darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
Last I checked windows now has ads in it. Those ads may currently be totally untargeted, but that's a small comfort and I wouldn't count on it staying that way forever.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
MRI scans do not irradiate people.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You'll no doubt soon be scolded for mentioning that quote, but it will continue to be relevant for as long as Zuckerberg's actions continue display that mentality. We'll soon have somebody telling us he said that years ago a
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by darkpuma 7y ago
xterm has a Tektronix 4014 mode, but that's not exactly what's needed or desired..
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Facebook makes money from your data by showing you ads. If you stop using facebook, you stop generating any revenue and your data becomes a liability, not an asset." If my friends or acquaintances continue to use facebook,
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Journald is your friend." With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Git isn't really all that fast for what it is. The "git is fast" thing came about as a comparison to non-distributed version control systems, where changing what branch you were working on could involve coordinating with so
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yeah but as far as I can tell that doesn't actually exist yet, and isn't scheduled to be available until the end of next month. (Existing inside Microsoft but not publicly is "does not exist" as far as I'm concerne
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Trust me, I don't give a damn about open source as a means to an end" See, I think that's where you differ from most people. To most people, I believe open source is a means to an end, not an end unto itself.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> WSL I think you mean GNU/Windows, or as I've taken to calling it, GNU Plus Windows. (Seriously though, the WSL name is deceptive because it doesn't actually contain any Linux code. There is no Linux in "Window
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> RedHat Soon to be IBM, darling child of precisely nobody on HN. I think a lot of people are still in denial over this acquisition.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You are presuming that everyone gives a damn about open source as an end unto itself, not merely a means to an end. Ironically, the people who do consider it an end unto itself are probably the people most likely to despise the term &quot
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's not only if the new cdr is an atom that the whole thing becomes a non-list. It remains a list if and only if the new cdr is a list. There are non-atom non-lists that could render it a non-list, but more disturbing is the case
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If the last cdr in a list is modified, then you need to propagate that change up to the front of the list during that modification, or check the whole list when you run `list?`. Either way, you pay linear time for it.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Immutable cons cells also lets Racket implement a constant time `list?`, which is kind of nice. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/pairs.html?q=list?#%2...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If I twist my ankle and exclaim "fuck!", would that be in violation? It's not a dumb question, there are some people who are genuinely offended by that sort of language. Would the rules back them up, or me? In theory I&#x2
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I just find racket to be more fun. If I'm blowing off some steam on the weekend, racket is what I reach for. It feels clean like scheme, but has the "batteries included" feeling of python. Clojure is alright, but it feels
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by darkpuma 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley > "Download Valley is a cluster of software companies in Israel, producing and delivering adware to be installed alongside downloads of other software.[1] The prim
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Birds shit on the olives when they're still alive too. Olives grow outside. Outside is not a sterile environment. When I was working at a green bean processing plant years ago, my first job was picking non-bean objects out by hand.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Tell that to my coworkers. They think I'm nuts for eating sardines for lunch.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If this were a real concern as you're hypothesizing, then we'd already have the data of olive oil making tons of people sick. Even relatively tiny outbreaks of food borne illness from spinach make the news, so where are all the p
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Do you know what happens when a bird 'runs into' a window that was open? You have to spend the next half hour chasing it around your house with a broom. I'm speaking from experience here.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "They can help you to turn really bad prose into serviceable prose," Which is very often exactly what people are after! People who aren't deluding themselves don't think they're going to win any Pulitzers, t
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Regional labor shortages are a BS excuse. Every business in those states, whether they are paying illegal wages or fair wages, will ship their labor in. When I was working in Indiana they shipped me in and put me up in a cheap hotel, jus
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Even automated plants have lots of labor opportunities for highschool grads. Some of the bean plants I worked in were ostensibly automated, which meant it still took two or three people supervising the plant during operation. (In the un-
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by darkpuma 7y ago
For a few years I worked in the bean processing industry alongside many other citizens, working for a small (relatively speaking) ag business that only hired citizens on principle. These jobs were highly competitive; I only got the job bec
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's one of those strange instances where both 'sides' seem to be sides of the same coin. Like vanilla or chocolate ice cream; ostensibly very different, except both are ice cream. It really feels like neither side has the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I hope they do, it would be a huge boon to sea glass enthusiasts.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "If they don’t stop selling physical versions with the arrival of video game streaming (just like they didn’t stop selling boxed versions of movies)" They will once it becomes normalized. DRM for software has long been f
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I know what you meant and I think you're whitewashing the intentions of these corporations. They aren't motivated by good will, but rather by greed. They want to seize more control from consumers and they are going to normalize

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