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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
TIL there is a spore-obsessed Trek character named after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets_(Star_Trek)
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
So if you were being sarcastic about Asians and Whites being the dumbest races... are they the smartest? Seems a little racist. Please make use of the edit button.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
So I've only recently started working in tech, but one thing I would say is that solid linux system administration skills are what helped me land my current job and succeed in it. I've also done a fair amount of frantic googling,
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Just don't be a cheap date. I'm hardly any kind of "hacker". I'm barely a "programmer". But if I'm in a conference room, and I see some little embedded computer powering something, my mind immediately
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
But it wasn't banned in one example where the statistic was cited. Aside from the subreddit, the only difference was the additional context that "this is a test of censorship". I will note, however, that your original comment
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Yes, we do hold people individually responsible because it is necessary. We can't forgive crime because a nuanced understanding of recent history and racism. That is a value we hold, but there is nothing "factual" about it, s
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
It really is a crass and inflammatory statement, though. The 13% number may be supported by data , but the actual meaning and phrasing of the statement is actually highly opinionated. First, it's a fact that black Americans are over-p
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Interestingly, I'm pretty sure apps that drive traffic to other apps are generally not permitted on the app store, per some huge HN thread recently featuring a letter to Tim Cook from the developer of such an app who got removed. I f
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Well sed. And yet, a moat is so much less than specialization. A moat is a blog! A moat is a following! A moat can be pure reputation, apparently.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Right, it necessarily affect much in terms of the way the program's functionality is written, but hardly irrelevant or a "red herring". The fact that any language can be compiled to a portable assembly language is important
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I'm almost to the point of being indifferent whether companies "destroy the web" through things like a browser monoculture. It would be a tragedy, but you can only ask people to deal with so much, and the web != the internet.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Definitely have actual Nvidia drivers installed.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Maybe, but I have drivers for the monitors and everything else factory default windows install. It’s some ASUS predator gaming laptop that I inherited, but it’s reasonably powerful.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Absolutely. I have a laptop with a 1080p screen that's like 15-inches and a 27-inch 1080p monitor that I connect to it. When I scroll in MS Word, there is this insane black tearing across the white surface when I scroll, but only on th
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
You can't go home. Not ever. Forever burned into my memory is some stupid hippie liberal (disclaimer: I am also a stupid liberal) professor type talking to some NPR-voiced reporter shortly after 9/11. Very shortly, like a few week
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Right, and it's not like it's ground breaking thinking here. It's just a matter of some personal restraint on your part to say, "No, I will not turn python into an interpreter for some disgusting yaml-based language.&quo
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Data is data. Code is logic. So the the thought process goes... ...what if I could store my configuration (data! right?!) in a way that is nicely separated from the logic?! No more scripting for me! Oh wait. Some of the configuration can&
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Yeah. To be honest I'm not part of the design cult that runs the world, but something like this just makes you stop and go "what? WHY?!"
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
It definitely makes it seem farcical to see our representatives crucifying Facebook for selling browsing data when states are apparently selling everything you would need to actually damage someone financially, and not just hypothetically.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
On the link: Yellow on black Off the link: Black on yellow On the link: Yellow on black Off the link: seizes on floor
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I mean, man pages are searchable, immediately accessible, usually callable by the same name as the binary, somewhat standard in their formatting, and frequently exhaustive in at least the interface of the program. It's about 10x easier
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
> "gork office politics" Hehe.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Information should be free to share and copy, but not at a profit if it infringes on the owner of the IP. That’s VERY short of maximalism. That is a radical reform. Megaupload employees and owners uploaded pirated content, and profited huge
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I think this is correct. I've known many people who seem so much quicker to learn new things than me, but they can't seem to do anything serious because they immediately get fed up with how "bad" everything is. Write a
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I am fully against the practices of illegitimate DMCA notices, suing torrenters, etc. As I said, I also think terms of copyright should be deeply constrained and nontransferable upon death. But like, megaupload? Why should such a business m
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
OOOOoooooo snap. One word, but it's so true. And that's exactly how Amazon thinks. I got my Amazon Fresh grocery order last weekend, sourced from the Whole Foods up the road. The delivery was cheaper than every alternative (Inst
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Gosh, I'm pretty much as anti-copyright/pro-freedom of information as anyone you would ever meet. However, I think there has to be a reasonable way to implement copyright so that artists can get paid for their creations in a relia
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Deserving party? Deserving of what? Your response is so disconnected from what I wrote I can barely understand it as such. Our laws prohibit all forms of violence domestically, do they not? Those are the explicit rules of our society. W
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I think by definition, if one person collects the majority of the profit from the effort of 100, it is undeserved. If those 100 people can’t afford things like health care and housing, they have been crushed. I’m not arguing socialism v. c
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
This is a pervasive perspective on HN. Everyone here is so erudite in their mindset, yet they can't observe that a trend of exponential wealth inequality ends with many people being crushed and a few undeserving winners. The language &

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