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by glonq 3y ago
Back when I toiled in trenches as an embedded systems developer, I always dreamed of being able to use a "big, proper" OS like QNX instead of whatever clumsy, barely-better-than-bare-metal RTOS I was using at the time. I remember
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by glonq 3y ago
yeah i also presumed that it was different locations, like geoguessr
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by glonq 3y ago
The prevalence of browser fingerprinting really breaks the deal for me with VPN's. There's less value in hiding your IP and location if advertisers and websites can still uniquely identify you.
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by glonq 3y ago
> Choosing not to drink or do drugs (or whatever) is a-okay. It should be. But people tend to get real defensive around teetotalers, maybe because many of them are judgy and preachy because they don't drink for religious reasons. I
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by glonq 3y ago
I have not ever been drunk. I grew up in a small white trash family who lived on an indian reservation. So I had front-row seats to all of the spectacular consequences of alcohol overindulgence, both in my own family and in my community. Y
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by glonq 3y ago
Have you actually visited the McMansion Hell website? It is literally the exact opposite of what you are describing. It's looking down on people with >million-dollar, ten-thousand square foot homes that are also designed and decora
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by glonq 3y ago
Certainly not until I see a business plan that includes NFT and LLM. /s
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by glonq 3y ago
The British seem to have a well-established culture of "taking the piss" out of one's superiors, whereas the US seems to have zero tolerance for biting the hands of the corporate overlords who feed us. I'm saying that as
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by glonq 3y ago
I immensely enjoy McMansion Hell! Kate Wagner does a fanastic job of distilling the history and language and sensibilities of architecture down into something that anybody can appreciate. And quite the opposite of snobbish, she presents her
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by glonq 3y ago
don't we all?
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by glonq 3y ago
> I often wished universities ... would use a scoresheet-like "matrix of oppression" Be careful what you wish for. Like most well-intentioned ideas, this would become terribly exploited/gamified.
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by glonq 3y ago
One of the reasons why I don't drink is that I like being me . Specifically... - I like who I am when I'm sober, and don't expect that I would like 'drunk me'. - I like being in full control over what I experience
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by glonq 3y ago
Now that I'm weaning myself off of reddit, my favorite "toilet reading" is news.google.com But since I'm in Canada, I suppose I'll go back to RSS or maybe AP news.
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by glonq 3y ago
Yeah, it's also cryptocurrency and NFT's /s
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> Surely news publications benefit more from Google/Facebook providing links to their content? To paraphrase a great Canadian -- Yes they probably do. And don't call me Shirley.
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by glonq 3y ago
thx. me too!
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by glonq 3y ago
I'm not sure that I even beleive in "Big Aspartame". The patents have expired, so there are dozens of companies who manufacture it globally. I doubt that they all meet at their global secret cabal hideout to align their pla
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by glonq 3y ago
I will argue against your first point ;) ...but otherwise pretty much agree. I learned LISP in college, way back when expert systems were the future of AI. The worst thing that I could probaby do professionally is to write something in LISP
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by glonq 3y ago
A few of the conspiracy nutters that I know firmly beleive that "Big Aspartame" is responsible for suppressing information about its dire negative effects. But when you consider: - how many doctors and scientists are personally&#x
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by glonq 3y ago
fun! i stopped at 'today's wordle answer' since i don't know (or care) about such things.
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by glonq 3y ago
In my experience, a good way to piss off a Turk is to suggest that their country borrowed or stole anything from Greek language, food, art, or culture!
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by glonq 3y ago
Hmm, I'm 51 next week and those multi-millions aren't quite in my grasp yet. But I live happy and comfy, which is great considering that many people don't/can't. We were truly never rags to proper riches , but...
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by glonq 3y ago
Ditto on spending more time on HN, which is great for [semi-]serious discussions but not so great for bass guitar tabs and zelda totk autobuild recipes and japan travel advice. When I search Lemmy, I see depressingly meager results like com
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by glonq 3y ago
I have a friend who strongly gravitates towards non-traditional solutions for every health & medical problem. Upon hearing that I had developed cancer, she whipped up a batch of turmeric-infused notions and potions for me, which I appre
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by glonq 3y ago
I'm only one person, but I'm currently on week 3 of abstaining from visiting reddit. I'm giving Lemmy a shot right now. It's tough for me to find the same quantity and quality of engaging communities, but hopefully tha
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by glonq 3y ago
because something something technology indistinguishable from magic
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by glonq 3y ago
Thank you. I am thoroughly done with working and would love to collect shells on the beach for the rest of my life ;)
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by glonq 3y ago
On a related note, can anybody recommend a effective, portable, lightweight, open/free app for diffing and patching artibrary binary files (not just executables) ? My long-time fave is JojoDiff https://jojodiff.sourceforge.n
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by glonq 3y ago
Not "nowadays" in the sense that things were only rosy and great "in the old days". Rather, this kind of thing seems to ebb and flow a bit. And right now it smells like low tide.
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As regressive as " don't ask; don't tell " sounds, I pretty much agree. Unless it is somehow very relevant to the project, I just don't want to know about anybody's race, gender, genitals, or politics. All tho

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