fsckboy

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by fsckboy 11mo ago
in traditional times it was customary to buy a few outfits high quality clothing that would last, and wear the same clothes for a week at a time, and then really boil them clean. This is the European market. post world war 2 consumer choice
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
traditionally (in household washing machine time) US houses were large and had a lot more hot water capacity for the whole house, and putting a heater into individual appliances was not necessary/cost effective. retrofitting old tradit
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
omg thank you. my dishwasher has a prewash compartment so it's fine, but my clothes washer has a prewash step but no prewash detergent place. this elegant solution never occurred to me
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
wikipedia does not come out and say "this happened" or "the folktale was (or "must be") based on a historical event". it seems to suggest that the folktale is all the history we have, and everything else is a r
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> There is a big, transformative, difference with freely giving out books to read on a small, measured in human reading pace, scale compared with using them at a massive scale at internet and computer memory speeds to train an ML mod
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> In practice the US HQ could mandate a security update that secretly uploads all data to the US but that's a whole other can of worms that I don't think anyone is ready to open. incredibly ambiguous/unsatisfying sentence
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> why people who can jump high aren't more empathetic. There's no direct link between the two but there is a direct link! have you ever watched a Slam Dunk competition? people strive to jump the highest, and zero empathy is sh
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
the accountant who does my taxes, I don't know what software she uses, but just 3 or 4 years ago she sent me a document her computer created that had some serious font display problems. investigating what I had to do to make it right,
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
anybody know if this signals that Wayland is now good enough to replace Xwindows, or rather that the last scraps of Xwindows that I was enjoying are now gone?
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> the idea of self-replicating software was unusual floppy based viruses were well established and quite common
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
was disappointed there was no bus. and he only knows one song and it's really long.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> What you are describing holds true only if the buyer values the higher quality, which is true for coffee. what I describe holds true because I didn't fall into the trap you are trying to dig me out of. I said: the sellers profit
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> that they export the junk cheese to the US and keep the good stuff people who produce and sell stuff follow profit maximization. Colombia sells its best coffee on the export market because there it will command the highest prices. The
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
I'm being dense? dense is something I never am, though pithy I will take. here, read this, and then you try to write something equally persuasive about long variable names. I'll wait https://cgtweb1.tech.purdue.edu&#x2F
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
ideology plays little role in these conflicts, they are partially religio-ethnic but mostly about pure power, where religion and ethnicity are levers pulled to leverage power. the people seeking power would sell out their own mothers if tha
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> Use full words for variable names! that's like saying in spoken language "don't ever use pronouns, or even first or nicknames, use full given names"
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
on a discussion board? no, there is no onus of proof, because nothing is riding on it, just as you don't need proof to reject the ideas. demanding citations is the favorite trick of people who want to waste your time precisely because
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
isn't chronic undersleep associated with dementia in old age? meaning, whatever you have to do, stop doing that.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> how did we go from “update your software; don’t use chrome” to “you are pushing software monoculture and weakening internet security”? given the audience here, i think it's more likely that OP/GP is running an up to date bro
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
people demanding supporting evidence without expending any effort themselves is peak internet.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
if you specialize in looking for black swans, and you've looked for more black swans than anybody ever, and all the black swans you thought you'd found have turned out to be sooty white swans, people might be interested in reading
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
/$OPT/vendor-product-version /$PROJOPT/vendor-product-version
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creation of a database is a creative act
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> “Sweat of the brow” doesn’t magically produce copyright protection ...then you go on to make the "sweat of the brow" argument "typesetting" doesn't enter into it, "database" is meant to include the c
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
they were not informing him of an insecurity. and software monoculture is widely considered a security threat, and so by pushing software monoculture, you yourself are pushing to weaken internet security. GP should potentially be applauded
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter was the script of Last Tango in Paris part of the training data? maybe it's just scared...
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> A code is not an artistic expression and so can't be copyrightable. that was changed https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html Databases are generally protected by copyright law as compilations. Under
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Is Ireland the only country to bring in two languages, Irish/Gaelic and English? Is English an official language of any other EU countries?
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> People assume CTOs who code are either working on pet projects that never ship or doing ceremonial code reviews. people don't think that. people think CTOs who code may not be doing the leadership, managerial, or biz dev aspects
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
he didn't say it went to the Supreme Court or even any Mississippi court he said it was dismantled. teacher's unions and their political allies and pliant schoolboards are always vehemently opposed to any programs like this. somet

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