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by bregma 2y ago
It's just not true. You've completed being 17 years old on your 18th birthday, when you enter your 19th year and can count 18 years under your belt. Consider a newborn. As soon as they're squeezed out they are in their first
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by bregma 2y ago
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by bregma 2y ago
If you can find a way to make touch-friendly interfaces useful on desktop devices with a large screen and a keyboard maybe then they'll take off. Better yet, make all user interfaces the same as a toaster. Everyone can use a toaster. B
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by bregma 2y ago
I just open vi with default settings and am productive right away. I tried VS Code and couldn't get a "hello world" example to run out of the box after a half hour of trying. Who cares about other editors, vi is good enough.
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by bregma 2y ago
Don't worry, you're not a real imposter. You've just inadvertently ended up in a position where you're expected to be one. Just fake it until you actually become a true imposter.
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by bregma 2y ago
I was using the internet in the early 1990s (I can still find stuff archived on the web dated 1991). I was involved in party politics in the 1980s and I saw how the sausage was made. I can tell you it's not like you see on the web toda
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by bregma 2y ago
But I was so much older then, I'm younger then that now.
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by bregma 2y ago
But really it's the dark web that binds us all?
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by bregma 2y ago
When I was in high school (many decades ago now) we had a vacuum tube tester with a switch that allowed you to select the heater voltage. We quickly discovered, devils that we were, that if you stuck a simple diode with a 1.5 V heater in th
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by bregma 2y ago
A couple of hours every day? I spend 8 hours a day sleeping and 8 hours a day at work. Anther 4 hours in meal prep and consumption, personal hygiene, commuting, and mandatory household chores. That leaves 4 hours a day in elective time. Now
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by bregma 2y ago
I recently visited Paris. I read up and watched videos on how to use the metro. They didn't really cover many of the important local customs: I let people off the train before trying to cram in and I held the exit gates open on my way
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by bregma 2y ago
"I am marrying today." That's not a valid sentence, unless the person you are to wed is named "Today". Such is stuff as Abbott and Costello cashed in on. Of course, taken in context there may be implied antecedents
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by bregma 2y ago
The profesional publishing revolution was on the Macintosh. I worked in that industry and I experienced it. The Apple LaserWriter was a proofer the size of a washing machine and cost more than a diamond engagement ring and it probably hung
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by bregma 2y ago
Does the following sentence make sense? "I marry." It's a transitive verb.
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by bregma 2y ago
I chose an ST because the Amiga was too expensive, the Mac didn't have colour and was very very expensive, and the PC was a wretched business-use-only text-only waste of desk space. I had a 1040 STe. I rigged up a hard drive (the Atari
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by bregma 2y ago
You also have to marry something. Maybe there's a pattern, or maybe poetry does not always follow the same grammatical specificity as prose, or maybe both.
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by bregma 2y ago
Anyone who knits knows the textile, stitch, and tension all contribute different properties to the finished fabric and can be used to various effects even in the same garment. For example, a rib stitch done on a smaller needle size (which a
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by bregma 2y ago
Ah, but replacement comes out of the capital budget not the operating budget, and involves ribbon cuttings and speechifying on opening day as opposed to inconvenient lane closures or even hidden ongoing tasks that are invisible to the voter
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by bregma 2y ago
It's not the pull that leads to problems. It's the braking. The engines in front might have come to a full stop before the last cars a mile or more back have even gotten the message that they need to decelerate. Do that on a curve
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by bregma 2y ago
The problem with increased government regulation of the railroads (including increased fines) is that the railroads are a classic textbook case of regulatory capture. The regulators were captured in the 1880s and there has been no let-up, o
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by bregma 2y ago
That's where -fPIC (as opposed to -fpic) comes in.
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by bregma 2y ago
If your fridge is above 4 C it's not preventing bacterial growth. You're living dangerously.
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by bregma 2y ago
GCC says that register extensions are not supported with basic inline asm. If you do it anyway it doesn't work it's not undefined behaviour, it's behaving as documented. Once you've ventured into vendorland you're o
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by bregma 2y ago
It's not UB, it's documented behaviour of a vendor extension. It's not UB because it's defined as outside the scope of the language standard. The vendor (in this case, GCC) does document how to use its inline assembly ex
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by bregma 2y ago
> This is not some SciFi "and the Nanotech Gray Goo ate the entire earth in a week" story. Not yet.
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by bregma 2y ago
Well, here are the facts (I was an insider at the time, and this is my testimony). Searches were anonymized and sent through Canonical servers to provide extended search result sets. This was configurable and could be disabled. Canonical of
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by bregma 2y ago
I believe the proper capitalist term is "primary resource".
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by bregma 2y ago
Of course any kind of non-ferrous headgear is not going to work to block the kind of radiation that the gov't uses for control. At least, that what they want you to believe since this kind of low technology is so accessible and effecti
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by bregma 2y ago
What happens on the back 9 stays on the back 9, I'm afraid.
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by bregma 2y ago
This is exactly it. AI bots have no volition. The internet will be endeadened by people training bots on fake data posted by people running bots. Bots don't kill internets, people do.

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