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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Why not markdown? What does urtext bring to the table markdown doesn't?
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Word 20 years ago was a very different beast compared to word today. For starters, it still had a closed, binary (read: not friendly to source control) format. It also had more bugs than Klendathu. When you are losing your semester's 2
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
From the other side of the pond, when your chieftain wonders aloud again why the Europeans don't buy your beef, or your chicken, or now your pork: This here, is the reason. We like our beef clean, our chickens unchlorinated, and our pi
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
In fact, in many societies, tattoos are considered a sign of low status, affiliation with lower class (which tends to get harsher sentences) and/or criminal activity, and may - consciously or subconsciously - lead to worse outcomes in
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> kids needed phones because school shooters (which is a dumb argument.) Considering the US is a country where two dozen cops stay out of a school with an active school shooter until they have run out of bullets ... yeah, it is. No-one
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Heavily depends on where you went to school. Bavaria, Saxony, Baden-Württemberg? Preferrably Gymnasium? Preferrably a state school, not a city school? Hell, you have good chances! Any other Land? Something on a lower tier? Nah, easy goi
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> It takes people twelve years to learn to read and write at a 12th grade level. Nah. You are mixing up the skill 'writing glyphs on a piece of paper and retrieving that information via optical means' with 'being well-grou
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On the other hand, we don't teach kids in school the mechanical basics of automated locomotion, how to distill oil into usable fuel and how to mill an engine block before we allow them to get a driver's license. Unlike modern educ
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If you look into it, you will find that some animals are more equal than others.
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tech-c / abuse addresses were commonly available on whois.
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What is a criminal but a person who acts against pre-existing regulation anyway? Bitcoin's 'criminal' use is/was 95% narcotics. In a world without a superficial 'war on drugs', where a state had no right to tel
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
When you get old enough, you realise the cycle turns around and around A new dev tech shows up. Old devs say: That's not real programming. Real programmers use the old ways. You take all the skill out of it. You'll never learn
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
> Yes but the cause was not American. Yes, it was. America was setting up the scene for the pacific war by raising customs and tariffs on Japanese imports with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930). The Japanese were just democratizing when
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
Consider it a blessing. Those orders were about controlling history much more than 'secrets': Many things done in war are later considered war crimes. Your admiration might have taken a hit had he started talking gleefully about t
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5 quid? The was a psychology research project, good sir. I hope you got lab hours for that.
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That's the other side of anthropomorphic robots: they get anthropomorphic attributes associated with them. A 4 axis robot arm hitting a worker is a machinery with bad safety settings and/or a worker who ignored them. A humanoid ro
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
Of course, then we have groups like 'The United States of America', which has been at war basically every single hour in the last 100 years, and seems to be doing just right. At some point, you become powerful enough so that infra
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
This is directly caused by UPC codes being numerical and short, while 2D barcode have significantly higher, and often ASCII-space, data density in which human readability does not bring much of an advantage.
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
It has been to space several times, and there are photos and videos of it returning, shuttle-style on a runway. By carefully timing boosting burns at different points in the orbit, you can change the orbit to become highly inclined - go pro
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
When you are the front runner, you don't associate with the also-ran and the wannabes. They will drag you down, and drown you in their endless discussion and alignment meetings.
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
Maybe the photographer should stop telling other people in other cultures what they are supposed to like or dislike.
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
I would guess he couldn't conceive the concept of a computer, a machine immeasurably more complex than anything he has seen before, considering he even has trouble understanding a lighter. To him, ChatGPT would just be a mystery the sa
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
Also, a good way to log processes in cases where such logging is essential. "09:53 - User parasti indicated that he has indeed checked the server room being locked."
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
I would love to see you automating "Take the tapes out of the backup robot and drive them to the safe on the bank" in a Makefile.
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It is irrelevant in this particular case because the script is supposed to eventually get more integrated, to become a do-something script - and then you do not want to change the main function (which by then becomes an ordered list) too mu
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In my time we called that a 'checklist'. We used it for overcomplicated build procedures in some forsaken Microsoft toolchain that did not have build automation, and which spanned several different systems that were firewalled off
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Yes, but it appears that FileMaker only works with their cloud-based DB these days, and I really like my data to stay at home, in something like SQLIte or a NAS-hosted MySQL - mostly so I can directly interface my self-designed scanning&#x2
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We are also losing the joy of hacking together software by not adapting - or sometimes abandoning - useful development paradigms. I just tried to develop a simple CRUD-style database UI for a mechanical hobby project. Being on the backend&#
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by DocTomoe 2y ago
Yeah, you see, differently from nationstates, Amazon never built concentration camps, nor does it benefit their business model.
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Well, ever since the early 1990s the UK have been CCTV capital of the world, where you could not go to a neighborhood shop without being watched by the government in medium-to-large cities. We talk a lot about Red China being a dystopian Or

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