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halikular··on System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop
Perhaps Nixos? It isn't LTS, but extremely reliable. https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=21.05&show=chromiu...
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You compound risk with repeated exposures. In this case through boosters because the vaccines don't work well enough. It's one thing to get a one time shot that lasts for life than getting 6 shots over 3 years.
halikular··on Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution
Nuclear power is one of the safest means of electricity generation, but it's very costly due to over regulation. Contrast this to commercial aviation which is tightly regulated and in turn very safe, but it's not over regulated that it becomes too expensive or regulations with diminishing returns that only put unnecessary road blocks.
halikular··on Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution
They didn't burn fossil fuels at that time. The only sane way to approach this problem is at the root, hence we need to stop emitting additional fossil CO2. What's here already is hard to put back in the ground.
halikular··on A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
Not so great for RAM clearance. It would be preferred to mount it this way since it's much easier. I spent hours trying to mount this thing horizontally in my case due to it being so big and having a fan right above it, I didn't have any room to hook on the fan wire to the tower. I had to use sewing thread to hook the inner one on. I'm never taking that thing apart again.
halikular··on iPhone remains findable after power off
The Chinese, Russians or Belarusians wouldn't agree with you. There's plenty of people there doing "illegal things". Why should you care? You never know when something can become illegal in the future or the social equivalent of cancelling. You might have made a joke that's not okay in the future, criticized a leader, read a book, played a game, used a VPN...
halikular··on I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network
Because it will take much longer if you restrict calling time to the day.
halikular··on Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
We already have SFTP for this.
halikular··on Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
Just the design. Firmware and software probably not except for FOSS purist products.
halikular··on Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
We're getting open source RISC-V wich seems more promising long term than ARM.
halikular··on Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews
You have to understand that he probably mostly reads books he enjoy and is statistically and factually correct. The 1 star reviews is when finds lots of statistical fallacies and misuse or they're factually incorrect. He doesn't take lightly on these kinds of things. Personally I think it's great when people finds mistakes in book and publish them for others.
halikular··on Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews
I think it's his shirt.
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Linking to Tiktok should be banned on HN.
halikular··on Using Computer Modern on the web (2013)
World wide the most used screen resolution is 1920x1080 at ~9% all other top resolutions is somewhere around 720p [1]. Even on desktop computers the top resolutions is 1920x1080 at ~21% followed by 1366x768 also at ~21% [2]. I still only use 1080p screens due to superior performance in games, refresh rate, battery life and that you don't have to deal with scaling issues. Things have changed since I bought them three years ago, but I don't need to upgrade.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...

halikular··on Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay
Being able to test clothes before you buy them to so if they fit is so much more convenient than ordering the wrong size online.
halikular··on My MacBook Air M1 is dead
Is there a way to do this natively on Firefox, Chrome or with ublock.
halikular··on A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design
It was probably a graphic designer who was going for the chemical formula aesthetic and wanted to be consistent with that and thought air = oxygen. N2 would've been acceptable but best would've been to just spell air and water outright.
halikular··on Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company
I was making an off topic comment but it was related to the information I gave comparing the wide differences of effort and in turn success of these independent issues. Maybe they weren't interested in that.
halikular··on Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)
The nicotine levels rapidly decrease just minutes after smoking and stress levels are beginning to climb in response until you smoke another cigarette. The cycle repeats and the average stress levels over time than for a non-smoker. If you're addicted you always stress about when you are getting your next dose of nicotine.
halikular··on Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company
Sweden has the lowest traffic related deaths of any country [1]. There must be something to it, however it's strange how lackluster the government response was to covid in comparison.

Edit: You think our covid restrictions was successful?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero#Outcomes

halikular··on Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)
You have more fun in the actual party inside.
halikular··on Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)
The nicotine is what CAUSES the stress in the first place, and you have to relive it by smoking or ingesting the nicotine in another way. So essentially what you have done is raised the baseline stress level and you temporarily lower it when you get your nicotine. Then the stress levels will be ascending proportionally to the nicotine concentration in your blood which is constantly metabolized and descending. Nicotine has a half life of about 1-2 hours, so it doesn't last very long.
halikular··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
You can get a more than enough powerful computer to run a web browser and more for $400 if you buy used, and you'll get to keep it forever. A subscription of Mighty would only last you a year for the same $400 price tag.
halikular··on Feynman, Harassment, and the Culture of Science
About the bar women. I think he just described the hyperbolic uncensored mindset in his head like a form of heuristic. Like how we think some neighborhoods is dangerous because gangs are killing people constantly. Our mind like to exaggerate to make it easier understanding the main point. Secondly about Curie he may have been joking, he's known for that, or he was serious. Whatever the intent it wouldn't be acceptable today we should condemn that. In my opinion these kinds of jokes should be resorted for your nearest friends who understand you better.
halikular··on DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
Facebook Instagram and Linkedin is worse in that it is impossible to use these sites without logging in.
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