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by stateofinquiry 2y ago
Its surprising that archive.org is the only such outfit I have encountered. Just like we have had libraries since ancient times, why are there so few digital libraries? There must be others, but nowhere near the number (or awareness) that
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by stateofinquiry 2y ago
I'd never heard of the National Lawyer's Guild. According to Wikipedia: "The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a progressive public interest association of lawyers, law students, paralegals, jailhouse lawyers, law collective me
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by stateofinquiry 2y ago
There is no perfect choice here. I left the MS Windows ecosystem in around 2001, did not really use XP or 7. I was on various linux distros until 2015- and for my needs at the time they were great! I used mostly desktops (power management&#
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by stateofinquiry 2y ago
Items that are this obviously wrong/false are important to highlight because we can all understand them. If we rely on these tools for more complicated and less-obvious questions the false results will be harder to detect. This is not
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
Objectively there have been an absolutely enormous number of "improvements" to MS office (including Outlook and Word) over the last decade. The biggest is probably cloud/simultaneous editing capabilities. See https:/&#x
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
I'm no expert and I have not read the book you mention, but wasn't the "slow down" approach to an urgent situation tried recently, with terrible results? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uva
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
There are many factors the general public is not aware of but that play a major role in food shelf life; the whole field of "food technology" is pretty amazing and under appreciated. Chemical treatments are not the only factor- in
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
True points, and I apologize for missing you actual point and wandering off a bit. We probably need another social model for technological development specifically- but I am not sure what it might be. If there is anything useful to salvage
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
There should be no surprise that "those with power and money" will not willingly apply "technology" for social good. It should be expected, rather. Your comment brings to mind Edward R. Murrow's speech in 1958 about
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
I think two things can be true at the same time in this situation: 1) The employee made a poor choice posting meeting recording publicly. 2) The company did an appallingly poor job terminating her. Certainly this video makes me believe that
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
I miss those! I like knowing what the machine is doing, and think some (subtle) status LEDs are very helpful. Power/charging, disk activity, wifi.. good baseline minimum. I guess its too much to hope for the glorious return of the blin
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
This is not for everyone, but I host my family photos myself, most recently with this: https://piwigo.org/ . I have been doing this since 2007 (started on a different software, called "gallery". Was able to migrate
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
That is helpful- Thank you! There is a lot there indeed.
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
Serious question, where is the effort going on each of these annual OS releases? I truly don't know, probably out of ignorance. Comparability with new HW? Supporting new file formats? As far as I can tell the headline feature of the la
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
Interesting point. I have used Apple computers on and off over the years, most recently from 2015- earlier this year. I think you are on to something re: philosophy. On the hardware side I remember when they did away with floppy disks (I&#x
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
Some data: I had a "Tough Solar" G shock for field work- it was very long lasting. I got it in 2002 (if memory serves) and it lasted about a dozen years. By that point the capacitor could not hold a charge very long at all, and it
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
Even if title is misleading, this is a good reminder that you don't own or control anything you post to online platforms.
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
The grocery store example is very helpful to illustrate how its not just the quality, safety, and practicality (e.g. time) of the walk that leads to most Americans driving- there is also the fact that the whole process and experience is pre
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
This is bad, so is not getting critical information without relying on a private social media company! I felt as you do when I realized my county was using Twitter for emergency alerts during a crisis. I happen not to have an account, but w
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by stateofinquiry 3y ago
Not a book, but the Atlantic had a piece on just this topic a little while ago: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn... . The ACLU responded, and disagreed: https://www
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
to your point, this discussion from a few days ago features quite a few Apple Macs, <a href=" https://slashdot.org/story/23/04/02/0058226/ask-slashdot-wha... I thought was telling.</a
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
Unreal. Cameras in bathrooms are generally a no-no. Wouldn't this require consent from the user? Seems ripe for [legal] trouble, though the whole concept might be amusing to many.
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
Not sure why you are focused on "USA" or "non-USA", but FYI: Nature originated in the UK. Today, Springer-Nature is a major international publisher. Springer (formerly Springer-Verlag) originated in Germany, BTW.
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
This is exactly my strategy as well. Unattended, I don't think its viable for century + scale (as indicated by comments below re: formats, drives breaking, etc), but I do believe it will work for decades (2? 5? not sure). The stability
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
So much I can't understand here. Why would the load matter- is this a web app? Why would that possibly be a good idea? This seems like software that should run locally, for security, assurance, and auditability reasons. Follow up thoug
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
> We don't think Bing can act on its threat to harm someone, but if it was able to make outbound connections it very well might try. If we use Bing to generate "content" (which seems to be a major goal of these efforts) I
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
I had the same CPU from 2019 until a few weeks ago. Upgraded to a 5700X (electricity is expensive around here, so the lower wattage parts are appealing); with more aggressive memory timing got about 20% improvement in video encoding (main c
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by stateofinquiry 4y ago
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