NackerHughes

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by NackerHughes 4y ago
That only speaks of how severely the attention span of the average person has plummeted in recent decades. It's impossible to sit through a movie without enough dopamine-inducing distractions or MTV-style jump cuts every few seconds.
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Well that's all well and good for those of you who live with your families, or who even have family at all. For a lot of people, WFH means all the more isolation and loneliness, those fleeting moments of human contact becoming fewer an
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Isn't it great how corporations can flood our food and water with poison and then brag to us about how they're doing it?
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
> That sounds like a pretty big abuse of their power and potentially raises anti-trust concerns. They could easily wield that power for nefarious reasons and I don't think any of us would want that. As if google doesn't already
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
> At least your email is ensured to be available for use on every site you sign up on Until one day it isn't. And then you're permanently locked out of every single site you use that email to sign up with.
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
You already know full well this will be a boon to productivity. Your resolve to publicly ruminate about it and ask what people think instead of, you know, just going and doing it, speaks volumes of your actual level of desire for reducing d
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Interesting and telling indeed. A southern US accent is acceptable to portray as threatening (or unintelligent or otherwise villainous). I would say the Russian accent is similarly A-OK to use for such prejudice. Racial stereotyping is exem
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Does my answer to the question really matter? Pretty much anything I could practice and develop my skills at, AI will soon be able to do better than I could ever hope to. It’s not like I’d have the time or energy in the hours between my ful
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Here's a link to the proper version: https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.png?maxwidth=999999
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Wrong, but hilariously convincing as a hackernews-commenter-style post. If someone was given a load of hackernews comments and asked to find the one that was generated by a bot, who would look twice at that comment?
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
You can still do this today via CSS. Simply add an ::after pseudo-element to the :visited link with a URL that you control, e.g.: (semi-pseudocode example): a[href="https://foouniversity.edu/bookstore/"]:
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
"Beautiful people" is a horribly discriminative term. It excludes everyone who isn't in line with unrealistic modern Western beauty standards, and makes anyone who's ever been called "ugly" or had a comment mad
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
It depends, I guess. I'm left-handed and sometimes I like to hold the object I'm cutting with my left hand, rather than the scissors.
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Covidists seem to love it when other people die, as long as their deaths reinforce the narrative they tell themselves. It's interesting to watch them suddenly lose every shred of the 'empathy' they love to preach to others ab
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Short answer: because it's Bash. No syntax or language construct will do what you expected.
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
The way it's supposed to work is that politicians do things their constituents want all the time, rather than token gestures just as the time approaches when they risk being kicked out if they're unpopular.
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
How does this compare against the similar Privacy Redirect? https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Yes it is. The advertising companies you describe are the present of evil.
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
1. they're Thinner And Lighter™ 2. ...err... 3. ...that's it...
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
The only things missing are the diagonal pinstripe background, drop shadows & glass borders round the thumbnails, and glossy reflections & lens flare on the images.
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Congratulations! "syntax monocultures" is now a Googlewhack! https://www.google.com/search?q=%22syntax+monocultures%22
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
I think both modes would make for interesting gameplay - one where you can rotate 180 degrees, and one where you're restricted to 90 degrees at a time (kind of like those Game & Watch games with 'Game A' and 'Game B&
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
We're all part of today's lucky 10,000!
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
That too! Imagine the chances!
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
Warts on the rhino? That's an idiom I've never heard before!
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
I had the same problem when I first started using sshfs. I found that adding the following to my sshfs invocation did the trick: -o reconnect -o ServerAliveInterval=5
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
What advantages does Telegram offer over other chat services that provide the ability to quickly spin up a group chat (e.g. discord, facebook messenger, whatsapp (I think), twitter, i.e. pretty much every chat service that people use these
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
This is a well-known problem of Unix (and software in general) - the original tools have suffered 'feature creep' and expanded far beyond their original intended capabilities. Discussed here on the venerable cat-v website, which i
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. When I first learned about function composition, a supposedly groundbreaking feature of functional programming, Unix pipes were the first thing that popped into my head, but making t
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by NackerHughes 4y ago
"works everywhere" Even browsers that don't have JavaScript? I sure hope so - after all, it's certainly not as if rendering tables is a solved problem since the 90s.

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