Brian-Puccio

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Comment · 8 months ago
On MacOS and iOS, two dashes (i.e., the -- characters) automagically turns into an em dash (—). No special commands needed.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can I ask why it will produce terrible color rendering? In addition to commercial scanners that used narrowband trichromatic (RGB) light sources, hobbyists are creating their own RGB light sources to digitize color negative film claiming superior results and putting forward arguments why this is better:

https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/

(NB: Most film I shoot is slide film, which I’ve been told doesn’t benefit from RGB light sources because it’s intended viewing was projected with a broad-spectrum white light [likely a warmer than daylight (but color temperature isn’t much of a concern for digitizing slides)] so I haven’t dug into this much.)

Comment · 1 year ago
WP is a fork of b2/cafelog. So b3/bistrolist?

(There’s also b2evolution.)

Comment · 2 years ago
Credit unions are nonprofit, member/cooperatively owned financial institutions.

Banks are for profit (and likely publicly traded).

Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, screenshot things.

But also export your config because you will inevitably forget to screenshot a thing or seven and you can poke around the config export for that port number or IP address.

Worst case scenario, you can spin up a VM of pfsense quickly and reimport the config if you have to.

Comment · 3 years ago
So 6,400 Gb/s compared to 409.6 Gb/s once you convert units?
Comment · 3 years ago
I’ve been using BorgBackup since it was Attic. Been thrilled with it.
Comment · 4 years ago
> My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck.

At some marketing meeting this was brought up and was promptly considers a feature, not a bug.

Comment · 4 years ago
The first line of the fifth paragraph reads:

> In overt cases, this is known as ‘constructive dismissal’: when an employee is forced to leave because the employer created a hostile work environment.

Comment · 4 years ago
Mine mnemonic is use e.g. when you could say “for eg-zample” and use i.e. when you could say “that is” — ie to is. Admittedly, the second half isn’t as good as the first. : )
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
> The inhabitants don't lose. > > Play your scenario out. > > A bunch of poor people buy 100 acres of land for $1, and they turn it into a paradise.

Yeah but instead it’s people who cannot buy land who rent their homes who make their community better only to be priced out.

> No owners “lose”

Right and for all the people who aren’t wealthy enough to own land who get priced out of their neighborhoods and have to move? Often further from places of employment?

The comment you replied to said “let's say there's a neighborhood of people who are quite poor but charitable toward one another”. Poor people buying 100 acres of land for $1 is not a “neighborhood of people”.

Your scenario is buying cheap land in hopes one day it’s expensive — basically a long shot lottery ticket.

Comment · 4 years ago
Obama in 2007: first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, essentially codifying Roe

Obama in 2009 (the same year he had a supermajority in the legislature): eh, that’s not so important

I have zero faith in Democrats in Congress to actually do this and all of the Republicans in Congress are vocally (or tacitly) opposed to it.

Clinton’s VP pick was an anti-choice Democrat.

I doubt there will be a federal law allowing for first trimester abortions on demand for at least a decade.

Comment · 4 years ago
> The split of pro/against is really close to 50/50.

I’ve searched and I cannot find data that say half of America wants abortion made completely illegal (as it is in several states right now and will be in more shortly due to trigger laws).

Can you please share where you get your 50/50 split from?

> Roe v Wade only prevented legislation from finding a solution.

Roe only? Roe made safe abortions available to millions — it reshaped society.

If the argument against Roe is that fertilized embryos are killed, then we need to make sure in-vitro fertilization is stopped where abortion is as well.

As one anti-abortion politician said “The egg in the lab doesn’t apply. It’s not in a woman.”

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