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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> Progressives: Elon doesn't care about freedom of speech because he doesn't allow (edge case) No, it's "Elon claims to be a free speech absolutist yet somehow keeps denying freedom of speech to people who disagree wi
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> suddenly it is a new problem when Trump does it. Nope. January 29, 2021: "Biden has taken heat from critics over his early reliance on executive action, with Republicans saying it betrays his vow to work with Congress on to build
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> I think FS-level compression would be a perfect match. Has anyone tried it successfully on large SQLite DBs? I've had decent success with `sqlite-zstd`[0] which is row-level compression but only on small (~10GB) databases. No rea
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
The greatest improvement I got in running and general fitness was early 2015 when I did the "do >=1km a day" for 5 months. Often times it was a quick sprint around the block just before midnight (and sometimes then resting unt
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> The political right doesn’t have the same kind of media support. How do you figure that? From what I've seen, most US media leans right[0], if not overtly right-wing. [0] In that they'll hammer the left on every small issue
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> This means they have been 150 years old since they got into the system. No, the theory being made was that they appear to be 150 years old because the marker for "unknown DOB" -when queried- comes out as 1875 by default and t
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> yet assume there is no problem. Is it plausible that, given the claim is that people currently >150 years old are receiving money, in the previous 40 years of audits, etc., no-one has noticed that people >110 (vanishingly rare in
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> The only reason you have to believe that Musk's statements are not correct is [...] And his well documented history of spouting bullshit and flim-flam.
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> * The government is paying claims for people who are 150 years old. ...and that no-one has noticed for the ~40 years they'd presumably be unlikely to be alive given that living past 110 is vanishingly rare despite audits, etc., un
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
Kindle Paperwhite (and possibly others) have adjustable colour temperature too, with time-based automation. From a quick squizz, not quite the same as the Kobo (I don't think it has the "more blue in daytime" function) but j
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> Which is just 3.3% of GDP. Again, I'm not an economist, bear with me and explain what that's got to do with the trade deficit being a deficit? You could have a GDP of a quintillion dollars a year but if you're consisten
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> If the aim is to weaken the U.S. Say if you're China and Russia... > then putting a foolish unelected billionaire With ties to both...
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> We could close our borders to the world entirely and be fine after an initial discomfort. I'm no economist but a trade deficit in the hundreds of billions[0] suggests otherwise. [0] Wikipedia says 773B for 2023.
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Hmm, fair point. Also the Congo, India, etc.
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> Another app nobody has made is a simple random music player. Marvis on iOS is pretty good at this. I use it to shuffle music with some rules ("low skip %, not added recently, not listened to recently")[0] and it always does
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
Yeah, I did one as well (inspired by rory.codes). Was a fun little project but looking at it now, I can see a bunch of improvements I can make.
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
Assuming a 64 bit number for activities (more than enough, I think!), a 9 character geohash[0], another 64 bits for health (HR, BP, weight, etc.), and you've got 25 bytes per second, 2.2M per day, ~789M per year, and, given 75 years li
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
Sounds like a great plot for a story. Could also do a sci-fi one where aliens turn up, discover (e.g.) peanut butter, and end up enslaving the human race to mass produce it for them to take back home.
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> I'm relieved to find I'm not the only person who wanders around photographing the typography. There are N of us!
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> And here's A TEXT-BOOK OF FREE-HAND LETTERING, part of the TECHNICAL DRAWING SERIES, first published in 1895: Called out in the article - "but I know simple technical writing standards existed already, and likely influenced t
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> The above might sound too harsh, sorry. Perfectly accurate though.
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> Smallest device you could browse the web with, I think? I'd contest that the Blackberry devices were smaller and earlier, e.g the 7230 from 2003[0]. Pretty sure some of the iPAQs (and other CE devices) arrived with wifi and a bro
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> Presumably the people actually footing the bill If someone is footing the bill, does that not imply a certain amount of "we don't think this is useless"?
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> Because you're taking other people's money by threat of lethal force The government is doing that, not the dancer. If you consider general taxation immoral, fair enough, but then you're going to have to explain how a co
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> If someone wants to major in feminist dance therapy, that should be on their own dime. Using my tax money to fund it is immoral. Why is that immoral?
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
> Disney retorted [...] tenuous waiver They've since backtracked on that retort though and accepted the court process[0]. Although their first response was nothing to do with arbitration[1]. Their lawyers are flip-floppers. [0] ht
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BrewDog's James Watt Launches 'Shadow DOGE' to Take on UK Government(thenational.scot)
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Normally when people say things like that, the reasoning is "...because they agree with me."
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Yeah, did that in the end.
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by zimpenfish 2y ago
I'm trying but it turns out that it's impossible to submit a useful PR with a video embed in `README.md` because the only way it works is by uploading the video through the web editor[0] and using a static user-images.githubuserco

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