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1141.
by ttfkam 5y ago
He meant this new word as a warning: Modern societies would learn how to measure intelligence in children so exactly that they would be stratified in schools and jobs according to their natural ability. In Young’s satirical fantasy, this ne
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by ttfkam 5y ago
You mean dredging through Mexican territory across several roads and a nature preserve? Probably be a lot more doable without a border wall, American xenophobia, and the inherent diplomatic challenges such rhetoric has caused over the years
1143.
by ttfkam 5y ago
Any notion that we live in anything remotely resembling a meritocracy should already be thoroughly debunked if for no other reason than the results of the 2016 elections.
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by ttfkam 5y ago
Luck (and nepotism) play far too great a role in success for meritocracy to exist. https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I Then of course there's the whole "the guy who first coined term considered it a joke." Too many
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by ttfkam 6y ago
darkhttpd really is awesome. https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd
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by ttfkam 6y ago
About 50KB, but supports more than just AMD64. I submitted a patch to darkhttpd so folks can build the image themselves, but you can also download the images here. https://hub.docker.com/r/mileselam/darkhttpd/
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by ttfkam 6y ago
An in-app decoder would translate to pixel data. Why would you re-encode to a different format like PNG that's optimized for storage when rendering to a display?
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by ttfkam 6y ago
PNG was never intended to be a replacement for JPEG. JPEG is for continuous tone images. PNG (and GIF) are optimized for line art. PNG replaced GIF because the latter was patent-encumbered at the time, only supported 8-bit color, and in lat
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by ttfkam 6y ago
People of color throughout this nation's history would disagree that it only began in 2001. It's well documented that modern policing in the US began in the model of slave patrols. And it shows.
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by ttfkam 6y ago
Racism is a hell of a drug. It's the US's original sin. One it has never truly confronted in any lasting manner.
1151.
by ttfkam 6y ago
> you're only looking at one side of the story False dichotomy. Not only are there more than two options, looking to economists among others without medical training on epidemiological matters as though they should have equal standi
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by ttfkam 6y ago
You're right. > The best way to prevent the spread of viruses like Corona is to put everyone in a straightjacket and chain them to the floor in their home. Epidemiologists will keep saying people need to stay inside because that’s s
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by ttfkam 6y ago
Regarding the Surgeon General's tweets: https://www.newsmax.com/us/surgeon-general-face-masks-jerome... See earlier note about political appointees, especially by this administration. This isn't about health
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by ttfkam 6y ago
Folks are still justifiably gun shy about Tuskegee and the various eugenicist procedures from the 20th century. The reason we have restrictions on this kind of thing is precisely because it has been grossly abused whenever it has been permi
1155.
by ttfkam 6y ago
People always want to believe the Dunning-Kruger Effect applies only to other people.
1156.
by ttfkam 6y ago
But if you update, you'll get nagware on upgrading to Catalina. Damned if you do...
1157.
by ttfkam 6y ago
Yep, and they use Courgette for all of their Chrome/Chromium updates. It's why no one ever sees long "Downloading update..." progress bars in that browser anymore. 100KB binary diffs are typical. Blink (no pun intended)
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by ttfkam 6y ago
Yes it has, just not for Apple. Chrome/Chromium do Courgette (binary diff) updates to great effect. Those 8GB Xcode minor release monsters could definitely use some binary diff love. https://www.chromium.org/developers&
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by ttfkam 6y ago
I have bad news. No 14.1" screen. https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/
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by ttfkam 6y ago
Mojave wasn't perfect (I got a gray screen every few months or so), but Catalina has been measurably less stable on the same hardware, same monitors, same peripherals, etc. to the point where (as stated by others) I can't even saf
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by ttfkam 6y ago
I'm sure many people haven't noticed any problems when using WD's SMR drives in a RAID either. Does that mean there are no issues with SMR in RAID or that it is insufficiently common?
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by ttfkam 6y ago
Epidemiologists and virologists have literally dedicated their lives to effectively containing and dealing with infectious agents. Other medical doctors have focused at least a decade of intense study on the human body and the processes by
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by ttfkam 6y ago
"Caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established