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People are distinguishing between being friends with their boss and friends with their peers. Is there really a difference? Are people really cutting loose and opening up with thei…

The last I looked Calibre, including its CLI tool ebook-convert, is literally the only local option, paid or free, for consumers to convert EPUB to AZW3. If you know of anything el…

In the U.S. the cheapest Kobo is just under 100 USD: https://us.kobobooks.com/collections/ereaders . They go on sale somewhat regularly.

I agree with your position that MotF portrays what generally needs to happen for us to have a non-horrifying future, though as a matter of probability it's like getting heads on te…

Thanks for all the detail. On further thought I read Smil's article uncharitably. I recently finished Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" which is a near-future novel …

Accurately describing the problem also means saying we use several hundred times more plastic for trivial purposes like wasteful consumer packaging than we do for hospital supplies…

Low-end gaming laptops are arguably PC based consoles.

The hope here is that this new team member is going to stick around for a while and contribute new insight to the team. Since he's senior I hope you hired him so you could learn fr…

Ubuntu 22.04 desktop, the normal installation with LibreOffice and other extras, is about 7.1GB for me in a VM.

It's also funny that they want you to specify a "product name, the open source component name, and version number." What if the product you mention doesn't include the open source …

> I dont know if 50.0% deserves to be the threshold but whatever the threshold is Im damn sure it's below 90%. The normal legality is that a state is governed by a national constit…

The article seems dishonest because it downplays reducing use. For example the author refers to plastic used in maternity wards. Reasonable people will agree that medical plastic f…

It's less that you would feed your dog a cicada and more that during cicada season they are everywhere, covering the sidewalks, and your dog might try to eat them.

The U.S.'s historical strategy has been to find or create some credible faction wherever it wanted to meddle and then support it using any means necessary, ethical or otherwise, an…

Based on the title I think OP meant to link https://blog.1password.com/1password-ssh-agent/ . Is anyone actually using these 1Password CLI tools in a serious way? Their CLI stuff h…

There is a tension between the concepts of self-determination and territorial integrity that makes the question not so obvious. However the concept of territorial integrity has adv…

Do you encrypt files or add integrity checking before you send them to Google Drive?

I'm reading that Graeber book now, it's good. I enjoyed his Debt book too. I recommend "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson as a specific attempt to answer the questio…

It's like they're negotiating with the planet and the sun.

I'm not sure if we're disagreeing or just talking past each other. Most men could probably describe shopping for clothes as a woman in a literal sense, if that's what you mean. The…

Red Hat says they do a lot of testing before anything goes into CentOS Stream. That's what I meant by pre-release testing. Since the changes are intended for RHEL they're already c…

> Tell that to all the people complaining about yellowface/Apu. It's genuinely on an "Ahh, I am honourable Chinese man, my family is honour" level. I was referring to your Paul Hog…

Men have throughout history had the strangest ideas about women despite, as you said, having sisters and so on. I agree that is weird. Of course a willing male game dev could resea…

Do you know of any specific problems with CentOS Stream? It seems like it just moves slightly faster than RHEL but ends up in the same place except for the tiny chance of an issue …

Some backstory: Luc Besson directed "The Professional" (1994). His second wife was Maïwenn Le Besco, who was the model, but not the voice, for the Diva in "The Fifth Element" (1997…