antisemiotic

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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Stallman's career of relentlessly pissing upwind is ended by a disagreement on the implications of the phrase "presented to". A weird time to be alive.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Porn.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
You can use a local password manager like pwsafe, that way someone would have to hack into your computers first, and then break pwsafe's encryption (which is of course impossible, since it was written by Bruce Schneier). It's more
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Humans have a history of occasionally choosing bad fitness functions that predates computers, for example look at the awful things we've done to persian cats or chihuahua dogs.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Plot twist: you're actually a moderator for Facebook looking at child porn and beheadings all day. Further plot twist: that FB gig was another fake memory to cover up your involvement in a secret government project involving lots of en
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Surely that won't be the only option, and you'll be able to run, say, Arch Linux on your implant. Just be sure to read the news before a full system upgrade, lest you end up in a coma and need a hard reboot with a live usb image.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
>Coming to Go after Python was not only a joy, but I was able to easily implement concurrency and improve the performance of my game of life simulation side project by something like 25x. Python is notoriously bad at both these things th
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
On a tangential note, your post reminded me that I should go read "How to talk about books you haven't read", at least for the peace of mind, if not anything else.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
I think Zerzan was on to something with his claim that things took a nosedive after the invention of symbolic language.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
I don't buy it. Slack is, supposedly, a product for professionals (I think the non-professional lunch was eaten by Discord already). Professionals communicating at work would benefit from RAM and CPU being left alone much more than fro
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
>rapid growth, is/was the first priority above all else, including "technical excellence" That's the modus operandi of many unpleasant things like bacteria or cancer cells, why should it be commendable on its own?
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Being awful is Skype's killer feature. You can't carpet-bomb with pings, you can't comfortably copy and paste code or logs into it, half of devs who use linux don't bother running it on a VM and instead use flaky third-p
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
To each his own, in my opinion consumer market for laptops being a trash fire doesn't excuse putting malware on them.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
"We are a totally trustworthy company, we screw only some of our customers."
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
their headlights.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Whether P=NP.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
You mean it's shameful to receive money directly from the users, and respectable people must have an intermediary for it?
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Looks like a ritual to protect against nasal demons.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Humans and cats, actually.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
I'm not from UK, but having seen the UK plug, I think that the most common injuries it causes would be blunt trauma and possibly stabbings.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Just remember to remove any baobabs you see, these can get nasty real quick.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
This is exactly what " quantum teleportation" means and it has never meant anything else. "Beam me up" is pure fantasy.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
I'm not sure if I'm not responding seriously to satire, but are you aware of what "burnout" means? From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burnout : "Definition of burnout 1 : the cessa
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
If you think satire layers cancel out, you clearly haven't spent enough time on the internet.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Finally I can ditch the portable black hole I was using for work hour dilatation.
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
>What I find somewhat ironic is this: the author mentions working with Stephen Hawking, an amazing man who produced incredible intellectual work and enriched our understanding of reality while being almost incapable of any physicality. N
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
If Microsoft considered privilege escalation to be serious, they wouldn't have Windows setup a single privileged account on a fresh install. Or at the very least, they wouldn't make it necessary to jump through two hidden hoops to
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
What do you think about "fabless" semiconductor companies, then?
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Sorry then, I guess I have no idea what this discussion was about in the first place. Why would anyone care about the build tools of someone else's site if it doesn't affect the user?
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by antisemiotic 7y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to just use a static site generator for a simple site like this, though?

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