fl4regun

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by fl4regun 3mo ago
IMO it is extremely common. It is practically the default way people think government should work when they have done no reflection on it (which is still a pretty high number of people, few people reflect that much on how government works o
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by fl4regun 3mo ago
I gotta be honest here, my building recently (within the past 5 years) got access to fibre internet, I initially chose the option to go for the 3 gigabit package, after a few years I realized nothing I am downloading actually needs this spe
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
functionally, this is the same as connecting via ethernet cable on my fibre modem and connecting SATA drives.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
depends on what the computer is, I'm running a desktop with linux, is there really anything I can't do on my computer that was possible in 1996?
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I see a lot of praise for Dostoevsky in here, personally, my attempt to read Crime and Punishment resulted in me giving up after a couple hundred pages, it read kind of like a crime novel if it was mostly slice of life and random characters
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
my friend briefly worked there and then got hit by layoffs, as a result, I am enjoying the schadenfreude.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
at the hardware company I work at, people are now using claude code and developing skills for it to do basic stuff like triage or do initial debug on failing tests, search for potential causes in RTL, generate skeleton documentation for des
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
In Ontario we have MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying), not sure if Quebec also has something like this, but it's not unprecedented in Canada.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
they employed Louis Rossman, he is no longer working for them as of Feb 2025 (according to his LinkedIn)
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
What makes you think this will be close to 90%? Unless these cards are expensive I don't see that happening.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
Personal responsibility is an excuse for lazy regulation. These things are designed to be harmful, for the express purpose of squeezing money out of people, as efficiently as possible. We know that some people are psychologically and geneti
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
Sent you an e-mail
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
my last year's taxable income was over half a million and I am not even staff level, and I am not in the US. The reason we can't find people is because we are looking for people with specific skillsets - there's not that mass
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I work in an industry tangentially involved with the ML build-out (think companies like Broadcom, Marvell, etc.). We can't find enough people, if you have like 3+ years of experience with PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, you're a shoe in. Ver
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
FB IPO was over a decade ago, and was on the internet years before that. So only now we decide that we "must act!" and that this is the only way to do it, and all countries are doing it in the same way with no evidence if it even
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
damn I had to look up what all of these even are, I'd never heard of these. Hope it doesn't become opioid epidemic 2.0
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
huion and Xp-Pen are pretty good. I've had both working well on linux computers as well.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I live in Canada so I don't know about this. What are gas stations and convenience stores carrying now?
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
both of those appear to be that businesses are allowed to refuse, not forced to refuse. In general, businesses are allowed to refuse business to whomever they want, where the law has exceptions for which things you aren't allowed to di
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I don't know who that is or which book you are talking about, because he has written many, it seems.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
it sounds wrong, on the account of I never had my "ability to buy groceries" taken away from me without proving my vaccination status, I've only ever seen it used for travel purposes.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
This is a little bit of a tangent compared to the post, but can someone explain to me why it's NOW that we have multiple countries (USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and probably others that I am not aware of) all looking at age verification
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
gargantuan and yahoo are common parlance, people actually use these, in spite of them not knowing their origin. When's the last time you've seen those written down, or spoken, anywhere aside from those nearly half millennia old bo
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
The word was "Brobdingnagian", which apparently means "giant", from the book, Brobdingnag, published in the 1700s . I know all of the words you listed, even if I don't know t he books they came from, on the other
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
apparently 54,000. Seems like it is including even fictional words though in this test (like from fiction novels). Ironically I scored higher on the expert words (18/20) than the "advanced" words (11/20)
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
Sure, if we just ignore network effects and feedback loops and applications being designed to psychologically make themselves addictive as possible. Social media addiction will definitely just fix itself if we just tell people to, except t
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I am not complaining about them changing the logo on the key, I'm complaining they made a messed up hardware based hotkey and killed right ctrl for no reason, instead of just making right ctrl in windows trigger copilot.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
> Maturity is understanding that no matter who is to blame for the situation you are in or the problems you have, you as an individual are most of the time the only one who can fix your problems. Nothing is more effective than a determin
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
in order to join that market you have to buy at the inflated prices on the market, since current owners refuse to sell for a loss, there's nothing you can do as an individual to make this cheaper unless you already own the land. Locati
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
lol this still happens today

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