Grappling7155

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[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you’re thinking of OpenOffice, which has been dead for years

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A lot of exercises you can do in the gym you can also do at home with a pair of dumbbells or even just your body weight.

The benefits of the gym for me is having an air conditioned environment, with machines that can guide my exercises and help enforce proper form, a good space to meetup with personal trainers, opportunities for group classes, and somewhere where there’s people around in case anything goes wrong in one of my exercises.

Not all gyms are the same too. There are climbing gyms, kickboxing gyms, mma gyms, gyms with pools, gyms with basketball and volleyball courts, gyms with tennis, squash, and badminton courts, etc. A lot of those you can’t do from home.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

It’s not unique to Americans. A lot of cultures use compound words to describe new things

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Canada does not allow open carry, and handguns have heavy restrictions on use and transportation

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Innuendo studios has a nice series of videos on this on YouTube

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (11 children)

ARM architecture 64 bit. It’s the style of CPU in your phone and MacBooks, known for being energy efficient and it’s performance is getting better too.

The big downside though is that loads of old Windows apps aren’t going to run on these as effortlessly as they would on conventional x86-64 CPUs from Intel and AMD.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see this sentiment pop up occasionally but it’s rare that anyone ever explains what else the Mozilla Foundation does that’s so egregious to make it not worth donating.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Québec has done a lot of VFX for movies too. Hallmark movies often film in northern Ontario.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Debt and ledgers.

Anthropologist David Graeber made a compelling case that this was the system in many different societies and places before cash. There’s nothing stopping us from doing it again. His book talks extensively about how each society handled repayment, the role of violence, interest, social hierarchies, etc.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For some reason it’s become commonplace to think that barter is what preceded and/or would replace cash if we ever lost cash.

Anthropologist David Graeber has written a more compelling account of history with examples in a variety of societies showing that debt and ledgers are what came before cash and I’m thinking a system based off of them would probably be strong contender for a future without cash.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Unless this thing runs on fossil fuels, I don’t think it’s really going to have a big impact on climate change.

I guess there’s an argument that this is taking away engineering hours from projects that might have more practical uses in addressing climate change but I’d counter that sometimes engineers need a break from their usual work to avoid burning out from tedious incremental tasks and rigid processes. A bit of time and space for experimentation can be helpful, reinvigorating, and can lead to future discoveries and inventions if done right.

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