greymeister

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by greymeister 8y ago
So make a bakery and decide who you'll make cakes for? I don't think that businesses should operate under such simplistic standards.
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by greymeister 8y ago
Society needs to pick a side. Do we want large private companies acting as the arbiters of public discourse?
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by greymeister 8y ago
Just want to add that https://pi-hole.net/ or something similar is a nice way to block at least DNS based traffic from this malware.
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by greymeister 8y ago
I was very disappointed when I realized this wasn't the study of giant Chinese babies.
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by greymeister 8y ago
Through a great number of sacrifices and many different weapons, all resisted pacification to varying degrees by a much better armed government. Being able to purchase the weapons individually is irrelevant to the idea of asymmetrical resi
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by greymeister 8y ago
Isn't it strange how in places like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, people don't just give up with those same odds?
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by greymeister 8y ago
> 2. Encourage everyone to participate equally ... > Your opinion is as valuable as your education, so if you have not educated yourself, your opinion is not valuable. Some people participate more equally than others I guess.
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by greymeister 8y ago
Then we should take their full body scanners and give them spoons.
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by greymeister 8y ago
It's like SAP. They deliver tools that adapt to your business model, as long as you adapt your business model to do everything the way it works in SAP.
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by greymeister 8y ago
The giant header that fills the first page, forcing a scroll into content, is right up there with unskippable flash intro videos from 10 years ago.
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by greymeister 8y ago
MATE does exactly what I need it to do without getting in the way, one thing GNOME 3 and Unity could never claim to do.
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by greymeister 8y ago
Optimistically I'd like to think you can but there's always more to be made if you're not.
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by greymeister 8y ago
I sort of wish my CS grad school had just been studying those books versus some of the stuff I did cover.
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by greymeister 8y ago
I think that's why having one company/group/government trying to filter that correctly for everyone as a bad solution. Different groups will have different standards, and a "one-size-fits-worst" solution seems inev
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by greymeister 8y ago
Working towards a better future sounds like an admirable goal, but that's ad-speak on top of actual goals of the innovation, which is more profitable retail. I don't personally think a robot grocery store is something I'm int
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by greymeister 8y ago
My current experience with just about any cashierless option at a grocery or department store is far from a minor convenience, it's almost entirely an inconvenience. I now get to do what I did over 20 years ago and bag groceries, exce
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by greymeister 8y ago
Browsing the featured added by SQL standards on Wikipedia: SQL:2003 added XML functions SQL:2006 more XML! SQL:2008 XQuery! SQL:2016 JSON! My guess it's not so much "willy-nilly" but more a sign of "what was popular.&quo
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by greymeister 8y ago
I assemble by just glancing over the pictures, but that's also how I ended up with a bookshelf where the bottom shelf is facing the wrong direction!
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by greymeister 9y ago
"You can't kill something that wants to be alive humanely" That's your own personal opinion. I'm not going to argue with that, but there's objective differences between how cattle are slaughtered and how matad
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by greymeister 9y ago
Learning how to host midis and then <object embed autoplay=true> was literally magic to 9th grade me.
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by greymeister 9y ago
I agree, or at the very minimum it seems like you'd need to fork every repo you wanted to use as a dependency that way.
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by greymeister 9y ago
Tumblr took the other path in allowing you to customize your own user experience, it certainly comes with a trade-off.
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by greymeister 9y ago
I always used skins in Winamp/XMMS, but I'm immediately filled with nostalgia upon seeing the default skin. I wonder if people who came to use computers in the last decade will experience the sort of enjoyment I got out of custom
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by greymeister 9y ago
I'd imagine the huge variety of nude/sex mods in almost every video game ever made, or the idea of rule34 in general, seems to indicate it is anything but fringe.
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by greymeister 9y ago
It's telling that other replies to this were a (justifiable) critique of the voat community. Another example of an effect of giant centralized communities (social networks) dominating online discussion. When one of them decides some
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by greymeister 9y ago
"Taming the Mammoth"* was probably one of the most liberating things I've read on this subject. * https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-op...
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by greymeister 9y ago
When the courier service has switched from Fedex to OnTrac, my previous experience of 2 days or less went to 3 days minimum with the occasional "Whoops we gave it to the wrong person" thrown in for good measure.
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by greymeister 9y ago
We had an application specific reason we needed to use them instead of numerics and used this method which helps somewhat: https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/19/store-uuid-optimized...
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by greymeister 9y ago
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
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by greymeister 9y ago
I use Amazon services even though I would never want to work there. Companies can be very pro-consumer while having poor practices with their employees.

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