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by Pxtl 3y ago
The podcast also covers some more humoring of extreme antisemitism when he was negotiating in the middle east. It's not just that he tolerated it, he validated and played along with very clever quips about being a Jew.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I've already listened and it's excellent. Tl;dr version: Kissinger was an almost superhuman ass-kisser. He had an incredible knack for playing along with whatever insane idea somebody had and made everybody in the room feel godda
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I actually disagree on that. He took every side on every issue depending on which way the wind was blowing. He knew exactly who to suck up to to get ahead of the game. I don't think he actually believed in much at all.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Maybe it's just because I'm so used to text not doing this (or at least failing to notice it except in rare cases like big magazine insets where it stands out), but I actually kind of hate it for normal paragraph text? It just
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Well, everybody assumed that was the norm for non-paying customers. It's surprising when you're paying to be ignored.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I've an RPI with a big old spinning metal disk external HDD attached, anybody recommend a good workflow for automatic bidirectional sync between GD and my thing?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
More than I trust the traditional "try and remember a password or just reuse one and hope it never gets owned on any of a zillion servers"
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by Pxtl 3y ago
If it was made based on de-compiled MS Word code? Yes. That's a very important distinction.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Things like this always make me a bit sad when things like mine test exist. Since projects like this depends on decompiled Minecraft source, they're legally still piracy. Meanwhile, it probably would be simpler to implement some thing
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by Pxtl 3y ago
7digital? Except... they're owned by the same company.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It's a lot less confusing when it's only appearing in the function's parameter signature where you're declaring parameter names instead of the method body. It's not common to see educational snippets with ellipsis
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by Pxtl 3y ago
There's only 3. Named args, unnamed (positional) args, and a special block. Because Ruby was basically "let's make Python but without Guido's hatred of metaprogramming", so it copied Python's *args and **kwar
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by Pxtl 3y ago
`...` is the standard. Don't make language features that use three-dot-ellipsis as a keyword. Just like don't make a language where "Hello world" is a special string with special significance, or where variables named f
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Ugh, I'm just skimming this but it sounds like quick forwarding syntax in Ruby went through a mess of hiccups in development, which is sad, because I think the obsession with C/C++ as the gold standard of language development for
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Just get a wireless headset that uses a USB dongle. It's archaic but it works. I can't stand to be tethered to my desk when I talk. It's annoying and silly how I have a BT headset and a USB-wireless headset on my desk at t
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yeah, playing twitchy games with bluetooth on is janky suicide. I was trying to play a difficult platformer on my phone with a clipped-on game controller and it was miserable until I switched to wired audio. Not sure if it was the audio la
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I installed Firefox on my phone originally just to get away from the awful Android YT UI.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I was watching my kid use YouTube, and literally every time she's shown an ad on TV, quick as lightning, she goes into the menu that handles complaints about the ad and tells it "never show me this ad again". Which also ends
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Even a minor infection is scary. I just had my wisdom teeth out and I'm being hyper cautious about masking and sticking to WFH while my mouth is full of swollen wounds, because I know catching a cold would be absolute agony . My co-w
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Hospitals already use a lot of hyper-hazardous materials and ionizing radiation, this is within their skill and logistical abilities. A hospital could leverage something similar to a big industrial food irradi
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean hospitals already have a tremendous amount of radioactive equipment so the ship has already sailed about having the skillset to safely manage ionizing radiation and hyper-hazardous materials, so why not set up an industrial food irra
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by Pxtl 3y ago
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Sort of? They don't let you sell stuff to run on iOS apps on alternate stores at all . Epic is going right to the supreme court over this. Epic has links in iOS FortNight to buy in-app-purchases on the Epic store (not Apple's
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, but Epic did battle Apple over the store thing. Epic lost on all fronts except the anti-steering rule: Epic is allowed to advertise their off-platform web store where they will sell you in-app-purchases for Fortnight without the A
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> So happy for him. Really? I get that if he can pull off dollarization that may be good news for Argentina, but the man is a complete maniac. This is like if Americans elected Tucker Carlson. The man is a complete wingnut.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> bully pulpit That's the one thing that gives me hope in this. His mandate is about the economy. Not social issues. He may rant about sex ed and libtards and all that, but everybody knows he was elected to fix hyperinflation. He
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> incompetent leadership I have bad news for you. They basically elected a right-wing shock-jock President. This is like if Americans elected Tucker Carlson. I mean, I get that Argentina couldn't survive another Peronist, but this
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Honestly, if shuttering the central bank and dollarizing the economy were his only plans I'd actually think it sounds reasonable. I'm pretty leftist but Argentina has pretty well proven they'd be better-off without managin
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Wait, so this is about the delay loading, but not why FF mobile has really poor frameretes at the start of most (non-ad) videos?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Musk is now the poster child for ruining your own success via social media. He had the world in his hand and now he's an internet-poisoned laughing-stock chasing away all the advertisers.

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