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They've been separate desktop environments from the start. From top to bottom they share nearly nothing. The compositors, window managers, toolkits and shells are all different.

They also are ideologically opposed. If they merged, which direction would they go? The more feature-rich KDE? Or the more streamlined Gnome? Such a merger would lead to infighting and stagnation.

This is before even talking about the actual code underlying both environments.

I think it's better for everyone if they stay as two separate projects.

She's a high school teacher. I'm gonna guess the students figured it out first.

Isn't this how Donnie Darko started?

Once you get past their boring singles, Nickelback isn't all that bad.

On one hand, 360hz seems imperceptibly faster than 240hz for human eyes.

On the other hand, if you get enough frames in, you don't have to worry about simulating motion blur.

Is that all it does? Is HP so backwards that they introduce a whole new attack surface just to store a date stamp?

...Actually don't answer that.

“The way our policies, procedures [and] training have been designed and implemented for many years have not had the voices of black people involved in the design, the implementation, of those practices. And as a consequence of that, we get disproportionate outcomes in places where there shouldn’t be disproportionate outcomes.

I was curious about specific examples of institutional racism so I started scouring the main report: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmhaff/139/13911.htm

I didn't dig very deep yet, but so far I found that the forces had been trying to train away individual unconscious biases in response to the Macpherson report, and watered down the process in favor of other priorities. (See paragraphs 505 and 506).

Agreed, but at least it's not as bad as it was.

I'm sure it's highly subjective. But if you want to go about it scientifically, you can survey a number of strangers to answer the question for you.

Now, where to find those strangers...

That's the mean (average), not the median (middle).

Median is the one where half the numbers are smaller and half are bigger. If only the top income changes, the median stays the same. The mean goes up.

How did it take them 80 years to find a bomb in a back yard? Is it a large yard? Was the bomb buried?

Software developers who never have, and never will have to, use the software for real.

Yes. The customer doesn't necessarily know what's possible or know how to articulate what features they want. I spent one week in a position where I was using my own software for production and immediately made several simple enhancements once I had hands on experience with the expected business process.

Every programmer should go through an exercise like this at least once in a while.

Right. Is it 10 figures? 7 figures?

... 5 figures?

Well I guess these aren't sex stones.

What is a sex stone, you may ask?

It's a fucking rock.

Well... at least no one was hurt.

8pm thru 12am is prime time for streaming. Netflix would need to pivot or go out of business.

Since most phones networks now operate over IP, overnight customer service would break. The US can no longer use call centers in India for daytime call centers.

Batch jobs requiring Internet access can no longer run overnight. Instead they would need to run during the day, tying up bandwidth and CPU for other users. System engineers would need to take this into consideration.

It would be more difficult to coordinate with friends when going out at night. You could no longer order an Uber at 2am if you're drunk off your ass. DWI events would increase.

I see no reason why they couldn't. There's even built-in support for bots in the user settings, at least in Lemmy.

Like on Reddit, it will take some moderation to keep the more malicious bots under control in the Fediverse.

I've heard the "won't always have a calculator" line, but more impressive was the one time our math teacher demonstrated the ability to solve the problem on the blackboard faster than we could whip out our calculators and punch in the numbers.

She showed her work, too.

It did at least draw me to the comments section to see the chatter, but no, I pretty much expected what you quoted.

I guess it's open enough to interpretation to be misleading. Do readers think she was worried the kid was going after them next? Do they think she was worried one more of the students would come after her?

In very rare cases (nuclear fusion) the water is destroyed into its primitive elements

Simple electrolysis will split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

Nuclear reactions will change the atoms, but you don't have to go that far to break down water.

If one were to press charges against an IVF clinic I can imagine few greater uses of jury nullification.

Although not true, I give this a pass for being a Nirvana lyric.

None of them.

Well... Not on purpose. I could totally see someone blurting the gossip in the school cafeteria.

Opera still exists but it's based on chromium now.

Maybe there never was a cake.

I feel like vanilla GNOME is intentionally a barbones common workflow, and that extensions are how you customize to fit your needs.

For example, I often switch between desktop speakers and headphones (where the dongle is always connected), and sometimes other audio devices. I installed the sound input/output chooser so I don't have to go into Settings every time I need to switch inputs. It saves me multiple clicks. But I get that not everyone needs immediate access to change audio devices, so why clutter the UI?

I've used both vanilla GNOME and the post-Unity Ubuntu spin on it. In either case I've grown accustomed to the Activities screen, quickly accessing it pressing the Super key, and using it to switch windows and manage full screen apps on different monitors.

The car just needs the rest of the floor covered up so the driver doesn't get dust in the face.

Are there at least two front facing cameras for depth perception?

There's no way this would have been admissable as evidence on its own.

Cisco might have something to say about that name.

Idle games or incremental games are my go-to for casual play. At the moment I'm playing through NGU Idle mainly because It's a super slow burn but unlocks lots of goofy features over time. I've been progressing for a couple years now.

My guess is that some genres are going to be more problematic due to more extensive use of anti cheat. What are some of the games you're having trouble with?

OFF THE TOP ROPE!

Also, the other good Ion Storm game, Anachronox.

I haven't played it in 20 years and still remember some great moments.

If the size of the PR is a concern, maybe the maintainers will allow a staged approach. Create an Issue describing the feature and indicate step by step how you would implement. Then break the work into multiple pull requests.

If necessary, you could introduce a toggle that's switched off by default until the feature is fully implemented.

Well... if you want most of the main story but without the gameplay, someone had made a movie out of the cutscenes awhile back.

I ended up quitting on the final boss. Partly because I was gut punched by an unexpected plot point just prior. But also because it was the third big fight since the last save point and I got lost on the mechanics. I caught the ending through the movie I found.

If I remember correctly, there's already a system tray icon that lets you adjust volume on your current devices. The extension adds the ability to switch devices from that drop down instead of drilling into the settings app.

Sopranos, Game of Thrones. Basically anything produced for HBO.

I caught the first 2-1/2 seasons of The Wire because of a promotion on Hulu.

It boils down to: I'm a cheapskate.

This was such a unique game. It was like a merge of a tight corridor first person shooter and a space combat simulator where there is no "up". I haven't seen anything like it since.