isilofi

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by isilofi 3y ago
Good Mathematics doesn't use the axiom of choice.
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by isilofi 3y ago
> Amusingly just an hour ago I did a variation of 'pasta with sauce' what would be heart-attack inducing to anyone snobby enough about Italian cuisine: two big onions, chopped, steamed, fried, a bit of soy sauce, leftovers from
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by isilofi 3y ago
Most of those are not standardized according to any proper standard. They are intentionally obfuscated to make access and repairs difficult.
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by isilofi 3y ago
What an incredibly elaborate argument.
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by isilofi 3y ago
Some parts of the market need to be killed, and quickly. Wasteful economy is killing the planet, and we need to dial down the produce-buy-throwaway-buy cycle.
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by isilofi 3y ago
There are standards for sizes of screws, washers, motors, cables, plugs, sockets, ... Just create a bunch more of those standards, e.g. for batteries, legislate their use, done. As a side effect, products become cheaper because parts will t
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by isilofi 3y ago
For kids, there is the necessity to learn to socially interact with other kids. Adults either do not have to learn that anymore, or are hopeless anyways and won't learn it ever.
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by isilofi 3y ago
> > The worst part is nobody in charge really cares. > _Much_ of government spending I've seen in recent years has been towards climate. Much of the spending of a few western governments. The majority of the world's gover
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by isilofi 3y ago
There are flat-ish contact surfaces on the bottom of the module that are compressed by a bracket onto the corresponding contact surfaces of the motherboard.
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by isilofi 3y ago
Cork is oak, which is carcinogenic (in different amounts in different parts of the plant). Of course for some things one doesn't usually care about that because drinks such as wine are also stored in carcinogenic oak barrels and contai
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by isilofi 3y ago
> At the very least, if a fixed ratio of coin:gold were actually maintained these failings wouldn't have happened It could still have happened, the mechanism is basically the same as in a bank run. If there isn't enough gold an
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by isilofi 3y ago
The EU isn't democratic in that basically every official function is only through multiple indirections dependent on the voters. So the will of the people and the sovereignty of the voters is diluted through a multitude of political ba
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by isilofi 3y ago
Glass is usually harmless, if you don't use lead or uranium glass. But breakage will lead to harmful shards, which is why many locations such as some schools or party places ban glass bottles. For storage, use glass bottles. The materi
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by isilofi 3y ago
"metal" is too unspecific. You usually want stainless steel, preferrably CrNiMo steel (V4A, 1.4401 or similar). Aluminium bottles are always coated with plastic in the factory, which flakes off and usually isn't really better
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by isilofi 3y ago
Also, politicians can get more and more creative at excessive spending, at some point even outspending any kind of economic growth. And even if they don't outspend, at some point inflation comes along and kicks things over the edge.
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by isilofi 3y ago
The failing of the gold standard was that it never limited money in circulation. Gold standards in practically all economies allowed for unlimited amounts of money to be printed at the whim of the central banks. Just that the central banks
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by isilofi 3y ago
Limiting the money supply plus price controls plus deregulation of imports and production.
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by isilofi 3y ago
There are cats the size of dogs, and they are usually outlawed as pets. Look at cougars, lynx, panthers, tigers, etc.
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by isilofi 3y ago
> Dependabot, and code scanning that you won't find anywhere else. Gitlab has equivalents you can enable as CI pipelines.
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by isilofi 3y ago
Provide drivers using the old model and a set of instructions to enable that. Edit: I guess instructions won't even be necessary, as far as I've understood, there will just be a warning. And users are already trained to just ignor
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by isilofi 3y ago
As long as you can send PS, PCL or PDF to the printer via some "standard" network protocol (IPP, LPD, LPR, JetDirect), the "driver" will just be a PDL file and won't need any special privileges.
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by isilofi 3y ago
You just need to buy network-ready printers with native PostScript or PDF support. Then it has always worked. But most "cheap" (if not accounting for consumables) inkjet crap isn't like that.
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by isilofi 3y ago
You very often also need some backchannel from the printer, e.g. for toner levels, available paper sizes, installed options. But there is a more important point: Printer manufacturers also don't think like this. They desperately want t
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by isilofi 3y ago
Dangers from PFAS are mostly speculative and inferred. Silicosis is proven and real. Totally different things.
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by isilofi 3y ago
Yes. They should have just banned or limited dry cutting. Cutting stone wet, with running water, produces practically no dust whatsoever.
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by isilofi 3y ago
There is an easy, cheap and well-tested air cleaner: wet cutting, i.e. cutting under running water. All dust will be bound in the runoff, almost no airborne particles. But it is messy (often not doable indoors, because you splatter everythi
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by isilofi 3y ago
So basically the cake containing the file to break out of the vault?
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by isilofi 3y ago
Not in this case. Since the non-ethical market participants are non-ethical, they tend to use non-ethical means: like hiding from or like lying to their customers about where and how their products were produced. Therefore it is not really
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by isilofi 3y ago
> Patagonia? Chick-Fil-A? There is certainly a niche catering to the handful of customers who do care, have the money to care, have enough information to care and get the opportunity to show they care by selecting the right vendor. But v
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by isilofi 3y ago
We can also answer (in the same way) about the escalations in the last few decades since 1948. Almost everything Israel did was reactive, they rarely shot first.

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