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by alkaloid 4y ago
Does anyone else get that deep, dark, disturbing feeling in their gut when they know they have done something bad like this? This is why I use so many print statements and comment out destructive actions! Lots of experience with these feeli
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by alkaloid 4y ago
I believe in digital currency as an incredible exercise in human logic and reason. If there's a value assigned to that, so be it, but I want and need to be involved in this whole algorithmic exercise because I live and work in the indu
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by alkaloid 4y ago
What a travesty of exploitation that has occurred on most of the African continent. Beautiful land, beautiful people, exploited for labour and commerce for centuries. That bill is going to come due at some point. In the meantime, the people
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by alkaloid 4y ago
I'm a specialist in low-level telco code, lots of which is written in C/Perl. Recruiters are breaking down my door, asking me if I code in Ruby (Rails). No.
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by alkaloid 4y ago
Holy moly, I thought I was the only one! "Want me to write a specialised API with custom encapsulation transmitted over UDP?" "Nah fam, we want to watch you code in our super-duper-wiz-bangy-exclusive IDE that you've nev
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by alkaloid 4y ago
It's quite disturbing to read how seriously some people around here are taking a silly nerd rant written <checks watch> 13 years ago. Have we seriously lost all humour? Goodness.
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by alkaloid 4y ago
This is actually going to be a big deal someday. Maybe it's already a big deal. For example, Texas has massive wind farms and thankfully a lot of land that doesn't really do anything. But these wing graveyards are going to continu
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by alkaloid 4y ago
No one cares how many / what size TVs you have.
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by alkaloid 4y ago
What a great idea, thank you. I'm building my (last?) office for remote work with a workbench just in case I can make this jump . . . :)
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by alkaloid 5y ago
What a depression notion. My wife and I moved to the other side of the planet with four children, travelled all over the world, and so on, because we prioritized it.
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by alkaloid 5y ago
This is why my wife and I had eight children. We realized early that there is no other meaning of life, and no other more important legacy, than being surrounded by family when we die. Thankfully, we're in good company now that Elon Mu
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by alkaloid 5y ago
I hate this so much. As a dev with over 30 years experience and plenty of personal references, I refuse to be subjected to this time-wasting endeavor. I suspect many GenXers feel the same . . .
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by alkaloid 5y ago
This makes me miss my 1971 VW Van. Learning to navigate the front-to-back, 3-meter-long transmission linkage made it to where I can drive literally any standard transmission vehicle on the planet. Well done!
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Sounds like a case for Bitcoin ASICs if I've ever heard one . . .
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Anyone remember that movie "Interstellar," where Matthew McConaughey's character hacked the drone and took over its navigation systems? Curious as to whether or not this has a basis in reality. Surely advanced militaries are
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Thanks for a thorough and thoughtful response!
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Doesn't the US have a large population of Roman and Eastern Catholics? Catholic and Orthodox are two sides of the same coin, this is why I bring it up. I'm also aware that the US has a lot of various Orthodox sects as well, includ
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by alkaloid 5y ago
I wish someone could tell me why Russia and the U.S. are not allies. Like, don't they largely share a similar cultural and religious heritage? Seems like Russia and all countries that share similar cultures would be allies against Chin
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Dang, beat me to it. =D
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Funny you mention that -- when our liaison came to the airport he called the CTO and hand-wrote out an authorization form . . . then paid the border security people MPesa (and cash) lol . . .
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by alkaloid 5y ago
We were detained in Mozambique for arriving to work on their cellular network without a pre-authorization letter from the CTO. That was quite an experience; not every nation is friendly to Western nations, turns out.
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by alkaloid 5y ago
I mean, pretty much everyone associates puritanism with the right-wing, but ok my bad... We put up sets of idealistic moral standards that some or most of a society generally agree protects vulnerable people. This is why we have age limits
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Is it though? The article specifically talks about people's lives being ruined by sites like this. Plenty of feminists are anti-porn, and are not right wing nor "puritan" in the least.
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Another video from a former NewEgg RMA inspector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADdxoewAdQw
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Someone found my telco code.
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by alkaloid 5y ago
And to this point, those who have asked for a return to "immutability" within the Roman church have been pilloried, mocked, and continually derided by the current Pope and his henchmen.
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by alkaloid 5y ago
> It isn’t even really Catholic dogma anymore to assert that the Catholic Church is the only path to salvation. The dogma hasn't changed, the stomach of modernist clerics has. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus is in force, no matter how m
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Keep telling yourself that.
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by alkaloid 5y ago
The irony of the downvotes of this post is . . . ironic lol
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by alkaloid 5y ago
Well, someone/thing has to set the stage for another war that will "dig us out of recession." I just wonder how many more times we're going to fall for this nonsense.

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