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by genthree 6mo ago
Yeah, after years and years of hoarding lots of hardware and cables that's how I operate now. I have so much less tech trash in my house now, LOL. Keep a few extra cables of sorts I actually use fairly often (a few spare HDMI cables,
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by genthree 6mo ago
Whoa now. Consider that getting the government out of healthcare would mean all the rural hospitals close. Consider who that would most-hurt, while saving you money, before you jump to the humanitarian position. Consider it in light of the
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by genthree 6mo ago
There’s weirdly-weak evidence that the layoff-happy strategy is actually better for long term company health than trying to retain workers through down periods. Like, it’s kinda just something you do now because it’s “how things are done” b
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by genthree 6mo ago
There’s no “precedent” needed, Russia and Ukraine are simply choosing not to do certain things to avoid widening the war in the ways you mention, because they don’t think that would be to their advantage. The precedent is there already, it’
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by genthree 6mo ago
My wife really disliked masculinization of the main character in the new She-Ra. The original was maybe her favorite cartoon as a kid, and what appealed was that She-Ra was a pretty, presenting-very-feminine princess who was also strong a
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by genthree 6mo ago
That part, and the player-death sequences(!), plus some other cutscene stuff, really weirded me out. It all read to me as way more sexualized (in a specific, fetishy sort of way) than anything in the old Tomb Raider games. Hated that aspe
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by genthree 6mo ago
I touched on it in my way-too-long post elsewhere on here, but I think this is exactly it: there's a (fuzzy at some boundary, sure, but useful) distinction to be drawn on something like where the game happens . Does "the game&quo
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by genthree 6mo ago
I'm struggling to think of a medium other than video games that isn't dominated by women. ... and actually, wasn't it the case that before the discovery of the "whale" brain-hack to crack open a few (mostly) men&#
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by genthree 6mo ago
> In my opinion a 'civil servant' sees their job as serving the American people to the best of their ability even if they don't agree with the outcomes of the latest election. Sure, but a bunch of stuff isn't suppose
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by genthree 6mo ago
I figured the same thing, was expecting a lament about the demise of the glorious bench seat.
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by genthree 6mo ago
Can confirm, the "stuff" costs basically nothing in the scheme of things and nearly all of it can be had used. A bunch of it's also not really all that necessary. Clothes and toys can all be had for very little, without even
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by genthree 6mo ago
I've observed that a whole lot of people absolutely do not keep putting kids in car seats once they're about the height & weight of a petite adult (us included). So the guidelines say one thing, but I'd be surprised if a
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by genthree 6mo ago
Option-up/option-down? Two keys rather than one, but makes up for it by not being way off in some oddball part of the keyboard. You can one-hand it pretty easily, since there's an "option" right next to the arrow keys.
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by genthree 6mo ago
To have own the business? Purchases that wouldn't go through if they didn't reduce competition shouldn't happen anyway . Banning those kinds of restrictions would help with that.
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by genthree 6mo ago
Before LLMs, the em-dash glyph was a decent tell simply that... the author was using a Mac, because it's a simple and easy-to-remember (or even guess!) key-combo on there. Not that you can't type it on other keyboards, but the Mac
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by genthree 6mo ago
Those are all really poorly-performing.
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by genthree 6mo ago
I have learned that you must have data. I have also learned that rarely does anyone care if it’s any good, or means anything. This is generally true, but it’s especially true if you are going with the prevailing winds of whatever management
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by genthree 6mo ago
I'm fairly sure the only reason a lot of sites haven't been broken in Firefox for as much as a decade is that fixing your Chrome-first site for Safari tends to fix most of the problems in Firefox, too, and you can't ignor
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by genthree 6mo ago
> No it's not. It's just the cheapest. If you set it up so it's convenient and usable by everyone in your house, including visitors, just like Netflix, it's not much cheaper. Electricity and occasional hard drive purc
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by genthree 6mo ago
They haven't been relevant to anything user-facing at all since they sold the Thinkpad line, and their "golden age" was over by ~2000. Their hardware was awesome in the '80s and '90s, truly great stuff, but they&#x2
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by genthree 6mo ago
I disagree with "original iPad" being the highest-placed product in that line. iPad 2 should have that spot, no question. A product so successful they sold it for a really long time, plus its guts served in the also-long-lived f
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by genthree 6mo ago
The list of potential cataclysms on Earth for which being on Mars would be preferable to still being on Earth despite the cataclysm is pretty short. Mostly amounts to whole-crust-liquifying (way, way worse than the K-T event) asteroids. F
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by genthree 6mo ago
"Mushroom hunting" is a fairly common phrase in English, too. It appears to have the top-level title for the page about that activity, on Wikipedia, even (mushroom foraging, mushroom picking, and mushrooming are all given as alter
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by genthree 6mo ago
I recommend reading the law on which this action was based.
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by genthree 6mo ago
Strongly agreed. I think there was ever a good reason for this to be a topic outside those with a direct interest in various sports governing bodies. Those should be making these decisions. It's deeply stupid that this has become a maj
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by genthree 6mo ago
Relatedly: Has anyone profiled the performance and reliability characteristics of rsyslogd (Linux and FreeBSD distributed syslogger, maybe other platforms too) in its mode where it’s shipping logs to a central node? I’ve configured and used
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by genthree 6mo ago
I have an instagram account because it's by far the best way I know of to keep up with various small businesses, local or otherwise, that I like. What I go into the app to do: see if there are any updates from those businesses. What th
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by genthree 6mo ago
> That being said, if I want to run a torrent client on my phone, I should be able to do so. Apple will never allow that. > If I want a Bourne/POSIX shell, I should be able run one. Apple will never allow that [AFAIK]. I believe
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by genthree 6mo ago
I don't buy that it was ever an intended meaning of the joke, but: Sense 1: "The other side" is... just the other side of the road. The joke is that you were given a joke set-up question (and, if encountering the joke for t
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by genthree 6mo ago
I thought you meant the British Shipping Forecast, which for some reason I thought stopped a few years back, but apparently it’s still a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_Forecast

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