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by explainplease 8y ago
> This reads like some weird gotcha journalism... in The New Yorker of all places. Why is that surprising to you? It's amusingly similar to the discussions here about astronomy: based on observations and predictions, if one were loo
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by explainplease 8y ago
On the other hand: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-more-trees-now-than-there-we... "There is just no accurate estimate of the number of trees 100 years ago, relative to now." --Jeanne Paquette, Mineralogist who a
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by explainplease 8y ago
So many adjectives, so few facts.
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by explainplease 8y ago
2019 - 250 != 1630
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by explainplease 8y ago
More CO2 = higher crop yields. Higher temperature = more arable land. Your beliefs are not scientifically valid.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Shouldn't these multi-million-dollar design firms have a checklist that includes: * [ ] Doesn't look like 4 sets of you-know-what arranged in a circle * [ ] Whitespace between elements doesn't look like swastika Someone menti
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by explainplease 8y ago
Great, best wishes to you. The best practical advice I can give is, again, that no one can--or will--help you more than you help yourself. Also, look for medium- and long-term patterns. It's easy to be in a short episode and feel li
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by explainplease 8y ago
Good grief, you've been completely brainwashed by the media. Grieving ? Over dirt ? The climate has always been in a state of flux. For as far back as e.g. ice core records can show, the temperature and weather and atmospheric g
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by explainplease 8y ago
Homeshick is indeed great, been using it for years. Every time I've compared it to other solutions, it always comes out on top feature-wise. The other solutions are always missing something, like tracking either files and/or ent
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by explainplease 8y ago
https://myrepos.branchable.com/
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by explainplease 8y ago
Don't be a fucking coward, downvoting and flagging when you're called out on your bullshit and can't answer for it. Shameful.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. > It seems you assumed I'm the person he was replying to What are you talking abou
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by explainplease 8y ago
Not sure why this was flagged. It even shows examples of the lisp AI code and interviews the programmer.
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by explainplease 8y ago
> StackOverflow is a wiki so you can edit and fix other people's answers. Your edit was rejected because: [x] It deviates from the original intent of the post [x] It doesn't preserve the goals of the post's
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by explainplease 8y ago
Emacs/Org-mode have had this feature for years. You can narrow-to-subtree, or even subtree-to-indirect-buffer, presenting a subtree as its own buffer, like having files within files.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Sounds like org-mode.
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by explainplease 8y ago
https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
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by explainplease 8y ago
That sounds very interesting. I'm sure /r/emacs and /r/orgmode would be interested in reading about that. :)
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by explainplease 8y ago
Terrifying, indeed. I'm guessing all the "great" dictators of history had similarly grandiose, hubristic visions disconnected from the reality of human nature. I wonder if there's a biological component, e.g. how some
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by explainplease 8y ago
> Our efforts to hide from the government ultimately hinders our progress as a society. Wouldn't it be better to reduce the government and/or make it more transparent? Do you not recognize the false dichotomy in your words? Wh
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by explainplease 8y ago
In fish you can use `history --merge` to merge the current shell's history with other instances of fish.
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by explainplease 8y ago
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
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by explainplease 8y ago
> Maybe in 15 years time when Desktop Linux still doesn't work correctly you might get wise to the myriad of reasons why it will never work. Yet, here I am, having used Linux on the desktop for over 15 years. Unlike all the years I
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by explainplease 8y ago
> Even if it does work (most of the time) you get shitty problems like this: > https://askubuntu.com/questions/732967/how-to-fix-non-workin... . > BTW that problem still exists (last time I checked was 18.
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by explainplease 8y ago
> No. This is the fundamental misunderstanding of the point I was making. So I am going to make it crystal clear. The problems I've had with installing slack, I've had with Spotify, Steam, Dropbox and there are quite a few othe
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by explainplease 8y ago
> Due to market pressure, Windows drivers are widely available, but Linux is not necessarily (fully) supported That sounds like something Microsoft would say back in the 90s. > I can't reliably print double-sided on our office br
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by explainplease 8y ago
> Or, more personal, on this laptop I get shorter battery life (I have it plugged in most of the time so it's tolerable), sometimes it doesn't wake up so I have to always shut it down (tolerable) and bluetooth headset doesn&#x2
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by explainplease 8y ago
Is it your belief that it has nothing to do with Microsoft's misdeeds?
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by explainplease 8y ago
> I don't think it is unreasonable to expect to be able to download a package from the internet that is marked as "Ubuntu 18.04", use the package manager to install it and for it to work properly. That's preposterous.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Okay. What about hardware that works better on Linux? Why do you assume that this issue strictly favors Windows?

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