jplayer01

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Comment · 6 years ago
> Whoosh! I believe the comment you replied to was a dad-joke level double entendre.

That was a master level dad joke. I didn't realize either until reading your comment.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
That doesn't answer why it's okay to not give an option for advanced users. Even they want to use Ubuntu.
Comment · 6 years ago
The concern is that there's no simple way to disable auto-updates. If you want Ubuntu to turn into Windows, why not just use Windows?
Comment · 6 years ago
I like Notion and I can't stand it. The interface is entirely unsuited and too slow for what it's trying to do.
Comment · 6 years ago
The rules are extremely simple and easy to grasp. And once you've grasped it, you'll never have to think twice about it.

Parentheses take precedence.

The first symbol is the operator (add, subtract, sum, multiply, etc.).

Everything else is operated on from left to right.

(+ 2 5 7)

2+5+7

It's also not a Clojure thing. It applies to all Lisps or related like Scheme.

Comment · 6 years ago
You've completely misunderstood his argument.

It's widely accepted and known that fatality rates once you're put on a ventilator (due to Coronavirus) is ridiculously high compared to when you're put on a ventilator for other illnesses (something like 80% vs 20%). It suggests that ventilators might not be the right solution to what's happening to these people. So some doctors have been questioning the wisdom of continuing to use ventilators, and some doctors have been looking to alternative solutions that might have more success and better outcomes. One idea that was floated was CPAP (though I don't know what happened to that).

Nobody here is saying "ah, ventilators aren't working, fuck it, let everybody die". That's offensive to everybody here and a bad faith argument that isn't constructive in any way.

Comment · 6 years ago
Plausible deniability. They can turn around and say it's racism. It's their (and the Russian) MO. As long as there's no absolutely clear, unmistakable evidence, they can spin spin spin and too many people will buy their bullshit. It also provides a cover for politicians to not do anything. I see it here and elsewhere. People jumping to China's defense at every opportunity even though they deserve zero trust.
Comment · 6 years ago
There are other solutions around authentication that would be perfectly fine and still privacy-conscious. It's just that anything other than forcing you to login using a Google account doesn't mesh with their strategy of ensnaring users and adding to their all-encompassing profile of you.
Comment · 6 years ago
> nothing in the state-level lockdowns prevents travel in a meaningful way (it's just a jurisdictional thing)

... yes, because if I travel to Canada, the first thing I want to do is be stuck in quarantine for two weeks. Are you serious?

Comment · 6 years ago
> Create a crappy business, hire 130k employees, and get the state to pay for your failures.

Uh ...

You'd rather Germany sink 10 billion Euros into an American company with barely any German jobs? Over 60k of those 130k are in Germany. If your plan is to cripple the economy, then yeah, absolutely, let all these companies fail and put all these people out of work for a situation that is in no way their fault and there's no feasible way for them to have prepared for such a drastic fall in revenue (for reference, their 2019 revenue was 36 billion Euros with a net income of 2bn).

Also, the value of Google and Facebook to society and the economy can seriously be questioned. They don't even pay taxes in Germany. They have zero benefit to the German economy.

Comment · 6 years ago
After turning to Manjaro for my main distro, I feel like all the time I spent on trying to configure a base Arch install was totally wasted. The i3/awesome community editions are great - they are properly configured and setup with sane defaults and a minimum set of programs to ensure basic functionality you'd expect from your average OS (like wifi) works straight out of the box. I don't think I could go back to doing everything from scratch with Arch or even starting from Ubuntu (or other) where the default settings for i3/awesome are nigh unusable until you've sunk a significant amount of time into setting everything up.
Comment · 6 years ago
The link doesn't work. That's just the page for the official releases. You have to go to Editions at the top of the page -> Community -> i3.
Comment · 6 years ago
All of my headphones are wired. Sure, I have BT earbuds, but I'd never be able to use my headphones with any of these phones and the audio quality on them is far superior to any BT headphones I could buy at a similar price. And no, an adapter is a terrible solution (especially a BT one, really?).

The problem isn't that we think you should put the jack back in. The problem is that you're non-empathetic and believe everybody should have the the same opinion that you do.

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