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by blackhaz 5y ago
Once I took a microphone, plugged it into my ZX Spectrum's tape input, did LOAD "" and was able to successfully screech a valid header into it. It said Program: and a bunch of random chars, but nevertheless, the machine stood
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Well, if we can't agree with the rule of law then what, we're back to a primitive society? I don't think homo sapiens culture is, at this stage, advanced enough to thrive in a primitive community, how attractive that may soun
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by blackhaz 5y ago
I am afraid extending personal "moral rights" to the domain of property damage is a risky avenue to pursue. Who defines what's moral? I also don't agree with that the failure of enforcement by the society automatically g
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Interesting examples. I would say that Germany at that point was a rather undemocratic society, with all the terror by the Nazis. Can we consider slave-owning society democratic if it includes slaves? This makes me wondering if the position
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by blackhaz 5y ago
I don't understand you. You're saying we can go about, say, murdering people and we are fine with that as long as we don't get caught? Is breaking social agreement acceptable if enforcement fails? If my personal ethics allows
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by blackhaz 5y ago
It's not just a word, it's a law, from UK's Criminal Damage Act 1971: "A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being re
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by blackhaz 5y ago
A street is as much a mean to an end as a laptop. I use streets to get from point A to point B, much like you use your laptop to arrive from state A to state B. I never have an intention to see ads when I go outside. Sometimes I use streets
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Fuck that indeed. Very strong message here, and I love it. I wish I could take all those ads and shove them into their asses. But what is being suggested here? What's mine to take? If I see an ad, can I reuse the artwork? No. If I see
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by blackhaz 5y ago
From day one it was only me. I was working from anywhere, so I guess that means yes, it was remote from the start. Current pain points we are still trying to figure out: - Gathering the whole team effectively and periodically (once a year o
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by blackhaz 5y ago
But they do. You have to mentally process the incoming data first, then discard it. It's a waste of attention, especially with mind-catching ads you can't figure out immediately. Sometimes they are as blocking as browser pop-ups,
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Running a remote-only company for 19 years. This is a very nice guide. Still can't figure out what holds us all together.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Absolutely amazing. Will this ever be part of an Xfce theme? Can't wait to use this on my FreeBSD.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
That's probably my default search query for now to avoid all the marketing crap. But if this becomes the norm we will definitely see robots discussing their winter coat preferences.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Oooh, my fans are a-spinnin'!
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by blackhaz 5y ago
These people are rarely public, you don't even need to know they exist. They exist behind the figures we see on the TV. Where there is money and a chance of corruption, they definitely exist.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Some people somewhere, with cigars, in $5,000 suits. "Look at all those schmucks! $400 per shot and $1,000 per stitch." The whole healthcare system needs to be regulated by the government end-to-end. All procurement must be transp
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Can wave-particle duality be considered as part of the riddle?
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by blackhaz 5y ago
One of the biggest assaults is Google Classroom. My son goes to a school in London. He was given out a Chromebook. His Chromebook effectively became his backpack. Everything is in there. They do homework there, collaborate, get used to the
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by blackhaz 5y ago
You can't even talk to a live support person on the phone anymore. Just moved to the UK (from Czech Republic) and was shocked how everything is IVR here. We are all just numbers in the database here.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
I have a gaming rig with two big front fans with red LEDs. I can swear my eyesight and mood improves just by staring a few minutes on them.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Until she accidentally bumps into someone she actually enjoys watching movies with! Whoops. Sorry!
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Yep. The time when print magazines and ads were actually interesting.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
All this leads to question - what can common people do with corruption? Corrupt politicians have robbed my home country of 50-100 years of development. People are miserable in a country rich in natural resources and skilled workforce. The o
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Business features are tied to software/hardware features. They want piece of your business.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Install FreeBSD, tabs(1) is still a thing! It's interesting that FreeBSD man says "A tabs utility appeared in PWB UNIX," while Wiki refers PWB/UNIX as having its initial release in 1977.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Apple has killed UI consistency too. New iOS and tvOS are just a mess of endless half-broken features in a pathetic attempt to satisfy every possible use case out there. Jobs would have used napalm on the whole UI/UX team.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Could you provide an example where a democractic process has legitimately elected a religious fundamentalist group? That is how I understand "the winner" in your statement, as if the group was elected by the people.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Maybe a little remix on that grey - add just a touch of olive, teal, or some other color.. Green LEDs - yes! Blue LEDs is the most obnoxious thing that happened to electronic devices IMO.
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by blackhaz 5y ago
Amazing color. I wish we could go back from soulless black and silver. Still addicted to it and having a gray 386DX-40 and Pentium 133 MHz, typing this on a gray 101-key keyboard. Mmmmm... :-P
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by blackhaz 5y ago
We should run a random number generator connected to a Perl script driving a small tentacle, set a fit function of Global Peace in the Universe, and let machine do the rest.

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