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by arp242 2y ago
Okay? What a weird flex. How does this relate to anything being discussed?
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by arp242 2y ago
That's what they like you to think.
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by arp242 2y ago
From that article: https://www.faception.com If I were to design a satire then it would be quite close to that. Company seems dead, but looks like it was around for a few years. Ridiculous such garbage was around in the first pl
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by arp242 2y ago
You can disagree with all of this, but calling for everyone involved to be fired is just ridiculous and mean-spirited.
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by arp242 2y ago
Crypto people want a banking system free from government control where no-one has any checks on anything. And they also want government to act if someone does something they don't like. The https://indexed.finance page has
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by arp242 2y ago
> And just as people started comparing notes and figuring out that the story didn’t quite add up… the main Reddit thread got locked. Then deleted. Like, no public resolution, no real response, just silence. Anything that doesn't fit
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by arp242 2y ago
Ireland had abortion referendum 8 years ago. If you're going to call rant and call entire countries insane and backwards then at least get your basic facts straight.
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by arp242 2y ago
> There are also many ficticious names for 64-bit x86, which you should avoid unless you want the younger generation to make fun of you. amd64 refers to AMD’s original implementation of long mode in their K8 microarchitecture, first shi
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by arp242 2y ago
Pretty much all newer languages massively simplify their build processes by establishing a bunch of common-sense conventions: the output directory is always the same, all *.foo files in a directory are automatically considered source files,
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by arp242 2y ago
The lifespan of stars varies a lot by type and size, with largest stars having a very short life-span of maybe a few dozen million of years and small ones up to dozens of billions of years. I'm not sure what the average is.
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by arp242 2y ago
When I was active on the Politics Stack Exchange site years ago I was "reported to the ADL" for merging the [jews] and [judaism] tags. Right out of the gate after I casually mentioned it in another discussion: not even a big fight
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by arp242 2y ago
I find that very few people and even fewer institutions are consistently always on the right side of things morally, even in very clear-cut cases (never mind that what exactly the "moral thing" is, is a whole discussion in itself)
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by arp242 2y ago
So pick one or the other: having a broad representation from many walks of life is important or it's not. You can't mix or match depending on which group you like. And that is what I'm commenting on. I'm not a fan of T
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by arp242 2y ago
It will definitely happen if everyone is as complacent as that. At this point this attitude is extremely hard to take serious: you're either not paying attention or you're not engaging in good faith.
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by arp242 2y ago
So first they demand "Merit-Based Hiring Reform" and "Merit-Based Admissions Reform", and then it continues to demand "Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring". I can't even engage with these levels o
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by arp242 2y ago
I have a machine with a N4500, and it's actually fine for web browsing in regular Firefox. The main problem I experience with it are: 1) Go compile times on some projects, and 2) JS frontend builds. The Go compiler is fairly fast, but
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by arp242 2y ago
You can't test against the entire web, especially internationally. Do you know what the most popular Vietnamese sites are? I don't either. Do that for >200 languages. Never mind of course there's tons of non-public stuff.
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by arp242 2y ago
> How is a web developer supposed to test the website when he and user might have different browser behaviour? So that is always going to be the case with a change like this, simply because people use older versions, use different browse
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by arp242 2y ago
(2022) Starts with "This entire post is severely outdated much to my pleasant surprise. I've written up a follow-up post you can read here. The text is still here for historical reasons." What's the point of posting th
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by arp242 2y ago
I've lived in a bunch of different cities in a bunch of different countries, and none of them have area(s) you "don't go to". There are some rougher areas, sure, but it's generally fine (I've lived in some of t
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by arp242 2y ago
The obscurity and inaccessibility is kind of the point, at least for some of the Black Metal bands.
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by arp242 2y ago
Location: Ireland (Galway) Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Go ("Golang"), Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Linux, Unix, PostgreSQL Résumé/CV: https://www.arp242.net/cv/cv-martintournoij Email
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by arp242 2y ago
Seems like an unpleasant person. I read on his Wikipedia page that he called Obama's re-election "the worst political event ever to occur in the history of this continent" and "worse than the Civil War". An estimate
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by arp242 2y ago
Tories in power for 15 years. "The Communists have taken over!" I don't even...
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by arp242 2y ago
IMO the way Britain deals with listed buildings is excessively over-protective in general; sometimes it seems like every other building is a listed building. That alone wouldn't be so bad, but the number of restrictions that are placed
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by arp242 2y ago
Both the electric guitar and distortion effects were invented in the 30s. People weren't really able to do distortion effects before that. You can always try to post-hoc explain everything and try to find "reasons" for things
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by arp242 2y ago
First you try to argue tolerance and understanding, and then you say that "most pro-Palestine views are antisemitic" and that you cut off all contact with people who hold those views. Your hypocrisy is astounding and you should be
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by arp242 2y ago
> Even Obama failed to deliver to the American people. He was too focused on drone strikes. I agree how Obama continued Bush's "war on terror" was a disappointment, but to state that as the reason for his relatively limite
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by arp242 2y ago
> I wish the graphic driver could be better as playing Youtube videos constantly crashes Firefox on Ubuntu Do you have the xf86-video-intel driver installed? Try removing that package and just relying on the kernel modesetting DRI driver
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by arp242 2y ago
Keyboard is a bit nicer, but that's probably about it. Had to use Scroll Lock just yesterday. Which, well, I can't on my x13 :-(

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