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It's hard for an addict to stop being dependant upon a dealer - not least because the dealer wants to maintain that dependency. We've been suckered, and fallen for it hard, but now…

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists" ( https://rs.io/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-checklists/ ) comes to mind. When I was younger I would have though the same. Now that …

I've been using a VPN on and off for years when there was a privacy concern. Now there is a privacy concern 24x7, and so I use a VPN 24x7. A bad law and risk-averse sites have made…

I just couldn't live without this thing. Well, I could but I would be less productive and more grumpy. Back in the mists of time when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I developed Dat…

In my case being a generalist is less about knowing a lot about everything, and more about knowing how to work things out, and how to bridge the gap between specialised fields. I d…

Nope, the author's point is about what happens after fascists are elected, and he proposed no exceptions to that. Finland was not cited as an exception. His point about Finland was…

This is hilarious - I have yet to get to the article, because (on a fresh Ubuntu Mate LTS install with the stock Firefox) I am redirected to: - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace…

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I agree. As well as the technical merits, it seems to me to be a better match for natural human interaction. Your point about citizen-owned media is well made - in the US we seem t…

We also outsourced our social media. That has to change - it's literally not safe. There is a lot of witless verbiage about the "town square", but precious little acknowledgement o…

No, they don't just work at these places, they run these places. There may be some problems in UK society caused by upper class Harrow school boys (!), but the batch of those very …

I don't think he _made_ anyone do anything, unless that's somehow a term of art?

Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!

Thanks for the link - will take some time for me to digest. > people with complex problems, chaotic lives and a high and ongoing risk of reoffending. Surely that applies to almost …

> IPP sentences were created specifically to deal with prisoners who habitually reoffend on release. The whole point about this situation is that the sentences were applied to peop…

Happy triple booter here - yup, it's a thing. I have a stable/secure Linux and an experimental Linux on my trusty old T430, but I need a Windows instance for testing.

I'm glad this exists for those who want it, but for me the added noise / cognitive load of all those braces is painful.

Agreed. I have to schedule the "big" stuff, but for the rest the best I can do is work productively, following the connections between things. I'll have a day doing the tasks using…

I use Joplin, and am with you on the half a zillion notes thing. What is helping me is the "bidirectional links" plugin (so I'm linked to the the first version of the notes and don…

This completely fails to address the significance of the word "viable" in MVP - it's only meaningful if we define what it's viable _for_. In a startup it may be "viable to test a h…

You have not stated a case.

Reading the cited article in Nature, specifically re. methane, it states that "Arctic wetlands are effective methane emitters, yet dry and moist arctic tundra soils in north east G…

I googled that for you [1] and the answer is probably not what you assumed, so I'm not sure that your question makes the point that you imagine it does. N.B. I've quoted the first …

It's in maintenance mode, and still has a role. However, the focus has moved to py4web [1] which has many of web2py's strengths (including the DAL), but with a more orthodox archit…

Ubuntu Mate LTS editions, and ChromeOS if you count that - which I do. Mate "just works" on my old Lenovo T430, I use Ubuntu on my servers, and both are solid. Most of the time I'm…