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by harry8 3mo ago
You yourself are on drugs if you think Lance Armstrong "created the situation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France#D... Note the quantity that actually got caught and with enough evide
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by harry8 4mo ago
Google's entire "do no evil" bring your own identity to the job and all of that was pure marketing to hire better engineering talent. Instead of monetising software sales, they monetised access to Free software performing an
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by harry8 4mo ago
>Saying "these two things are similar except one can be useful and one can't" is not a great comparison. Launching a nuclear war is an interesting definition of "useful", not one I'd agree with and that exac
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by harry8 4mo ago
When I started I learnt something about coding from VBA macros to automate excel. Often that started with the macro recorder. Then you worked out what that "recorded" code/sludge did, removed the crud you didn't need or
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by harry8 4mo ago
My 2005 saab
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by harry8 4mo ago
“ the original 2023 end-of-support page had been re-dated and rewritten on Microsoft's site; the "continue to function" clause was removed” You sound like a shill trying to muddy the waters. It’s petty clear when they silentl
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by harry8 4mo ago
But they’ve got you. Nobody uses Microsoft office turdware unless they’re locked in and have to. You lose access to it. You’re cooked.
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by harry8 4mo ago
Lan? Still awesome. For my kids' parties I have 3x OG xboxes. Each has 4 controllers. Plug them into a router. 12 player lan. Halo, Nascar, (6 player) crimson skies, mechassult. https://www.teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Xbo
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by harry8 4mo ago
It’s fine looking car. It isn’t a fine looking Ferrari or even close.
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by harry8 5mo ago
Ok, after 5 days I think we can safley describe Pete as a muppet given the total inability of anyone to describe a meaningful difference between member function and method either dfinitionally or in understanding by a desired audience. (Ar
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by harry8 5mo ago
not "get", build it with an esp32 & Tasmota (or whatever). https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010326236256.html
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by harry8 5mo ago
Would Pete get made fun of if he couldn't explain the difference between a member function and a method and why this distinction matters in C++ more than using the term understood everywhere else? Go Pete!
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by harry8 5mo ago
So the first waymo to get to this less used road to john’s will not have the data rather than every waymo that travels down a new highway, that then becomes a problem if it rains. One car with an issue of first coincides with rain on a less
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by harry8 5mo ago
That website is absolutely appalling on mobile.
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by harry8 5mo ago
Your reading has serious issues. “Something you know will NOT work” Is what is written right on the page. You quote it without the “not” wTH? Kernel mods won’t work much longer if they still work at all. Gotta find something else. What? Let
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by harry8 5mo ago
Comprehension issue. "Quotes" of something not said directly that you are quoting is always bad. Quotes containing a summary that is entirely false are even worse. Don't do that. You can try to deal with cheating as chess.com
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by harry8 5mo ago
could palantir consulting be replaced by LLM in the hands of a half competent hacker?
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by harry8 5mo ago
and will have to do something along those lines for online play.
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by harry8 5mo ago
This a new and exciting use of the word "solved." I don't think I'm completely comfortable with it, possibly due to being raised on a diet of anti-soviet propaganda that spoke of such thing as "freedom" "j
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by harry8 5mo ago
The status quo's days are numbered. Online chess shows how. An AI will play these games like a human but better. The AI can be totally separate from the windows box wearing anti-cheat ankle bracelets just as your brain a separate thing
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by harry8 7mo ago
Quite.
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by harry8 7mo ago
The two gratest environmentalist presidents ever are George Bush Jnr who has now been bested by Donald Trump. There is no world in which (so called sensible) environmental policy could have done as much for the environment as going to war t
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by harry8 7mo ago
1910 The UK is the biggest, most powerful empire the world has ever seen. 1950 The UK is not that or anything like it. Today. Does anyone really care much about what the UK says or does on the world stage? Ordinary British are better off no
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by harry8 7mo ago
Very far from exhaustive.
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by harry8 7mo ago
Did it work out better for North Korea or Iran?
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by harry8 7mo ago
Google is guilty
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by harry8 7mo ago
The error here is not understanding the data being transformed. You won't get it right either way if you don't /know/ how big n is going to be. If you can't know, why not? Should you even be coding this at all? Mayb
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by harry8 7mo ago
Democracy depends on a secret ballot. Start there. Then move on to the fact that not every govt employee is honest. Some will be involved in organised crime. What about your family do you not want organised crime to know? Do you trust every
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by harry8 7mo ago
If you think the benefit of privacy to society and individuals is limited to activists, jounrnalists and providing them cover you might have missed the point yourself. The sheer number of distinct benefits flowing from privacy make the &quo
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by harry8 7mo ago
The misguided who say they don’t need privacy suddenly have a dense memory of the thousands of times they’ve turned the lock on a bathroom door and consider the idea of deficating in full view as an alternative. The meaning is to highlight

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