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by bardan 5y ago
The act of coding itself is also not a constant flow of characters from fingers to screen. You stop to take a moment, go back, correct something, next line, pause to think, type out a line etc. I have never used a device like this but I&#x2
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by bardan 5y ago
It is funny how dream-like deep learning produced content can get. Like how in https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ , you will sometimes find someone wearing a cap which looks like it has a logo but it's just a jumble of
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by bardan 5y ago
It would be cool if there was a program that built a database out of your raw audio files, and that database was read by media servers like mpd. I want the user contributed data, but I don't necessarily want it to replace the original
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by bardan 5y ago
Yeah, with her family safe and sound under the watchful eye of the CCP. But hey, what's a little "disappearance" between friends, or family.
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by bardan 5y ago
What precisely does that entail? I could say that and then prevent you from hearing anything from the outside world, just keep you locked in a cellar. It's for your own good, I understand how the propaganda might affect your delicate m
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by bardan 5y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer. My previous response more precisely: > And so what if you view them as totalitarian? By and large the Chinese do not. They'd better not!
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by bardan 5y ago
This is what totalitarian governments always claim. "We are the deterministic result of the people organizing themselves", generally a single ethnic group. Conveniently this also means an attack on the party is an attack on the et
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by bardan 5y ago
They'd better not!
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by bardan 5y ago
> And I'm trying to say that "In the PRC people are jailed for complaining too much, or complaining about the wrong thing" is a mischaracterization at best, a complete falsehood at worst. I've found this to be the ca
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by bardan 5y ago
Like I said in another response to you, it's a wonderful coincidence for a totalitarian government to be ruling over people who are so naturally deferential. There is no evidence of innate deference to totalitarian governments in Chine
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by bardan 5y ago
I can't say you have answered my questions satisfactorily. Broadcasts from international news sources that mentioned Peng Shuai were censored - this is not just some procedural or algorithmic issue. And what business does the CCP have,
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by bardan 5y ago
> The practice you quoted is unacceptable in the west. That's fine — for you. Chinese think differently and believe that such practices are sometimes necessary to prevent rumors from running wild and causing social instability. That
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by bardan 5y ago
It isn't really a question of agreement or disagreement. In the PRC people are jailed for complaining too much, or complaining about the wrong thing. You can't have an accurate picture of what people think about the state in those
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by bardan 5y ago
I assume that you are a good-natured member of this community. Hacker News tends to have a higher grade of participant. I also note that I gave no indication about my opinion of you personally, despite your suggestion. Since that is cleared
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by bardan 5y ago
I have personally noted a large quantity of CCP propaganda turning up on other social media. Voted up unusually high, unusually early, and by accounts that regularly wind up banned by the admins. As a normal user it can be hard to different
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by bardan 5y ago
Why, in your opinion, was her name censored on the PRC Internet? Why have international broadcasts in China been dropping out when her case is mentioned? Why did the CCP deny any knowledge of her situation, only to later say "she will
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by bardan 5y ago
Something funny and illustrative about the PRC for me was getting into shortwave radio. Let me explain. Sometimes certain people will tell you that the CCP isn't so censorious, that it's all Western hyperbole and propaganda, that
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by bardan 5y ago
I still dislike the constant $ and ->, today it just feels like extra typing. Otherwise I agree with you.
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by bardan 5y ago
I believe his opinions stem from the idea that Australia and other nations should work out how to live without growth, and that never ending growth is going to destroy the country and the world.
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by bardan 5y ago
Ah, yes so it was. It must have been the final release, I believe it was when they introduced full colour support.
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by bardan 5y ago
I will occasionally drink while working on personal coding projects. I experience a kind of "Ballmer Peak" [1] at a certain point - I think what happens is my inhibition is lowered enough that I stop double-guessing myself too muc
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by bardan 5y ago
HyperCard was my first experience with programming as well, made a few weird little games. My parents actually bought me Hypercard 3.0 for my birthday one year, I was super excited!
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by bardan 5y ago
"Don't sell out" is nice and easy until someone slaps fifty million dollars on the table.
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by bardan 5y ago
"Vote with your wallet" might as well be "stop thinking about it", especially when it comes to a niche site like Hacker News.
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by bardan 5y ago
A link between Wikileaks and the Russian government has never been substantiated. The "didn't publish Russian leaks" smear is one of many. The "Russian leaks" that Wikileaks declined were sent to them during the DNC
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by bardan 6y ago
Seems strange that eBay would delist these though, given they still list items like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Cast-Iron-Jolly-African-Man... as well as books like "Little Black Sambo". Seems like
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by bardan 6y ago
Papers Please is another successful title, made with OpenFl which is a free version of Flash
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by bardan 6y ago
(Assuming all of this is a matter of Google and Facebook not "playing fair") I think it's very likely Facebook would still find profit in this arrangement, just less profit than before, but since they do business with other c
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by bardan 6y ago
Am I missing a detail or does it seem retributive for Facebook to block Australian news sources globally? Isn't the issue with the Australian market alone?
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by bardan 6y ago
I have used Growl for a very long time, and went to lengths to keep it as part of my environment. I'm surprised they held on for as long as they did as it seemed the exact thing that Apple has been trying to torpedo for the last decade

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