doubloon

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by doubloon 2y ago
A lack of consideration for others feelings.
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by doubloon 2y ago
if i was in an environment without internet, i would be using open source software.
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by doubloon 2y ago
if we do not maintain expertise in nuclear weapons then we will end up like Ukraine.
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by doubloon 2y ago
"we must bring the deficit under control," that's funny because Reaganomics was the beginning of the "deficits dont matter" wing of the Republican party.
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by doubloon 2y ago
yup this is the same conclusion people come to when they talk about long term data storage. the only thing that actually stores data is people, and the only reason they store it is because they care about it and still use it, but also they
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by doubloon 2y ago
if you dont have internet service and you are on a windows box, you are SOL in the first place.
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by doubloon 2y ago
thats what Copilot is for. You just go "please tell me how to work this grep | awk command in powershell"
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by doubloon 2y ago
Thanks.
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by doubloon 2y ago
How did they test and debug this stuff in the 70s
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by doubloon 2y ago
China is just adopting western ideas. Socialize the cost and privatize the profit. The western solution which is to make criminals of business people doesnt work well enough. Epa superfund sites go unfixed for decades. Governments should ju
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by doubloon 2y ago
Feature detection is better than version detection…??? Maybe for the web but jn compiled language world This has led to autoconf automake which is a gigantic waist and also a gigantic waste. Rust style cargo library version specification so
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by doubloon 2y ago
Its weird that people work OK without knowing exactly what time it is. Sure it helps us but if a person lost track of the date for a few days in a city they would still be able to perform basic functions. We only have had timekeeping device
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by doubloon 3y ago
its really cool but ... i have listened to tens of thousands of hours of podcasts and these are not podcasts. these are audio versions of articles or short books, most of the content of whichi is probably based on wikipedia being absorbed i
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by doubloon 3y ago
then the question becomes.... why was the original machine not simply expandable with extra sidecars, why couldn't they upgrade their TI 99 4/a or PC Jr with sidecars so it could do the same as a machine that provided "more o
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by doubloon 3y ago
I have it on deep background that Hindenburg executives leave the toilet roll empty and dont return shopping carts
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by doubloon 3y ago
1 every time u add a component to a system you double the complexity. If you build automated regression testing it becomes easy to see the impact as test runtime grows exponentially. So the definition of the interface between components mus
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by doubloon 3y ago
Not simply a clerical error , an internal process review and quality control error. No one person’s mistake should ever affect a persons account in an ideal financial system.
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by doubloon 3y ago
other things that are explosive diarrhea bombs fireworks so imagine a gigantic bomb of diarrhea fireworks, that is what AI will be like. i would type that into DallE but im afraid OpenAI would ban me and/or make my entire history publi
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by doubloon 3y ago
really noob question - so to run on a GPU you need a 264GB RAM GPU? and if you ran on a 264GB CPU would it be super slow?
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by doubloon 3y ago
its funny because in 2008 we gave the bankers 2 trillion dollars to save their industry. regardless of my personal opinions on nuclear it is just a bit too ironic the way this article is worded. maybe we could package up nuclear power into
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by doubloon 3y ago
i took compilers and prof wanted us to write lexer code by hand for a specific language. instead i wrote a generic lexer generator and fed in the language definition to generate the lexer code, got a bad grade for not following instructions
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by doubloon 3y ago
i will never understand our civilization *** up priorities. we should have spent 100+ billion dollars solving this instead of on twitter and VR.
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by doubloon 3y ago
People are impatient. I expect in a few years someone will”solve” this problem by removing the borrow checker and then by removing the unsafe keyword, then allowing dynamic linking and shared libraries…. And this person will be lauded as a
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by doubloon 3y ago
He got three out of four of “manic pixie dream girl”
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by doubloon 3y ago
The tiny amount of lead they use is inversly proportional to their social influence, they are literally called influencers, and they are influencing an entire generation to be indifferent to use of lead in electronics because the personal r
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by doubloon 3y ago
Between the homeless camps, the thousand yard stare retail workers, the perpetually angry boomer ruling class, the isolating physical environments, the destruction of third spaces, the medical bankruptcies, the lack of any kind of sick leav
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by doubloon 3y ago
me. i went into one of these car washes, got the hard sell from some poor person standing outside, didnt realize it was subscription - to cancel you have to call a phone number between 8 and 5, which of course i forget to do for several wee
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by doubloon 3y ago
thats very interesting, i never heard of this, i wonder how many other towns are off-the-radar. and in China probably even more now. i wonder if the EPA could be better off if it gave grants instead of fining people.
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by doubloon 3y ago
im sure in ancient mesopotamia there was somebody arguing about you could brew beer faster if you stop measuring the hops so carefully but then someone else was saying yes but if you dont measure the hops carefully then you dont know the ef
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by doubloon 3y ago
I have the same problem with this as with retro youtubers using lead solder. Consumers are not the only ones that matter The people working in the factoriesare exposed to lead. The people at the mines are exposed to lead. The people in shut

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