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>Experimental Exchange Support Natively set up a Microsoft Exchange account in Thunderbird by enabling a preference. Its cool that we don't need a third-party plugin for that anymore.
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I'm talking about his complaint that Steam does not have any contingency plans for running games on old hardware due to them not supporting old versions of Windows. You can install Linux on that hardware, so I'd say that's a
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>they were flouting required procedures
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>Games you purchased on a Windows 98 machine later had their system requirements bumped up to Windows XP, then to Windows 7, then to Windows 10... >Because the Steam client patches itself and because Valve was lying about contingency
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Google as a whole is hostile to the user's browser's language settings. I have to append ?hl=en to every Google URL when connecting from an IP address that they determine is a non-English region.
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Also "Enhancer for Youtube" which allows - Hiding Reels - Setting a default playback speed
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1y ago
EAC supports Linux nowadays, but developers have to manually check the box to enable it.
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1y ago
I thought Gemini used SentencePiece https://github.com/google/sentencepiece
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>I think the problem here is that we are comparing against price inflation (not salary inflation) This current period of inflation is caused by the dollar losing its value due to massive over printing by the Federal Reserve. People shoul
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In theory, sure. But in practice the money supply has nearly quadrupled since 2005. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/m2.asp https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
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>adjusted by inflation So the affordability crisis completely disappears once you adjust for the #1 thing that's been making things unaffordable.
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They have handheld XRF analyzers nowadays. They cost around $20k.
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Open a terminal and type "ping dns0.eu" The number in the last column is your latency in milliseconds.
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There are still various server distros not using systemd. I ran into it recently on a system deployed on Alpine.
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Anything that's not a budget reconciliation bill can just get filibustered in the senate by the minority party. That's why they're attaching everything to the OBBBA.
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13 hours is an insane estimate. Its never taken me more than an hour or two. There's no way that's the average
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People have been fighting that battle for a while now. It never seems to get off the ground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
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Entering your income is easy enough if you're a salaried employee with a W2 form. The time consuming part is searching for and entering deductions. The tax code is ridiculously complex and there are forms for all sorts of deductions.
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1y ago
For those who don't know, AWS Lambda functions have a hard limit of 15 minutes.
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>didn't Nintendo even delay the release because of the tariffs? Nope, they did not. They're sticking with the original release date >24% tariff on goods from Japan There are currently 10% tariffs in place for baseline goods,
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>backlash against price raises like this There's really not much backlash. At the most, just some impotent complaints online toward random companies, and nothing at all toward the federal reserve. If people really cared, we would ha
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https://archive.is/KX4pU
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Its entirely because the value of the dollar has gone down. Inflation has happened for decades, but we've seen a noticeable, sharp rise post 2020. $50 in 2005 is worth as much as $82 today according to the inflation calculator. https:
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Most of this stuff is done in secret without the consent of the public. Look at PRISM for example. Nobody voted for that, and it was a huge scandal when its existence was leaked.
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Looks interesting. It appears to just support Generation 1 mechanics at the moment.
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Its just dumb to only care about energy when it comes to this very specific use case, while freely buying cheap plastic bullshit that was literally shipped from the other side of the planet.
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Pycharm is extremely popular in the data science world. The Community Edition is free and has 99% of the features most people need. Even when developing with Cursor, I find myself going back to Pycharm just to use the debugger, which I grea
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Because the link is to blogspam. The real source is Bloomberg https://archive.is/qLqaF They're developing two different models of glasses with cameras, completely ignoring the creepyness issues that made everyone hate
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>His Crusade for open platforms/services in general is very very respectable You can't say that with a straight face when he's so vehemently anti-Linux. To this day, you still can't download Fortnite or the Epic Games
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He is correct too. Compare tax rates in the European continent to the USA. US taxes are much lower. Some states, like New Hampshire, have 0 sales tax. So if you buy something that costs a dollar, you actually pay a dollar. Not 1.06 like in
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