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by cuspycode 6y ago
I am currently using lxd to manage containers on a headless server. I just found out that lxd on Ubuntu 20.04 has snapd as a dependency, which seems a bit odd. Does anyone know if there is an easy way to install lxd without snap, or should
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by cuspycode 6y ago
I am reminded of astronaut Cady Coleman's flute duet with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM
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by cuspycode 6y ago
I've had good results from using `git filter-branch --index-filter` to keep everything related to the exported package and remove everything else. This keeps commit history in such a way that `git log --follow` still shows older commit
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by cuspycode 6y ago
It's still not a contradiction, unless you first postulate that 1/2 is the answer, for no particular reason at all.
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by cuspycode 6y ago
Good point. A paradox is something that produces an unexpected contradiction. It must be unexpected, otherwise any trivial false statement such as 2+2=5 would also be a paradox. Russell's paradox is a good example since no one expected
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by cuspycode 6y ago
Algol-60 (and its younger cousin Algol-68) did actually use boldface to distinguish special keywords such as "if", "begin", "true", etc, from the namespace of ordinary identifiers. But that was only used in pub
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by cuspycode 6y ago
There is a similar story in Judges 19–21, the story about The Levite's Concubine[0]. The main difference is the lack of supernatural elements in this story. Instead the outcome is civil war among the Israelites. [0]. https:/&#x2F
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by cuspycode 6y ago
Audio/video is also very inconvenient when you need to slow down your processing rate. You have to tweak playback controls for this, while dealing with pure text only requires a slight adjustment of your eyeball muscles. And similarly
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by cuspycode 6y ago
I'd love to hear someone actually quoting dollars per milligram, and do an actual cost-benefit comparison between the mushroom production pathway and this novel yeast pathway. You can produce mushroom juice in a H20 solution cheaply at
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by cuspycode 6y ago
Or even "zip -e", for people who don't have gpg installed. I use this all the time. It takes care of 90% of my needs, and even non-technical people understand how to deal with it.
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by cuspycode 6y ago
Amen to that! The word "blog" stems from "weblog", and I don't understand why anyone would want a log that lacks timestamps? And for the record, I don't think an old publication date implies that the content is
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by cuspycode 6y ago
I like falsifiable predictions. So you predict that the EFF will turn around 180 degrees and support a ban on strong encryption. Would you like to predict a date for this to happen, to make the prediction absolutely falsifiable?
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by cuspycode 6y ago
So maybe it's unfair, but unfair is perfectly OK in this kind of situation. The important thing is to call it out and make it stop, even if this has to be done for one perpetrator at a time.
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by cuspycode 6y ago
I agree with that. I did investigate a number of self-hosted alternatives to Github, but Gitlab was so much easier than any of them. My only complaint about Gitlab is that it uses a lot of CPU even when completely idle. But I was able to fi
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by cuspycode 6y ago
As a young child I learned more about ancient European history from Asterix than I did at school. Of course a lot of it was plain fiction, but the historical references made imprints on me, and it wasn't hard to separate that from the
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by cuspycode 6y ago
Belief in punishment after death is not logically connected to belief or non-belief in deities. Where such connections exist, they too are matters of faith. There are for example atheists that believe in reincarnation and karma/vipaka.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I had similar problems with that bot recently (i.e. the python bot "certbot"), so I looked around and found a very nice alternative named PJAC[0]. I have now switched a bunch of my domains to use PJAC, and so far it works like a c
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Use self-hosted repos like gitlab or fossil, and then mirror the public parts to github.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
My wife got one of those (or a similar model), and it was very helpful for her, especially during the toughest part of winter here when it's completely dark for 17 hours. For me on the other hand, I just made a deliberate mental switch
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by cuspycode 7y ago
The more I learn about the history of the War on Drugs, the more horrified I get. Sure, drug abuse is a serious problem in society, but the same goes for a lot of similar problems like compulsive gambling, sex addiction, anorexia, and a lon
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I copy and edit, and then paste into a different private browser instance.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
That's psychosis, i.e. when perceptions don't correspond to reality. Mental illness is a much larger concept than just psychosis.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Yeah, Shulgin was a special case, he was a genius biochemist after all. And there are of course lots of people who have synthesized LSD using fairly standard lab equipment. But it's not like something anyone could do.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I was thinking that growing a penicillin producing mold culture (like Fleming did) is something anyone could do, but I have to admit that I have no clue about how much more processing is needed before it can be applied medically as an antib
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by cuspycode 7y ago
The condition "you can pretty much build it yourself" forces me to exclude many things with important impact like for example nuclear reactors, LSD, birth control pills, and the silicon transistor. But I think steam engines (or Ra
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I agree, it's mostly a matter of words. But just for the record, quaternions in general are 4D isoclinic rotations (with optional scaling). Left-multiplication by a unit quaternion corresponds to a left-isoclinic rotation, and right-mu
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Aneutronic reactors are good of course, but the Sun still puts out lots of other dangerous radiation. In particular, ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation from the Sun causes tens of thousands of cancer deaths every year. I have no problem
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by cuspycode 7y ago
That's a good question. Maybe we should focus on prosecuting everyone who publishes photos of others without their consent? Or not. But that's a question that's completely unrelated to the question of consenting to facial rec
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I've had e.g. foo@mysub.mydomain.com rejected by one of the world's top-3 shipping/courier services. This was on a .com domain registered many years ago, so it wasn't a TLD issue. And the subdomain and its MX was also es
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by cuspycode 7y ago
The idea of "tactical" nuclear weapons needs to go away. Nuclear weapons are strategic by their very nature. In my opinion, any use of nuclear weapons at all should result in a full strategic nuclear response against the offending

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