damiante

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by damiante 1y ago
The solution here is to build more higher-density housing options. Tokyo has very affordable real estate because dwellings are appropriately-sized for dense urban lifestyles and are nearly uniformly mixed-use buildings with retail space on
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by damiante 1y ago
I see the same sort of thing happening in housing, and I think it's because the nature of the thing has changed. Houses used to be for families; they were often quirky or strange or emergent, with weird layouts or materials. They may h
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by damiante 2y ago
Correlation does not imply causation (but it does stare at it from across the room and suggestively waggle its eyebrows)
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by damiante 2y ago
Perhaps just coincidence but I found it interesting to realise that buildings and animals followed a similar structural development trend: both started off with externally structural components (exoskeletons and structural walls) that evolv
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by damiante 2y ago
The Grayjay Android app (which I use regularly) has a "Recommended" tab under each video that provides anonymous recommendations based only on the video you're watching. I recall them asking me to opt-in to the creation of a
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by damiante 2y ago
I was thinking about how to solve this given that one of the primary problems is that of fast, global content distribution. I like the idea of paying people in crypto as part of a ledger transaction to host and serve content, like bittorren
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by damiante 3y ago
It seems that the US Government introduces a new bill of this form every few years; SOPA & PIPA, COPPA, CISPA, etc. Will governments (particularly the US government) simply keep attempting this until they get one through?
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by damiante 3y ago
Looking at the bits on the disk with a magnifying glass and copying them onto a piece of paper with a pen :^)
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by damiante 3y ago
I love the idea of such smaller communities and the "old web" style of interaction, but for me the issue is one of discoverability. How do I find and follow people? Does anyone still use RSS, or are we relying on Mastodon/Act
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by damiante 3y ago
>It's free, so why not join today! Evidently their passion for punctuation does not extend to the question mark.
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by damiante 3y ago
Cargo van? No, car go "beep beep"
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by damiante 3y ago
Ones I can predict based on my music knowledge: 2112 by Rush (interpreted in this case as a timestamp rather than a year) 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (get 2 whole mins for this one) 2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden
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by damiante 3y ago
I have a similar desire for laws; they say "ignoratia juris non excusat", "ignorance of the law is no excuse", but that is only a fair rule if the law can reasonably be known. No-one could possibly know all of the law, s
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by damiante 4y ago
I have a similar issue with Caprine, the desktop frontend for Facebook Messenger. I have not however messed with my datetime settings, not is it such a big issue that I have taken the time to try to fix it (I don't use Messenger often
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by damiante 4y ago
I just use domain forwarding to have my inbound emails to my custom domain address land in my plain old Gmail account, and outbound ones to forward to my domain. All the benefits of Gmail at no cost.
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by damiante 4y ago
Anyone else read this headline as "Facebook parent company does a thing"?
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by damiante 4y ago
It's also upsold as part of existing MS sales agreements which is why execs will buy it. Easier and cheaper than negotiating a new enterprise contract with an unrelated company eg Slack
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by damiante 4y ago
I didn't even know chickens lived for 50 years, much less how big this one got over that time! :^)
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by damiante 5y ago
Here in Victoria, Australia, we had similar emergency powers which were only valid for a couple of months. In practice, the government simply kept voting to extend its emergency powers until it passed a piece of legistlation that allowed it
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by damiante 5y ago
I've seen other posts here before with similar offerings such as Looking Glass; does this make use of GPU passthrough or does it use GPU virtualisation? I ask because my Linux machine doesn't have onboard graphics on my CPU so I c