fsckboy

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by fsckboy 8mo ago
that sounds like one of the worst heuristics I've ever heard, worse than "em-dash=ai" (em-dash equals ai to the illiterate class, who don't know what they are talking about on any subject and who also don't use em-d
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
American trains are largely freight travelling long rural distances. You didn't mention it, so I presume because you didn't take it into account, so your statistics sound to me like they don't mean anything comparable.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
no, it's not hilarious, look at the comments here on HN, it's Europeans constantly lamenting, jabbing, complaining. Americans do not spend any time thinking that Canada and Europe are anything but friends; but other side of the bo
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
Realpolitik does not actually dictate that. It says you pay attention to your interests but with a focus on what is actually achievable, and not focused on things like national/regional pride or unrealistic notions of utopian good. the
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> a) everyone knows what a pen and paper look like, b) it literally says the name of the app c) Pages plays for the Dodgers aaahhh! i get it, it's a sports autographs app!
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering in general, ascii rendering is when ascii character codes are converted to pixels. if you wish to render other pixels onto a screen using characters, they are not ascii
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
well, "linux is just the kernel" eyeroll.emoji so no, you don't, but it's easiest to use a distro, and among distros it's easiest not to use an obscure distro so you can use the package managers to install a variety
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch it was many patches ago when I refused to even start my PC after Microsoft's patches (when they made it so you couldn't reject their telemetry), at least not till I had linux ins
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
> Maybe they don't know of or don't have access to... Maybe they don't know of or don't have any access to any sense of boundaries, as if they skipped the infant stage of development where they should have learned th
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
no. there are many math teachers teaching math to people who don't know the subject, basically all mathemeticians. and wikipedia has guidelines for how to serve the audience, the math articles ignore it. I (got into and) went to MIT (a
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
i don't know how many upvotes you've gotten, but it's not enough. or to put it mathematically, megadittoes!
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
there are way worse calls to violence every day on reddit! except I guess fat-shaming is also violence
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
i want to hear the joke
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
presumably they already do that (since non cutting edge chip fab is likely to be more competitive and less expensive) so, given they are already doing that, this problem refers to the cutting edge allocations which are getting scare as exem
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
the headline made me think somebody else came up with my idea. I wanted to a create a language whose name was langlang. to understand how to parse it, that would be the equivalent as a name to C, and the equivalent to clang would be langlan
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
> Let's not act like this is some case of out of context quotes. Here's the actual quote for people to decide for themselves: you quote, but you did not include the context, so your attempt not to be out of context is a fail.
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
so you're saying this was really an unclear incident?
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
> Nonsense. We don’t know what prehistoric cave painters believed. you need to study a bit more history, psychology, anthropology, etc., you have absolutely no reason to believe they thought anything different than we do today and what
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
i was replying to someone else's comment, their comment was to the article. I was not replying to the article.
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
it is your critique that does not make sense. I was not applying any hierarchy or subsetting whatsoever. Inseparable unity would be closer to the point. I was making the point that the cave painters believed everything including rocks and t
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
I use firefox with javascript mostly off (UMatrix) but when I turned it on for fonts.googleapis.com the site and sliders all seem to worke. then I turned it on for gstatic.com fonts.gstatic.com , and not sure if that changed anything else.
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
Cameras and Lenses and photography has been such a fascinating and open and do-it-yourself tinkering medium for well over a century: when are we going to get to be able to play around with what's inside iPhone, Samsung, and Pixel camer
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
> ̶P̶i̶c̶t̶u̶r̶e̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ Art has always been a meaningful part of the human experience. From the first cave drawings, to sketches and paintings, to modern photography, we’ve mastered the art of recording what we ̶s̶e̶e̶ think and
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. -- Joyce Kilmer
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
if you are moving a folder of files within a partition (hey, this was your idea) then you don't care how many or how big they are. only if you move them to a different partition would you care, but in that case as you hover over the ot
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
banning corporate ownership of other companies would dramatically decrease the value of companies that people own. it would be much more difficult to sell your company. you might have built a successful company over the course of your life,
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
> It really highlights that modern photography is just signal processing with better marketing your perception of the world is just signal processing that's susceptible to marketing
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
> we intentionally limit ourselves to a single "file", and can work with a raw block device or partition, without file system involvement those features all go together as one thing. and it's the unix way of accessing blo
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
> Which brings us to the question: what is this guy going to do with (presumably) the kernel source? it doesn't bring us to the question, but the answer to the question is, run a diff between the software that has this guys life in
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by fsckboy 9mo ago
i don't see how either of those cases applies to the FSF and GNU's attitude on library linking; in neither case were they creating a combined derivative work. if I make an ai driven viewscreen that you can stick your paperback boo

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