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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy Arpanet: How a military project gutted personal privacy, destabilized self esteem and strangled attention spans
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by fsckboy 1y ago
the only difference between what you wrote and what I wrote is that I distilled it down to one sentence so I could move on to make a point about something else; we can't write a treatise about the cheese industry and grocery distributi
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by fsckboy 1y ago
depends how quickly the "conversions" or "expressions" of syntax can be altered, and how each of us likes to work. when we load code into an editor, we get colored syntax highlighting that's done on the fly accordin
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i've coded a lot of perl, and i hate "there's more than one way to do it". not that there is more than one way, but the idea that it's a good idea. when there is only one way to do it, then you and i will write iden
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I wish we could get away from putting syntax and naming betweeen us and languages. io.write is really annoying to me. rw.read and rw.write makes much more sense, or io.in io.out. io.writeInt writes an int as what, ascii/unicode, or bin
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by fsckboy 1y ago
europeans are not purists about cheese, europe has the same "supermarket brands" of cheese that the US does. It's a marketing move for the quality producers of regional cheese varieties to protect their market by proclaiming
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by fsckboy 1y ago
pizza got bigger (than in Italy) first in America, and that started to happen well before the actual Fascists. So, no, pizza standards are not a nostalgic defense against contamination. French winemakers started defending their region names
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by fsckboy 1y ago
the italians have plenty of flat breads with condiments (try foccacia), and they are not pizza. those italians don't say "hey, we invented that too", nor should anybody else. we all agree what pizza means at least till the po
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by fsckboy 1y ago
yes, but to be fair, for an english speaker, en masse is pronounced more like "on mass" than like "en mass". to be more french, say "awning" but lose the entire "-ning" part, and then "mass&quo
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Excellence in anything is a byproduct of having fun absolutely not. fun is a byproduct of excellence. do people like playing the piano well? yes. do beginners like taking piano lessons and practicing in between? no. prodigies can enjo
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by fsckboy 1y ago
the internet needs micropayments (probably millipayments). if crawlers want to pay me a penny a page, crawl me 24-7 plz if I am willing to pay a penny a page, i and the people like me won't have to put up with clickwrap nonsense free a
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by fsckboy 1y ago
the 2nd game, click the prime numbers, my second board had only a 1 as a potential candidate, and 1 is not considered prime. the other numbers were all composites and I was awarded a big fat zero for knowing all this. (I went back in and th
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by fsckboy 1y ago
"vibe coding" is also a Corolla of programming, the Adam Corolla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNMrQUF6Fvc
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by fsckboy 1y ago
wget will pick up a dl where it left off. i know that "pick up where you left off" capability has been built into HTTP since the mid '90s if not right from scratch i used to use that feature to run several downloads from seve
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> using artificial light as a proxy for economic growth is [irrational] it's interesting you pick on this detail. I'm of a mind that "not free" govts control information so carefully and lie about their statistics so
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by fsckboy 1y ago
if the job goals entail lots of coding to get the code out the door, that's a live coding test, or it's falling behind with your coworkers annoyed with you. if you find that stressful, you definitely won't like the job. the i
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by fsckboy 1y ago
do the Olympics measure stress, not athletic skills? when your muscles reach their limit, they let you know with unpleasant sensations. when your brain reaches its limits, it also lets you know. these are the unpleasant feelings of being te
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Invisible if you don't look, but it's there when you need it. so, like a white picket fence vs an invisible fence™ for your dog: white picket fence (not to mention two kids) is so unsightly people would never use it as a met
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers it's not a new phenomenon, most people who bought the farm do not follow through and till that land... ok ok, i'll stop. to people who are not native speakers of US English, &qu
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by fsckboy 1y ago
not attacking your thinking, but the terms "capitalism" and "free market" aren't consistently well enough defined to capture the nuances of what this type discussion requires. At a minimum, capitalism is the right&#
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Our thesis was that cloud computing was the future of all computing just want to give a shout out to my old boss from the mid 80's who had researched it (mgt consultant) and told me at that time that cloud computing was the futur
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by fsckboy 1y ago
the Baumol effect isn't an effect, it just describes a narrow case of the Substitution Effect. Price of beef goes up, you substitute pork and chicken, and those prices go up. You may think of yourself as a Computer Programmer but if Di
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> o the 200k base SWE x 2 family can afford the 2x jacked up prices you are talking about housing in a high income area and of course those prices are going to be higher, it would start out shocking if they weren't, and quickly sta
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> I love fireflies. But in recent years, they stopped coming for reasons I don’t know. there were fireflies all over in my childhood, we played with them all the time. but I hadn't seen them in decades. Then one summer there there
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I was writing what wikipedia says. What about what wikipedia says are you disputing?
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> The Gaza Strip is, as far as I know, the only place in the world whose fishermen can't fish in the full extent of its territorial waters. well, you're leaving out the UK wrt French fisherman invading, thus depriving them of
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by fsckboy 1y ago
there are plenty of pure "Israelis bad" comments, not downvoted. Can you point me to a "Palestinians bad" comment that's not downvoted? I don't mean this as part of the debate, I would just enjoy reading it, do
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> The truly sad part is that regardless of the validity of the study the truly sad part to me is that you could/would have written this before this study. I don't believe that you have evaluated the validity of this study yet,
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> To assess the association between cumulative aluminum exposure from early childhood vaccination and risk for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, and neurodevelopmental disorders. from what I understand about the skepticism toward adjuvant
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by fsckboy 1y ago
it isn't a flamewar, it's one side flaming and flaming. allowing them to do that once a month while stopping them from injecting it everywhere all the time might be a good policy, but I don't get a sense I'm hearing both

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