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by flukus 7y ago
Windows now has optional case sensitivity on a per directory level. Drove me crazy trying to work out errors in an old c# codebase after a git checkout in wsl, multiple rounds of screaming THE FILES RIGHT THERE!
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by flukus 7y ago
> I'm not sure why you expect people to be tolerant of that. Because I expect people/organisations to not be hypocritical, anyone describing themselves as tolerant and inclusive but unable to work with most people in the world
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by flukus 7y ago
> The irony of course is that the most intolerant and closed minded ideologies cloak themselves in the language of "tolerance" and "inclusion" while often violently shunning those who call out their lies. The bigger i
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by flukus 7y ago
That's very true, time is the one dimension that earth and maybe one day humanity make up a significant chunk of. But some possibilities are that we're one of the first intelligent species or the anthropic principal, were observin
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by flukus 7y ago
It's only dissonance from the homocentric position of thinking we're the dominant form of matter in the universe. As it is all the parts of the universe relevant to us are tiny flecks of rounding error in the universe, now we seem
876.
by flukus 7y ago
> It kind of implicitly throws out the notion that there could be an issue with the measurement process/tools. AFAIK this was the assumption early on, space dust, black holes/brown dwarfs (MACHOs), weakly interacting massive pa
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by flukus 7y ago
> The only way to really change your religion is to have a heartfelt change in beliefs, and who has conscious control over that? Now consider how that applies to a white supremacist, the also have have a deeply held faith in their belief
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by flukus 7y ago
The might still have guns, but even crooks would be less likely to use them because they're less likely to encounter someone else with a gun, making them less likely to have to worry about the first mover advantage in that situation. F
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by flukus 7y ago
I like the water ape theory in the romantic sense, but it's important to remember that it's pseudo science. It's fun to think of the ramifications though. Are/can we look for human fossils in the right places? How much o
880.
by flukus 7y ago
At times I've seen people reach for their phone and start recording even when their safety is at risk. Similarly if you're at an event the features something like a jet fighter flyby you can look around and see more people taking
881.
by flukus 7y ago
I always thought relying on companies to enforce morality was far more libertarian, their ability to do so relies solely on companies having freedom of association. The result is it limits free speech to anyone not causing bad publicity for
882.
by flukus 7y ago
> It doesn't take much of a leap for people to hear the non-sexist "woman don't do this" as the sexist "women can't do this" Have you considered that this assumed malice is creating a false sense of sex
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by flukus 7y ago
And the problem this creates for society is that we censor content that isn't advertiser friendly. We've already seen where this leads with broadcast television, lowest common denominator trash that is safe for advertisers, escapi
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by flukus 7y ago
It's also a great way to whitewash history. Want to educate the next generation about Hitlers atrocities? No money for you. Basically anything war seems to be getting demonetized these days. Advertisers only want to appear next to cats
885.
by flukus 7y ago
Sports can be weird and very fluid indicators. In Australia where I grew up Rugby League was played in public schools and Rugby Union in private ones, so union was associated with wealth. 20 years later union is often played in public schoo
886.
by flukus 7y ago
> I see no reason why people shouldn't be educated in more basic and practical things like computers Because the teachers and education department are useless. My nephews had to get an iPad for their programming class, an expensive
887.
by flukus 7y ago
Take that up with the people claiming gender is a social construct, that identify as gender fluid or making up the alphabet soup of modern genders. I had no part in that.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Protected characteristics i.e. things you can't use as a basis for discrimination are things that people can't change about themselves. That's not true, the list of protected classes includes religion, gender, familial s
889.
by flukus 7y ago
Free speech is an ideal, the constitutional protection is only an implementation and in the modern world arguably not the most important one. As for compelling companies to do business with people they don't want to, we crossed that li
890.
by flukus 7y ago
It's probably too late to help Hong Kong, but it's become abundantly clear that actively collaborating with a totalitarian regime the way Blizzard (amongst many, many others) is not viable.
891.
by flukus 7y ago
For a start it's time we created a universal service obligation for online companies that create a high bar for deplatforming or service refusal. This is fairly simple and not particularly radical, through anti-discrimination laws we a
892.
by flukus 7y ago
It was also handled with an emissions trading scheme to provide the economic incentive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program But apparently applying this same successful free market solution to C02 will make
893.
by flukus 7y ago
Where are you getting the idea that this was a dumb rash decision? It sounds like they upgraded the database instance without proper QA in the first place and that this created a lot of issues. OP didn't specify if this was their decis
894.
by flukus 7y ago
I don't trust the anonymity and without that you can't trust the honesty. These surveys always get sent out with some sort of id/token in an email and after that you're feeding data into a black box where you have no ide
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by flukus 7y ago
> And when I did, the thing that struck me most and has been in many other places including HN ( Sometimes ) is the use of English presumes others are Americans This is a huge problem, the assumption that everyone should be forced to sha
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by flukus 7y ago
I agree about sitting at your desk, but a quick lunch is great for me because it allow me to take a proper lunch break, I can swallow some food then go for a walk listening to an audio book for half an hour.
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by flukus 7y ago
Two things that keep me away from gnome browser. 1. The tab handling is awful, would be great if they added vertical tab support. 2. Like firefox, it doesn't play with dark desktop themes, you end up with text areas with black text on
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by flukus 7y ago
> That means the number of senior engineers will be increasing very rapidly over the next 5 years. In my local job market I've seen this acting like a wave carrying people with the right number of years, jobs that once asked for 5 y
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by flukus 7y ago
IME people choose weak passwords because they need to be able to remember them and technical people seem to forget this. If they're complicated or too long then the forgotten password option becomes how they log into things, making the
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by flukus 7y ago
I wonder how much of the TV problem comes down to the plague of audio engineers creating tracks that you have to turn the volume up on to hear the quite parts? I always need to have my TV at a higher volume than necessary to deal with this.

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