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by bambax 2y ago
IANAL but the Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) doesn't mention "citizens", only "persons"; the US constitution should in theory protect any human being, wherever they are and whatever country they're from,
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by bambax 2y ago
Ha! I had the exact same idea! I still think it would be nice.
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by bambax 2y ago
Mailgun (and I'm sure many other services like it) can accept emails and POST their content to an url of your choice. I use that for journaling: I made a little system that sends me an email every day; I respond to it and the response
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by bambax 2y ago
I first saw it in school, at 15 (a looong time ago). Could not believe my eyes. Could not believe one was allowed to even do that. The incredible freedom of it all, starting with the title sequence, and the incredible irreverence, crazyness
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes it is.
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by bambax 2y ago
The downvotes are probably because there's no justification. If you want to say that some masterpiece from the past "hasn't aged well", you need to back that opinion with some arguments or facts. Also the typo ("qui
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by bambax 2y ago
> A lot of older comedy aged better. Jacques Tati films for example. Or Chaplin. As a Frenchman I should be defending Tati but by God I have never found him funny. Poetic, maybe (maybe!) but funny?? Not in the least IMHO. One can guess
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by bambax 2y ago
If you want a faster horse, your best bet is to make it yourself. For media library, I use Jellyfin and host all my media files locally on a NAS. I self-host all my projects on that same NAS, which works just fine and and makes me not need
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by bambax 2y ago
> Why should I be bothered to read what nobody could be bothered to write? I tend to agree but, for the sake of argument: what if you don't know? It seems most people who say they can tell, actually can't.
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by bambax 2y ago
Great reportage, thanks! What a great movie that is. I can't get enough of Scott Glenn as a captain.
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by bambax 2y ago
Underwater scenes on "For your eyes only" (1981) were all filmed on land because Carole Bouquet couldn't go underwater. When you know it you can see it, but when I saw the film (one of the first time I ever went to the movies
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by bambax 2y ago
The point of making a V0 that you then throw away, is to help you understand the problem better; it's not obvious that "vibe coding" contributes to that...
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by bambax 2y ago
You wish. I used to think that too. But it turns out, nowadays, every single exam in person is done with a phone hidden somewhere, with various efficiency, and you can't really strip students before they enter the room. Some teachers t
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by bambax 2y ago
And in the world of bureaucracy, "simplification" doesn't mean what you'd think it should mean. "Simplification" consists in adding exceptions, which are in effect additional rules and special cases. Simplifica
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by bambax 2y ago
I think there is a big divide here. Every adult on earth knows magic is "fake", but some can still be amazed and entertained by it, while others find it utterly boring because it's fake, and the only possible (mildly) inter
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by bambax 2y ago
How do you make homework assignments LLM-proof? There may be a huge business opportunity if that actually works, because LLMs are destroying education at a rapid pace.
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by bambax 2y ago
Although I almost never see any ads at all online thanks to uBlock Origin on all of my devices, I agree that making it illegal would be a net benefit for society. It would be hard! But worth it.
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by bambax 2y ago
What are those places? Do most people have multiple residences? Or do they think they might need it, and in practice never do?
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by bambax 2y ago
> One of the main reasons that old Thinkpads stand out is their design philosophy. They are made with swappable components with the intention of user upgradeability. On a fixed PC everything is swappable by definition. I don't qui
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, it's never a good idea to underestimate the intelligence or agency of the enemy. But in this case: what is the game plan? What are they trying to achieve? Is it simply chaos, so that they can rule in perpetuity?
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by bambax 2y ago
> the midterms will hit The plan may be that there are no more elections, or that the only people who are allowed to vote are identified MAGA supporters. Does this seem impossible? Everything Trump has done would have been considered i
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by bambax 2y ago
Ah, thanks. Yes it couldn't have been 2010 because he died in 2002. But the date this was written is important, otherwise his references to "the last decade" don't mean anything!
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by bambax 2y ago
user id is 'bambax' just like here
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by bambax 2y ago
"Do things that don't scale" should really be rewritten as "do things that make you wish you were cleaning toilets with your tongue instead".
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by bambax 2y ago
Their mission statement is: "Automating debt collection calls for banks". Which is kind of funny, because if it's an automated call you don't need to even take it. Who picks up the phone from unknown numbers these days?
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by bambax 2y ago
I tried and keep stuck in a loop between "Oops! Simulation failed" and "Try Fixing". It's always the same error but it's not displayed in full: "Error: 297:3:invalid statement encou..." ('encount
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by bambax 2y ago
> I mean, more power to you if you want to handle complex states without the features a lib like Vue or Svelte provide you, but in my experience you eventually end up with a homecooked framework anyways If state needs to be managed cli
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by bambax 2y ago
The real question is, do we actually need "frameworks"? Pure JS works pretty well, and no JS at all even better. I recently worked on an SAP project where there was a whole Java layer in front of SAP, and then a huge Angular app o
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, absolutely. It is ludicrous. But I think the real reason is those people attempting fraud are fundamentally psychopaths: they can't think correctly about a future where they're being caught. They fix the present, one lie at a
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by bambax 2y ago
This is the same reasonning with vaccine (only worse because you can die faster from not being vaccinated than from cavities -- although in some cases they can be lethal too). People who want to be free from government interference should b

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