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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The DUP had some informal ties by way of some members appearing on stage alongside loyalist paramilitaries in the past, but it was never the political party of any paramilitary group of note. The unionist party run by the UVF is the PUP and
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/psni-assessment-of-i... There is good evidence to indicate that the IRA Army Council is still heavily involved in running Sinn Fein. And it is no wonder, because the links b
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
So just like Liam Adams? Takes one to know one, I guess.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
By modern standards everyone before us is in some way terrible. You have to award some credit for being a bit ahead of the crowd.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/ira-tried-massacr... They tried to bomb a bus load of Protestant children on a church trip before fleeing across the border. On the same day as the Enniskillen bomb with
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The problem is when one side constantly votes in a party controlled by the terrorist group. Sinn Fein is the Provisional IRA, and proud of it. And this same party heaps endless praise on those who ordered and orchestrated sectarian murder o
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Which British financial interests were served by deploying the army to Armagh? It's not known as a hotbed of industry.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The idea that the IRA were jolly people who were just going to leave alone anyone who identified as British and wished to remain in the United Kingdom is laughable. I've seen "Brits out" and I know what it means. I've kn
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Hard disagree. And no one is arguing that _everything_ should be user choice, but there is certainly a meaningful accommodation that makes power users and tinkerers happy. We've had it more in the past and still have it with some softw
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Agreed, but unfortunately we're still stuck with the problem in the GTK file picker, which is used everywhere.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> a matter of taste Shouldn't that then be left to user choice? The attitude that there's only one true way to do things and that's the developers' way is what put me off Gnome.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
For many of these reasons which I also experience, I was hoping there'd be more of a blend of home/in-office emerge. Instead in both programming jobs Ive had post pandemic, it is all remote. I've met my workmates in person pe
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Ingots and sovereigns, perhaps. But jewellery would've taken some damage.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
+1 for this. It is a 'cool' name but this choice has problems. As a practical illustration, it'll cause confusion when searching for 'carbon programming' or 'carbon apis' on $SEARCH_ENGINE. It isn't c
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This reminds me of something you'd find on OldFiles back in the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20110407222115/http://www.oldfil... It was a webring/directory for old computers and DOS/Wi
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The health service in Northern Ireland still used TUI terminals way into 2006, I remember seeing the staff bring up my records with a few taps of the keyboard. Mouse UIs aren't a universal boon, and I think the recent failures at shoeh
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
init.d is back, baby! Windows is certified SystemD-free :D
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I've often wondered what it is like to inhabit a company stifled by bureaucracy, and that's one of the most grating examples I've read. You'd have to shut down your brain just to survivie. Well dome for making it out ali
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Page sucks and cannot be displayed(thispagecannotbedisplayed.com)
3 points by HeckFeck 4y ago|0 comments
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
We all knew they were doing it, this leaker's only crime is discrediting the agencies convenient brushoff where they'd label everyone a "conspiracy theorist" for even considering they have these capacities. "Spooks
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Yeah I get this notion too. Given the relative difference in size and complexity of structure, there is a vast power imbalance between the state and the citizen. There needs to be much more accountability.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This looks to be quite the achievement, with numerous custom UI controls written just for the project. The author describes them here http://www.calmira.net/source/index.htm and offers them for anyone else to use. They
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The onset of Blairism, which accelerated all previous statist trends with a smiling face and suave media personality. So we ended up with the Communications Act (2003) and its dreadful Section 127. As well as admission to PRISM, and making
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This is a great argument. I couldn't put it better.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Precisely. What cannot be said will find an outlet elsewhere. We'll soon find that having some potty mouths are far better than the alternatives.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
We had it through negative liberty, opposed to positive liberty. The approach was that everything was permitted except that which is forbidden. So, instead of a 'right to' free speech, rather we _would_ have no laws restricting fr
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I dread to think what this will mean for the free and open Internet - the source of much mirth, yes, and much dread. But that's just a reflection of the human condition. It should be just left be. Another case of myopic, joyless stodge
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> Lose any code they don't have copyright to, release what they can, even if its not functional. This was the approach with BSD Unix iirc. They removed the AT&T/other copyrighted code and the community filled in the rest of
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
There's a plan, so long as they don't check my HN handle as part of the hiring process.
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Ask HN: What would it take for the Windows 98 codebase to be opensourced?
5 points by HeckFeck 4y ago|8 comments

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