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by syntheticnature 2y ago
I wasn't sure if it was thoughts or opinions, or an attempt to make this feel more personally relevant to readers. It did, in any case, jump out at me when I read it.
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
Been fond of "La Chasse-galerie" for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasse-galerie
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
When I was a consultant, I could not find a health insurance plan that was even vaguely the equal of my current job's health insurance. Not too expensive, but simply not offered. That's not to say that job insurance is automatical
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
Reading between the lines slightly, it sounds like this affects TVs running Roku software for inbuilt "smarts" rather than the media players themselves. Still not great, of course.
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
Some of this relates to being able to pay staff; there are some house-museums about, but they tend to collapse all too readily as it turns out it's mostly someone's passion project -- just like this, but at a smaller scale.
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
Keep, beyond legal requirements, for something as loose as Slack seems unusual to me. Having worked for some very large companies they tend to be very worried about purging email, Slack, etc., within months, before there's a chance for
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
I'm actually surprised Slack isn't actively harvesting unused free instances, to be honest. I know of at least one group that would create a free instance per-event that would then sit idle after (presumably to avoid having to dea
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
Cars from the 50s and 60s were comparatively less complex and easier to maintain and repair. Of course, they don't get the gas mileage or meet the same emissions criteria, and in a crash they aren't as survivable because they don&
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
That's just normal updates; I've never had issues doing that. That said, in-place updates to a whole new release has been fraught across every distribution I've tried it on, whether Debian-derived, RedHat-derived, or even a f
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
I figure the downloaded malware is more a reference to machines running Windows, not Ubuntu.
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by syntheticnature 2y ago
See https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Some of us like variety.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Ah, survivorship bias.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
The author is in Germany, so the situation in other places may be surprising to them.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Since I read the journal anecdote jetrink shared elsewhere in the thread before this, my first thought is "has security vulnerabilites that are classified." In any case, it's not the known vulnerabilities you need to worry ab
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere, they have that: https://9to5google.com/2023/11/14/amazon-android-echo-show-r...
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Got busy yesterday, but I see no one pointed out they already replaced AOSP on the Echo Show: https://9to5google.com/2023/11/14/amazon-android-echo-show-r... -- and it no longer supports Netflix.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
The fact they're ending this makes me wonder if the rumors of Amazon fully abandoning AOSP as the basis for FireOS are true. If so, it would be ending it because there won't be an appstore with updated apps before long.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Group owners had to import; it was not all preserved. There was some effort done with public groups by the ArchiveTeam, but I know they didn't get everything as there was no good way to find all groups.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
I took Tai Chi during college from a guy with a passion for it (his day job was as a sign painter and he was a pretty firm Christian), with no mystical overtones to his interest at all. The one thing he drove home, repeatedly, was that if y
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
From my observations, people's innate ability to relate a map to the world varies. There are some studies attempting to tie this to gender, but my experience is that is not a hard line at all. I'm sure training is a component, of
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Based on other posts on the site, I get the impression the writer is in the UK.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Where I'm at, this is already known -- all they're saying to is preserve history after subpoenas. Of course, this might encourage tightening up the retention policy -- right now Slack is allowed to go significantly longer than ema
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Less about carbon footprint and more about fuel costs, IIRC; passengers are generally more cost-sensitive than time-sensitive, so if a plane can only hit mach 0.8 (or even worse) but has better fuel economy at the relevant speeds, that&#x27
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Part of it was that CentOS Stream reversed the CentOS stability level vs. Fedora; a lot of the vendors targeting CentOS/RHEL were looking for something fairly fixed. CentOS made sure they could also support folks who didn't want t
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Tangent: As someone driving a gas car, I would like to know how your car takes only 2 minutes to refuel. 5 minutes? Certainly, if the station is not getting heavy traffic (which seems to slow the pumps), and on a long trip it's quite l
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
I was looking into water heaters that use heat pumps recently, and a lot of them function by sucking heat out of the room. While water and computers don't mix, might be an even better use for all that waste heat...
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Less about mere "dry drunks" -- which refers to someone who is sober but still stuck in the behavioral traps that led to drinking -- and more about the medical support required for abrupt detoxing from alcohol.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
When I was younger and drank more soda, I discovered I could grab a can of coke, pour it into a 24oz cup I had, then fill the can with water and pour that in and it tasted the same to me. If I focused on the flavor it was very subtly differ
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
As someone who has done quite a bit of embedded Linux development, I assure you: neither is as common as you think.

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