silicon2401

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by silicon2401 4y ago
> awoken is the most correctly I thought of "awoken" initially, but if I hadn't seen the other wordings before, I don't recall ever seeing the word "awoken" at all! Or if I have seen it before, I second-gues
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by silicon2401 4y ago
Thanks for the correction, it's been a while (too long) since I've seen it!
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by silicon2401 4y ago
These abbreviations are among the stupidest trends in tech. We should learn from the Germans and embrace long words
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by silicon2401 4y ago
The Century of the Self is a great introduction to this. Modern advertising literally uses techniques originally developed for wartime (WWII) propaganda. Commercial advertising is literally brainwashing applied for economic purposes rather
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> The prime minister will be woken, Totally unrelated but is this correct grammar? I realize I've never seen "woken" without "up", as in "woken up". To avoid using "up" I would've leaned
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by silicon2401 4y ago
Paywall, can't read that
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by silicon2401 4y ago
I completely forgot about the fire thing, and that only strengthens my argument/stance. The Triangle fire was a terrible tragedy in American history during which a lot of women died not even because of lack of windows, but because door
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> Why not let those without homes choose if they are willing to take the risks associated with ignoring those rules over l king on the streets? I'd rather have a government that enforces a high quality of life.
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by silicon2401 4y ago
I think it's simpler: if you're able to get a degree, you're already intelligent to some extent. That intelligence is then trained by having education in general. The difference is if you chose a major without good career pro
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> Maybe X should relax the legal requirements of Y That's a slippery slope. Lots of legal requirements exist to protect someone. Legal requirements for windows are pretty reasonable to ensure people have at least some bare minimum o
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> I really don't see the point of these, You just don't want to. It's very simple: they let you have a burger that mimics meat burgers, and they taste reasonably close for some of us. I love burgers and love some of the fa
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> My wife is pescatarian Not a judgment on your wife, but sharing for general awareness: I would eat land animals before eating fish again. You can read Outlaw Ocean for a quick look at how awful the seafood industry is. The seafood indu
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> whole grains and legumes covering most of my protein requirements. What are your protein/calorie goals, and how are you meeting them with grains and legumes? I have to take pea protein and on top of that eat a lot of eggs because
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> We'd all be happier if everyone was politically correct Me 'being' politically correct doesn't mean me 'supporting' or 'enjoying' being politically correct. I don't, and 'being' po
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> If you bought into the new age pro noun thing the SAME way you already buy into the pointless formalities we use like "please" and "thank you" there would be no argument. "If you met the conditions that proved
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by silicon2401 4y ago
You can lie all you want as long as it doesn't impact others; that's why we have things like slander and libel. If you want to say your favorite color is blue when in fact it's red, I'd support you every day of the week.
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> We'd all be happier if everyone was politically correct That's objectively false. I would not be happier if everyone were politically correct, because I'm a strong believer in free speech, even if it's offensive. Yo
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by silicon2401 4y ago
It's basically the reason idealism/utopianism is never practical. Having an ideal and working towards it is a great way to make progress, but setting expectations based on ideals is a recipe for disaster
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> Odd - being downvoted for what I see as having some compassion for this man. Maybe I'm missing something. If so, please explain so I can learn. Many people make judgments relative to a group rather than an individual. Such people
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by silicon2401 4y ago
Can't second this enough. If you get a survey at work, assume all your personal info will be attached to this. At my current job, I've had a coworker let me and some friends know that they were reached out to by HR due to certain
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> What happens when we stop agreeing on what the “good” is? "We" always agree on what the good is. If YOU don't agree, well, we'll have to sort that out, won't we?
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by silicon2401 4y ago
Beautifully put. What I loved about science growing up is that it valued truth and knowledge (or such was the impression I had of science in history). If someone argues for self-censoring truth/knowledge to avoid XYZ values today, they
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by silicon2401 4y ago
Thanks for your response. If I set up Jellyfin just to run at home, without any need for connecting in from off-site, should I be okay security-wise? I went with Plex because my TV had built-in support for Plex, but now I think I'd lik
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by silicon2401 4y ago
Like clockwork. I just joined recently and of course they have a breach. I knew I should've stayed away when they required an account for you to view your own media. Does Jellyfin let you get past this security issue?
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by silicon2401 4y ago
When it stopped working for me I just started using duckduckgo's timer
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by silicon2401 4y ago
Very cool points. do you have any advice for how one can get retired enterprise equipment?
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by silicon2401 4y ago
How would you suggest going about buying used enterprise gear? I was thrilled to get a decommissioned optiplex and old monitor from an old job, but that's just because I happened to be in the office the day the stuff was lying around.
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by silicon2401 4y ago
> Nowadays a lot of consumer-grade CPUs have as many or more cores than older second hand server equipment, and often can run lower power (not always true). Plus putting it into 4U boxes means I can more larger fans so it's quieter
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by silicon2401 4y ago
In my experience, even cheap IKEA stuff is pretty solid and well worth the cost as long as you treat it with care. Some stuff is garbage even if you're careful but I've never personally seen something from IKEA that isn't gre
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by silicon2401 4y ago
can somebody with more server/home server experience explain to me the benefit of going with a rackmount setup vs let's say, just building a second PC to use as a home server? I recently bought a house and am excited to get into h

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