glans [it/its]

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  • How curious. Are you doing a play?

    You might have to DIY one if you don’t want an old one. Certainly there are websites you could upload a PDF to that would print for you.

    I think the boxes made sense when they were for sale in a brick n mortar store because they are harder to steal and make the person feel like they are buying something when digital goods weren’t such an instinctive idea. I doubt they would be shipped because they are big for no reason and would require a lot of packaging to keep from getting wrecked in transit vs a USB key in a bubble envelope.

    To buy linux in a box, you would have to find somewhere near you that is selling it in person. A computer store, a book store. Maybe a campus bookstore? They have a captive audience so sometimes can get away with stuff that doesn’t otherwise make business sense.







  • glans [it/its]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlHelp with kitty terminal
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    5 months ago

    There is a keyboard shortcut to reload the config. I don’t remember what the default is. On the kitty website, go to the page about kitty.conf and ctrl-f reload or refresh.

    To check that the config is really reloading, make an edit to the section about theme, tab style, etc.

    There is a way to output the actual config as used so you can look for your settings.

    If you call kitty from the command line you can optionally use an argument to specify a config file. Iirc it is --config but verify in docs.

    What is the location of the config file you are editing?

    Post the section of the config file that isn’t working?

    Try moving the section you are editing to the very bottom of the file to ensure it isn’t getting over rided later on.
















  • glans [it/its]@hexbear.nettohistory@hexbear.netCool shit
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    It makes you sound delusional to say that corn is fully a product of ancient genetic engineering but it is consensus science/history/botony as far as I understand

    Maize domestication is one of the greatest feats of artificial selection and evolution, wherein a weedy plant in Central Mexico was converted through human-mediated selection into the most productive crop in the world. In fact, the changes were so astounding that it took much of the last century to identify modern maize’s true ancestor. Through modern genetic studies, the molecular basis of this evolution is being unraveled. Maize’s new morphology and adaptation to diverse environments required selection at thousands of loci, and we are beginning to understand the magnitude and rates of these genetic changes. (Tracking Footprints of Maize Domestication and Evidence for a Massive Selective Sweep on Chromosome 10 - In the Light of Evolution - NCBI Bookshelf)

    Re the Amazon, in 1491, Mann talks about how it was densely populated and farmed specifically with a lot of trees which Europeans didn’t recognize as domesticated. Like in other places they just thought it was “like a garden of eden” where god had simply placed everything nice and convenient for the inhabitant instead of an intensely designed intentional farming system created by humans.


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    1491 is an all time top book.

    NOTE there are similarly-named titles by a crackpot historian. I accidentally bought one by mistake. Make sure you get 1491. (And 1493 by same author I’m sure is fine not crackpot but not as amazing as 1491.)

    My understanding is that 1491 is well regarded and even though it’s a bit old now has stood up.


  • I have two somewhat incompatible ideas about klingons

    1. when i was watching one of the newer “viking” TV shows it was like watching one of the klingon court intrigue episodes. then someone told me klingons were meant to be like vikings but I never looked into if that was at all true but I tihnk it’s funny.

    2. It almost seems like “klingon” doesn’t refer to a species so much as a class, ethnicity or subculture of a minority within a species. it isn’t plausible for all the attitudes about “what is a klingon” to be pervasive through a large population. you need to own land. you need to have something to do with the high council which is like 8 people. you can’t have an even nominally productive job. famers, lawyers, cooks, scientists: all are disgraced.

    we do occasionally meet people who don’t fit that mold but they spend the whole time crying about how they are outcasts from “klingon society” but it would really be like 95% of people. OTOH if “klingon” was just a single, small group that was extremely powerful it would make more sense. “klingon” is a group more like “catholic clergy” than like “humans”.





  • This was also part of their defense at the Hague:

    1. I now turn to describe just some of the humanitarian co-ordination efforts that Israel has been engaged in and Mr Sender will further expand on this.

    2. Israel maintains a dedicated military unit, called COGAT, responsible for routine co-ordination with international organizations in Gaza with respect to various humanitarian aspects. It is COGAT that mans and operates the crossings between Israel and Gaza. This includes the Erez Crossing, through which prior to 7 October, almost 20,000 Gazans passed through into Israel daily for work.

    So if you are saying that Palestinians are working in Israel because it is beneficial to Israel you would be wrongzo because it is actually a Humanitarian Project which is mutually exclusive to genocide.






  • Afaik prior to chemical dyes the color blue could only be created from indigo and wode. When i see a lot of blue it makes me consider… supply chains.

    Red has multiple sources but i wonder what this person is thinking of.

    Their other pics have men draped in the beautiful deep royal purple obtained by crushing cochneal beetles. Extremely expensive. The color schemes are similar across works even though they seems to be depicting different times places and contexts. And dont have much of the colors that are easier to obtain like brown, grey, yellow and green. So i guess its the artists asthetic. ?