CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Be more precise in your thinking. This is not about bomb threats, this is about punishing people that provide a line of communication. Yeah, I used to think in good-or-bad, right-or-wrong, black-or-white terms too... Then I grew out of
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I don't care about centralisation / decentralisation in my work. Yeah, that's why it's easy to sell centralisation to lots of people.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> PRs are sent the way you describe because GitHub... Oh, and here I though this discussion was about git. But you're talking GitHub.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Who says they can't finish it??? Whateverthefuck this is, discussion in good faith it is not.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I don’t get what is the problem with Git’s concept of branching. It is mutable, yes, Exactly like a branch on a tree: It's a living thing, that keeps on growing. The word "branch" refers to the whole thing, regardless of
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by CRConrad 2y ago
1) WTF, Jackie Chan was on SNL?!? Ya live and learn... 2) And they had -- remarkably current, today of all days -- pagers.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It is, in a way, the ultimate conservative comeback to "government is just another name for things we choose to do together" - well, so are corporations. Counter-comeback: But in that case, shouldn't the limitations on w
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Oh, they do, they do... It's just that it's on a three-year-old's level. As was to be expected from people who are in all other ways too.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Upvoted for the funny persistence, but that doesn't make you right. Except if it's your own folly you're sighing at?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You're a private citizen (I assume?), so far easier to automate than the big guys. That was probably a result of them "being digitized" (see my other comment around here), so some buggy automatic system kept flagging you and
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Everything also got digitized in that time which is somewhat of a confounding factor. The IRS being a large federal agency, it's possible that everything except the IRS got digitized... Or, you know, the IRS "got digitized&qu
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by CRConrad 2y ago
So largely fictional, then.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah sure, the total crime rate may be declining. That's because it's comprised of everything else, like shoplifting kids and gangs of bicycle-stealing thieves in student towns like Uppsala. "Oh yippee, we had six hundred f
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Some members of the Mussolini family have run for FdI, such as Rachele Mussolini, granddaughter of Mussolini, for the City Council of Rome, and Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, great-grandson of Mussolini, for the 2019 European Parliament
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Cultural stability and assimilation rate are real processes, that can be influenced by various policies. [...] Yet immigration and assimilation create cultural friction with the then-dominant national culture, so that needs to be manag
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That's mainly because the state of the reality that the discourse is about is also really lacking.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Are you sure those people aren't trafficked, rather than in your country voluntarily? Such exploitation is also a problem, but I'd say a different one. Weird switch: First you're saying "these poor bastards probably
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by CRConrad 2y ago
A) Which most probably is still a fuckton more than you get being unemployed in the Middle East or Africa. B) This is of course in addition to the social benefits you get being officially unemployed in Western Europe.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Are all banks required to provide such a service? How about countries outside the USA I'd be more worried about banks in the USA than outside. You won't get "No, we only take endorsed and double-signed paper checks!&qu
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Comes out to the same as "Throw away the first one", doesn't it? Who was that, Fred Brooks?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Could just as well have written "matured more rapidly" or "grew up quicker", AIUI. Changes the connotations quite a lot from the negative "Teen Girls Aged Rapidly", doesn't it? (That sounds like fricking
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Although I can't get copy/paste to work in a remote text putty window. Sigh. Depends on stuff like what terminal Putty emulates and so on, of course, but... Eh, have you tried using the old "MS/IBM CUA standard sh
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> They barely made it into parliament at all most elections You don't even have to be in parliament to influence other parties.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Go or Java PicoCLI with graalvm gets you pretty close to this ideal. Oh yippee, only one unnecessary VM layer. :-( > Now Desktop GUI is a fallen idea and we are talking about CLIs ??? WTF are you talking about? In the real -- i.e. b
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I'm not the server admin. I don't even know who is. Ours is not to ask why, ours is but...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Code sometimes breaks because people read the comment and assume it speaks truth when in fact it's full of lies. And often for completely different reasons. Blithely assuming it's all about "lying" comments is totally
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> and etc The "et" in "etc" means "and", so you have that already.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Date and sign comments. /* Helps determine staleness -- conrach 2024-09-12 */
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by CRConrad 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_(pronoun)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> DAYS_PER_SECOND = SECONDS_PER_MINUTE * MINUTES_PER_HOUR * HOURS_PER_DAY Naah. DAYS_PER_SECOND = 1 / (SECONDS_PER_MINUTE * MINUTES_PER_HOUR * HOURS_PER_DAY) ;

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