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by endgame 5y ago
> We could also ask: is it even the Unicode Consortium’s role to attempt to influence the representation of violent or unethical ideas? This is literally what Newspeak was designed to do.
392.
by endgame 5y ago
It's "hear, hear".
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by endgame 5y ago
I spent months trying to debug why a windows update stopped my microphone working (which needs a powered 3.5mm socket). Reinstalling didn't fix it, and the mic worked perfectly on GNU/Linux the entire time. In the end I had to buy
394.
by endgame 5y ago
I consider Windows trying to wheedle me into getting a Microsoft account or Apple's increasing number of restrictions on controlling my own system to be way more user-hostile than anything the GNU system does.
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by endgame 5y ago
All functions in Haskell are pure: the function `putStrLn :: String -> IO ()` returns the same IO action for the given input.
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by endgame 5y ago
If I remember rightly, that was one of his first votes and he wisened up after that. There was an interview early in his term where he admitted he was unfamiliar with the term "balance of power", but he seemed to learn quickly.
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by endgame 5y ago
"Roo poo" Ricky Muir was better than many of the regulars, IMHO. IIRC he seemed to actually think about the bills in front of him.
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by endgame 5y ago
I use this font in many places, and it gives people 2-3 years my junior nervous twitches. They associate it with events like "thing has gone wrong, time to reinstall windows".
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by endgame 5y ago
The one I especially hated: "You look nice today" 1. "Nice" is an adjective with nearly zero meaning. 2. Either you have access to my camera outside of calls and are analysing my appearance (WTF) or you're making st
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by endgame 5y ago
You might enjoy this blog post: https://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/aztec-politi...
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by endgame 5y ago
Does the Australian banking system use ACH?
402.
by endgame 5y ago
And in the small print, turning that on allows ebay to make withdrawals against your deposit account!
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by endgame 5y ago
Pardon my French, but that's a completely ass-backwards approach from the council. If we later find that the vaccines need boosters, so be it, maybe that's justification for an additional restriction. There's an argument agai
404.
by endgame 5y ago
By the time the relevant committees have worked over that idea, there will be fifteen bands in colours that you need tetrachromic vision to differentiate between.
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by endgame 5y ago
#dhall is on OFTC too. The #nixos universe seems to have moved to Matrix.
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by endgame 5y ago
There was a cottage industry of interesting floppy distributions back in the day. I remember Hal91 (mostly for the ascii art and the creator's email at an online.no domain - funny for a young student who hadn't internalised the me
407.
by endgame 5y ago
Nix is an incredibly far-sighted vision, and it's great to work with... once you get your head around it all. I much prefer to build containers using it, and it does a much better job of "provisioning" than any other tool I&#
408.
by endgame 5y ago
Too late for me. I bought an AMD GPU last year.
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by endgame 5y ago
4) Crippling the ability to GPU passthrough (subpoint of (2), I suppose)
410.
by endgame 5y ago
Good thing you're using the past tense, as he's published source code for both black books: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebb/index.html
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by endgame 5y ago
Step zero: don't use them and trust the user's agent.
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by endgame 5y ago
Even GPL2 didn't allow that > Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable
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by endgame 5y ago
Reminder: 2009 "swine flu": declared pandemic at 74 infected countries ( https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009/h1n1_pa... ) COVID-19: declared pandemic at 114 infected countries
414.
by endgame 5y ago
Mandatory installation comes 3-5 years after insurance discounts for smart smoke detectors or whatever, to prod the last few hold-outs into "compliance".
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by endgame 5y ago
$ python -c 'import this' | sed -n 15p There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Sadly, the python type-checking situation appears to be going the way of the python packaging situation.
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by endgame 5y ago
You may find https://www.matthewball.vc/all/epicprimer1/#section1 an interesting discussion of the interlocking parts of Epic's business plan.
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by endgame 5y ago
I am also "this person", and while it feels awkward to ask, I think it's important to provide at least some social pressure against the adtech megaplatforms. (Similarly, I feel that it is completely acceptable to ask for a .t
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by endgame 5y ago
The world was told by the public health apparatus, up to and including the U.S. Surgeon General, that masks were not effective. The circle was then squared by telling people to wear "face coverings" and, well, here we are. I would
419.
by endgame 5y ago
Hagoromo changed hands after those articles, and now runs from South Korea, I think. An Amazon review says it's no longer the Rolls Royce of chalk, but more like a "really dope Lexus".
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by endgame 5y ago
Suggestion: Answer the question figuratively, not literally: "I call Toronto home", or "I call Toronto home, though I was born in India."

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