unfocussed_mike

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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Sounds more like it's going to be: browser, without the ease of use
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
It is worth noting that some melodies have a sort of institutional quality -- you can hear them so much they fade into the background of everything, and you become sort of blind to the fact that you "stole" them, and for it to be
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
This is really an absurd oversimplification. Almost every great melody is "trivial". And almost no original melody is actually original.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
O is for off-by-one, ah-ah-ah!
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
You're in very good company. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-... Fiona Hill (without question the smartest person in the room on this topic) says that we're alr
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> But why, if you have a choice would you diverge. Why not install bash on the solaris machine. You diverge because you're designing a product and you want to. (The Raspberry Pi desktop, for example, is available to run on non-linux
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> So they are basically teaching everyone how to perform actions that any students that go into IT related fields will need to relearn. Sure, they will. But who cares? They can do that on the job, can't they? Why is there an obligat
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
You can now do all of that SSH configuration from within the Raspberry Pi Imager (there's a hidden control panel)
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Why does the RPi still have its own OS? Because it's not aimed at the general purpose computer market? The OS -- the features, the documentation, the learning focus, the ease-of-use planning, the designed support for school and co
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
FWIW, recent versions of the Imager have a hidden control panel where you can set the username and password and enable ssh etc. https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-imager-now-lets-you-contr...
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I avoid immersive games entirely because I can lose days to them. Avoiding at source is not the only way to manage a willpower problem but it is the most decisive.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
It's not "lived" so much as "did business" and I think the broad answer has been "stopped being able to renew them". I know a couple of my clients have basically abandoned domain names, but most British bu
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Russia is transcontinental, not simply European. Novaya Gazeta Europe is clearly based in Europe and specifically _not_ in Russia; this is the whole point of their endeavour. More to the point, it must also have been established in the Euro
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
It would have to be an International Treasure, because this is The University Of Cambridge, as in the real one in the UK not the belated US knockoff ;-)
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Yep. Amazing when you consider that Windows CE ran on MIPS hardware (NEC VR3xxx and VR4xxx chips). Casio's Cassiopeia series for example. It's not quite a "what could have been" because they were really eclipsed by the S
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
The obvious thing you could do to start with is review books on a blog. Use the book reviews as a way to explain yourself as a person, find your own thoughts, and as a pre-fabricated context to intersperse your own pieces. Apart from that,
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> "Publishing" tells me nothing, kind of. This is a bit like when young people express wide-eyed astonishment that bookmarks were physical objects. "Publishing" tells you what you need to know if you know that the wor
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> One thing that Affinity and PhotoLine can do that PS can't is make curves adjustments in the Lab color space without having to change the entire document from RGB to Lab. Yeah, this is super-useful. Also the layer blend curves are
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> GIMP is great but until they can implement Adjustment layers it will never be a good alternative to Photoshop. GIMP is not great until it has adjustment layers. In the meantime, nobody on a budget should be using Photoshop when Affin
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Syncthing is really underrated. Clever, cute little bit of software. Darktable is a bad user experience on the Mac but it's definitely capable of good results, as is Rawtherapee. But I generally don't use open source stuff for pho
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
There is nothing wrong with the "prejudice plus power" definition. It is the best definition of racism as a systemic effect that exists. As the US shifts towards being a majority-minority system, any power element of perceived rac
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
"That crap" sounds like a positive belief system to me.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
It is entirely possible to find oneself implicated after the fact in an act one did not commit but did not speak up about, and then to feel more implicated through fear-paralysis inaction over a long period of time (through the guilt of n
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Can you define "US-style atheism"? There is a definite British "cultural Anglicanism", where churches are visited routinely by non-believers who would never step inside during a service. I'm one such non-believer; s
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Oh dear. The paper's title alone is going to upset the right people: Bigotry and the human–animal divide: (Dis)belief in human evolution and bigoted attitudes across different cultures.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> The author seems oblivious to the fact that Netflix's main competition are not other streaming or entertainment companies, but filesharing and unauthorized streaming. This isn't really true. Netflix's biggest worry is Di
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
They are and that will make it even worse.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
The VP of Engineering sounds like a mensch. The HR person sounds like an HR person.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
File this along with the advice about resignation letters to state nothing but "I am writing to give notice of my resignation from <company> on <today's date>. According to the terms of my employment contract my final
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I did not at all believe these things would work but in fact they work a treat. Side note: you can now get what I presume is a similar chip in a CSI camera module for the Raspberry Pi; HDMI source as 30fps camera, basically.

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