DemocracyFTW2

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by DemocracyFTW2 10mo ago
Humans in general are overrated and not needed anymore.
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by DemocracyFTW2 10mo ago
Just want to say that your link is a failure. When I first clicked on it gitlab wanted me to first clear the CloudFlare hurdle, then it wanted me to sign up, then it wanted me to verify my email address, then it wanted me to create a projec
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by DemocracyFTW2 10mo ago
The tide that crashes all the boats will hopefully also crash this one boat. Cuomo begone!
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NY taxpayers fund Cuomo's $21M legal bill(boingboing.net)
2 points by DemocracyFTW2 10mo ago|1 comments
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by DemocracyFTW2 10mo ago
(1) wants to overcome communication barriers (2) "put[s] this story behind [Medium's] paywall, so it’s only available to read with a paid Medium membership" (3) profit!
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by DemocracyFTW2 10mo ago
OMG this syntax is almost as bad as that of TypeScript https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46269959
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by DemocracyFTW2 10mo ago
FWIW I used to use https://pgtap.org for a short while but then switched to 'invariant testing' (my word for it) where I basically write DDL for views that collect rows that don't look like I expect them to look l
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
written by an independent author /s
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
You make a very good point there re. efficiency v robustness (a.k.a. resilience). The latter is often seen as perfectly expendable, as icing on the cake, as waste (because it's not money in their pockets) by neo-liberals, in other word
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
Also this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UBZTqvSDoMI
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
I don't understand why you think the free market will not produce waste or shortages, to say nothing about other effects such as reckless exploitation of human and natural resources. Assuming that you're right in thinking that in
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
I like that idea, would you volunteer to convince Musk to personally do a Full Self-Driving demo on Mars? Teslas would sell like hotcakes, tell him that. One can still hope.
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
FWIW npm was my savior coming from Python back in the day, but I agree that some of its design decisions do look, shall we say, more problematic now than they used to.
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Ask HN: NPM docs re. changes to auth, token management are a mess, what to do?
1 points by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago|2 comments
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
> Speaking of manic this is the third time you completely re-write your reply in a few minutes Speaking of manic you're the one who checked how many rewrites there were within a few minutes so who's manic?
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
Green pastures were promised to the cow that was led on a string to the slaughterhouse.
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
Given it's from Microsoft consider yourself lucky they didn't name it "Tables" or "Data"
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
See also the post "Most Fortune 500 companies to replace CEOs with Brain Organoids"
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
Was looking for Bob The(odore) Builder, found Cardinal Sin
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Joscha Bach > wrote: Dear Jeffrey, thank you for your support and encouragement, even where I fail. Sorry for being such an embarrassment today. I will spell out today's argument a bit better and co
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
Source: https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?c... Materials obtained by the House Oversight Committee in Nov 2025 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944058 Thanks to the quotes provided by nabla9 I was able to search more efficiently and dug up the below text. The formatting in the PDF-Files!!! (sorry) makes the text painful to rea
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
> They smell faintly like furniture polish. This is why a friend of mine refuses to eat nutmeg, and since he remarked on it, I've used it much less frequently because he was right.
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
Either π = 3.14... or π ≈ 3.14; π ≈ 3.14... is like saying "π is approximately approximately 3.14"
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
I'm happy to report that I upgraded my Mint from the previous to the most recent version without any snags. I then discovered I was still on an older kernel version which required a little more research, but went without any difficulti
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
"Four counts of fraud in federal court" sounds better than "four medical degrees from top medical schools" if you want to be someone in the Make America Poor and Sick Again administration
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
makes one really wonder how the writer came to dislike Musk of all people...
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
Here you go, impoverished disillusioned deprived masses of the world: https://duckduckgo.com/dist/logos/dynamic/galactus.png
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
I'm writing all my stuff in CoffeeScript (which trans/com/piles to JavaScript). I feel like almost the last man standing at this point. I have some plans to revive a fork of https://github.com/jashkenas/c
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by DemocracyFTW2 11mo ago
<thumbs-up emoji> You nailed it!

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