TehCorwiz

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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
The house he bought at 28 is 3500 square feet in a very very nice neighborhood and was worth $1.2 million a few years ago. It's humble by billionaire standards, not by average person standards. He never needed to size-up because of chi
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
See, I wrote that out but then I thought, “Nah, that’s too conspiracy for this crowd.” But lo! Yeah. Not excited about the emerging status quo.
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
If they do it'll likely be part of an industry wide push to kill off the home-built PC market. It's no secret that MS and others want the kind of ecosystem Apple has and governments want more backdoor access to tech. And which mfg
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
There’s a common theme in the US to declare the existence of gay and trans people to be child abuse. Yes, existence. Like, telling a child gay people exist if they ask. But the whole “think of the children” schlock has always been a power g
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
Nope, he was a Democrat and Republicans and their propaganda outlets like Fox news use the disinfo technique "accusation in a mirror" to discredit complaints about things they plan to do by poisoning discourse early. So they can p
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
Let's be clear. It was never the suit's color they had a problem with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
The entirety of Medicaid and Medicare. EDIT: Also the whole VA system.
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
This is why I'm hopeful that at least one of Ladybird, Flow, and Servo emerge as a viable alternative to the current crop.
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by TehCorwiz 10mo ago
The whole "anonymous bureaucrat" shtick doesn't land anymore. The purpose of having long-term non-political staff is so that operations don't change on a whim when some rogue director comes in and wants a second Ferrari.
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by TehCorwiz 11mo ago
The author should read up on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog_protein or maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface both of which are actually scientifically important th
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by TehCorwiz 11mo ago
An early revision of the Raspberry Pi 2 would crash if you hit it with a bright light like a camera flash. Specifically a xenon flash. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=99167 https://forums.raspberry
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by TehCorwiz 11mo ago
It’s a lot. And more profanity often means better code. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/is-code-that-contain...
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by TehCorwiz 11mo ago
They just opened up the source to TF2 with an SDK not too long ago. Explicitly for modding and community driven development. https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238809
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
I can leave my phone at home. I cannot leave flock at home. It’s about consent.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Success is just a measure of how much you can separate other people from their money. It’s possible to be successful and produce nothing of value.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Yes, that's the question. It doesn't appear to support any IDEs except VSCode so why use the general term and give an incorrect impression?
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
There's no shock. There's also no direct contact. It's literally magnetic.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
It does, we actually use Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to treat Major Depressive Disorder and a few other things. Precisely because electromagnetic waves can alter our perceptions and behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Either profoundly naive, tech illiterate, or it's a bad faith argument.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Right?! Did nobody there think to actually disable the accounts? These are the people who are harping about "security" being the reason for the ham-fisted takeover of the source repos, but they didn't secure the production in
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Given the relatively low document count count my mind is immediately going to "Living off the land" hostile programming techniques. What inadvertent triggers already exist in the data?
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Being a part of the community necessitates that there be a community to be part of. Taking unilateral control is not being part of a community.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Only in limited circumstances. The strongest legal defense is to attack the procedures and legal bullet points in the process. Didn't get that form proving chain of custody between these two parts? Oh, too bad, out the window that evid
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Criminals makes the smaller percentage of people on the internet. And in the real world it's usually the case that a warrant or other order backed by investigation and evidence to justify the information collection.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
Sounds like the central idea of the "scramble suit" from A Scanner Darkly.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
This reminds me of that time secret US military bases were identified from serviceman's social fitness data? https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-f... Honestly, the older I get the more I che
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
No. HOAs were established to give cover to post civil rights redlining.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
The organization of the government and its actions touch literally your entire life. From childhood nutrition to your job prospects and life expectancy.
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
No, a corp is only accountable to their board and the LARGEST shareholder. A single person can control an otherwise publicly traded company. Zuckerberg, for example. And not everyone can afford to spend their earnings owning companies. So w
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by TehCorwiz 1y ago
If you had said that 30 years ago I might have agreed with you. But I don't because in the last 30 years I've watched both parties drift farther right until one decided to team up with actual nationalists (project 2025, they wrote

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