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by favaq 4y ago
I'm not here to do any job, I'm not getting paid and I am not going to make any effort to convince you of the truth. If you want to be wrong about it that's your prerogative.
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by favaq 4y ago
1) Contemporary immigrants generally come from countries with lower IQs and 2) they reproduce more. The web is full of citations of what I said should you require them.
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by favaq 4y ago
I theorise it could be because of immigration.
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by favaq 4y ago
It's the Huawei story all over again.
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by favaq 4y ago
What exactly makes democracies better than "totalitarian dictatorships" and "warmongering dictatorships" at supercomputing so that it's such a shame that Britain is being beaten by China and Russia?
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by favaq 4y ago
Buy the average $400 windows laptop and $250 android phone and you'll see.
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by favaq 4y ago
Really, you found it surprising that a book written by the insufferable author of the insufferable blog LessWrong is insufferable?
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by favaq 4y ago
Gee, it's almost as if GPUs are useful.
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by favaq 4y ago
It would be nice if you provided the source code.
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by favaq 4y ago
Definitely, thanks!
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by favaq 4y ago
What makes no sense in 2023 is to have an IPv6-only network. That is liable not to work. Someone will eventually bring some old device that won't be able to connect.
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by favaq 4y ago
>Here's an easy one for you: if you have a gigabit connection, most home routers can barely handle the load of NAT. [citation needed] >That's why gamers push for IPv6. [citation needed]
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by favaq 4y ago
Not that I particularly like Elon but people are now making a big deal out of every twitter outage as if twitter didn't spend down half of the time before Elon bought it.
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by favaq 4y ago
I'm happy that people who sell their kids' organs are not allowed to enter my country.
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by favaq 4y ago
You call it a cliche, not a lie ;-)
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by favaq 4y ago
Ah, I didn't know Switzerland had the trademark rights of the likeness of the Matterhorn. Neat! Also: Toblerone enjoys a great deal of publicity but tastes like shit. I had one some time ago and it was so sugary that I found it disgust
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by favaq 4y ago
I meant the EU, since we are talking in the context of Europe.
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by favaq 4y ago
>But Chinese rockets hitting Ukrainian kids in Kyiv/Europe? That would trigger dramatic sanctions. Why? We haven't sanctioned the US for the children killed by Ukraine with US weapons in the Donbass.
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by favaq 4y ago
His explanations of why this is so, so bad fall very short. Why close down a tool that has good and bad uses? That would be like abolishing knives.
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by favaq 4y ago
"isn't thought" you say?
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by favaq 4y ago
Believe me I tried all combinations, lowercase and uppercase, it would just freeze, as if it was trying to get my session back, but it wouldn't do anything. It happened often, and I would lose my sessions, so I learnt to use tmux, and
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by favaq 4y ago
I switched from screen to tmux because it was often impossible to detach a remotely attached screen (for example when your ssh connection dropped and you wanted to reattach to screen).
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by favaq 4y ago
See, that's the kind of argument that is making vscode win over every other alternative.
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by favaq 4y ago
I wish I could but the Windows version of Emacs sucks ass.
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by favaq 4y ago
Bombarding civilians is only OK if the West does it, you know.
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by favaq 4y ago
Although not a follower of Hserok Divard, she's a devoted Branch Dravidian.
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by favaq 4y ago
Is there any website or app or something that by inputting where I live it gives me a list of wildlife (like insects) that surround me? I've been seeing the same bugs, birds, etc my entire life and I can name practically none of them.
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by favaq 4y ago
Similar technologies were extensively used in The Irishman (2019) to make the actors look younger and older.
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by favaq 4y ago
reddit does not use cloudflare
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by favaq 4y ago
They've had the same time we've had to build a system to deliver clean water to themselves - if they haven't it's their fault and they deserve what they have (or don't have).

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