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uncletaco··on Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software
Those Palazzo pants have big Kefka energy
uncletaco··on France's baby bust
I don't know about that. A lot of people forget that the biggest war the British fought in the late 1770s and early 1780s was the first Anglo-Maratha war (which they lost) and their dominance wasn't really established until after the second and third Anglo-Maratha wars in the early 19th century.
uncletaco··on KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
This is something charismatic youth pastor would say in a weird denomination that encourages getting tattoos.
uncletaco··on Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives
That's the end goal.
uncletaco··on Let Teenagers Sleep
Well that's just it I don't believe it's inferior. And most Americans will gey their kids into some kind of sport if they can afford it. As the saying goes: a good kid is a tired kid.
uncletaco··on Let Teenagers Sleep
I'm gonna be real with you: it was fun. I was never the best athlete or trombone player when I did marching band but myself and many other kids who honestly didn't have a future playing sports at a collegiate level had genuine fun playing and practicing.

And after school is literally the most convenient time to practice for everyone involved including coaches, parents, and students due to the peculiarities of American living. When I was in school around half of American school children played some kind of organized sport and most probably got the same night's sleep as the other half that didn't. At the collegiate level they do what you suggest and often have two practices a day in the morning and evening for the biggest sports.

uncletaco··on Let Teenagers Sleep
Practice is every day of the week in the US

For high school football players it's basically practice Monday-Thursday then game on Friday. For basketball players it's basically any day during the week that they don't have a game. I was in marching band and we practiced after school every day.

uncletaco··on Let Teenagers Sleep
It was probably more accurate to say before their parents get off.
uncletaco··on Let Teenagers Sleep
Same principle but it was different in my schools system. High school starts 30 minutes after elementary and middle school.
uncletaco··on AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals
Nitpicky and probably universalist or whatever but the fact that we can't build a logically consistent model was always the case, Gödel just discovered it.
uncletaco··on St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum
I stayed at St. John's one summer and I remember they had a "final" where they had to solve geometric problems by actually drawing the proofs on a chalk board, shapes and all. I watched that girl go through the whole process while studying and I was fascinated.
uncletaco··on The Vast Humanity of Anton Chekhov
I'm always a little surprised to see The New Republic chugging along
uncletaco··on 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
Because it wasn't snatched up by homesteaders.
uncletaco··on 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
It's not rude for me say it's not me, it's you.
uncletaco··on 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
The problem is the courts haven't decided thus the sheriff is enforcing a law that doesn't exist, as per the complaint up the thread.
uncletaco··on 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
In the case I'm thinking of, where it's a large tract of vacant unimproved land, thats not true at all. There are no trails or rock walls to speak of. There's no house. It's just land. If you can find a case where this happened I'd love to read about it.
uncletaco··on 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
I didn't edit the comment. You read it how you wanted to.
uncletaco··on 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
It's ambiguous as there's no law on the books which specifically states that stepping over a property corner from public land to public land is illegal. And no state has passed a law on corner crossing one way or the other. Which is the point the article is making. You may be tired of the cynicism but some of us are tired of willful ignorance.
uncletaco··on 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
There are virtually zero situations where a landowner is liable for the injury of trespassers in the middle of nowhere.
uncletaco··on Nix and NixOS, my pain points
It's too late to edit but I'm speaking specifically about their guix/gnu posts. Otherwise they're fantastic to read.
uncletaco··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
I think it will change in a few years. There's been a lot of cool stuff added to Linux over the past few years. You can even use peripherals like hardware fan controllers or RGB hubs. With Nvidia open sourcing their drivers I'm hoping that wayland issues get ironed out sooner rather than later
uncletaco··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
Aren't we all using libinput now? I'm shocked the mouse driver BSODs Linux these days.
uncletaco··on Nix and NixOS, my pain points
I don't think Xe's posts are all that great. The stuff they complain about are a result of not knowing what Doom Emacs does for them (because Henrik Lissner uses NixOS personally and has added a lot of convenient functionality to the nix module).
uncletaco··on Nix and NixOS, my pain points
This hasn't been true for about a year. Nonguix has a substitution server that includes Firefox and the Linux kernel.
uncletaco··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
Same story: 16 core, 64GB ram, 6900xt. And nothing crashes because even when being ridiculous I knew better than use Nvidia on Linux
uncletaco··on Ten influential programming languages (2020)
I worked at a bank and the truth of the matter is COBOL is never going away. Most large banks run on it.
uncletaco··on Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion
No one mentions it because his Aspergers is a little heavy on the Ass.

Besides I thought we weren't calling it Asperger's anymore

uncletaco··on Mercedes Makes Better Performance a $1,200 Subscription in Its EVs
Y'all get on here and say anything
uncletaco··on Mercedes Makes Better Performance a $1,200 Subscription in Its EVs
So this is endemic? I noticed a lot of Uber drivers drove Model 3s when I flew into Miami a few months back and saw the same thing in Berkeley a few weeks ago. Are the Model 3 owners having trouble paying that high car note?
uncletaco··on Mercedes Makes Better Performance a $1,200 Subscription in Its EVs
I agree here except my eyes are on the Hyundai Ioniq
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