chimpansteve

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by chimpansteve 5y ago
I can remember a time when the internet wasn't widely available, and I'm not that old. Are you saying that everyone should just go back to how things were done in 1990, and the only impact would be the fault of the people using
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
A primarily affluent small minority of the global workforce switched to working from home. Literally everything your lifestyle depends upon requires actual people doing physical labour. An overwhelming majority of children have had basicall
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
This seems prone to trouble to me. Twitter is already very groupthink heavy, and I can only see this amplifying that problem. You see it in Reddit all the time - people don't actually read the comments, just upvote the upvoted ones and
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
I've got a hardware Link - it's still being supported now. It had an update a couple of weeks ago.
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by chimpansteve 5y ago
I'm not from the US, though I have spent probably a quarter of my post university life over there. There is a hell of a lot to love about your country and your people. I've never felt more welcome in any other country anywhere. Ho
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by chimpansteve 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. Those shells only have 90% of bash functionality, but are somehow more portable? I get the POSIX argument, but I'm not sure I agree. In my experience at least, POSIX is less supported than bash. I&#
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by chimpansteve 6y ago
I've been in one of the chase cars as they talk the plane down. One of the most memorable experiences of my life. This was over 10 years ago, but they were using Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubushi Evos then (this was in Cyprus, btw)
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by chimpansteve 6y ago
To be fair, the NYT's reporting of Macron's limited and perfectly reasonable attempts to combat rampant fundamentalism might give an uninformed reader a reason to believe he was some authoritarian nutjob. But that's yet anoth
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by chimpansteve 6y ago
What a bizarre statement. Religion is not banned in France.
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by chimpansteve 6y ago
I'll absolutely agree with this. The Discover Weekly playlist seems to know my musical preferences better than I do myself, and i'm certainly not sticking to just a couple of specific genres that I listen to