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by fsckboy 1y ago
> the [hanging on the line] tactic is motivated by the knowledge that most customer service systems will put people who opt for call-backs in a lower priority queue Are large brand names that are assuring callers that opting for callbac
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by fsckboy 1y ago
(I wish non-Americans wouldn't spend all their time tripping over themselves to try to insult Americans. If you didn't feel so insecure about yourselves and resentful of the success of others, you wouldn't feel such a need to
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I parsed this entirety as a single noun cluster: "the old guard of free speech and privacy activists on the internet" and to me that can be summed up as "the EFF", and the EFF is decidedly left whinge, and does not attra
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I've never understood the steelcut trend. I don't dislike them, but I just love me a rolled oat, plain, it's more flavorful to me. It is difficult to find good rolled oats that are "old fashioned" and not "quic
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by fsckboy 1y ago
"Police police police police police police police." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
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by fsckboy 1y ago
Cato Institute is big L Libertarian, not classic conservative
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> the old guard of free speech and privacy activists on the internet has long gone, drowned by a sea of unprincipled populist reactionaries which is an unnecessary ideological divide if your concern is free speech and privacy; too bad t
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Especially in the current political climate I hope I do not have to explain how undesirable and dangerous that is. this is not the way to make a point that the other party will find persuasive.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> One reason was that having large stores of transportable food made you a sitting duck for your neighbors wanting to come and help themselves. the socialist impulse is still alive and well in the Americas!
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by fsckboy 1y ago
correct, and virtually all programs get killed. so what is this program doing that seems to uncover the bug? "shouldn't" hides the flaw in your thinking, it is happening, that's the bug, so shouldn't is out the wind
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by fsckboy 1y ago
even if it's an OS or kill bug, most processes do reliably get killed with -9 so it's something that this program is doing is where to look/how to reproduce.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
if somebody wants a "C lang/linux level" bug/puzzle to figure out (could be as simple as looking at the source), I just discovered it a couple days ago: if you use a large number to set up a board in untangle, the algo i
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I got really good at the spatial reasoning a few years ago (not perfect though) but now I can't remember any of that and I'm back to n00b again
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by fsckboy 1y ago
not exactly the same, the ux cleanup has dumbed some of them down a bit I play the original untangle on 600 or higher, that "friendly" UI doesn't allow that I play the original Dominosa 6-extreme but friendly doesn't off
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i only play Net (largest size or bigger, wrapping) using the locks; I disconnect the surrounding pipes from the center so nothing is lit up, and then start locking squares based on their surroundings. some of them I can't even solve. I
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by fsckboy 1y ago
that's not a glamour shot, that's just a sunny day. the dirty little secret of the southern california coast is it is cloudy more than half the time. west la, downright depressing. they call it "the marine layer", i call
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> There is no other input than the touch screen, so I can shoot and nothing more, but hey, it runs DOOM! hook Doom up to the internal nav, then you can ride your bike around and shoot. "I know you love riding your bike, and I know
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> any span with the same start and end point must have length zero "a year" is not a point, it's a span. so is a decade. > Decade 1 is year(s) 10 through 19 but the property you are trying to describe goes hand in han
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Consider "200". Is this the year 200? Is this the 200th day of the current year? Surprise, in ISO 8601 it’s neither — it’s a decade, spanning from the year 2000 to the year 2010. And "20" is the century from the yea
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I believe they feel it is better for the gay community to have more out people, there is strength in numbers and perception of normality; people pretending not to be gay are making gay seem more unusual.
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Time Magazine 100 Best Podcasts of All Time(time.com)
5 points by fsckboy 1y ago|8 comments
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by fsckboy 1y ago
mothers are more than twice as likely as fathers to kill their children. and the same is true for child abuse and neglect. humans in general act like psychos, the danger comes more from the size differential than propensity to act like a je
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Don't like porn? Don't buy it. Simple as that. don't like porn? run a for-pay pornsite, bleeding revenue from the other porn sites, which you will spend fighting porn; also, you'll have better targeted customer lis
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by fsckboy 1y ago
you want to do something people really think is hard? use C. it's not safe. all the people who say C is not safe have downvoted me for quoting them
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by fsckboy 1y ago
MIT "units" of class divided by 3 = other American university credits. 3, 4, and 5 credits would be 9, 12 and 15 units; generally 15 units includes lab time, although there are more or less pure lab classes too. credits are hours
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by fsckboy 1y ago
they climbed on the last car of the first train i ran down the platform and, without any other waiting, climbed on the first car of the next train they got off the last car of the first train and started to walk in the same direction as the
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Many passengers are irrational about forcing their way onto already overcrowded trains. the train that leaves first gets there first ---- although, entering a station once with a friend, we ran for an arriving subway train with a frie
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by fsckboy 1y ago
peter thiel wasn't harassed, he was outed. within the gay community there have been plenty in favor of outing.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
a zillion comments here and it's not mentioned yet: packages are installed as root/admin with elevated privilege packages are run as ordinarly lusers this is why curl|bash is a more dangerous thing to do. traditionally, the people
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I'm not arguing in favor of "searing is sealing", but that whole article is trash imho. I can see flaws in every empirical test he sets up. (ok, not every one, i quit reading in horror after I read a few) cauterizing a wound,

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