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by fargle 2y ago
a man isn't going to run himself to death either. unless you have better friends than me, it'd take a lot more than a little ask or pushing for one of your friends to run themselves to collapse or to death just because you kept
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by fargle 2y ago
that's absolutely not how horses work. just like people athletes, horse athletes have a very strong competitive spirit. they understand they are competing and the good ones really love it. they will push themselves extremely hard, easi
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by fargle 2y ago
that is untrue, and a disingenuous argument. there is no requirement for violence simply to arrest them. but if street racing assholes decide to escalate to violence (and a car is a weapon), then both staying alive and protecting the pub
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by fargle 2y ago
or, instead of installing basically speed bumps in all the intersections, they could show up and arrest the participants for misdemeanors and felonies that are clearly visible on video, actually book them into jail with serious bail. impoun
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by fargle 2y ago
this license is a hilarious satire that lambasts the inevitably overly pedantic world of software licensing and the lawyers who created that mess. just don't forget that and use it for anything serious. ** the above comments are dual
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by fargle 2y ago
to be fair, from his perspective, it's often the rusty crowd who is stoking the flame wars - this sounds like a reaction to them. how often do we hear something like "C and C++ are horribly flawed and completely unsafe. it's
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by fargle 2y ago
the original source appears to be someone calling themselves "richard" trolling a podcast: https://youtu.be/QlD9UBTcSW4?si=lFm_pzZFSQ4Xi3JK
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by fargle 2y ago
amusing. (not) solving a "snake oil" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil problem with a patent miracle solution!
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by fargle 2y ago
or, the users could kick CS and McAfee out of the kernel space themselves - by not using those products or features that require these dodgy kernel modules. the CTOs and engineering staff are the ones in control of their machines, not M$. o
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by fargle 2y ago
such stupidity. our $$$ corporate geniuses mandate multiple so-called security software which is: - unaccountable black boxes - of questionable, and un-auditable, quality - requires kernel modules, drivers, LocalSystem, root access, etc. -
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by fargle 2y ago
oh there is a short ton, a long ton, a metric ton. the normal ton in the US is "short ton" which is 2,000 lbs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton we also often encounter a "f*ck ton" or even a
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by fargle 2y ago
^^ this exactly. it doesn't matter which wing you like, all outcomes of chevron were bad. the over-turning is not. you may or may not like the decisions of congress. you may or may not like the decisions of a court. i could live with e
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by fargle 2y ago
ok, the author lost me at: "My first choice would have been a Mitsubishi i-MiEV ... Shame, because it is a much cooler car than a Nissan Leaf." wow, this is a different country: "1600 kg! ... being about 2x as big and heavy
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by fargle 2y ago
disagree with this. there is clearly a difference between "technical" and "non-technical" people. the definition "technical people" are using when they make that distinction is close enough to 1a of Webster:
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by fargle 2y ago
AWK is better suited to command line ad-hoc and shell script use. it is simple , straight-forward, and surprisingly powerful. most of the time sh+awk can replace sh+sed+cut+grep constructs. GNU awk (gawk) flavor is ubiquitous and it has a
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by fargle 2y ago
i keep parsing this headline as " kicking Linux off google drive". huh? oh.
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by fargle 2y ago
this guy (OP) is dumber than a GPT. 1.8m * 1ft / .3048m = 5.905 ft 0.905 ft * 12 in / 1 ft = 10.86" 5' 10.86" if the difference between 5'9" and 5.11" is emasculating, but you feel fine about flauntin
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by fargle 2y ago
upvoting! "I also don't want a commit history that looks like London's tube system map" i don't care how you do it. squashing? git reset followed by sensible commits? intense ninja-like git commit hygiene? or my
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by fargle 2y ago
you absolutely need to do this. we call it the "internet of shit VLAN".
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by fargle 2y ago
yep. it's really trash. used it 20-25 years ago when they were just introducing "neutrino" vs. the classic QNX4. the former had a good rep with auto and medical usage. - very bad port of GCC was buggy and generated bad code.
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by fargle 2y ago
> This is about sesame. yes! > This has significantly harmed consumers who are actually allergic to sesame. maybe. more like: "This may have slightly annoyed..." > It was a clear and flagrant abuse of the "may cont
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by fargle 2y ago
a very slight uptick in % housed for those who got the money in a lump sum might make sense: it's enough for first month rent + deposit. other than that, agree. sure looks like no real effect. i wonder what % housed would be after a
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by fargle 2y ago
if i live to be 90, i'd wish to die quietly in my sleep like my grandpa. not screaming in terror like his passengers.
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by fargle 2y ago
"ASLR is a significant barrier to attacks." that is a position statement, not a fact . i don't care for, as is a very common theme here on HN, techbro-splaining that "it's a settled/widely known/etc. fact
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by fargle 2y ago
> It's not debatable at all you do appear to be debating it...
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by fargle 2y ago
i like the way you think
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by fargle 2y ago
and how, exactly, does your cat murder birds? did you leave the bird cage open? oh. you meant feral cats . outdoor cats. cats really shouldn't be outdoors in most circumstances, and they should never ever be feral. and feral dogs ki
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by fargle 2y ago
i don't disagree, but will register a bit of counter argument. i think it's great that the software engineering discipline is maturing. i think it's great that we study formal semantics and work towards making it easier to
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by fargle 2y ago
i'm not sure about the whole of platonist philosophy or competing theories, but the platonist way of handling "numbers" seems exactly what i use internally: - "imaginary" numbers are exactly as real as irrational,
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by fargle 2y ago
if anyone was even willing to do this for paid service, it'd be more like at least 150% of the labor costs. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-prev... if you can find a good mechanic friend, and pa

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