jsrjenkins
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Comment · 2 years ago
How is it nicer with Wayland? I have a high-DPI laptop and it works great with X11. What would I gain with Wayland?
Comment · 2 years ago
Can't you just set the dpi in each display with X11?
Comment · 4 years ago
The whole notion of equivalency of evil is actually pernicious, as it is more of a contest of victimhood: "they did worse to us, so we are better". Arguing about numbers abstracts from the reality that even one person being killed for such an inhuman regime is already too many.
I think it would be sufficient to condemn the evil that was committed rather than make a certain group better because "They suffered more". So many suffered from that evil regime that we don't need a contest to see who is better. The Catholic clergy were in fact terribly persecuted in German and Poland by the Nazi regime, hundreds of priests being killed in Dachau alone. This doesn't take away the horrors that others suffered nor allow us to somehow abstract from them just because "our tribe suffered more".
Comment · 4 years ago
Copernicus himself was a Catholic priest and a Canon. The first opposition to his works was actually from Protestant thinkers.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is also lazy thinking to say that since it is approved by an institution it must be good.
Comment · 5 years ago
It isn't even really a theory anymore:
Comment · 5 years ago
There is something already in place with the 'telegra.ph' site, which is connected with Telegram I believe:
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for these. The First [0] link looks particularly interesting.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, the phone has to be connected to the internet for it to work. It says so in the documentation, and on the very first page "To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."
Comment · 5 years ago
The article doesn't actually answer the question. How many kilometers and what is the depth of the sound channel? Where does the pressure/temperaure ratio cause sound to difract?
After reading such an article I feel none the wiser, as the words are barely defined and no specifics given. Is there anywhere else to find better info?
Comment · 5 years ago
Fool
The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.
KING LEAR
Because they are not eight?
Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.
Comment · 5 years ago
Has Emacs ever been ported to Plan9 and if not how difficult would it be?
Comment · 6 years ago
Actually the Romans counted their months beginning with March:
March (1) April (2) May (3) ... July (5) (named after Julius Caesar) August (6) (named after Augustus) September (7) ... etc.
The reason being in the ancient world all serious activity begins in the spring, especially war campaigns which were to be under the aegis of the god Mars, from which the name of the month.
Note that when we have a leap year we add the extra day to the end of the Roman year, that is at the end of February which is the last month of the year.
More precisely, we duplicate the sixth of the calends of March. This is why in French the leap year is called 'bisextile'.
Comment · 6 years ago
Has any witness ever been convicted? There are so many witnesses that give completely false information that is later shown to be a lie. Has there any been a case of prosecuting such lies? Without prosecution it is all just empty threats and there is no real incentive to speak the truth.
At the last hearing, for instance, Jack Dorsey said that they do not shadow ban, but later pictures appeared of their administrative interface and certainly that capacity was there. An outright lie and yet he isn't even interrogated on this. Wouldn't there be arrests and trials if it truly was a federal crime?