benj111

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by benj111 6mo ago
You see I've never found those are the social skills that get rewarded. More arse licking the boss, or not pointing out that bad idea is a bad idea, or taking credit for someone else's work. So yeah maybe getting along with the ri
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by benj111 6mo ago
For those wondering why it's acetaminophen and paracetamol, the name difference is because they both took different random letters from an even longer name.
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by benj111 6mo ago
Don't you mean sociopathy? Or it that just my autistic side talking?
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by benj111 6mo ago
Unfortunately that's a skill that makes you less employable.
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by benj111 6mo ago
I've never played any games that require this, but the Wikipedia page makes reference to percentage rolls, but wouldn't you need 101 sides to get 0% and 100% for that?
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by benj111 6mo ago
Slightly off topic. "Now, the keyword fast here is saying that the variable fart cannot be changed - it is immutable" So would this be the same 'fast' as you'd find in 'steadfast' or as in stuck?
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by benj111 6mo ago
I had the unhappy experience of driving a car with collision warnings. I got 3 in one day. It would be nice after the fact to know what it thought was happening.
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by benj111 6mo ago
Surely the poster child of the 90s for 'not IBM' was Google. And that worked because it removed things. So yes, I agree somewhat, but I think it's more a corruption of that original ethos by said suits. But I suppose that&#x2
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by benj111 6mo ago
TBF the USians elected an April fools president... But no, we have the same April fools as everyone else. But if it were a special April fools, I could fool you by telling you it isn't....
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by benj111 6mo ago
That isn't how I read the article? But then a company whose only asset is it has a listing should be able to go up by 580% doing not very much.
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by benj111 6mo ago
Except when the CEO of publicly owned Tesla gets paid based on performance.
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by benj111 6mo ago
Ah the irony. Wouldn't let me go back without clicking the cookie thing.
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by benj111 6mo ago
So to explain what an apple pie is, first you must explain the universe? Every time?
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by benj111 6mo ago
Well. Where to start. As someone who has been let down by the judiciary and many other state institutions, I do have the very strong feeling that perhaps direct action is needed, and that perhaps I wouldn't be in the position I was, if
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by benj111 6mo ago
Uac is the thing that broke lots of things back in the vista days. 'planned' is a bit strong when it had to be added after the fact.
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by benj111 6mo ago
I don't think we disagree. Problem is Linux users, of which I'm one, self selected to reject that ease because it's limiting. There's still a tension now, eg Gnome that is insistent on going all Mac in removing all optio
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by benj111 6mo ago
Does vim expect to be able to delete files in /bin? If vim tried to create, modify and delete files willy nilly It would quickly run into problems. I would guess vim keeps it's temp files in /tmp and config files in ~/.v
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by benj111 6mo ago
Everyone's biased. If you don't think you're biased you just haven't identified the bias yet. For example 'the center' You are already talking about a subset of (probably English speaking) programmers let alon
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by benj111 6mo ago
Is slightly disagree. Trump brought in the tariffs based on trade imbalances. Bringing services into the conversation would highlight that there isn't a trade imbalance. But then I'm not trying to guess what trump might do with an
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by benj111 6mo ago
I don't disagree but when the conversation is about red alert 2 and steering wheels and the response is nobody uses those, then it isn't valid to use the argument that Linux is useless when it runs everything.
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by benj111 6mo ago
Right but windows also aims to be backwards compatible which means it was trying to run things designed for a single user system undermining protections.
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by benj111 6mo ago
Interesting question. Perhaps it's down to the fact that a lot of communication is contextual/ group bonding? You are expected to behave a certain way. If you laugh at something the group doesn't find funny, you are excluded
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by benj111 6mo ago
Is it though? I can't help feeling we are just seeing what we want to see. Is this not just an improved Eliza?
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by benj111 6mo ago
People were worried about trains in tunnels 180 years ago. People worry about new things. See also: the internet, video games, mobile phones, various genres of music. http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/building-box-tunnel.h
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by benj111 6mo ago
I'm not up on my current windows security, but windows has been dominating for decades, much of which it's security was non existent, being originally a single user system. Linux being a nix is multi user from the ground up. So yo
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by benj111 6mo ago
Sorry I thought it was the president of the US that imposed tariffs, threatened to invade Canada and Greenland, wanted to remove all Gazans from Gaza, etc, etc. not some random Reddit poster. My mistake.
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by benj111 6mo ago
On the other hand in 2018 Europe managed to sort out LNG etc pretty quick. I'm kind of surprised it hasn't been louder and faster after the tariffs came in, but we've already had investigation after investigation into monopol
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by benj111 6mo ago
So really the conversation should come down to how well Linux plays Fortnite then. And bringing up games that 'no one plays' is irrelevant. You can't have it both ways. Either it's only relevant that Linux plays the big
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by benj111 6mo ago
Ah yes. Sorry. Hate it when I write the precise opposite of what I meant.
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by benj111 7mo ago
For anyone wondering git in this context is related to the modern form, although does seem to have its own stories behind it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)

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