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by vimacs2 5y ago
Well I would argue that gasoline is in fact still the "best" option if by "best" you mean the fuel source that balances energy density, ease of storage, and combustibility. Yes, it is environmentally unfriendly but so is
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by vimacs2 5y ago
No argument from me there. People should stick to using Excel for it's intended use though I would argue it's in some ways a massive credit to it that despite all of it's obvious shortcomings in many other usecases, non-progr
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I can see why that would be annoying but it's a tradeoff between how many people would find the automatic categorization of a cell useful vs how many would find it a nuisance. I'm not a spreadsheet wiz but I'm pretty sure it
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I love shitting on M$ as much as the next neckbeard but how is Excel terrible? It is still the world standard when it comes to GUI spreadsheet software and all of the other competitors are at best acceptable facsimiles up till they reach a
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Don't worry, if it ever came to that, Bill Gates himself will swoop in to protect his beloved Microsoft with his futuristic super yacht that is transformable into a giant battle mech[1]. 1. I made it up.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
All nation states repress their whole population by definition. You could argue about differences in degree but while the USA might not be as repressive to it's own population as the Chinese (or Russians) are, the reach of their repres
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Considering how shit their cents per listen rates are in recent years, they should honestly be trying to compensate the artists they host more than their devs at this point. I've cancelled my sub largely because of this fact.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
So it's somewhat akin to the Library of Babel but instead of the set of all possible books, it's the set of all possible functions :p
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by vimacs2 5y ago
M type dwarfs can easily have a lifespan in the main sequence spanning many trillions of years with even their red giant phases estimated to outlasting even the main sequence of stars of our size. A steller mass black hole's estimated
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Curious if the same people getting upset about her words were similarly upset when Richard Stallman said after hearing of Steve Job's death "I'm not glad he's dead but I'm glad he's gone".
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by vimacs2 5y ago
That's an impressive level of hubris. I hope you're aware that the extent to which a gene can propogate is only loosely correlated with subjective metrics like "fitness" and "superior" traits on to it's ho
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by vimacs2 5y ago
> - Since the process produces magnetically charged plasma, steam turbines are not necessary, a solution of directly harvesting energy with electromagnets was proposed. But wouldn't that require aneutronic fusion to be viable? I had
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I know it's a meme at this point but I wonder if Deep Learning could possibly brute force patterns in the 150 years of data that the Noetic sciences have accumulated. They keep finding a small but statistically significant effect and e
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by vimacs2 5y ago
This. It has less to do with personal character and more to do with the incentives baked into the company.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Think the OP is right on this one actually. If you're struggling financially, this is functionally equivilent to criminalising poverty regardless of the steps involved. It's also frankly bullshit that a corporation can charge a to
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by vimacs2 5y ago
That was not clear to me at all from the context but maybe I lack reading comprehension. Otherwise, I think we are in agreement.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
The devil doesn't require an advocate.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yeah, cute to spin it this way but it's more like the military kills a terrorist and also a large number of civilians surrounding that terrorist and then half of the media play apologetics for an operation that essentially caused the d
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by vimacs2 5y ago
>paid reparations Not sure how well that aged now that the US essentially took all the money from the Afghan central bank. Also, there have been leaked documents showing that the US would delibrately target ambulances and civilian infras
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Just an FYI, NoScript is made largely redundant with uBlock Origin since if you enable the "I am an advanced user" checkbox in it's settings, it will allow you to selectively block or allow third party scripts and frames.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
uBlock Origin makes this pretty easy actually. You just have to enable the "I am an advanced user" checkbox in it's settings and it turns into a more user friendly NoScript, with an easy way to save settings for specific site
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Not the same thing at all. Smartphones have reached the point where further improvements are largely superficial for years now. Pinephone's price point is only possible because of over a decade of the proliferation of cheap smartphone
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by vimacs2 5y ago
No need to be an ass. Also, you're quoting the limited edition price which seems to amount to aesthetics and priority shipping. Elsewhere on this page, you literally said that you would have been happy to have paid 2000 for the quest 2
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I just think your comment just signals ignorance of the industry. They're targeting this headset for people who are looking for a portable vr workstation with an angular resolution high enough to simulate 1080p monitors. How exactly ar
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Well you can hide the rest of the buffer and focus on a specific part of a file with the narrow-to-* functions (defun, region, or page). However, this plugin seems to be a little fancier and instead creates different buffers for each select
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Easy to justify that one: the amount of deaths prevented from gang crime attributable to cannabis trade would far outstrip any potential harm caused by legalisation. Besides, that's not a good way to look at it. The better question is
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'm not even pro cannabis - I recently decided to go completely cold turkey since I realised I was essentially self medicating for other deeper issues and cannabis just gives me brain fog - but I think your comment is pretty nonsensica
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I generally like Gnome but I do find the lack of consideration for extensions when making updates more than a little frustrating. For context, I use Arch so whenever I do a system upgrade which includes a gnome package, it often results in
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is sarcastic or not but rest assured, the sociopaths that hoard the IP behind the vaccines have all but guaranteed that there will be plenty of opportunities to study these alleged "positive health application
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Sarcasm nonwithstanding, it took over 12000 years of technological advances for agricultural societies to catch up to their palaeolithic bretheran in terms of average life expectancy and even metrics like height. I'm not a primitivist

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