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1. 361.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   Conformity is useful in terms of (illusionary) efficiency: they look the same, they think the same, so you can run the same algo on them and they will produce a curve-bell result which you can use to single out and either eliminate or boost
2. 362.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   This is just sad and a good reminder that intolerance to any deviation is inherent to any society or organization.
3. 363.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   Scraping (serp/e-commerce/other).
4. 364.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   Spend 20 more years on irc before teaching me online etiquette.
5. 365.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   It's called "active". Async is "away"
6. 366.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   Chat is not email. It's perfectly normal to do a handshake (syn? Syn ack. Syn ack.) in this medium, as it's fine to say "hello" or "mushi-mushi" at the beginning of the phone convo. Please don't push your
7. 367.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   I get IPv4 exhaustion, but IPv6 is hardly a solution.
8. 368.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   And this is how opensource dies; not with a bang, but with a whimper.
9. 369.▲
   by arpa 6y ago

   That could explain it, but it doesn't make it any less crazy. I'm tempted to use K-for-Kelvin in my code now, just to fuck with anyone who works with a worse IDE or tries finding things with grep.
10. 370.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    The real wtf here is a separate K for Kelvin, a separate N for Newton, etc. Why on gods' greenish earth do we need something that looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but actually is not a duck but an eldritch horror?
11. 371.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    I run my home automation on atom. Considering that cost of asus eee pc is around $70 it still is a lucrative option of a complete system compared to raspberry.
12. 372.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    Screw Red Hat, the amound of crapware and bad attitudes coming from them is astounding. And of course, since they have big bucks, it gets shoved down everyones' throats.
13. 373.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    The materials involved also matter. You need significantly more power to get through concrete than you would need to get through paper.
14. 374.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    You could be transphobic without being a nazi, even though it probably helps. I believe most of the world at the time was *phobic.
15. 375.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    That's not how probabilities work
16. 376.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    Ah it's just a false dichotomy. In reality these things go together. Can't have (real fuckoff) power without money; can't have (real fuckoff) money without power. If you don't have one but have another, you'll soon
17. 377.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    If you do not trust your own devops, why are you trusting someone elses devops?
18. 378.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    There are a dozen of illegitimate reasons tho, one of them being moral - decades of propaganda had made an impact.
19. 379.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    And yet even with the botched response it is well behind small baltic country of Lithuania, current #1 in the world.
20. 380.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    If you own the end device, end-to-end encryption is moot. Unless the key is not stored, but who cares about privacy enough to enter a 32-character password to unlock their chat?
21. 381.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    It could have. Both maemo and meego were lightyears ahead anything at that time. I had a N900. Best smartphone ever. Android is a hot mess compared to it.
22. 382.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    Funny thing, a few weeks ago I read an opinion piece posted here on HN that gives pretty solid reasoning (imho) why people pursue academic careers: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11&#x2
23. 383.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    That's interesting. Could you please elaborate how it is an insult? Genuinely curious.
24. 384.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    That's a very prejudiced opinion, and you should critically review it.
25. 385.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    I just bought a personal IDE licence a few days ago. JetBrains makes one of the best IDEs I've ever used, and I consider that 100€ well spent.
26. 386.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    this is not minimal, it belongs in a bash framework.
27. 387.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    College bills i would guess
28. 388.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    Whatever works for you, man. I honestly enjoy having docker images instead of zips and bash scripts, but I see where you're coming from.
29. 389.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    If the VPN endpoint is in KZ, then yes. Otherwise, no. However, if you were to be a person of interest, it would be possible to spoof the page of your vpn provider and provide you with fake vpn.
30. 390.▲
    by arpa 6y ago

    We could have avoided the bedlam of javascript hacks if browsers had supported XSLT2.