y ago|176 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
I’ve had an ebay account continuously since 1999. I never use it for selling anymore; the Chinese junk resellers, bias towards those kinds of sellers, and ridiculous fees have warned me off. I only buy.
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by stakkur 4y ago
No true Scotsman.
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by stakkur 4y ago
(Almost) all programmers are niche programmers.
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by stakkur 4y ago
I work for a major healthcare provider (thousands of nurses) and while there's a lot of unhappiness, nowhere near '90%' are considering leaving. And really, this is a red herring; the real problem started long before COVID. T
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by stakkur 4y ago
I would still use OS 8/9, warts and all, if it were practical and worked reliably with modern software/hardware.
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by stakkur 4y ago
I still pause when I see how much Sabine looks like Klaus, the lead singer of the Scorpions.
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by stakkur 4y ago
So does almost every bookstore and library across the country. This is a bit of a tempest in a teacup, taking school board shenanigans in various local areas and making it sound like broad swaths of Americans “can’t access books”.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Is it not widely known anymore what a nasty operator Sandberg is? Once upon a time she was rather infamous.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Happiness is giving up all hope of a better past.
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by stakkur 4y ago
This is great. I believe Firefox does this already, and you can do it on Safari via extension/plugin (Amplosion, Overamped).
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The Truth About Salt(dietdoctor.com)
2 points by stakkur 4y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
So malware has finally crossed the electronic-human barrier. Wow.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Except that he did answer his question. Which is different than helping him solve his dilemma.
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by stakkur 5y ago
The problem is in the question: the game dev wants to know how to reconcile ethics and his desire to make money from making games. Stallman is saying “it’s not my job to help solve your dilemma.” And he’s right. If I ask a doctor ‘how can I
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by stakkur 5y ago
This seems to just be a pastiche of ‘how to write well’ advice that you’ll find most anywhere. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful, but it’s not saying anything that hasn’t been said before, and often more clearly.
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by stakkur 5y ago
As a counterpoint, I'd read Michael Pollan. Also, a fundamental problem with this article is the lumping of 'psychedelics' into a neat category so it can be critiqued. In the real world, the story of what's happening is
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by stakkur 5y ago
Nah. You know what I'd buy? A proven laptop brand that a third party revamped/Coreboot-ed/etc. and resold. These mediocre, unproven, semi-bespoke laptops with third-rate keyboards and so-so screens (the two features that real
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by stakkur 5y ago
Most useful thing I've ever learned about memory: every time you recall a memory, you change it. Memory is not a fixed or static 'historical record'; ultimately, it's unreliable.
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by stakkur 5y ago
1979 was the first year I touched a computer--a Decwriter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECwriter#/media/File:Decwrite... ) that was the flagship of my high school's nascent 'Computer Club', of
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by stakkur 5y ago
The 80's were my 20s. It's hard to explain to younger folks how the 80s (especially early 80s) felt, culturally. The whole 'Japan, Inc.' thing was in full swing, and the general feeling was that Japan was eating the worl
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by stakkur 5y ago
My wife's a middle school teacher for over 22 years. If you want an unvarnished view into just how bad things have gotten since the pandemic begain--for mental health, school engagement, and all things related--talk to a teacher. It&#x
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by stakkur 5y ago
Max weight 220lbs. Oh well.
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by stakkur 5y ago
No, it's not. 'Children of Men' is about infertility; this article is about voluntary population decline (people choosing to have fewer children, an entire subject on its own). This is a bit of clickbait, of course.
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by stakkur 5y ago
I don't normally defer to Wikipedia, but on this topic the Wikipedia entry is far more informatative and less slanted towards trying to make them about 'narrative stories': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q
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by stakkur 5y ago
I realize this is a shiny-happy-amoral-tech-all-the-things world, but please--don't 'build' any trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

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