deaddodo

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by deaddodo 3y ago
I'm from a western state and my family is pretty white. I've never heard this. You definitely don't glob onto any/all favors and you shouldn't accept something you wouldn't be willing to reciprocate in the same
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I grew up in Southern California, and neither of your descriptors really apply to the general culture there. Social conventions in the area are far less structured nor regimentalized, so if you needed something serious (a loan from a family
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Well, mainly I was young and still exploring a fresh and vibrant scene (much unlike the relatively mature Linux of today), so that was half of it. The other half was that whenever I searched for an RPM for something I needed, it was almost
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by deaddodo 3y ago
That's the complete opposite of my experience. I bought an XPS 15 (it supported Linux well) and broke the screen (my own fault) about 8mos into owning it. Spoke to support and they sent a technician over two days later. They replaced t
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I ran SUSE around the same time (2001-2002ish), because it was the only major distro (between RH and Mandrake, primarily) that would install on my archaic 128MB PII. Debian worked but my grade school brain had no capacity for setting up Xfr
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Many could argue that Dell improved substantially after its 2013 transition to private ownership. At least, from the consumer perspective, things improved drastically. Linux support, a wider variety of competitive lines with much needed imp
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> Most graduates of Computer Science programs can, perhaps with some trouble, implement a half decent C compiler in a weekend or two. Probably not. Compiler design (lexical+syntactical analysis and code generation) isn't covered by
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I doubt porn was the major impetus. I'm guessing CP (technically porn, sure; probably not what you meant), death/gore videos, pirated software/media, etc were the main issue.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> I bet it is significantly cheaper in the USA south/southwest (due to immigration). If you want to do it illegally, sure. Legal labor (immigrant or not) is most assuredly more expensive almost anywhere in the Southwest, compared
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> with the magnitude of the trouble directly related to how willing the USA is to continue to lead NATO. The US has never led NATO. None of it's Secretary positions have ever been American and it was formed from two European-power i
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yeah, OP seems to be confusing expert knowledge in a field with exclusive knowledge in a field.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Random tripping was a mechanic added in Brawl . In Ultimate , they dialed it back and now it's only a triggered action (and, at a lower rate than Brawl ). If anything, it sounds like they took in some feedback from the community.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
The department exists already, it needs zero investment. Did you read the article at all? If anything, it's going to absorb more opportunity cost ramping the department down than to let it continue operating. About the only way your ar
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I can only imagine that you are trolling, at this point. You understand the concept of profit, right? Let's just do numbers here: * Option A: you have 1mUSD to invest into Department X. * Option B: you have 1.2mUSD to invest into Depar
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by deaddodo 3y ago
They are in a budget crunch . So they should close one of the departments that pays for itself and others ? I'm having a hard time processing your logic here.
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by deaddodo 3y ago
It's profitable and requires little overhead. Just do both. That's like saying "I don't want a free PS5, because I think I'd play my Nintendo Switch more often".
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yeah, this was my first thought reading through this. It literally makes no sense to close a department that, after operational and administrative costs, is net positive while you are facing a budget crisis. Later on, the writer mentions an
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I don't understand which portion of my post you're trying to argue against? You, yourself, posted the following yesterday: > I made 22kUSD last year in Kiev. I think my colleague on same team in USA was making 65kUSD. Not SWE,
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yes, now go read the labor law on "telework" provisions. Combine those two contexts, and you have a full story. One of France not, in any way, being a paragon of "remote work" ideals. To make it opaque for you: remote wo
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Many companies in France did exactly this after COVID guidelines ended: https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/ckgch7tn6a09... In fact, French labor law is quite archaic on remote work ("telework&quo
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> Go code can be expected to compile 10+ years ahead. The same is not always the case for C, C++, Zig and possibly even Rust. I'm sorry, but this comment just seems so blind to reality that it's hard not to comment on. C has a
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by deaddodo 3y ago
While I hear you and grok+understand you; I think this 100% comes from your background and what problems you are trying to solve. As someone that does a ton of systems (traditional definition; e.g. embedded, OS, emudev, etc) development i
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Yup, this too. Half the time I had headphones on, I didn't even have them playing anything. I just had ANC turned on to muffle the background noise (and deter people who didn't actually needy assistance with anything). But I defin
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Open offices are the literal reason (after commuting/traffic) that I no longer want to go into the office. My work doesn't require a ton of person:person engagement and it's much easier for me to just zone out in my own heads
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> The point was that with Ubuntu, you didn't even need to do that, so non-technical users could use it without hassle, and this was the entire point of Ubuntu. The point was, other popular distros were doing that 4+ years before Ubu
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by deaddodo 3y ago
I was there. They shot to the most popular distros right away. Just go look at distrowatch for 2004-2006. Regardless, let's pretend your point is accurate. The bigger point is they didn't do anything new or better than anyone. And
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by deaddodo 3y ago
Oh, definitely. I should be clear that this is a very US-centric viewpoint. The European scene (especially France and Germany) was drastically different. Whereas Red Hat/Fedora had a massive slice of the pie in the US, SuSE reigned ove
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by deaddodo 3y ago
No one's underselling this, you're overselling this. Jockey (their proprietary software installer) didn't become a thing in Ubuntu until their 6.10-7.04 releases. 2-2.5 years after the first version. SuSE, Mandrake and ot
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by deaddodo 3y ago
> Both looked dated back then, but Fedora Core 3 more so. That's a matter of preference. Regardless, the Humanity theme is much closer to what standard GNOME looked like back then. Which goes against the original point that they w
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by deaddodo 3y ago
In the early days it wasn't "polished" in any way other than the font or color choice. Which just about every distro was doing at the time (Fedora also had a clean and liked theme). But sure, here's the comparison.

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