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by aww_dang 5y ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbd9m/vice-guardian-poll-am... Compare these statistics with the narrative promoted by the MSM sources featured on YT's "National News" channel. Yes, those who
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Charles Lieber's nanoscale transistors can enter cells without harming them 2011(harvardmagazine.com)
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by aww_dang 5y ago
It was funny when Baidu censored Winnie-the-Pooh memes. When YT censored "Let's go Brandon" videos, I chuckled, but the humor was darker. Now they are hiding downvotes. On the US "National News" YT channel, almost a
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by aww_dang 5y ago
I heard they originated in Canadia
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Yes, the Unicode characters are a problem. But do the norms and tooling play a role here as well? Explicitly casting types, like String parameters to integers would make this much more explicit. The convenience of accessing parameters via d
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by aww_dang 5y ago
If we take the climate agenda at face value and genuinely want to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, I'm not sure the same radical conservationist themes make sense. Especially if we accept that this is a world ending emergenc
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by aww_dang 5y ago
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26270793?seq=4#metadata_info_ta... It isn't hard to imagine how collection of space debris could be leveraged for adversarial purposes while retaining a semblance of innocence.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
It only makes sense if you value it based on other factors. Some of these items are more valuable to me than the cost. The time factors are difficult depending on your circumstances. 1) No TSA (at least when I last used it) 2) You can show
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by aww_dang 5y ago
https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Japan's private rail system is sometimes characterized as a real estate development scheme with a railroad attached. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-18/the-secre... >That's the mo
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American trains need more than railfan nostalgia(slowboring.com)
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by aww_dang 5y ago
At this point I rarely consider directly editing an article. If it seems that the edit would be palatable to the prevailing dogma I suggest it on the talk page. This allows whichever editor to claim it as their own and phrase it accordingly
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by aww_dang 5y ago
If nothing else his content generally stimulates my imagination.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/prince-william-clim... >"Prince William Is Transforming Into a Climate Change Influencer" So when they say "sustainable development" and not jus
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by aww_dang 5y ago
We all have our favorite stacks. I think at the end of the day you want to use Rust, which is fine. It is new and interesting. I'm getting into it as well. You just need a way to rationalize it in the institutional setting.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Putting aside the other issues, the idea to reframe Lady MacBeth as 'ambitious' rather than scheming seems like a leap. >...and a fresh interpretation of Lady Macbeth as an “ambitious Black woman” with a performance designed to
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Truncated title: >‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support >Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty
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Cost of vintage workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support(theregister.com)
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by aww_dang 5y ago
To clarify, I use the GUI version of Emacs as well, but I never interact with the buttons or UI quirks mentioned in the article.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Who is actually using the GUI elements mentioned in the article? Emacs is a comfort zone where I don't need the mouse. >...buttons could be improved with rounded corners...
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Even Ryan Dahl Hates Node.js(medium.com)
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For js libraries, I generally prefer something that offers a prebuilt package. If I need to use NPM just to include a Javascript file on a webpage, I generally look elsewhere. Same with CSS themes. For command line tools and packages that r
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by aww_dang 5y ago
I've been avoiding the Node.js/NPM ecosystem for this reason among others. Unfortunately more and more packages are including Node for simple scripting functionality. At this point I can no longer hold my breath and hope that the
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MelonJS 10.0.2(github.com)
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Always interesting to see the priorities of the media establishment put on display. On one hand there's the narrative of animal rights, the push to stop meat consumption to meet climate goals and on the other there's this blatant
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Multiplayer virtual worlds have been with us since the beginning. I think there was a multiplayer high fantasy package for the PDP series of minicomputers? There's a concerted push to foist this buzzword on us either way.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Didn't the UltraSPARC lines have greater throughput as compared to x86 offerings, even when they couldn't keep up on single threaded performance?
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Twitter takes aim at climate misinformation during COP26(news.yahoo.com)
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Given that mass surveillance and warrantless wiretaps violate even the stated limitations, I'm left with the question of whether constitutional protections can restrain government? Plato's five regimes describe a cycle of degenera
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>... a big list of freedoms & protections you have, with the assumption that government otherwise has unlimited authority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers_(United_Stat... I won't disagree th

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