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by usrn 4y ago
Birthrates are down, people are getting married later and divorcing more often, people aren't growing as tall, life expectancy is declining. Using the measures that don't change over time we are not living better than our parents.
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People like Kinzinger are exactly what people mean when they say "boomer." Totally disconnected from what people actually think or want and righteously angry about it. EDIT: The whole point of the jan6 protest was that we're
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by usrn 4y ago
>If you thought China taking over Africa because the US govt was distracted by the Middle East (and isolationism) was bad Wait I thought people (especially the left) morally condemned the rush for Africa as well as modern day "neo c
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by usrn 4y ago
That rule has been there since the beginning even if you don't acknowledge it. EDIT: It didn't need to be acknowledged because there wasn't a strong push to disarm the population until fairly recently. EDIT2: It looks to me l
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by usrn 4y ago
This is very much the opposite of calvinaball. The rules are in the constitution and that hasn't changed in quite a while. EDIT: RE: no right to poop(sic) in the constitution It's a list of things the government may not do, not
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by usrn 4y ago
There are much worse things too. At least with crypto you only lose as much as you put in. Adjustable rate loans can (and do) completely wipe people out. I'd argue those are far worse than pretty much anything in crypto. EDIT: As of a
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by usrn 4y ago
Because the alternative would be not having the rural areas continuing to be part of the nation. If you can't come to an agreement with us, that's fine, try to move the regulation out of the federal government and see if you'
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Yes I've actually switched to carrying around a seperate camera, map, radio, notebook, and flip phone because I'm that frustrated with smartphone software. Interestingly enough I can look at the map and camera at the same time,
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Smartphones are killing a lot of stuff. IMO they've been mostly regressive. EDIT: RE: Smartphones enable new things I don't think there's anything new that smartphones have made possible actually. They've only made what
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>Why the f* is everyone sending our data to FB by default? Facebook's libraries do it, lazy people use them without thinking. Using software carelessly is extremely dangerous.
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It's an interesting subconscious effect. I have my theory but I'd probably get in trouble explaining it here.
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It's the state of the people, not the law, that determines how safe a place is. The law can debase people and it can point them towards morality, but just taking guns away won't do either of those things.
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ADCs are slow. With four levels they're probably using comparators.
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OSes have done this since before Personal computers. If you write a garbage app that's being scheduled more often than it should be you'll write a garbage app that gets thawed out more often than it should be. All of this Android
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After my experiences with Android I will never ever buy another device with a Qualcomm SoC again.
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No it isn't. Refining Uranium to the purity usable for bombs is notoriously difficult, much harder than is needed for power generation.
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by usrn 4y ago
I think the constraining resource is emotional energy, not time. A lot of people are focusing on time but we all know only a tiny amount of our time is really spent working. At least for me I don't even have enough emotional energy f
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by usrn 4y ago
This sounds like the usual conflation of "technology" and "social movements adjacent to technology." Digital computers are technology, smartphones are a social movement. The internet is technology, Reddit is a social thi
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by usrn 4y ago
Ok, so I'll go to software center and click a button to install Thunderbird. It won't be the absolute latest version but I don't really care since computers aren't that interesting to me.
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The "right thing" is submitting a patch to popular distros to have your package included in the repos. IME: it's always application devs who are upset about this, not users.
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Studying to get the job is also part of the effort you put in.
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It's not market forces conspiring against you, it's nature. You're not making the system simpler, just building more systems inside it. Linux based OSes will never be popular and have the same freedom they have. The princip
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I think any one with average intelligence can probably do software development, it's just a matter of putting in the effort.
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Topical forums run by enthusiasts are always good. 4chan is underrated in some ways even; there's a lot of garbage but the best is better than anywhere. I think in general you should avoid sites that have any kind of voting. "Bump
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by usrn 4y ago
If you're willing to front load the effort you can also just work hard for a year or two and then coast. There are plenty of holes like this.
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Oh you know what I mean. "Mainstream" distros have GUIs that wrap package managers. Also my girlfriend figured apt out like a week after installing a debian based distro. It's not exactly rocket science.
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by usrn 4y ago
If your family members need binaries of bleeding edge software and you're worried about their ability to use their computer you should be building them. In that case you'll be able to ensure compatibility. I don't think encou
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AppImages still dynamically link to libc. They don't work on Alpine and Android. They'll probably break on distros that are built years apart from when the AppImage is too. Just stop distributing binaries, it's unprofessional
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I don't like getting used to stuff that I won't have on machines at work. There are a number of boxes where I have to work and don't have permission to install packages, so there's just vim. It's the same reason my
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If Linux distros implemented every feature "new users" wanted then you would end up with something nearly identical to ChromiumOS (and those same users would probably just run ChromeOS.) If you want that then go run that. EDIT: Ev

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