CondensedBrain

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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
You can opt out of the redesign in settings. I don't know how long that will last. Sometimes it shows the new one, but it's rare.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
>> "Knowledge should be free at our point in time and supposed evolutional stage. But it's not." We only evolved technologically. Our economic systems are still stuck in the 19th century. The planet's cultures ar
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
>> "I've also enjoyed the organic explosion of low carb cooking that has happened online. I have been witness to the community growing from its very beginnings less than a decade ago when it was just some people trying to m
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Site searching Reddit can at least give some ideas for different words to try. Most of my problems finding things on Google stem from its declining ability to make a reasonable guess based on what I put in. It's not enough to have a wo
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
https://devdocs.io/ isn't exactly equivalent to manpages, but works well enough. You can even download documentation for offline use.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
I didn't put them on a timeline. The neonazi invasion happened around when both tended to show up in the same discussions. More people know about punks than skinheads, so I used one to give context to the other. The recent movie about
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Skinheads were a punk-adjacent subculture that got overrun with neonazis. They never did shake the association.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
I'm going to pass on the browser part owned by the chairman and cofounder of Palantir. I don't trust it for that and other reasons. I don't have the skills or interest to audit and compile every release myself. I don't d
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
ARM and Intel/AMD represent two timelines that started to converge in the 2000s.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
That probably factors in the infrastructure it takes to deliver the data.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
You can frame a critique in a way that doesn't make the subject feel targeted. Some tips: * Rather than call their way atrocious, try something like "Use $(CC) instead of hard coding gcc to avoid a lot of headaches down the road.&
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
On the plus side, Google at least tells you when it omits words and offers to put them back in now. Not that it does much good. Something about Google the search engine changed and now it's impossible to get good results for anything b
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
There's a whole Wikipedia page for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
GMail was different in a number of ways. 1. Exponentially more space in a market where single or double digit megabytes was the norm. GMail's original pitch was that you never had to delete an email, and that you could always find them
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
ActivityPub (AP) has the advantage of running on top of HTTP. You don't have to convince people to install a new browser. All the tools that communicate over AP run on familiar technologies. The hardest part is convincing people to mak
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
ActivityPub shows a lot of promise.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Spammers call this article spinning or content spinning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
>> " It was historically used to either refer to a person of unknown gender, or to optionally refer to a person of a known gender. so your options for singular pronouns might be either he or they, or she or they. " That&#x27
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
It's mainly used by nonbinary (enby) people of Latin descent in the US who feel like both Latino and Latina are a poor fit. These threads always have the same look as the ones where people complained about singular they. Latinx doesn&#
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Climate refugees are going to be the big issue, not where to choose to move if you have that freedom. Any question of where to go has to somehow answer "What happens when everyone else who can tries to go there?"
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
12 light years is a long way for a signal to go without attenuating into noise.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
For some reason I thought this happened a long time ago.
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Public Posts Are Implicit Endorsement of the Framework They Discuss(posts.emsenn.net)
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Something to keep in mind is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria It passes if allowed to, but having someone complain about overreaction or try to push through it
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
There are different kinds of water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritiated_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiheavy_water Find
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
If they did, I can't find any information on it. Where did you hear about this?
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Every Minecraft guide is trapped in a YouTube video made by someone who sounds like a teenager or younger, so the answer is probably yes.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
It took me a lifetime to realize Reader Rabbit is a play on Peter Rabbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rabbit
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
>> "Ultimately, we couldn’t find a way to make the business viable. We explored a number of different options—voluntary subscriptions from users, premium features, increased fees—but the resources required to support a high numb
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
If voter turnout is to be taken as a measure, red/blue tribes aren't representative of society. Voters (at least in the US) are a highly-motivated minority with firm opinions. Turnout peaks in Presidential elections, but still bar

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