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by _dain_ 4y ago
I think he might have meant "parking on the pavement" and mistyped.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
why should that be censored?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
You have this hypocritical outlook: when any bike lanes are built, you think that's the powers that be "forcing" you to cycle. But then what about all the places where literally the only way to get to them is by car? Is that
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Brandenburg v Ohio
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> Remember you position, and tell me in 5 years tell me whether you are more or less able to move. Checking my local council's upcoming plans for bike lanes and public transport regeneration, I'm pretty confident it will be &qu
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by _dain_ 4y ago
"Geofencing"? Give me a break. Not being able to drive from one place to another in a straight line by car doesn't mean your city is becoming a prison. It's called "filtered permeability" and many cities in t
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Actually I just double checked and it turns out I misremembered; it does tell you how to install the library. But it didn't work properly when I tried to run it, I just got a blank window. A few people in the Nim discord had had the sa
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by _dain_ 4y ago
when I was a kid I'd use those animations and transitions to make cartoons
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>(And you have to install the pixels library :-P) I knew someone would say this: it doesn't tell you that, does it? It's supposed to be an introductory reference work, so surely "how to install the 3rd party package requir
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I'm learning Rust now, I can say Nim is much harder. Maybe the language itself is simpler, but the documentation is just not very good. Very unpolished and amateurish. I actually forked out fifty quid for Araq's "Mastering Ni
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Voice assistants are basically just mainstream non-visual command-lines, and it's unsurprising to me that something that relies heavily on memorization and extremely specialized "skills" isn't quite taking off in the
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by _dain_ 4y ago
nope, it's fart content
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You're Not Going Anywhere(borretti.me)
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by _dain_ 4y ago
If you're talking about the same genre of concept art as I think you are, this twitter thread has some good reasons to dislike them (and more importantly, offers an alternative future aesthetic): https://nitter.1d4.us/3
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by _dain_ 4y ago
your parenthetical paragraphs are bigger than your paragraph paragraphs
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by _dain_ 4y ago
maybe the city should fix the dangerous potholes instead of blaming the scooter
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by _dain_ 4y ago
what did you get done this week?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
still 3x more than what i make. and if i can get a visa more easily because a bunch of pampered americans threw their toys out of the pram and quit, great.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
you know damned well what he meant
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by _dain_ 4y ago
if i got paid a bunch, sure. sounds fun. and if it doesn't work out, it's not the end of the world. people are making this into more than what it is. EDIT: I just remembered twitter is HQed in san francisco; unless elon also becom
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by _dain_ 4y ago
OP was using "cpu attached to a network" to mean "computer" and "critical path of his actions" as something like "business model". he's saying that politicians, journalists, regulators, etc, got
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by _dain_ 4y ago
i had to re-read what you were saying about 5 times before i understood your point, i honestly thought you were some kind of schizophrenic with the way you phrased it and kept repeating the same awkward term -- edit: I'm rate-limited s
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by _dain_ 4y ago
we would laugh at this kind of dissembling gobbledegook if it came from a nonwestern country. the dutch need to charge him with something or release him. 110 days is preposterous.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
what
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by _dain_ 4y ago
in what country
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Parent commenter, for me there wasn't much violent bullying in my school. I just used those examples because they're likely to resonate with more people. It isn't that uncommon. But my overall point applies to other things as
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>There's a lot of the petty BS that you learn from in school that transposes to adult life. No, you learn maladaptive patterns. Your options are artificially constrained. Most of the ways a grown adult would deal with e.g. bullies a
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>British settlers had zero imagination at all. Surely you must admit that eastern Australia is the spitting image of South Wales. There's hardly a more appropriate name.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
On the other hand, there were far fewer people who lived through it. From 3000 BC to 500 BC the global population went from 14 million to 100 million. Today there are just short of 8,000 million people, i.e. 80-570x as many. On the day Ur
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by _dain_ 4y ago
it literally threw an exception in production on a valid input so yes it is fair to say it was broken

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