BillyTheMage

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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Is there more than just a picture of a calculator with an incorrect result? God I hate twitter, just show me the whole post already.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
I've been searching for a way to describe what I do for years; this is it. Jack of all trades always misses the point. I'm trying to multiply my knowledge in a systematic way, filling in the largest holes and learning things that
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
That's ringing my alarm bells real hard. It has none of the things you'd expect on a website for something like this. Where's the git repository link? Why is the download button linking to a totally different domain? Why is i
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
I own the domain as well, so there's no reason I couldn't just do that.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
I ended up calling customer support and they added it on their end. At least they did it this time. One time I went to get an oil change at Valvoline. They asked for my email and I reluctantly gave a +valvoline email address and the manager
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Email address validity checks suck
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Can't exactly ask coworkers for an ugly crying hug in the middle of a workday and then just act like nothing happened like you can with a best friend :( I'll also admit it: I'm lonely and the magic of life seems to have disap
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
It's taken for granted that the shifty [any] government is up to something because they always are, 100% of the time. Why would you expect the evil overlords to not be up to something with the big evil brainwashing program that has acc
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
His use of the word "salient" immediately reveals him as a Musk shill. He even uses it in the same incorrect way as Musk.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
To light mode users: why are you cowering away from the flashlight I'm shining in your eyes? More light means you see better.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
That's quite a lot of biased propaganda language that makes clear the author's interests. They just can't comprehend hatred of corporations. They think my hero Luigi killed in "cold blood". They support Israel inste
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Am I the only one who finds a "things you can do to be like billionaires" article to be extremely tone-deaf? We're out here trying to find any possible way to remove their power over us and they think we want to read about ho
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
As an anecdote, every single person I've talked to in-person wholeheartedly supports Luigi and believes executing the parasites until they stop using us as machinery is a good thing.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Someone must have forgotten to give me and everyone I know the memo. I guess we can just stop being poor now, the economy is great everyone!
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
I never understood Santa. Why would parents want to train their kids to be susceptible to lies? I wholeheartedly believe that Santa is a thing the government uses to reduce the populace's ability to think critically. Why would you oppo
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
They claim we don't have a good environment, but then they admit that they're aware of Emacs. I don't get it.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
I've noticed in a lot of Appalachian dialects of English, men and women will have slightly different accents. Not so far as using completely different words, but the accent is definitely different.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
> Many people don't believe in generating AI short films with one click > Many people don’t believe that an AI short film that earned $5,000 was originally generated this way. These are two totally different statements. I'd
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
This is the capitalist empire. Funneling money to capitalists might not be the only goal, but it's no less than goal #2.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
What proves it for me is all the obvious memory optimization tricks. I believe there is an array of fixed size attached to the local spacetime cell which keeps a list of weird/uncommon words. This is why we often see the same uncommon
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
> I hold the (sometimes controversial) view that no developer—or any worker, for that matter—should be forced or coerced. I hold the same view. If you go just a little further with this ("people" instead of specifically "w
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
As a time traveler myself I'm a big fan of the variable hoisting feature
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Nothing makes me chuckle like a big long professional article with a quote somewhere in the middle like "Holy sh*. This will go up like a fu*in fourth of July firework."
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
All of these "destructive industry is a way of life" articles seem like blatant propaganda to me. Of course the logging industry (read: the capitalists who own the logging companies) want logging to continue. Those of us who inhab
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
As I get older I find myself agreeing with RMS more and more.
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Personally I use a single folder named "kb" (short for knowledgebase). This folder contains every single file I've considered worthy of saving. I keep backups and sync between all devices. The secret is in the naming conventi
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
> In the study, 54% of Generation Z said an inheritance is critical to achieving financial security and retiring in comfort. I think this is rather tone-deaf. They think the kids are saying "I want an inheritance", but they&#x2
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Ah yes, the 4 categories of extremism: Islam, the right, people who care about animals, and incels. Who came up with these categories?
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Kind of unrelated, but every time I see Swansea mentioned I think about that documentary about their massive drugs issue[1], and that guy who was so scabbed over from needle-usage that he had to start injecting it into his butt and then he
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by BillyTheMage 2y ago
Posting on social media that you are out-of-town. Nothing more than a "my house is empty and you should steal all my stuff" advertisement.

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