Smithalicious

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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Is it? Attacking someone's livelihood is a very real and impactful form of aggression. Compared threats of violence there's more cases where it's warranted , yes, but I think I would personally rather be on the receiving end
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Can you give a bit more perspective, what do you find Discord confusing relative to ? Because my comparison goes to IRC and Slack, and I find both of those far harder to use. As it stands I can't say I see where you're coming fro
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
It's not an (isolated) incident, it's fundamental (part of the foundation, a core part of) to energy management. What that means is that the issue is expected; it's always been an issue when dealing with energy and always wil
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
This is mostly just "the concensus opinion" on HN, which is very skeptical of crypto in general. I used to work in the cryptocurrency industry and my impression was that the concensus of the people actually working on crypto or ha
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
It beggars belief that gnome devs seem somehow totally incapable of understanding why one would want a proper thumbnail view in the file picker. Have they never had to find a specific image in a directory of many images? If you told me thei
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I use xst, a fork of st. It does everything I need it to do. It's not very feature-full, but even if I had the kinds of features other terminal emulators have I wouldn't use them, so this is fine. https://github.com&#x2
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
This seems like pointless scaremongering to me. Nobody's getting thrown into a re-education for looking up a word in a dictionary. This kind of cartoonish exaggeration of how totalitarian regimes operate only muddies the water on the a
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
> It isn't well-optimized. It's certainly more optimized, but anything outside a major city is optimized for cars first and foremost. Anything below the size of Eindhoven included. I have to disagree. I have lived in Drenthe al
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
First we had "drugs", then we had "terrorists", then we had "pedophiles", and now we have "money laundering". All of these things really do exist and really are bad, but their negative impact on socie
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
As someone who lives in the Netherlands it's certainly true that our country is well-optimized for bicycles, and I personally do everything either by bicycle or by public transport as I do not even have a driving license, but it's
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I have been conditioned to click "accept all" because at some point clicking "reject all" almost always lead me to a page saying that I can't use the site without cookies. I don't think this is as universal any
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Meh, I don't want to speak on behalf of someone else and say she's brainwashed, has Stockholm syndrome or anything of that sort. If she's truly happy with that kind of work environment then I wish her the best of luck finding
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I really don't think the CIA should be the global judge, jury and executioner. I don't think the US assassinating the leader of one of the world's largest countries to "send a signal" is conductive to world peace.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Any tips for finding the job security + fun combo?
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Is this a question you can expect a good anecdotal answer for? In my experience YouTube still has more high quality content than I can consume, but there's so much content on YouTube that I can only be aware of a small fraction of it,
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Is YouTube really so bad nowadays? I feel like I'm in a weird position as I'm young enough to have grown up with YouTube, having used it regularly since age 11 or 12, and I got a ton out of it, but "The Algorithm" wasn&#
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
It's not that bad because most of the things that go into a gaming setup are useful outside of games. Having a good desk, chair, monitor, keyboard, computer is generally useful, the premium to turn that into a gaming-capable setup is n
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
While an 18 year old is not as mature as we are, when you start talking about computer restrictions I think it's very important to realize that we're actually talking about an 18-year-old adult . Let the guy does what he wants, t
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Any discussion about what a monad is rapidly degenerates into an endless sequence of >it's simple, monads are like X >you are wrong, it's actually simple, monads are like Y >you are wrong, it's actually simple, monad
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
But that knife cuts both ways; usage numbers for YouTube internationally are I presume quite similar, and that is content curated by a US company in US datacenters &c. You cannot have an open free global internet without having it be th
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Make America Great Again conservative "China virus" people are very much not aligned with Chinese communist party terrorist cells, and I don't see how anyone could believe they are unless you mentally lump everybody you don&#
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
> Links make the paper harder to read Do they? There is no law that mandates that links are blue and underlined. > often you will not be able to use the links to directly access the source anyway. This is true and I consider it a trag
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I don't think it's that weird. You wouldn't think much of a famous cook being the son of another famous cook, or likewise for a famous athlete, chess player, religious leader, etc. A child is influenced by their parents throu
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I never vote on anything because I think upvote/downvote mechanics are toxic. Occasionally I will upvote something that is very greyed out if I think it's an interesting perspective, though (regardless of whether I agree with it).
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I get spam calls but I never get spam voice mails. As such I never pick up unexpected calls but I do listen to messages. Might be a regional thing?
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
As the next step in our everlasting quest to transform people into dehumanized drones, we should start modeling them as machines minimizing a cost function, doing away with such outdated notions as "making mistakes". To err is hum
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Please no. Stop replacing useful tools with "opinionated" ones. Nothing makes me nope out of using a tool faster than hearing it described as "opinionated".
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
What is this utterly vapid article? Don't buy a condenser mic if you don't want a condenser mic. Don't put a mic on your desk if you don't want it on your desk. These are obvious features of the microphone that you can d
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Does this really matter? Bitcoin is freely available on the market, there's is nothing stopping someone with enough money from acquiring an arbitrary share of the existing bitcoins.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Ah, yeah, a little bit of creative thinking gets you quite far with this issue! Thanks :-)

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