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An actual book stores more data than that and for longer. At that point, why not just etch the data onto a metal plate or something? 8K is only a few pages of text at 12pt. It could easily fit onto two sides of a small-ish metal plate, etched in 8pt or so, and it would last, potentially, for millennia.

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What’s the practical benefit of that? If the point is long-term storage, rewriting isn’t a priority (or possibly even a need). And this isn’t designed for capacity.

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It’s FRAM, which has been around for ages. The problem is its prohibitive cost— hence the 8k.

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You wouldn’t use a car to race in the Kentucky Derby

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Source-available≠ open source

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It wasn’t racism (this time), just an antiquated and sexist attitude towards who should get to wear white wedding dresses (Megan is a divorcée).

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  1. I’m not seeing that this is the case here. Wearing white wedding dresses is traditionally only for “virgins”. The Queen was the head of the Church of England. It might even be unusual for a 90-year-old head of the church, not to object to something like this.
  2. I think this is a stretch, and assuming rather a lot about someone you don’t know
  3. The queen did object to Camilla wearing a white dress when she married Charles
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Make Trump take a cognitive test issued by a board certified and independent neurologist and gerontologist.

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https://i.redd.it/58lbkbq0ynn61.jpg

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https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/68c85945-aa08-4fde-9dad-e9e58bc71d89.webp

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No, that’s the same problem: fuckwit execs who don’t give a shit about workers.

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Kinda surprised that something sane tumbled out of his mouth.

edit: apparently, it wasn't as sane as the headline made it sound, lol

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But he isn’t right nearly that often, lol

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I stand corrected

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Bloodbayne the Annihilator

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There must’ve been an age limit. No “ephebephelia”, no Milo.

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Le Demoiselle de Avignon may be a revolting exploitation and sexist display by a renowned, womanizing misogynist, but it’s also a fantastic example of form, style, cubism, an illustration of the shift from art nouveau to art deco, and, frankly, a celebration of the female form. I’ve even heard it argued that it empowers sex workers, although I’ve also heard some fierce debate about that.

My point is that, when exercising the nuanced discretion of “separating the art from the artist”, the “art” in question should, at least, be of sufficient redeeming value to consider overriding the distaste for the artist in order to consider the value of the art, especially when considering the overall contributions to art (on the general sense) made by the artist in question (nobody reasonable would dare question Picasso’s contributions to the art world, for example, despite home being a contemptible person).

W. Bush, on the other hand, is no Picasso— and even Picasso, the shitbag he was, was no war criminal. And he certainly hated fascists.

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Hooray! My $350k MfA finally paid off!

Can I get some help with rent? (Seriously! I haven’t eaten in 3 days!)

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Thank goodness you’re not in such a position.

Incidentally, what is your qualification for judging the value of art? Where did you get your PhD in Art History?

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I’m not judging anything. What I’m saying is that works must be judged for their redeeming value in toto against the actions the deeds of the artist. Ie, one must be judged in balance against the other, not simply one or the other in a vacuum.

I’m trying to express my standard for judgement, not making a judgement myself.

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Australian guys are so fucking hot, I’d be willing to move halfway across the world for your bizarro kangaroo ramen

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Where the hell do you think those “subjective opinions” come from?

Not from some silly BfAs nor MfAs! Ha!

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I know that it means you cannot unilaterally shit on something just because you personally don’t like it, especially if you cannot provide any objective analysis to defend your position

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Roman is definitely not the same wherever you are, and kangaroo steak is objectively delicious

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The artist isn’t a framework. An artist creates a framework, from which they must eventually be separated (in your wording).

So, once an artist is prolific enough to establish (as you put it) a “framework”, then one can separate the judgement of the “framework” form the individual artist themselves.

Does that make sense?

Edit: if not, maybe I can clarify further

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To anyone with a brain, that definition Proves me correct. Not you.

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I don’t have to. Plenty of others with poli-sci degrees did.

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apparently, there was an incident with a boob, which is legal in NYC, but not Dublin

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I doubt it was one thing

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an heresy

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They never sold Linux afaik, and I spent a lot of time there. The only place I saw Red Hat being sold was Babbage’s

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No, you’re thinking of SUSE, which is German for “boringbutstablelinuxdistribution”.

Oddly, that short word-long word English/German translation thing works both ways.

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During the install it had already messed with the hard drive partitions in order to run the live environment, which is a big no-no for me.

WHAA??‽!!

Ok, I’ve been dealing with this distribution for close to a decade and I’ve installed it on over a dozen machines of all sorts of configurations. I’ve never heard of this. I’m very curious as to hooooow this happened.

From all of my experience and everything I know, this absolutely should not have happened and could only be the result of some sort of mistake or bug or some usual circumstance. This is not the typical or normal experience.

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Funny, it used to stand for “payfortwentyfloppiesorcompileitfromscratchwedareyou”

It only took me 28 hours after a seven day download at 28.8 KBPS on my 25MHz 486 Packard Bell POS, but those motherfuckers never got a penny from me!

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Don’t you even fucking get me started, I am so serious, lol

Edit: gentoo was why I said, “fuck this, I’m buying a Mac,” and refused to even think about Linux again for 5-6 years. And I have the OS X/macOS’s being UNIX to thank for that, btw.

The “shield” Apple puts over its OS can be pierced by powerusers who know how to use the terminal, and there are package managers like Homebrew that allow users to install ports of Linux/UNIX/BSD userland apps. In reality, macOS is an extremely-customized build of BSD that’s locked down in many ways, and runs a proprietary filesystem and on property hardware. (That’s a lot of suck, yes). But, otherwise, it’s still POSIX, and so similar to Linux as to easily facilitate a transition. And, because of it, I drifted back to Linux.

Not necessarily because of macOS’s shortcomings, but because I like to tinker and fiddle, and Linux scratches that itch.

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Like, as a bug, right? Not as SOP?

I mean, I get that - as a rare occurrence - shit can go wrong. I wouldn’t blame openSUSE (for example) if that happened during an install. I’d just assume it was a bug and that I was having a shitty day.

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What distro do you use, out of curiosity? System V?

J/k. What do you run?

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What year was this? Very rarely, I have heard bad experiences like this, but they were from a long time ago. From everything I’ve heard since (I’ve never had to contact their support, myself), their support - and their hardware - has massively improved.

Edit: I also have heard (unconfirmed) that they have a separate B2B unit now that has a separate support unit, too.

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Really? That recently? I’m really quite surprised. Especially at the low quality of customer support you received.

Of course, this should never have happened. A live install medium should never make alterations to an internal drive. I really just don’t know how that could’ve happened. Or why it happened. It must obviously have been a bug of some sort. My mind is boggled.

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I get where you’re coming from, it just blows my mind that you encountered this outrageously rare problem that must certainly have been a bug.

You must understand, this was not intended behavior, nor should this ever have happened. I’m very sorry for your experience.

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I’m gonna venture to guess that your problems are not with your operating systems. Best of luck to you.

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Lemme guess: arch? ;)

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Popos has only been around for 6 1/2 years. Linux has been around since the 90s.

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Right? I’m ok with my computer being a bit of a hobby, but it shouldn’t be a side-job unless I’m getting paid, goddammit.

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Like… I like to tinker and fiddle, but, at the end of the day, I want stable and reliable. So I love PopOS, but should I really be on Fedora or openSUSE Tumbleweed? Like… eh… am i old?

Lol

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Oh, sorry, I missed that, lol

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i know. i was making a joke ;)

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Stop it, you

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