btreecat

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by btreecat 2y ago
Lack of enforcement mechanisms, captured courts, feckless political stooges, gullible public. E.g. Virginia governor illegally purged voters within a certain time window. Courts said "yeah that was illegal, you need to stop" VA at
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by btreecat 2y ago
> If FP isn't good for writing a compiler, what is it good for? Summing the Fibonacci sequence I guess.
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by btreecat 2y ago
Tax ourselves on goods from neighboring countries*
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by btreecat 2y ago
The idea that I can't show preference for one thing with out showing prejudice from another is a farce
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by btreecat 2y ago
>you're literally trying to tell me that racism is equality and okay. Where did I say that?
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by btreecat 2y ago
Maybe it's time you vote with your wallet rather than begrudgingly accept the AI?
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by btreecat 2y ago
You experienced racism and are calling it DEI
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by btreecat 2y ago
https://youtu.be/_jEBh1VtdT0?si=6wv2yJdTC31L1QQP I think this video might help
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by btreecat 2y ago
> Compare this to Mastodon (which unlike Bluesky) is just one service in a sea of many others using ActivityPub (Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc) which overall makes for a much more vibrant and promising platform. The same can be said about the
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by btreecat 2y ago
FTA the author says some claims they insist are fallacies. Two stood out to me as being factual rather than fallacy. >Microservices improve team autonomy. Microservices make change of technology easier. I think for 1 to be factual, each
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by btreecat 2y ago
I didn't realize that closed source means you the end user get to dictate how the manufacturer implements features.
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by btreecat 2y ago
By definition, a minority group isn't the majority. So it's at least less than half. A non-small amount of people claim the earth is flat. Does a personal attack make you feel better about yourself, your situation in life? If that
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by btreecat 2y ago
I think with out a working definition of "easy/hard" it's all hand-waving. From a documentation, examples, accessibility, tooling, and number of people you can get help from, JS wins. What other metrics should we conside
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by btreecat 2y ago
Obama isn't progressive! He's not using the progressive definition, hes using the conservative one, just like PG is. Both are wrong in this aspect. >Is is the progressives who have decided unilaterally that woke is now a pejora
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by btreecat 2y ago
> If a minority were sharing their perspective about whatever their lived experience was with regards to racism, would you respond this way? If a small group of people told me they actually experienced flight under only human power, no m
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by btreecat 2y ago
Your description of capitalism is surprisingly lacking in awareness
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by btreecat 2y ago
> Sounds nice and virtuous... until you remember there exist gangs of homeless people who mug law-abiding citizens, retreat into the structures that you want defended from demolishing, and cry victim when people want to stop their crimes
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by btreecat 2y ago
> Ok, I'll bite. What is having empathy for the homeless? Let's start by changing how we think about housing and shelter from an investment to basic rights. Or maybe stop criminalizing being poor. > Is allowing unconstrain
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by btreecat 2y ago
> Originally, people meant that you were inclusive and caring about all people. Except, you know, those hateful people on the right. Because fuck them. (I'm not even kidding. This is how they really felt, somehow.) Surely you have e
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by btreecat 2y ago
> That is kind of the point Paul is making in his essay. The most progressive people are pushing an ever evolving definition of what it means to be racist or anti-science or a bigot. This isn't what progressives are doing as much as
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by btreecat 2y ago
He isn't though. He represents his own distorted view of reality that's increasingly disconnected at a classiest level
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by btreecat 2y ago
>that being looking past the status quo and instead looking at your own values, i.e. the morality of homelessness and not having a disdain for them but empathy for them instead. If you're going to be reductive with someone's ar
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by btreecat 2y ago
Denylisting*
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by btreecat 2y ago
Yeah, this practice isn't in NZ. Why try and use that context for judgment when a more appropriate one exists?
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by btreecat 2y ago
Vimscript and elisp suck, but Lua isn't bad despite being 1-indexed. But in terms of access, JS wins hands down.
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by btreecat 2y ago
You might have an issue with your router
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by btreecat 2y ago
Sounds like your ready for some flavor of Linux
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by btreecat 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the issue w/moving from UPnP to mDNS if everything was still locally accessible and managed. Kinda feels like those two issues are orthogonal.
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by btreecat 2y ago
Lead paint probably
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by btreecat 2y ago
SVN is such a shit-ass writer and keeps chirping with next to nothing backing up anything he publishes. I'm surprised his articles get any traction any more.

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