coatmatter

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by coatmatter 6d ago
Bluesky likely knows this problem well. The pro is that I never find myself stuck there. The con is that I just end up somewhere else (including this orange website). Time to ctrl-w.
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by coatmatter 16d ago
If one truly believes it's not in a bubble, then borrow and leverage an unlimited amount and bet the house & your family on creating a business with infinite growth and value. Don't know how to do your own prompts? Borrow and
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by coatmatter 17d ago
> Every restaurant I’ve been to like this has a menu somewhere. And the best restaurants have staff and chefs that can deliver things that aren't even on a standard menu... Actually, this reminds me of a time when I saw a person wit
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by coatmatter 17d ago
I don't believe Linux Australia is the first port of call. Rather, conferences/meetups that are supported by Linux Australia would be the way to go. Basically, it needs to be very grassroots, and start with (capable) people who ar
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by coatmatter 2mo ago
Or you could use Nix as a package manager on practically any distro or OS of your choice. Arch, Debian, Windows, macOS - it doesn't matter. Most users should never ever need to bother with AUR again with this approach. https:/&#x
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by coatmatter 2mo ago
It depends on the type of ad and way they're being delivered. Advertisers do in fact highly value events like the Superbowl, Tour de France, Olympics and FIFA World Cup. Instagram influencers and podcast bros still focus a lot of time
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by coatmatter 2mo ago
I believe this is the definitive resource on the state of Linux on Intel MacBook Pros: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux I recently made the move away from an out-of-support macOS 12 Monterey to Debian Stable (
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by coatmatter 2mo ago
Whenever I encounter someone who jumps at the first opportunity to criticise "mainstream media", I ask them what their preferred outlets are. I tend to not get a response, which to me is quite telling.
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by coatmatter 2mo ago
On my mediocre laptop display, I had to set the brightness moderately, and take my glasses off to see the decoy text more easily (easier than squinting). Deleting the custom text also made it easier. The other tip someone posted about movin
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by coatmatter 2mo ago
Reminds me of this fascinating video from May 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCBAqaT4SQc [PortalRunner - This Video is Different at 360p]
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by coatmatter 3mo ago
Buy a CO2 monitor and note the difference between the car's air conditioner on recirculate mode vs fresh air. Also try the same thing in places such as buses and planes. Think also about what happens with all that shared "stale&qu
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Mandrake –> Gentoo a.k.a. "Mandrake Expatriate Syndrome" (2003)(greenfly.org)
2 points by coatmatter 3mo ago|0 comments
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by coatmatter 4mo ago
> Posted Apr 8, 2024 0:29 UTC (Mon) by tridge (subscriber, #26906) [Link] (27 responses) > [...]"I have often worked on the boundary of free and proprietary software, right from when I was dosemu maintainer for a while, to Samba
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by coatmatter 6mo ago
> Happy to answer questions! Are you aware that SARS-CoV-2 is oncogenic, and that repeat exposure increases risk?
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by coatmatter 6mo ago
"Motor vehicles aren't going away any time soon. It might become prohibitively expensive for some individuals but they're here to stay. It's worth trying to get into car ownership early despite your bicycle being much ch
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by coatmatter 6mo ago
You're using the motte-and-bailey fallacy. Pocket and scientific calculators have never caused anywhere near as much grief as current LLMs do as a loss-leader for near-trillion dollar corporations that are primarily responsible for art
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by coatmatter 7mo ago
One of my trend-following and easily-influenced sisters was quite locked into the Apple ecosystem (iPhones, MacBooks) with her young family, but just over Christmas last year, I spotted them with a refurbished ThinkPad (T490 or thereabouts)
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by coatmatter 8mo ago
alternative: telehack.com
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by coatmatter 8mo ago
One (not recommended) way to test this statement is to spray some on the kitchen floor and see what happens later.
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by coatmatter 10mo ago
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
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by coatmatter 1y ago
Well the sub that post is from is called "r/MyBoyfriendIsAI" so who knows how often they try their hand at self-parody. It does however remind me of all the numbers of novice chess players who would rather play against "
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by coatmatter 2y ago
I once had a similar high outlier blood pressure reading after a somewhat busy day followed by running through the city to my blood donation appointment. Who knew that BP is affected by external factors and doesn't stay constant throug
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by coatmatter 2y ago
Find one that is accurate enough and crosscheck it with the one at the doctor by taking regular measurements so you get an idea of trends rather than absolute values. Doctors do know about white coat hypertension - it's not a myth. The
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by coatmatter 2y ago
I think it depends on one's true goals and the way it's approached. Compare with http://www.greenfly.org/mes.html (which affects many Arch users too, I feel)
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by coatmatter 3y ago
Genuine conversations don't come about through being scheduled for a sit-down interview in a meeting room or lounge room - especially not when notes are being taken or they're being recorded, even if there are drinks and snacks pr
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by coatmatter 3y ago
This tweet is ageing nicely: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1640095846095261697
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by coatmatter 4y ago
Everything On Medium.com Looks Like An Ad I'm surprised it's taken this long for more people to realise this. I don't care about reading techbros' opinions on everything when most of the time it boils down to them doing
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by coatmatter 4y ago
Note: There are a lot of implementations of KeePass that surpass the original in quality. KeePassXC is likely the one that's best for most people who wish to go down the standalone application route: https://keepassxc.org&#x
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DIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box(cleanaircrew.org)
18 points by coatmatter 4y ago|1 comments
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by coatmatter 4y ago
Also see the FAQ for various other build options and information: https://cleanaircrew.org/boxfanfilterfaq/

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