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by bmn__ 4y ago
Yes, that hews into the same notch. One cannot simply resist any form of oppression, there were/are only a lucky few who had the motivation, ability and resources to do so. If you are one of those and would gladly take a fight against
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by bmn__ 4y ago
What a stupid design. If the consortium had just one member having the competence of knowing some competing design and using his brain for five minutes, this disaster could have been avoided. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by bmn__ 4y ago
What you have been told by mainstream media and society about the topics of romantic relationships, sexual attraction and the like between male and female humans is mostly a lie. Advice is: swallow the appropriately coloured pill and wake u
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> Given that we can't figure out how to build subterranean cities at scale on earth, I'm not sure what the plan is for dealing with that. Some ideas and napkin calculations: https://marshallbrain.com/mars
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by bmn__ 4y ago
The motivations you ascribe to the SO respondents and the description of the nature of comments are not congruent with reality. If you cannot fathom where you went wrong in your assumptions, then I have a small psychological experiment for
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Also see: http://enwp.org/zstd parallel-friendly, trades off compression level for speed
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Similar: http://p3rl.org/install
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by bmn__ 4y ago
If you have to ask this question, it is a sure sign you are not sufficiently socially calibrated to interact with other people on an air-plane. I advise you to invest time into better understanding your fellow humans by learning about psych
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> pretty impressive ??? https://files.catbox.moe/4yykhw.webp My grandmother can program better than that.
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Right hemisphere refers to be brain. HTH to make sense of it now.
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by bmn__ 4y ago
"And here is the weirdest part — I never see another employee the entire day. The way it makes me walk, I never run into anyone else. I can go for a full shift and never see another employee. Even our breaks are staggered. Everyone tak
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Likening a passionate fan to a whale does not work for me. A whale spends thousands to ten thousands times as much as a casual, but a passionate fan does not spend orders of magnitude more than a casual. A business analyst can only see this
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Unicode does not depend on a host. You probably meant something else, and the expression came out wrong. Care to explain in more detail?
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> Germany relatively adopted an uppercase ß (and got it into Unicode) The parenthetical part is true. It was an uphill battle, but not because of the consortium, but because of what the tropes wiki would describe as executive meddling. T
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> in Europe, all of which use these alphabets Latin is much more wide-spread than that! You neglect whole of America and Australasia and half of Africa. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d&#
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Users who do not auto-delete are better served with Consent-O-Matic, this one clicks Deny on all cookie banners and forms by default, but is configurable. • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic&
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> this must be a solved problem Yes, this is called a11y (accessibility). Install at-spi, run xwininfo, dogtail/sniff, accerciser, qdbusviewer to find dialogues and buttons, use any of the desktop automation tools to press them. &gt
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by bmn__ 4y ago
I invite you to read HN with "showdead", you are bound to quickly change your high opinion. The amount of petty flagging and downvotes to suppress diverging opinions is staggering.
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by bmn__ 4y ago
cancerfinns get banhammered https://files.catbox.moe/o7vsqi.webm
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> That's part of an old joke No, what you showed is a lame/inaccurate transcription of the countryball gag, which came first. Source: KC hivemind
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by bmn__ 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/ixEBdwf.jpg "Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again"
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> I don't want to go to the same 5 resturaunts I can walk to. I have 56 eateries (restaurants, cafés and bistros) in a 500m radius, and also 36 bakeries, butchers and supermarkets all of which offer warm, ready-to-eat meals. Am I a
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Some popular sites have alternative interfaces, e.g. Twitter → Nitter. They are a much better user experience if you just want to lurk. Configure your browser to automatically redirect: • https://github.com/SimonBrazell&#x2F
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Might have something to how the author chose to express his opinions. FWIW, I got the same impression from the article, but did not bother to write a comment until now. IMO, the author could have done better by providing more concrete examp
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by bmn__ 4y ago
This is the worst straw-man I've seen this year. Realistically, non-cute homebrew names would look like bin, libexec, repo, that is to say descriptive names that are already in common use, not GUIDs.
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by bmn__ 4y ago
Applications and text-processing libraries are free use an internal text encoding or data structure, if you will, which does not suffer from the drawbacks. Conversions to encodings suitable for data exchange (e.g. UTF-8) are performed at th
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by bmn__ 4y ago
> To match a grapheme cluster, you have to use "\X", which is not universally supported. You have the words "supported" and "implemented" mixed up. Kernighan claims Unicode support, so he is required by the
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by bmn__ 4y ago
"No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
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by bmn__ 4y ago
This needs correcting. Germany and Switzerland are both federal states, they occupy the same spot on the notional spectrum. < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/The_path... > The com
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by bmn__ 4y ago
https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config#TOKENS Why didn't you look this up yourself?

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