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by arp242 1y ago
This is not "NIMBY". Warning systems need to be where they're needed, and if that's your backyard then that's your backyard. Complaining about "damn sirens going off in the middle of the night" during a li
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by arp242 1y ago
From that NYT article: "Some residents argued that outdoor sirens blaring warnings in the event of a flash flood would ruin the natural feel of the area that many prized. “The thought of our beautiful Kerr County having these damn sir
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by arp242 1y ago
There were some dogs that desperately needed shooting?
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> I still think we'd all be better off with infinitely fast, infinitely resourced computers. IMO, austerity offers no benefit. Well, sure. But these computers don't exist, so that doesn't really matter. The main reason I b
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by arp242 1y ago
Maybe that one guy who survived did it? Are there fuel cutoff switches near seat 11A?
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by arp242 1y ago
You also can't reverse a plane while flying it... This is a rather odd comparison. You can slam the brakes, yank the steering week, and do all sorts of things to intentionally make the car crash.
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by arp242 1y ago
Is there just one set of switches? Or do both pilots have their own set?
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At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531120 - Jul 2025 (390 comments)
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by arp242 1y ago
It's always been like this as well. Back when Slack first started gaining prominence ten years ago it was the only webapp that made my laptop's fan spin loudly. We actually migrated to HipChat because of that. Same with how much s
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by arp242 1y ago
> Note that the article we’re discussing specifically mentions “people who believe in conspiracies” in the first line. Which obviously refers to conspiracy theories in this context. Words can have more than one meaning (again: see "
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by arp242 1y ago
> What about Fujitsu? Why can't the government make Fujitsu pay for the destruction caused by their shitty software? Because the software didn't cause it. Look, by all accounts the software was/is a piece of piss, but what
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by arp242 1y ago
It really wasn't. No one knew the exact extent and no one really knew anything for sure, but belief about this was fairly common in the early 2000s (esp. after 9/11) and even 90s. But again, we didn't know for sure.
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by arp242 1y ago
I don't think there is anyone who believes there are no conspiracies. The terms "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theory" have very different meanings. This is essentially just a linguistic sleight of hand, not too diffe
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There are degrees of things. It's true that many people have some beliefs that are unconventional, irrational, or even radical, but many also realise at least to some level. There are many religious people who will admit they can'
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by arp242 1y ago
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Died+by+suicid... Bloody woke libtards in Victorian era!
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You can't just run a few queries and base conclusion off that, you need to run tens of thousands of different ones and then somehow evaluate the responses. It's a huge amount of work. Demanding empirical data and then coming up wi
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by arp242 1y ago
I agree there are some kids and parents who are just unreasonably and/or obnoxious loud in unreasonable moments; I don't think anyone really denies this. I've seen kids race on scooters in supermarkets while the parents were
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by arp242 1y ago
It always seemed to me that converging everything to \n is relatively easy, whereas converging on \r\n is much harder. Existing \r\n files and protocols will continue to work: you just need to ignore the \r. For example something like SMTP
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by arp242 1y ago
I don't know about the United States, but in (parts of) Europe it is the case. "Nobody owns homes any more" is an exaggeration of course, but things are not alright in the housing market, in part because private corporations
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by arp242 1y ago
> I am not sure about why comment here was flagged and ppl saying "you deserve ban". So I guess everyone is assuming "empty language" . Yes, without the clarification of "i am indian too. It was in /r/a
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by arp242 1y ago
Does ChatGPT start ranting about Jews and "White Genocide" unprompted? How can I even quantify that it doesn't do that? This is a classic "anything that can't be empirically measured is invalid and can be dismissed&
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by arp242 1y ago
> if you get one to say racist things it's probably because you were trying to make it say racist things. When it started ranting about the Jews and "Mecha Hitler" it was unprompted on unrelated matters. When it started ra
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by arp242 1y ago
The "perceived as" could be interpreted as a genuine "perhaps this is what they think?" or just as "empty language", in which case you're effectively saying "they're all scammers and mass migrati
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> Getting banned from a default sub you've never posted in because you told a racist boomer somewhere else they might be falling for propaganda is bloody weird. It's not great, but on the other hand: it's also not a comple
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[ Removed by Reddit ]
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> The sender can look at their DNS logs to see if you’ve read your email, and the IP address of your DNS resolver at that time, which may indicate your location. [..] An attacker could look at the SNI header during the TLS negotiation I
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by arp242 1y ago
> Computers didn’t exceed 64 logical processors per system until around 2014. Server systems were available with that since at least the late 90s. Server systems with >10 CPUs were already available in the mid-90s. By the early-to-mid
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by arp242 1y ago
It's been a long time since I used Windows, but back in the day I used 7-Zip exactly because it could open more or less $anything. That's also why we installed it on many customer computers. On Linux bsdtar/libarchive gives a
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Most of the problems in Python 3 were the string encoding changes. It was very pervasive, fixing things was often not so straight-forward, and writing programs that worked well with Python 2 and 3 was possible but somewhat difficult and err
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If being able to create files and symlinks to them is a pre-condition for this, then it's not a serious security bug. If you have that kind of access then there are a million nefarious things you can do. This is almost becoming a joke

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