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by zdragnar 8mo ago
If you choose to accept a book because you are too uncomfortable to say the word "no" then you should accept that it is your responsibility to dispose of the book appropriately. Don't blame other people for your own bad behav
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Weird. I must have uncommonly good fortune, as I don't think I've had Wi-Fi or sound issues for longer than that. I remember when I first tried out swaywm and having some sound issues because I also started moving to pipewore from
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Those people are the worst. If you don't want something, don't take it . Don't make it everyone else's problem by littering.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
I've had linux on every laptop I've owned for years, and I haven't really had a problem with any of them running linux, except for display port support on a dell xps. Aside from that one dell laptop, though, I generally avoid
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
I had a run of I think 4 laptops that I never paid for. I bought a spendy windows surfacebook back in the day, and opted for the extended warranty. The screen went out about a week before the warranty expired, they couldn't replace the
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
That beefy GPU is the killer for battery life. There's quite a few PC laptops floating about that get in the 10-16 hour range battery life on lighter workloads (text editors, fast compilers, streaming video, browsing internet). I'
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
I didn't mean to suggest that the government is going to hide under people's beds and stab them in their sleep if they get sick. The government is responsible for funding every aspect of this process, though. It regulates the cont
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
I remember people with the Google glasses being called glassholes. The fact that companies are trying again and apparently succeeding tells you just how much A) they believe in the idea and / or B) how much money there is to be made ha
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Since we're talking about Canada, ostensibly the government, as the provider of healthcare, wants it to be inexpensive enough that the citizens have a first-world level of care... as opposed to euthanizing sick people because it's
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
The problem isn't that the urgent request went through, it's that she requested hospice or palliative care and was denied. And, let's be honest, POA should not be sufficient to euthanize a person who is awake, aware, and revo
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Not a comment on the parent post's situation, but MAID in Canada isn't quite turning out how it was promised. A recent report making a splash in certain circles pointed out that ~200 people in Ontario in 2023 got assisted suicide
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Overly optimistic people are already talking about using LLM based AI as a way to provide healthcare access in underserved (i.e. rural) areas. There's already lots of studies going on for things like using AI to identify tumors and can
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
One of the foundational principles of a stable government (though not the only one) is a monopoly on the use of force. Unless the military and other armed groups back the civilians, whoever they end up backing will rule.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
The more of it they and others put out, the more normalized and acceptable it becomes. The next generations will even think in slop.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
And yet, term limits are something many people want in the hopes that it will solve some of the problems in Washington DC. There, the professional legislators can't get anything right either. Do you think there's a middle ground o
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
There's arguments to be made that it could be better, to be sure, but I also remember when GPS driving directions were dedicated devices and you had to pay a few hundred bucks a year to get updated maps. For such an expensive product,
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Despite being fairly careless when handling them, I've managed a fair few decades without once shocking myself. With that being said, I would be delighted with CEE, BS or almost anything other than NEMA anything. The 120v plugs aren&#x
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Medicaid or ACA subsidized insurance
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
This has been tried a few times. The sticking point has always been twofold 0- this is a massive upfront investment for what amounts to a small time savings (having extra batteries on hand, charging them and the equipment to remove / m
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
https://magicalmushroom.com/mushroom-packaging Under "Features" it explicitly calls out polystyrene as what it is meant to replace, and under "Performance" they claim to provide for clients "that de
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
https://magicalmushroom.com/mushroom-packaging Under Features, it lists polystyrene products as what it replaces, not cardboard.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Tithes to the church are collected via taxes in Germany (Kirchensteuer), so you could argue the church itself is funded by taxes.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
There were definitely two sides at the time in people's minds . He could have presented the geocentric position as being based on theories that were justified only by inductive reasoning, and contrasted that with his own observations
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
What are you smoking? Access to porn has been legally restricted in every state to 18+ for decades. Adding the Internet only made things easier because nobody enforced it the same way they were already enforcing brick and mortar stores that
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
The nice thing about a factory built house compared to an independent contractor is you don't have to wait weeks between job types, your plumbers are on hand as soon as it's ready for them to get started. With that said, the advan
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
None of the adjectives are literal, aside from "internal". The whole thing is meant to play on your emotions, not convince your mind.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
> To be fair, it's possible that software never was the moat This is the answer to all of your questions. Network effect and brand recognition sell Oracle, Adobe, office etc. Alternatives to all of them already exist, with either fe
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
If you read the comment a little more closely, it is very obvious that the "this" engineers turn their noses up at is the flexible model full of glue code, ala Salesforce, as opposed to "good architecture". It's mor
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Fern fiddleheads aren't bad if you get them at the right time, but I wouldn't go out of my way to eat them.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Even if it more expensive, people will prefer subscription pricing over pay per use. When you ask it to do something and it goes off the rails, the payment plans have wildly different effects: Subscription- oh well, let's try again wit

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