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  • Buried lines of all kinds are frequently severed by excavators because their position isn’t properly or fully documented.

    The best set up I ever saw was a sewer tunnel, almost 12 feet tall, that handled all the services. From sewage to water to electricity to data; it held everything and was trivial to maintain and run new lines in.

  • Clocks, true.

    Computer systems in general, however, will start acting very squirrelly outside of an approved MHz range. Wall warts and power supplies can handle only so much deviation from the norm. It’s why high-end UPS systems do power conditioning to provide a pure sine wave.

  • 30 minutes? Those are rookie numbers. You want a shorter time? Go for something truly vintage. I have a 1977 Amana Radarange that can achieve the same in 5-8 minutes. Those fuckers are powerful.

  • This cop could do with some improvement. Dont paint all members of a group with the same brush, and someone isn't a bastard just because they made one mistake.

    You know what you get when you mix a bowl of shit into a bowl of honey?

    Two bowls of shit.

    One bad apple that isn’t immediately kicked out means that all the apples are bad. If their training to become a police officer didn’t teach them to avoid being a racist piece of shit, then no amount of “rehabilitation” will ever change that.

    ACAB.

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  • We don't have anyone actively working on Windows support, and there are considerable changes required to make it work well outside a Unix-like environment.

    We would like to do Windows eventually, but it's not a priority at the moment.

    This is how you make “critical mass” adoption that much more difficult.

    As much as I love Linux, if you are creating a program to be used by everyone and anyone, you achieve adoption inertia and public consciousness penetration by focusing on the largest platform first. And at 72% market share, that would be Windows.

    I hope this initiative works. I really do. But intentionally ignoring three-quarters of the market is tantamount to breaking at least one leg before the starting gate even opens. This browser is likely to be relegated to being a highly niche and special-interest-only browser with minuscule adoption numbers, which means it will be virtually ignored by web developers and web policy makers.

  • Any brands protected by American law must be independently-owned, with full transfer of all branding, patents, trade secrets, intellectual assets and physical assets.

    So, for example, for even a single bottle of Perrier to be sold in America, it needs to have been made by a company registered with the brand name of Perrier, with exclusive use of that name within the country, independently owned and under zero control by Nestle, being manufactured using the exact same process with the exact same ingredients, and having control of the exact same patents and American-side infrastructure.

    America is such a large marketplace that it would be impossible to split a company like this. Patents alone would prevent this, forcing Nestle to divest themselves of each individual subsidiary.

  • Separate the search engine from anything that stinks of advertising so it can return to what it’s supposed to do: return the most relevant results.

    Because even appending udm=14 only gets rid of promoted links and in-page advertising, it does fk-all to correct manipulated search results.

  • where they help young adults and millennials deal with feelings of depression, disillusionment, and cynicism?

    You mean by eradicating the Parasite Class, dismantling vampire/vulture Capitalism, crashing the housing market by 75+%, and closing the wealth gap, thereby giving them a future that is not only affordable but also worth living and striving for?

    That sounds absolutely wonderful.

  • don't use plastic if you can avoid it. It's not easy to recycle.

    Plastic bags, styrofoam, and those hard plastics marked types 1 & 2 are the ones most likely to be recycled into new products. They are easy to break down and recycle into new containers.

    Hard plastics marked types 3 through 7 are most likely to be filtered out and either incinerated or dumped straight into the landfill, as it costs more to recycle them than to just create new straight from oil.

  • Unfortunately, most plastics are useless to recycle - they either get incinerated or dumped straight into the landfill by the companies who collect and filter them.

    Which is why my wife and I only bother with plastic bags, styrofoam, and the hard plastics marked types 1 & 2. These are the plastics which are easily recyclable, and therefore, have a non-trivial chance of actually being recycled.

    We put types 3 through 7 straight into the trash, as they have about a 97% chance of not actually getting recycled.

  • And IMO Koçulu should have sued NPM for everything they had. What NPM did to Koçulu was in violation of everything they stood for. Koçulu was there first with the Kik name, he should have had 100% of the rights to keep it.

  • A long-handled scratcher. For reaching places that the casts are now not going to allow his arms to bend towards.

    His arms are also going to get itchy AF inside those casts.

    And for shits and giggles, get him a few rubber model cockroaches to stuff down inside those casts the day of their removal. Or really, any small rubber insect that is disagreeable to most people.

  • I have a “data transcription machine” which is meant to pull data off of old media. It has:

    • 3½″+5¼″ combo floppy drive
    • IDE hot swap cage
    • Zip 250 IDE drive
    • Jaz 2Gb SCSI drive
    • Internal 50-pin and 68-pin SCSI controllers

    Let’s just say that I have enough devices cross my bench that SpinRite 6 gets a monthly workout on some piece of old storage tech or another. Not everything is recoverable, but…

  • Despite uBlock, my first pick would be Tab Mix Plus. Firefox has yet to properly open up the API for tabs, so you still have to do some mucking around with internals, but TMP gives you multi-row tabs, specific tab-closing patterns, expanded right-click options, and a whole host of insanely useful tab features.

    I have been using TMP almost since the beginning, a good 15+ years now, and consider it to be absolutely essential to a proper Firefox setup. I would be happy to punt my TMP config file to anyone interested.

  • That is not what MGTOW means in reality, and you know it. Stop playing coy.

    Ah, ignorance. It exists both as an innocent lack of information as well as an intentional rejection of facts. Yes, your cultivated ignorance is on full display.

  • Honestly, there is a subtle but distinct difference between hardback and hardcover.

    A hardback book has the cover fully designed with graphics, as it is meant to be seen.

    A hardcover has a minimalist cover, without any designs since the dust jacket is what is visually flashy and attractive and is meant to be seen.

    Otherwise, the two are structurally identical, only with the hardcover having an extra protective layer in the dust jacket.

  • Liberals and Conservatives are actively pushing late stage capitalism.

    Because the Liberals, the CPC, and its openly racist little brother the PPC, are all right-wing parties.

    Now granted, the CPC is hard-right and the PPC is full-blown alt-right, but yes -- the Liberals are right-lite. Almost none of their elected members are even centrists, much less left of centre.

    You want a leftist party that actually cares about the common man? Try the NDP, both provincial and federal.