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How else can it be done? Any attempt to convert images or text into ASCII art automatically looks at best uninspired and boring and at worst like trash.

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That’s exactly what I’m saying. Using pre-made characters looks cheap. Good enough for a 13-year-old’s geocities website, not good for something pretty.

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In addition to what they others said: why are you policing how others express themselves?

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No, as you observed, it goes in all directions and doesn’t have a real point that can be summarized. This is not a recommendation to read it.

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… why is that ambiguous. It’s the same thing.

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That doesn’t answer the question. Sure, in isolation, Android app ecosystem isn’t ideal. But it’s so so much better at allowing competition than the apple one.

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How are people upvoting you for refusing to read the article?

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You probably missed the part where the article talks about university level math, and that strong juxtaposition is common there.

I also think that many conventions are bad, but once they exist, their badness doesn’t make them stop being used and relied on by a lot of people.

I don’t have any skin in the game as I never ran into ambiguity. My university professors simply always used fractions, therefore completely getting rid of any possible ambiguity.

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Lather some soap in to a flannel and scrub every part of your body

That’s not recommended by dermatologists. Soap destroys the acid layer on your skin that keeps bacteria out. As a regular thing, you should therefore only lather on soap where the bacteria buildup is high enough, i.e. under your arms, in your butt crack and other skin folds.

Unless you got super sweaty, you shouldn’t soap up your arms and legs every day.

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Phones and keyboard are filthy, but it’s more about people usually not cleaning them enough and not about people not being clean enough.

The amount of bacteria on thoroughly and often soap-washed skin very quickly rises high because of the missing acid and/or oil layer.

The “only use soap on armpits+groin+feet most of the time” recommendation is not made up.

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You also have an oil layer that keeps certain kinds of bacteria out, so don’t destroy that one. As said: most days, just lather pits, groin, and feet, simply rinse the rest with water.

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They probably didn’t label their axes properly. FPS is a clearly defined metric, and there, more is better. This indicates that the conclusion (Linux is faster) holds. Since frame times have an entry with value “100” and all other values are lower, I assume that’s in percent, i.e. Arch Linux is the fastest and picked as comparison point, and the others are shown with relative performance to Arch.

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Yes. He’s smart enough to mostly back the right R&D horses, and good at generating hype. That way, he almost manages to offset the damage he does when his ego gets in the way or he thinks he’s qualified to make engineering decisions or to know which corners to cut.

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I think the neoliberals have just co-opted the term, so it now usually means neoliberal. But it also means egalitarian.

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The Culture is amazing, it’s an anarcho-socialist utopia that’s much more radical free than Star Trek’s society.

… I feel the same way as you about billionaires appropriating it.

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That’s not how that works. Products that big don’t have features (or “features”) rolled out universally. They do things per county, per demographic, or to random groups first, to have data on how it affects usage.

Only if they’re happy with the results (or management overrides the rational decision process) they’ll introduce things globally.

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The Arch wiki made installing it very painless for me. Zero problems. Install it, remove PA, activate systemd service.

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I’ve heard nothing but good, and replacing Pulseaudio was painless. It was Pulseaudio that people hated on in my experience

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KDE had that pretty much since the invention of the mouse wheel.

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Sure, until the next update, when they forcibly enable it again.

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I was very sad when KDE reintroduced the concept of “primary screen”.

It used to just be the current screen, which meant that when I wanted to game or watch something on my projector, I just dragged steam or the folder with movies to the projector screen, then launched whatever I wanted, and it appeared on the screen I wanted it on.

Now I have to jerryrig kwin and a custom steam-in-gamescope Launcher to have games launch there. As a side effect, steam thinks my PC is a steam deck and therefore can’t be exited from inside of it, I have to right click the tray icon.

Horribly kludgy compared to “click launch game button on screen x, game opens on screen x”

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Wayland isn’t coded at all, it’s a protocol, so clearly you know nothing.

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Yeah, especially the argument about Wayland compositors taking down all apps with them when they crash: that’s just bad, no need to sugarcoat that.

A better argument would be that it’s not true: KWin keeps Qt apps alive, and they’re working on extending that to all apps. As a result, in the only crash I’ve experienced, I only lost my Firefox window, and zero data as all my tabs and form entry values got restored when I started it again.

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Also it’s a world where one bardy boi singing real good has significant real life effects.

Why shouldn’t someone be so good at dodging that they can evade half of the damage an explosion does?

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Dwarf Hexblood. Didn’t know that class existed!

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My dentist recommends not using mouth wash. Ever.

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My dentist says flossing more often than once a week is detrimental.

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Flossing? Wtf. Brushing, yes, but flossing is much harsher.

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Finally there’s a way to have gradients that don’t look like shit.

Defining them to interpolate in a suitable color space instead of the completely inappropriate sRGB is great!

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It’s an old sharepic, they didn’t make it.

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It’s a heavy duty hilt that’s easily detachable by a small recessed switch labeled “any”.

(It does its job very well as long as you don’t opt out of using it)

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Probably not, but Graham Linehan is by now just one of the most rabid transphobes you can imagine. He threw away everything he had to be a bigger TER“F”

Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.

We’re in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I–an atheist and a skeptic–am told I need to respect these patently...

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Until he gets into politics and tries to write his religion’s millennia old moral code into contemporary law.

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Painting by Ramon Casas: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jove_decadent.jpg

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flying_sheep,
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Ah, du hast also keinerlei Medienkompetenz. Mach dir nix draus, das kann man lernen.

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I haven’t had to debug a bash script since systemd became a thing, so I have a vastly different experience from you.

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Never really, because they don’t contain logic. You craft a command line and stuff works.

The problem with sysv was that almost all of the logic lived in the scripts. They all worked slightly different and all the duplication introduced bugs. Systemd has APIs that take over all the duplicated stuff and implement it once. Bugs have to get fixed once only.

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IVF. No physical contact necessary.

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You’re comparing apples and reactors. Ubuntu is one of the easy to use distros by design. Distros like that try to keep config file changes and things like that from the user. When that fails, the falling height for users is higher, as they now have to deal with a complex problem. The other ones are designed to be simple and require you to handle potential breaking changes manually by default, which means you’re taught to do these things and won’t be clueless when things get hairy.

You shouldn’t compare Ubuntu to Arch. Compare it to Mint, Fedora, Pop!_OS, …

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Nothing of value is lost.

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Your continued existence isn’t in question. Continuity of consciousness is an illusion. If you would put your brain state in stasis and resume it later, you wouldn’t feel any different. Neither would a copied version of you. That feeling of continuity is all there is to consciousness.

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In the moment of copying, they’re the same, after that, they’re diverging through different experience. The difference in atoms/location is irrelevant from the perspective of that person’s consciousness. They both are the original in any sense that counts for them or others.

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No you wouldn’t be any deader than you will be a fraction of a second from now. You only live in the moment. In the next you are replaced by someone who is almost, but not exactly you. Continuous consciousness is an illusion, or a concept. There’s no magic piece that makes you you.

It’s a trick of perspective.

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They’re basically zip files with a standardized metadata file to determine chapter order, index page, … and every chapter is a html file.

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