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6y ago
This is a great question and in the hope of being corrected, I will venture the nonanswer: Because people are full of shit and will avoid fixing things they don't care about enough.
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6y ago
If your culture is broken at its heart, you will never be whole.
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6y ago
"each child forked can be probed in various ways, if those probes fail and cause the child to crash, another child can simply be forked to try again." Don't tell the language police.
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6y ago
"Come to our planet, we have this killer feature: Gravity!" ;)
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6y ago
I teach kids and it's cool how there are ALWAYS a few who WILL find the mouse holes in software. It's been fun teaching them over MS Teams.
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6y ago
"I've got baaallls of steel" https://youtu.be/FvL-WGcoBis
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6y ago
The title is click bait. plausible != discovered
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6y ago
Oh the humanity, and all the passengers! https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster/oh-the-humanity...
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6y ago
Of course he "supported many socialist and even marxist leaders". That's often been the direction to go to support actual, suffering, real people practically. It doesn't mean he thinks that's the ideal. Yes, comprom
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6y ago
Thank you for that :)
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6y ago
Nato is a tool of the five eyes and the five eyes are a tool of a program of permanent domination and exploitation of the world by Anglo-American "capitalists".
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6y ago
> It's not a reasonable and realistic premise - it's word salad trying to scare. Thank you for that, sir :) True and funny at the same time.
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6y ago
Chomsky identifies himself as an anarchist not a "libertarian socialist".
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6y ago
My cheapo kettle bought after the last one fell apart in my gf's hands checks almost all the boxes. I think low-tech is almost always better. Also I agree that a consumer trying to buy a cool look is a major problem. Just get something
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6y ago
Surpise, surprise ... five eyes
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6y ago
Depending on her expected audience, she should work on her intro. I just flew out of there, like I always fly out of Bayesian stuff, even though I really want to "believe"
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6y ago
I've read about her before. She was very tough: a very admirable human being. I wish I could have interacted with her to gain some insight into her personal, internal way of thinking.
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6y ago
Bizzarely, that list includes the USSR, which no longer exists. The treaty is from 1973.
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6y ago
> Which, as anyone that had the misfortune of reading, is awful as a reference. It's both too technical for casual software developers and not official enough for language implementers. I don't think this is fair. It is a very
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6y ago
Nice to see a rational response to 5 eyes propaganda. Thank you, Asatar Bair
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6y ago
You are quite right to draw attention to this fact, but let the "geniuses" reinvent the wheel worse ;)
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6y ago
I wonder if the people who named the browser know what a honeypot is xD
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6y ago
The written representation is fairly easy to modify to reduce the number of strokes by making some of the breaks in the symbols be rounded. Also the advantage of this system, for the people who designed it, is that it fits with their langua
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6y ago
https://xkcd.com/297/
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6y ago
Wordmat is a free, open source extension to MS Word which gives you access to a full CAS from Word. http://www.eduap.com/wordmat/ https://github.com/Eduap-com/WordMat
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6y ago
FOSS blocks ads and third-party cookies by default, all cookies can be blocked. If you really want to go minimalist, try links running in Termux on your phone. I have nothing against Mozilla making money to pay their developers (or for prof
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6y ago
I'm trying out FOSS browser from Fdroid. Its based on webview, but very minimalist. I don't use any Google services, so I don't mind about Chromium browsers being cut off from those. I just want a lightweight browser with a g
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6y ago
Goodbye, Firefox and Mozilla. I've had enough. I just need a browser that's libre and can show me text, anyway.
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6y ago
Just the first global, mass hysteria. Move on, nothing new except the scale
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6y ago
I experiment with ideas in Common Lisp from my phone: I use termux to ssh into a cloud machine (Digital Ocean, about $5 a month). I run Emacs with Slime and Sbcl on the remote machine, giving me a full power Common Lisp environment for expe
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