cempaka

41 ms·

541.
by cempaka 3y ago
> because they were questioned by adults who had the goal of guiding them to what they thought was the right answer That's not what happened in the Presidio case. The questioners also didn't give the children STDs. > Sata
542.
by cempaka 3y ago
Naturally, no mention in this article of Michael Aquino, the US Army Colonel who wrote the book on psychological operations, openly bragged about performing a ritual with a Nazi SS dagger at Wewelsburg Castle, and was credibly accused by ch
543.
by cempaka 3y ago
Always helps to have vaccines that actually work to prevent transmission too.
544.
by cempaka 3y ago
Only Nixon could go to China, and only Obama could normalize total mass surveillance.
545.
by cempaka 3y ago
As someone who routinely travels every year between two fairly rural stops on the Empire Builder, this doesn't seem to hold true at all. In fact, I can generally travel by train for less than it would cost me to drive myself, and plane
546.
by cempaka 3y ago
> We eradicated smallpox, and completely suppressed measles and polio in most of the world. We rid Europe and the US of malaria. We had multiple chanches to stop covid: right in the beginning of course, but also in the summer of 2020 wh
547.
by cempaka 3y ago
"It is an investment," hahah. This is also really deft parody of tech press boosterism.
548.
by cempaka 3y ago
I laughed, thanks. Do you think the parent also makes use of containers?
549.
by cempaka 3y ago
I feel like I don't see them much anymore but The Onion used to produce some hilarious video content. "Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport" is still my favorite: https://youtu.be/gE
550.
by cempaka 3y ago
Michael Parenti's "Conspiracy and Class Power" is still a classic for anyone looking for a succinct overview, from the left, of how conspiracy operates as one many tools in the power elite's chest: https://you
551.
by cempaka 3y ago
I'm sure it's not complete, but I also wouldn't be surprised if 99% of what's in HotSpot is optimization tweaks and performance boosts which aren't essential to the JLS.
552.
by cempaka 3y ago
Every one of those thousands of banks is dependent on remaining in the government's good graces. Canada doesn't have thousands of banks (a setup we'll almost certainly move closer to as the regional banks face ongoing problem
553.
by cempaka 3y ago
> they'll eventually run into legal troubles from the damage they cause to innocent people Which is how this sort of thing ought to be handled, in stark contrast to "Chrystia Freeland sends an email to the heads of major bank
554.
by cempaka 3y ago
Isn't it the case that you still have to have a relationship with a bank to have an account to transfer into or out of via FedNow in the first place? In that case I don't think this would change the picture at all. It's not t
555.
by cempaka 3y ago
Yep I use this one everywhere I can on my Macs, and Roboto Mono as a decent approximation everywhere else. Discovered it because I accidentally opened something in XCode one day and went "wow, that's a nice font!"
556.
by cempaka 3y ago
I mean, the CIA helped Walt Disney set up the insane property deals he used to build Disneyworld, so it's not outside the realm of possibility. edit: oh, I misread your comment and thought the CIA page was making some specific referenc
557.
by cempaka 3y ago
I've tried to get out of the habit of this one now that I have kids learning from my example, but it really takes a lot of focus. What's funny is that I can remember the period as a kid where it was taking and being bothered by it
558.
by cempaka 3y ago
Heh I absolutely love Arch, and probably would never have made it to the point of being able to do Void or FreeBSD installs if it wasn't for Arch and its excellent docs. But yeah, some kinda annoying stuff with it lately.
559.
by cempaka 3y ago
> I've sometimes had this happen and for me it seems to be related to systemd-resolved deciding to stop responding to queries and the only solution I've found so far that actually works is to restart the system. I hit this al
560.
by cempaka 3y ago
I've just started playing with Void because I want to use runit on both my dev machines (Linux) and servers (FreeBSD). I've really been liking it a lot, although the batteries-not-included approach did not phase me since I've
561.
by cempaka 3y ago
As a method for choosing a language, doesn't this just inherently skew to the smaller and more simplistic one, which may not necessarily be the best for all tasks or over a longer run where the techniques of the more involved language
562.
by cempaka 3y ago
Netrek made its way onto PCs also and I remember playing it in probably 1994/95 when it was about the only game our crappy rural DSL could handle. Tons of fun and the requirement for strategic teamwork was probably only rivaled by RTS
563.
by cempaka 3y ago
I could buy that maybe COVID had "some effect on smell" at about the same rate as the common viruses, but it was the intensity which made it more noticeable.
564.
by cempaka 3y ago
I am very much in the skeptical camp when it comes to many things with COVID, and open to all sorts of arguments that the nature of the virus and treatments for it do not adhere to what you might call the "orthodox" perspective pr
565.
by cempaka 3y ago
relativenumber is essential too, unless you like typing something like d-638-<Shift>-G just to delete 15 or 20 lines of text.
566.
by cempaka 3y ago
I spent quite a long time trying to get nvim-jdtls configured correctly and playing well with all the other LSPs I have configured. Had it mostly working and I did like writing a large amount of Java for a greenfield project in Neovim, bu
567.
by cempaka 3y ago
> I'd be way more worried how they're using the data they're collecting on you vs Google or MS Why? They don't even have access to my emails and texts like those other companies do. I also don't see the names o
568.
by cempaka 3y ago
Went looking for a good old article about fanimutation, this is quite the walk down bored-college-dorm-session memory lane: https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2002-01-25/84480/
569.
by cempaka 3y ago
Huh, I just had the opposite experience. I wanted to parallelize the work of converting a bunch of raw camera images on my laptop to JPGs using ImageMagick, and after looking into what it would take to do it in Ruby I found that `parallel`
570.
by cempaka 3y ago
> After a defensive copy of the byte-array is made, just before returning the newly constructed string object, verify once again that the chosen coder matches the string contents. Allocating new String objects might very well be the

More ›