taohansen

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by taohansen 9y ago
the software you list shows a disinterest in considering alternatives. if you’re already considering Linux or BSD, it behooves you to also consider open source alternatives to your applications, especially when at least some of the responsi
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by taohansen 9y ago
except that China's communism has nothing to do with communism. can we come up with a new word for whatever China is, please?
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by taohansen 9y ago
and if that hasn’t convinced you, i’ll leave it to a passage from the thing itself, a conversation between a courtesan and the protagonist: > Aren't you strong enough to master reality, even for a little while?" > "What
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by taohansen 9y ago
here's another fiction book for you: The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. a professional torturer is exiled for showing mercy to a client. what it's really about is love, self, and how self relates to other. if you'd think
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by taohansen 9y ago
both parties don't make decisions i consider sane or particularly clever yet those are the only two parties i may vote for with any chance of success. the voting system is broken by outmoded/gamed structures (gerrymandering, an el
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by taohansen 9y ago
or, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.
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by taohansen 9y ago
it's happening right before our eyes. your comment gets downvoted because it openly reveals the shift as a double-edged sword. anything but leftist groupthink consensus is punished. it's the same behavior you see on any subreddit.
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by taohansen 9y ago
my Thinkpad P50 comes with a dock that slightly raises its elevation. it's a 15 inch screen. i'm 6'1'' and there's no neck strain. my teachers taught me to tuck my chin slightly when i meditate. my neck (T6 and
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by taohansen 9y ago
i do! your pelvis should tilt forward on the cushion, which keeps your shoulders at centerline. my desk is a low bench. Ikea used to sell this [1] bench, which was the perfect height for me. any other low bench will do, but you may have to
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by taohansen 9y ago
why use this over Nix or Guix?
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by taohansen 9y ago
none of these are very good. building on an Ubuntu base has always been a bad idea, be it for servers, desktops or whatever odd use-case you may have. in the end, any of the Ubuntu flavors function really about as well as the others. see an
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by taohansen 9y ago
that is your opinion. why would i purposely misconstrue your comment? i wish your answer now had been your original answer. i urge you not to assume malicious intent (that would be malicious) and consider that your original comment might ha
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by taohansen 9y ago
i disagree. you’re welcome to explain how your statement does not amount to keeping men hooked on porn so they don’t rape (because that’s the alternative).
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by taohansen 9y ago
is this what the conversation has come to? a foregone conclusion that all men ought to be drugged up on porn so we don’t go out raping and pillaging the countryside? we’re not all like this. i’m not like this. and i don’t like being told
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by taohansen 9y ago
they are still amazing. see any of the recent articles on Observer or playing a spacefaring race of tortoise in Stellaris.
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by taohansen 9y ago
it may surprise you to read but there are a non-zero percentage of people out there (inclusive me) who believe exactly the statement you just phrased as a question. these are companies which actively take advantage of the worst in all of us
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by taohansen 9y ago
i am a film student. after each film is finished, i store the smaller proxy files and get rid of the rest. since this is an archive of my literal life's work, i store everything to my attached USB drive, which gets synced to my NAS, wh
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by taohansen 9y ago
just make a client front-end for Linux, please! there’s literally dozens of us who would pay for the privilege. or let us pay what the Mac and Windows users do for whatever frontend we want. switching everyone over to the B2 protocol is o
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by taohansen 9y ago
“Artificial flavoring”? Well if this isn’t loaded... You, most of all, should do as he advises and get out of your conditioned shell and constricted perspective. He was trying to share some of the beauty he had experienced. Since you seem t
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by taohansen 10y ago
Can someone point out the differences between this and CloudReady? First flush this looks like duplication of effort or making a competitor because.
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by taohansen 10y ago
I'm willing to call bullshit on this. Space and time may be constructs but they are "helpful" constructs in that they model specific forces which apply to both us and the mountain. I perceive the waste of this body over time: