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Krita solves at least your second problem. I love Krita

“Working the forces” is a colloquial way to refer to doing police work. It’s just missing a “the”, calm down.

Textbook shooting the messenger

After 15 and a half years in service, you have to stop blaming the manufacturer.

inb4 “well the Palestinians deserved it”

Notice how Western news would have called them Palestinian “prisoners”, not hostages.

Their savage hostage taking, our noble imprisonment.

It’s a joke on the definition of byte being different depending on who you ask. Some say it is 1000 bytes, some say it is 1024. The 1000 byte kilobyte is 97.66% (rounded) the size of of the 1024 byte kilobyte.

As an addendum, a generally accepted definition is that the kilobyte is 1000 bytes, because kilo is the SI prefix for 1000, and kibibyte (kibi, kilo binary) is 1024 bytes, a round and useful number for computing. But old habits die hard, so most people refer to 1024 bytes as a kilobyte, the historical definition.

Quintessential Linux user comment

Honestly i used a left handed desk as a right handed person once and it was fine.

God I fucking hate the abuse of the word “bricked” by tech journalists. You brick a piece of technology when you fuck it up so bad that it cannot be recovered - it becomes functionally a brick.

They are not bricking this device, they are shutting down the cloud services it needs to function because they are going out of business.

In elementary school, during the final year (age 12 or 13) I had a teacher whose system was during work periods you could leave whenever you wanted, but there was a board at the door to mark your name with a clothes pin.

Going to high school, it went back to having to ask for permission, or give a heads up in later years.

The flag pictured is the Ba’athist flag, it’s been the flag of Syria for 40-ish years.

The flag you describe was the Syrian flag after independence from France, and as of two days ago, is now also the de facto flag of Syria.

Wow that website is awful

I have the kitchen vent running and oh my god it does not help one bit. I think I’m especially sensitive though. I remember as a kid, my eyes would water sitting in the living room as my dad cooked in the kitchen.

Not that the fumes can’t go around but there was a wall between.

Exactly. I, an everyday normal person just like you, think that murdering CEOs is bad. I am definitely not saying that because I am a CEO of a health insurance company. It is important that health insurance CEOs be spared, and not at all for personal reasons! We- i mean they deserve to live. This is an opinion that all normal everyday people - of which I certainly am one myself - should share.

If instead of loans, education was paid through taxes, would that still be stealing?

I’m inclined to believe your economics teacher would say taxation is theft, and can be ignored. Using taxpayer money to improve society is not “theft”, it’s the social contract.

Yeah, they could certainly use more resolution in their data, I’m sure they wish for it all the time.

But to pick on your example, they have certain requirements for specifically how they take the temperature which explains at least some of the discrepancy between them and your thermometer. For example, the thermometer must be in shade, must be iirc 2 metres off the ground, things like that.

A car serves maybe two people for a day. A taxi serves maybe four people in an hour. A bus serves several dozen people in an hour. A train serves hundreds of people in an hour.

I am aware that Singapore has a world class train network already, but any money spent on car infrastructure instead of train infrastructure is, if you ask me, wasted, especially in a city as dense as Singapore.

Use its scarce land more efficiently

Cars

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One thing that always bothers me about weather forecasts is they are not very specific, 24 or even 12 hours into the future. Like, they are correct that it will rain, but then somehow that rain always just misses me, and goes a few miles to the south, or something. Or it stops just a few miles shy of me.

If this can give more specific forecasts in the immediate future, that’ll be nice to see.