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by glimmung 2mo ago
It's hard for an addict to stop being dependant upon a dealer - not least because the dealer wants to maintain that dependency. We've been suckered, and fallen for it hard, but now that Trump has made it clear that the US will nev
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by glimmung 4mo ago
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists" ( https://rs.io/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-checklists/ ) comes to mind. When I was younger I would have though the same. Now that I have more humility and less
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by glimmung 9mo ago
I've been using a VPN on and off for years when there was a privacy concern. Now there is a privacy concern 24x7, and so I use a VPN 24x7. A bad law and risk-averse sites have made the web a complete PITA without one. The number of e.g
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by glimmung 1y ago
I just couldn't live without this thing. Well, I could but I would be less productive and more grumpy. Back in the mists of time when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I developed DataEase applications under MS-DOS there was a thing calle
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by glimmung 1y ago
In my case being a generalist is less about knowing a lot about everything, and more about knowing how to work things out, and how to bridge the gap between specialised fields. I do end up knowing a little bit about lots of things, but in t
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by glimmung 1y ago
Nope, the author's point is about what happens after fascists are elected, and he proposed no exceptions to that. Finland was not cited as an exception. His point about Finland was that the fascists messed up - they tried to use violen
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by glimmung 1y ago
This is hilarious - I have yet to get to the article, because (on a fresh Ubuntu Mate LTS install with the stock Firefox) I am redirected to: - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-generic-ua.html ...which complains ab
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by glimmung 2y ago
Username checks out!
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by glimmung 2y ago
I agree. As well as the technical merits, it seems to me to be a better match for natural human interaction. Your point about citizen-owned media is well made - in the US we seem to be seeing the near-total collapse of integrity in commerci
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by glimmung 2y ago
We also outsourced our social media. That has to change - it's literally not safe. There is a lot of witless verbiage about the "town square", but precious little acknowledgement of the obvious fact that every town has its OW
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by glimmung 2y ago
No, they don't just work at these places, they run these places. There may be some problems in UK society caused by upper class Harrow school boys (!), but the batch of those very same upper class Harrow school boys currently running t
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by glimmung 2y ago
I don't think he _made_ anyone do anything, unless that's somehow a term of art?
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by glimmung 2y ago
Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!
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by glimmung 2y ago
Thanks for the link - will take some time for me to digest. > people with complex problems, chaotic lives and a high and ongoing risk of reoffending. Surely that applies to almost all prisoners? I don't think that you have addressed
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by glimmung 2y ago
> IPP sentences were created specifically to deal with prisoners who habitually reoffend on release. The whole point about this situation is that the sentences were applied to people who do NOT fit that description (not my just view, a
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by glimmung 2y ago
Happy triple booter here - yup, it's a thing. I have a stable/secure Linux and an experimental Linux on my trusty old T430, but I need a Windows instance for testing.
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by glimmung 2y ago
I'm glad this exists for those who want it, but for me the added noise / cognitive load of all those braces is painful.
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by glimmung 2y ago
Agreed. I have to schedule the "big" stuff, but for the rest the best I can do is work productively, following the connections between things. I'll have a day doing the tasks using one sort of tech, and another doing somethin
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by glimmung 2y ago
I use Joplin, and am with you on the half a zillion notes thing. What is helping me is the "bidirectional links" plugin (so I'm linked to the the first version of the notes and don't forget it exists and keep starting ag
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by glimmung 2y ago
This completely fails to address the significance of the word "viable" in MVP - it's only meaningful if we define what it's viable _for_. In a startup it may be "viable to test a hypothesis", in a running busin
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by glimmung 3y ago
You have not stated a case.
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by glimmung 3y ago
Reading the cited article in Nature, specifically re. methane, it states that "Arctic wetlands are effective methane emitters, yet dry and moist arctic tundra soils in north east Greenland have been measured to draw down methane",
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by glimmung 3y ago
I googled that for you [1] and the answer is probably not what you assumed, so I'm not sure that your question makes the point that you imagine it does. N.B. I've quoted the first hit, but multiple sources seem to concur. [1] htt
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by glimmung 3y ago
It's in maintenance mode, and still has a role. However, the focus has moved to py4web [1] which has many of web2py's strengths (including the DAL), but with a more orthodox architecture at the cost of a little more complexity and
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by glimmung 3y ago
Ubuntu Mate LTS editions, and ChromeOS if you count that - which I do. Mate "just works" on my old Lenovo T430, I use Ubuntu on my servers, and both are solid. Most of the time I'm on ChromeOS on a Pixelbook Go, with Thunderi
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by glimmung 3y ago
I'm not aware of the Supreme Court having authority over the dictionary though.
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by glimmung 3y ago
Any news as to the process or reasoning for the hold?
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by glimmung 3y ago
My mistake - the links in the book are broken, but the site links take us to GitHub and all is well there.
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by glimmung 3y ago
Looks worth a look, but am getting "no such bucket" from the download links.
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by glimmung 3y ago
Is it ethical for the "public square" to have a robots.txt? Musk is trying to have his cake and eat it... (Clearly it's not a public square, but his position is incoherent).

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