porcoesphino
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- Comment on Why doesn't more software support ODF / ODS files? 1 week ago:
Ah! They are open? Partly my bad then. I also wondered if ODF was written in a way that prohibited online collaboration, or at least made it very expensive.
Yeah, on #3 I think I misremembered how far back France started using open source. Hopefully this means more ODF native options
- Comment on Why doesn't more software support ODF / ODS files? 1 week ago:
Sure for isolated machines. I was using open office on isolated machines 20 years ago, I’m glad the software is better now.
But there is value in cloud storage for institutions and collaborative editing. All the European offerings I saw for this were autoconverting to Microsoft formats (pcloud, onlyoffice) and they both seem to have at least part open source licenses so it’s surprising to me.
Its also surprising to me that there are mostly viewing options on iPhone (but not surprising to me that there is low support, just that it’s almost only view only)
- Comment on Why doesn't more software support ODF / ODS files? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I get why Microsofts formats are entrenched
I don’t so much get why they aren’t mostly export formats since:
- A proprietary format seems like it would be more error prone to use as the only format you edit documents in
- I presumed there would be some overhead like fees to using microsoft formats
- With governments caring more about digital sovereignty, I thought there would be better placed suppliers
I guess #3 will just take time and to them there is risk that Trump leaves and everyone goes back to Microsoft
- Comment on Why doesn't more software support ODF / ODS files? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I quite like libreoffice on the mac but I’m not always on my mac. I kind of thought one of the European cloud storage providers might offer support for editing too but they auto convert to Microsoft formats during edit and that just seems like it would be more error prone. And on an iPhone I only found one app that would edit in place, everything else views or converts to Microsoft formats
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- Comment on How does James Bond run and fight in suits? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on How does James Bond run and fight in suits? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not a suit but there is plenty I’ve done in jeans:
- 15km hike with 1000m vert
- 15 minutes kicking a floor to ceiling bag
- a 10 km run
- messing about with capoeira
It’s not that hard, people just have this idea of certain clothes being appropriate. Admittedly, I wouldn’t recommend these, but if there is something I want to do and I only have jeans then 🤷♂️
- Comment on How does James Bond run and fight in suits? 5 weeks ago:
This comment is basically all the other answers but shorter…
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 1 month ago:
Going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole:
[Portland, Maine] was formally founded in 1786 and named after the English Isle of Portland. In turn, the city of Portland, Oregon, was named after Portland, Maine.
I failed at finding how the Isle of Portland got its name but saw this:
In Dorset, England:
The origin of the name “Portland” on the Isle of Portland is uncertain, but theories include:
- It may be a corruption of the Celtic word “Port Lann” (“harbor by the cliff”).
- It may derive from the Old English “portelond” (“land by the harbor”).
- It may refer to a fortified harbor or headland.
etymologyworld.com/item/portland
Its the first time I’ve seen the site though and that page feels a bit AI generated
- Comment on How do trains save fuel when they literally park on the tracks and block multiple intersections, with over a hundred vehicles steady burning gas all around waiting for the train to fucking move? 1 month ago:
So what do?
I didn’t assume much, but I am telling you that you think you said this and you haven’t
- Comment on How do trains save fuel when they literally park on the tracks and block multiple intersections, with over a hundred vehicles steady burning gas all around waiting for the train to fucking move? 1 month ago:
But you very clearly only asked how trains save fuel. By not editing the post to actually request an answer it still looks a lot like seeking validation
- Comment on Does having a child with someone give you any legal right to their property? 1 month ago:
There’s a few details here that didn’t seem needed, but cousin’s wife? Was this an episode of Fresh Prince that I missed?
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 1 month ago:
Instead, anarchists point to pre-civilization methods of carving out individual spaces from the commons so that people can live without having to “make a living.”
This basically started with farming didn’t it? (If you seed a field and can’t harvest you’re at a loss and possibly starving.) What are these methods? Some are obvious talking nice to each other but some are clearly brutal murder to make a point. I guess I’m a bit more interested in how the brutal murder type techniques are argued to be kept in check
- Comment on How to stop a parent from jumping into the nearest religious rabbit-hole to cope with a divorce? 1 month ago:
I think you have your last sentence wrong:
My son is talking like a militant atheist, how do I make them change?
The request is for managing the way someone in their life is pushing their beliefs. You’re focusing on the tangential context, the persons specific beliefs (that was added as useful context for the people offering helpful ideas)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What the fuck is this and where are the mods?
Agreed the US system is a joke but so is the trying to pitch this post as a question
- Comment on Wild macaques don’t abandon babies. So why did Punch’s mother? 2 months ago:
TLDR: They don’t know
They also touch on possible reasons for a pretty small percentage of the article
- Comment on Is there a program for tracking IEEE reference numbers and adjusting their order? 2 months ago:
This is the best answer so far
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 2 months ago:
That’s happened a few times before hasn’t it?
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 2 months ago:
I think that’s adjectives not verbs but then the language in my post may have only been nouns
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 months ago:
Ah, I see.
I’d argue we all believe in a thing or two that we don’t have great evidence for when confronted. And I’d argue the size of the collection of things we could believe is mind bogglingly large. So then you end up with combinations like this.
But yeah, agreed from the framing in your comment that believing both is pretty logically inconsistent.
Thinking through this idea a bit more, I think there are a lot of people that would describe themselves as atheists that believe in that certain things will improve their health in a way that others would describe as lacking evidence and should be included on that list. If you push on that idea then I think you’d start getting tension and pushback from a lot of atheists. I’m sure there are other categories you could do this with but I’m not thinking of others quickly now.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 months ago:
Don’t you just need to believe in a soul? And haven’t philosophers been pondering that in various ways for a long time?
I think this post on another thread nails the core of the issue for me and it’s pretty independent of religion (since I think potential mechanisms could be independent of religion):
If a bunch of people were going around saying I got this weird burn on my skin after holding this rock for a while, scientists would have discovered radioactivity a lot sooner.
There are a bunch of people going around claiming to have interacted with ghosts, and we’ve got bupkis.
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 2 months ago:
Seems legit:
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 3 months ago:
I think this is the wrong language to look for an answer. Japanese has a lot more mimetic words. I’m guessing anime has this pretty well established but I don’t read it
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 3 months ago:
I think some of why is related to how most people in a traffic jam go “damn this traffic” not “damn, I’m making this worse”
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 3 months ago:
That’s evidence for some people having more than a knee jerk response, it’s far from statistically saying it’s the most common rationale. Smart people are also amazing at having a knee jerk reaction and then making it sound well reasoned with clever arguments.
I agree its not just a knee jerk reaction, and I know I don’t have a good basis for how many are knee jerk vs rationalised but I do know I’ve been around plenty of people that seem to have a knee jerk reaction and plenty that demonise the culture, hell half the world is being bullied not to have windmills and some of that is blanket anything green is dumb
- Comment on Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans? 3 months ago:
It’s probably more than “reliant on good-faith actors”. The Perils of Presidentialism by Juan J. Linz in 1990 is a decent paper comparing the instability of parliamentary democracies vs presidential democracies. Parliamentary democracies aren’t perfect, we have Hungary, but in hindsight it shouldn’t be surprising that presidential two party democracies are unstable. If you get two ideologies that are different enough then the government swings between the ideologies with the executive pushing for its side and opposite side getting angrier until, after a few oscillations of increasing amplitude, something snaps.
- Comment on Scientists reveal what drives homosexual behavior in primates 4 months ago:
except sheep?
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 4 months ago:
The poster has a hell of a modlog
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 months ago:
What’s the issue with their code of conduct, or having them in general?
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 months ago:
Damn, they have Matrix setup.