skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Feb 2021
what are the sources of information, the methods of reasoning, that lead away from the headlines and closer to the heart of the matter?
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Today is the anniversary of the Kent State shootings, or more appropriately the "May 4th Massacre". In the wake of recent events and our consideration of gun control laws I think this day deserves a great deal of reflection. Four Americans were murdered, and nine more wounded, by our own national guard simply for participating in an anti-war demonstration. If we want to consider limiting access to guns on american soil lets start with our own national guard and police, not our citizens. The last thing I want to see is an unarmed populace needing to deal with a well-armed police and military force. Lets focus on securing the rights of the citizen, not giving them up
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You either die based, or live long enough to see yourself become the cringe
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Can anybody recommend a recent and decent KVM switch? I want to switch between a laptop with USB-C and a more classical PC / workstation. Peripherals consist of a DisplayPort connected monitor and a DVI-D connected one, plus keyboard and mouse. #followerpower
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Believe it or not, advances in technology have shrunk true atomic clocks down to something you could conceivably wear (but wouldn't want to) on your wrist and with a power budget that is feasible. These so called Chip Scale Atomic Clocks have been commercialized by a company called Microsemi and you can buy the modules for about $2500 each. They're at least two orders of magnitude more accurate than the best compensates/controlled crystal oscillators. Someone once did a kickstarter even! Lol.
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really excellent stuff lately from the copper community, can't wait to see what gets built in the next few years
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About 20 years ago there was much hand-wringing and worrying about the "digital divide'.
The idea that lots of poorer people don't have access to computers and the Internet and are therefore left out of the new economy.
Well, now even the bum under the bridge has a pocket computer, but there's a new digital divide.
Those with technical skills will be able to maintain much higher levels of privacy and autonomy online then those who don't.
@solidsanek The King must ascend to Heaven or the Gods shall rage for a thousand years... have you not read the prophecies?
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We unconsciously take our glasses off and put them back on our faces many times per day, but how often do we poke ourselves in the eye(s) with the glasses' arms?
Not enough times, I reckon.
Not nearly enough.
It would be a good enough reason to stop work for the day, unable to see.
Your boss will understand. I guarantee it.
This has been another Life Pro Tip from the Barmy Swami. 🤪
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One of the things I love about the French is their readiness to take abstract reasoning and theory seriously. It allows them to use that reasoning to penetrate much more deeply into the nature of reality - to think strategically.
The Anglosphere often disdains this kind of reasoning and prefer heuristic arguements and common sense. While this is great at cutting through the bullshit it gets caught in provincial thinking and struggles to adapt once the low hanging fruit has been picked.
The French attitude (broadly speaking) might fall into ideology more often than the English/American, but they have to tools to parse between ideologies and meaningfully develop them.
Anglos remain flexible in the face of the matter at hand but we're often subtly beholden to many values which we don't have the tools to meaningfully analyse. I think these values are generally speaking good but their development tends to occur organically and over a long period of time.
Don't get me started on the Germans.
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