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by acuozzo 3y ago
So what's the new word for the old definition then? The old definition is clearly emotional abuse, but the new definition does not seem to meet that standard. Is this just another case in which you have to add extra qualifiers as in &q
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by acuozzo 3y ago
This doesn't seem to be correlated with intelligence, from what I can tell. Some just don't have enough "room" to learn new things without sufficient motivation. Day-to-day life-- anxiety, responsibilities, etc. --all wo
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by acuozzo 3y ago
"gaslight" != "trick" You can trick someone without deliberately working to make them doubt their own sanity.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Any of his articles covering undefined behavior.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Wait… does SerenityOS have special win32 support ala ReactOS? Last I heard it only borrows Windows 95's aesthetics and nothing more.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
I'm on the autistic spectrum, but not well-versed in matters related to autism. Can you please give some examples of autistic communication styles? This is purely for my own edification. I'm not trying to construct some kind of el
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Got it. It was a genuine question asked out of ignorance on my part. How would the extra resolution be useful in warfare?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> People eat off of enameled glass? Maybe? They certainly cook with it.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> What incentive for someone to learn vi now? Very little. I've seen programmers on multiple occasions spend 30+ minutes writing a script to do what could otherwise be accomplished in less than thirty seconds with vi(m). I often see
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Glass is famously inert and sticks to nothing, so how does enameling work?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Why?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Read, write, tinker. Build things from wood. Build things from metal. Learn an instrument. Play music. Play sports. Ride a bicycle. Listen to the radio. Listen to an album. Watch television. Host a party for friends. Play social games. Perf
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> If we didn't downplay "the doom" for years now We collectively didn't. We did quite the opposite by giving airtime to any quack predicting the end of the world, so much so that encountering "end of the world pe
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Krokodil
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by acuozzo 3y ago
How's Monrovia?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> That's the pathetic world IT has helped to build. It's inevitable, I reckon, but it would have taken much longer without F/OSS.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> the focus should be on the prevention of asymmetric power imbalances in societal transactions The rules governing social systems built to obscure the jungle (e.g., political, legal, and penal systems) can always be trumped by that whic
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Imagine if all computing was truly open and we could run any app anywhere. This was accomplished in the 1990s by Bell Labs with Plan9 and later, at the application layer, with Inferno. It was additionally accomplished in the 1990s at t
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> non-profit so they don't benefit from selling data Non-profit in the US is a tax status. Many CEOs of non-profits enjoy multi-million dollar salaries and bonuses.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Pretty good work so far. Some nitpicks… The library uses malloc rather liberally, but rarely (if, ever) checks the result. Allocation functions failing to allocate is a recoverable state¹. In addition to this, the library does not provide a
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by acuozzo 3y ago
♫ The man in gauze, the man in gauze. ♫
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Software doesn't "break" It most certainly does because most software is written atop dynamic systems and every possible change cannot be pre-empted. Extreme example: RAM writes accidentally flipping bits ala RowHammer.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Go was never meant to be a low-level language. I didn't make this claim.¹ With that being said, high(er)-levels languages can be used for OS development and the like. There's considerable work in providing the underpinnings n
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Go was originally marketed as a convenient alternative to C. There was even planned support for a freestanding backend which never materialized, unfortunately. There were discussions at the time on using it to write OSes, bootloaders, and s
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> and spending 1h in traffic jam every day I see mention of traffic a lot, but I work on the east coast in the defense industry where flexible schedules are the norm. Traffic completely dies down out here by 10AM and 6PM, so I work 10-6,
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Luckier than you think! Having a door to shut isn't all that helpful when you have a crafty and desperate special needs kid.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Streaming 20mb/s is more than sufficient for video. On a 120" display?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Money from ads or…?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> It used to be that everyone would dream of making a startup that big tech would acquihire. Prior to that the dream was to just make a successful business. Consider Sun Microsystems. But let's be real and invoke NoTrueScotsman: &qu
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> if you are a dev, then Docker is also an egregious example I'm glad I stuck with embedded development. The biggest resource-hog I interact with regularly is GCC. I can be productive on a P3 with 256M of RAM.

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