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901.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Doesn't make it right. We should all stop doing this.
902.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Americans do spy on their friends. And, even worse: they use their friends to spy on their other friends. Basically, anyone "not a Fed" in the USA, is an enemy. And even then ..
903.
by aa-jv 3y ago
.. not to mention the impressive apparatus that was applied to make people think that the Cuban missile crisis started with Soviet missiles showing up in Cuba ..
904.
by aa-jv 3y ago
>Non-Americans don't have the same rights as Americans. It is precisely this violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that is causing so much calamity in the world today, alas. Americans should really, really not acce
905.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Like what?
906.
by aa-jv 3y ago
>how they should map to physical pixels - most do 1:1 Isn't this can of worms inherent to the subject, anyway? This question has been asked - and answered - by pretty much every rendering/display system, ever. Seems to me, six
907.
by aa-jv 3y ago
I'm a newcomer to this subject and I'm finding it very refreshing to have such a well-taped path ahead of me.
908.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Fast implementation of working app logic that can later be turned into an app-generator for any other language with great ease.
909.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Up-sell.
910.
by aa-jv 4y ago
A pretty good investigation into this matter - "segfaults in Java (redux)": https://www.lukeshu.com/blog/java-segfault-redux.html Read the prior article for some context, too ..
911.
by aa-jv 4y ago
One of my earliest great Linux experiences was when I set up my 486 to download all of the floppy images (or maybe it was the Yggdrasil .iso), then went to Op Amp Bookstore in Los Angeles for lunch, finding myself an Yggdrasil distro, retur
912.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Techno was started in Düsseldorf by Kraftwerk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI People found this very inspiring and created their own variants. The Detroit variant came along. The Chicago variant came along. The
913.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Why not both? i.e. truly a violation.
914.
by aa-jv 4y ago
>Looking out for slower and weaker users is always the responsibility of the faster and more powerful. I absolutely agree, this is why I'm extra careful. But I do believe that the same circumstances came about when we went from hor
915.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Trying to 'kill the old ways' without understanding them is how we get junk such as Scrum. Agile is just fast Waterfall with iteration. Waterfall is naturally inherent in the process of going from idea -> working software tha
916.
by aa-jv 4y ago
I have this situation where I ride electric motorbikes and mopeds around a fairly crowded city. I regularly have close calls with pedestrians who are simply not looking for me, because they haven't heard me. Lucky, I'm a defensi
917.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Very good point, and I agree. But I don't see how it'll ever change for as long as the Slovenian people who know about the countrys' history never speak up and let the rest of the world know about it. America is good at one
918.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Serious question: does Slovenia have civil rights events in its history comparable to those in the USA? Because, try as I might, I can't think of another country with as serious a history of civil rights (abuses and promotion) than th
919.
by aa-jv 4y ago
The UK is an American sub-state in all ways that is possible.
920.
by aa-jv 4y ago
All culture is a lie which persists only in the re-telling. There is no such thing as Italy or America, except when a few million people agree and re-tell the lie that is "Italy" and "America". If more people realized t
921.
by aa-jv 4y ago
I'm a strong adherent of electric transportation, having recently upgraded from an electric moped to an electric motorbike. I've also used these rental scooters all over my city (Vienna, Austria) to get around and I find them very
922.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Follow the money: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA%20AND%20THE%20ORIGI...
923.
by aa-jv 4y ago
>But let's not kid ourselves, both Germany and the US are pretty free countries for their citizens? Julian Assange has entered the chat. Oh no, wait, he hasn't, because he's being chemically lobotomized by the very crimin
924.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Its not hard to find the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Intelligence_Service https://thewire.in/world/cia-bnd-spying-world-leaders-crypt-... https://www.justsecurity.org
925.
by aa-jv 4y ago
The US' intelligence agencies do.
926.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Germany's intelligence services answer to the CIA. They do not answer to the German people or their representatives.
927.
by aa-jv 4y ago
You can start by pulling the thread on who runs Germanys' intelligence services ..
928.
by aa-jv 4y ago
All self-respecting nerds should have a Bus Pirate, you mean: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate_v4_design_ove... .. or something similar. I've heard rumours of a better device than the Bus Pirate out
929.
by aa-jv 4y ago
Humans of all nations, and all nationalities, and all cultural identities, and all language groups, and even individuals, all of us .. should stop building weapons and start building starships. That way, we can just get on with having peace
930.
by aa-jv 4y ago
My flippant response aside, this is an awesome thing to learn about on a Sunday morning .. thanks for that! I might have to give it a whirl. Although ChatGPT seems to be making it easier and easier to program in English and get code in any

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