choward

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by choward 4y ago
Ruby modules and requires effectively just concatenate a bunch of files that have globals in them and have nothing to do with real modules.
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by choward 4y ago
They keep using this word "own" throughout the article. I do not think it means what they think it means.
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by choward 4y ago
I'm skeptical of over using microservices but I don't quite understand how they make an app "incompatible with logging".
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by choward 4y ago
What makes this specific to JavaScript? It applies to all open source.
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by choward 4y ago
As bad as "toot" was, I still think it's better than "truth".
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by choward 4y ago
What does this free open source web framework have to do with a proprietary web service provider?
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by choward 4y ago
With age every year you are guaranteed to have your age increase by one year. You and people your age will eventually reach the voting age. At that point you can vote to change the voting age. When it comes to wealth, you are not guaranteed
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by choward 4y ago
While I agree that maybe we should use since other metric for adulthood, I completely disagree about only being able to vote if you pay taxes. That has to be the most regressive idea I've ever seen on this site. So because you're
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by choward 4y ago
> Perhaps that was what Nguyen was thinking when he spent more than $330,000 on the various ape NFTs on display at his restaurant. Wow. I can't imagine what anyone is thinking when they pay that much to brag about some random blockc
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by choward 4y ago
Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds to someone who isn't partisan and doesn't watch mainstream media? Besides the blatant lies like saying Fauci didn't fund the wuhan lab you use political terms like labeling people rig
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by choward 4y ago
Because if a company like that starts to emerge they'll be bought out by a larger company. At which point everyone around here will congratulate them on their "exit".
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by choward 4y ago
Having my daily driver run NixOS is my ultimate goal.
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by choward 4y ago
The default Reddit web site on desktop is excruciating enough to use. On mobile it's unusable. I only use old.reddit.com. If that ever went away I would never visit Reddit again.
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by choward 5y ago
Horrible UI but would be cool otherwise. On an Android and the performance was fine but way too much finger swiping.
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by choward 5y ago
They only lose credibility when they state things as indisputable facts. They should have been saying "based on current research this is our new best guess."
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by choward 5y ago
They've effectivity turned science into a religion by not allowing people to question anything.
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by choward 5y ago
That's more confirmation bias than survivor bias.
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by choward 5y ago
Sure, you can call it out. But don't censor it. I want to see how crazy the people around me are.
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by choward 5y ago
> as I understand it you can't do this in Russia today... Or Ukraine or many other countries. Not sure why you singled out Russia specifically. However, if you are just watching corporate media you're not getting the full pictu
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by choward 5y ago
They're also funded by the National Endowment for Democracy who is funded by the US government. They also just happen to write articles that push US imperialism encouraging war and overthrowing governments.
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by choward 5y ago
Seriously. I thought it was satire for sure but I started the checkout process just to be sure and it seemed real.
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by choward 5y ago
What are some specific issues? Most of the stuff I hear is either hardware related or some software someone used on Windows doesn't exist on Linux. For hardware issues it depends on the hardware you're using. Since most drivers ar
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by choward 5y ago
Interesting. What's the actual root cause of that?
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by choward 5y ago
> I don't know how I feel about this. > One hand, this is a seemingly non-violent and subtle way to protest. You can't be serious. Being non-violent and subtle is no excuse for deliberately making software have real side eff
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by choward 5y ago
I find it baffling how much is spent on NFL stadiums for just 8 home games a year. That's just over 1 game per day for a week every year. And the stadiums take up prime real estate. Also, some teams are forced to play out of the countr
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by choward 5y ago
> In case someone hasn't noticed, there is a war going on in Europe. That is a circumstance where some of these cases apply. There's a saying: "Truth is the first casualty in war." The last thing I want during a war i
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by choward 5y ago
> DuckDuckGo's mission is to make simple privacy protection accessible to all. The main job of a search engine is to give me results relevant to what I'm searching for. Privacy is obviously a nice feature but if the results suc
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by choward 5y ago
This argument is only valid if the government wasn't pressuring Google. Because they are Google can now use it as an excuse to censor whatever it wants. The government also has big contracts with Google so they can use that as leverage
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by choward 5y ago
So anything that places any blame on the west is propaganda? So you think this Russia Ukraine conflict just started in 2022? These people aren't claiming that Putin did the right thing. They're just claiming that the US isn't
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by choward 5y ago
Not when the meming calls for escalation by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing sanctions.

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