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by hoopd 11y ago
I suppose I'll get labled an MRA for this but I've found feminists to be the absolutely least supportive people in my life over the past X years. When somebody has an ideological belief that you're luckier than they are it&#x
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by hoopd 11y ago
Yes, I can handle working at a company where I think the CEO is a piece of crap because to me that's part of being an adult. I've worked with people who endured things like metal holding their bones together because the people who
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by hoopd 11y ago
My edit's not showing up on my other post, sorry for double-replying. > ....The pichforks didn't truly come out until the number of his non-answers on the issue. Someone saying "we support diversity" doesn't soun
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by hoopd 11y ago
> The question is actually "Is it appropriate for someone who takes active steps to treat some people as undeserving of basic rights[1] to take the ultimate leadership role in a diversity focused company?" First, it's not
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by hoopd 11y ago
There's nothing in Mozilla's mission statement[0][1] incompatible with Eich's personal beliefs. > You personally, the guy typing the letters into this box, what do you think the outcome of such a "negotiation" wo
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by hoopd 11y ago
Well allow me to extend thanks to you and everybody like you for damaging a very important Open Source project at a very important time. I understand it would have been difficult to sit down at the negotiation table with Eich and set an exa
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by hoopd 11y ago
You know, I'm sick of people making such a big deal just becasue Mozilla lost its CEO in such an awful way that he didn't even return to his CTO role. Just because he literally wrote JavaScript, co-founded Mozilla and worked on Fi
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by hoopd 11y ago
Oh I was being a little tangential and pointing out that changing packages on Stable to an extent defeats the purpose of it. I just hope they don't start releasing PPAs that'll help people achieve worst-of-both-worlds systems that
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by hoopd 11y ago
Just a note for the uninitiated: when you pin from Stable you just gave up the guarantees that may have been the reason you were on Stable in the first place. This is an area where RTFM is in order: "WARNING: Use of apt-pinning by a n
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by hoopd 11y ago
That's still bundling something fragile with infrastructure that carries heavy machinery. Transporting electricity is a solved problem, we can put a solar farm in the middle of nowhere with current technology. And if we're looki
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by hoopd 11y ago
No, the implication is that men are only valued based on their productivity and as such don't get to complain because nobody cares.
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Point granted, we use asphalt because it's a cheap and I should know better. I would still expect it to last longer than wildly complicated solar panel/computer/light displays that have many more modes of failure. For this t
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by hoopd 11y ago
Materials scientists do fascinating things with glass, but making it competitive with rocks for road surfaces seems like a waste of effort. Personally I think Elon Musk's solutions for this problem (decentralized clean power generation
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Durability, not strength. Asphalt is very durable and it fails in predictable ways, it's difficult to design glass that fails gracefully. Yes, it's a surmountable engineering challenge but this project has more than it's fa
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by hoopd 11y ago
Logistically speaking, there's a nightmarish level of complexity introduced here. Put a country's food distribution network on top of its energy production system? Put solar cells where you know they'll be constantly driven
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by hoopd 11y ago
Really? On their website[0] they claim their glass surface doesn't require snow removal because the heating elements melt it and as such asphalt roads have a cost of snow removal that apparently comes for free with these. However, i
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by hoopd 11y ago
Look at what blew up in the early 90's: grunge and rap, they were cheaper forms of the 80's rock and R&B that came before them. Rap probably wouldn't have happened without the 808 and samplers, and wikipedia puts the fir
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by hoopd 11y ago
In 1991, around one of their "revolutions" the ADAT was released[0]: "While synchronization had been available in earlier machines, ADAT machines were the first to do so with sample-accurate timing - which in effect allowed