elcamino44

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by elcamino44 4y ago
The font issue is so challenging. Even Chinese developers (who obviously don’t think ASCII is fine) sometimes won’t understand why using a Chinese font to render kanji is an issue.
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Mohammed bin Salman’s public position is that global warming is real and dangerous and he has pledged that Saudi Arabia will be carbon neutral by 2060. I think if you wanted to make a case that he’s a hypocrite, there’s ample evidence out t
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I think a better analogy is the internet. Or phones. By any measure, either of those technologies have unleashed a torrent of scams and fraud, especially in the areas where they are largely unregulated. Of course, I’d say the benefits of cr
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I think Japan is my favourite country for road trips. So many stunning mountain and costal roads. And hotels and restaurants in rural areas often have amazing food. However, gasoline and toll roads are both quite expensive so that might be
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Visas will be your challenge. Unless you’re married to a Japanese person, it will be hard for you to get a work visa without being employed by a Japanese company. Any way to try to get around that is gonna be a lot of work (and a bit of mon
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by elcamino44 4y ago
…you know China has satellites and stuff, right?
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I think it’s more than for some reason stories about Japan being super weird seem to be very popular in Western media.
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by elcamino44 4y ago
> How much that productivity has increased due to automatization of laborous tasks ? For sure some of it. As well as education of the workforce and the changing nature of work. Either way, the reality is that the benefits have largely go
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Okay, but how do you propose the victims of Kiwifarms protect themselves from being kicked off the internet? And remember we’re not talking about their physical ability to connect to the internet (after all, no one has deprived Kiwifarms of
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by elcamino44 4y ago
But because of a vague memory about something you read sometime (which looks like it was wrong), the presence of short-haired elves breaks your immersion and damages your enjoyment of the show?
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Providing information about how to source drugs (and even encouraging people to take them) is not the same as drug trafficking. Erowid is not the Silk Road. As for the second allegation, I haven’t seen any substantiation. But I do know that
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by elcamino44 4y ago
But if someone comes at you wanting to unplug you from the internet (in every meaningful sense), what possible recourse do you have? These are trolls, they don’t go away just because you ask nicely or try to ignore them.
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by elcamino44 4y ago
> "Doxxing" doesn't restrict someone else's free speech. It just discourages them from conducting speech under their public identity. Isn’t this the exact same thing? Discouraging someone from conducting speech under
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I think it’s interesting that so many people see the danger in a Twitter “mob” effectively running Kiwifarms off the public, visible internet, without recognising that Kiwifarms themselves were a mob, with the precise goal of running peopl
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I think I understand why you feel this way, but I personally find them to be a helpful format. For example, last time I had to figure out how to store addresses in a database I made a point to check out the falsehoods programmers believe ab
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I’m gonna agree with everyone else. I’ve lived in Japan for years and never seen a sign like that.
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I’d guess hard, as opposed to soft (dismissible/based on number of articles read), paywall.
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by elcamino44 4y ago
> It seems like if you think cheese storage is arbitrary, you do not cook for yourself on a regular basis enough to think about ingredient storage/preparation. Eh, I love cooking and do some pretty complex stuff (including with chee
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Email marketing is a behemoth and showing no signs of slowing down. It’s a fine market to be in. For sure, if your goal is to find some famous person and contact them directly, Twitter might be the better tool. But if you want to convert a
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I am in Japan, have been watching the news, and this is the first time I’d seen the Unification Church named as the motive. My impression has also been that the domestic media is downplaying the connection.
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Ehh, I think that’s not correct at all?? Plenty of teenagers drink visibly in public here all the time. Normal bars, shops and restaurants never check IDs and drunk teenagers on the train are a common sight. And as other comments have said,
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Just wait til we start optimizing for it ;)
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by elcamino44 4y ago
I’ve done a bit of consulting in this space. It really depends on the union. Some are stuck in the 90s but some are doing all the fancy modern stuff you’d expect. And yes, there are SaaS tools aimed at the union market that charge per membe
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by elcamino44 4y ago
Agreed. I’ve seen the UN-led humanitarian system up close (albeit not in Africa). In my experience, it has many, many flaws. One of these is that it is resource constrained.
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by elcamino44 5y ago
If you went through five pages and didn’t see any, that’s on you. I just quickly flicked through and saw some about Rust, GDScript and C++.
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by elcamino44 5y ago
This is awesome. And way harder than expected. Does anyone have any insight into why this particular thought process feels so unnatural?
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by elcamino44 5y ago
That also describes the experience of 99% of people working in a normal office.
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by elcamino44 5y ago
photopea.com is basically photoshop 6 in the browser. I use it all the time.
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by elcamino44 5y ago
I don’t think that quite captures everything, though. Because in the same way that attempting to block decoupling is a rhetorical device, decoupling itself (at least in a public debate) is also a rhetorical device. The decoupler says “put a
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by elcamino44 5y ago
But if you just search for “person” or “couple” you get results showing mostly white people and couples. I don’t think what you’ve observed is saying what you think it is…

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