hyggetrold

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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> In Myanmar, both monks and laypersons twisted the faith into a shield for ethnic violence, targeting the Rohingya minority under the guise of protecting Buddhism from an “Islamic threat.” Driven by historical grievances, xenophobic my
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
In retrospect, it seems like it was a bad idea for Western countries to assume that things were going to remain peaceful after the fall of the USSR. Glad to see the threat of war being taken seriously.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
I'm down with Blind Guardian, they're fun!
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> Modern metal is amazing compared to the stuff from the 90s though. I know what you mean but Metallica, Pantera, and Emperor (black metal) are still all-time classic staples in my discography.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Solid selection - I respectfully submit "Hypersleep" as another classic 90s DnB tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrR82XLCKq8
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
This is awesome. Cool to see the history told this way. I would also encourage folks to seek out photos/footage of the concentration camps in Europe as well as the aftermath of the atomic bombings in Japan. When you see the unsanitized
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm) "I will work harder!"
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
My prediction is that C will still be in active use 100 years from now.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
The first link you put gives me a security warning so I didn't click through. But the medium article would suggest that this is the one!
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
I can't remember the name of it, but over a decade ago I saw something like this - it was a single Linux server shared by (I think) hundreds of people. Really trying to do the multi-user paradigm. They advertised it as a private kind o
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
If I have to, I have to - if it's going to persist for days, I don't want that noise.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Email filters me son.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
+1 to this - what Europeans consider "the basics" for most Americans is filed under "luxury" or "bougie."
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
This is all I ever had heard about Tata consulting as well so I have to say it's been an education seeing how sad everyone is to see Ratan Tata pass away. It does make a kind of sense to me now though - if Ratan Tata's goal was to
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Movie theater is an interesting analogy because they make zero money on ticket sales. Usually ticket revenue pays for the cost of the movie (theaters pay the studio for the movie). The way the theaters make money is on concessions, hence wh
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
I'm a little about myself that I understood this plus the deep cuts. Well done.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> In some places USPS is unreliable I can live with USPS but what made me actually cancel my Prime account was their use of On-Trac shipping in California. They literally missed every single time and had to come back the next day.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
It's a funny expression and it is rooted in advertising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Perdue
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Television delivers people (1973) [video](youtube.com)
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> Remember: The powers that be forbid progress, as progress might disrupt the powers that be. Mostly agree but would amend - what is actually forbidden is change. And since all progress involves change...you can fill out the rest.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> You can absolutely start a company and make lots of money without compromising your values. Here's the thing though, and I say this from personal experience...if you're willing to compromise your values...you can make a sh
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> I wonder how Meta employees can keep a straight face lying their faces off. Did you see that Social Dilemma documentary? People only find their conscience after they've checked a big bankroll. I've been in tech for almost
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Notice how there's a very consistent winner in all this :)
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> some people even deny it happened at all. In my experience it's one of those slippery slope things. I've had friends over the years tell me that yes, they believe people eventually went to the moon, but they know that the
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> “The refusal of the U.S. Copyright Office to recognize human authorship in AI-assisted creations highlights a critical issue in modern intellectual property law. As AI continues to evolve, it is imperative that our legal frameworks ad
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Would have loved to see the author include a section on Extreme Programming.
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
Yep, that's a technique in photography - common for portraits.
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North Platte Canteen(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
IMHO AI tools will (or at least should!) fundamentally change the way the education system works. AI tools are - from a certain point of view - really just a scaled version of AI now can put at our fingertips. Paradoxically, the more AI can
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by hyggetrold 2y ago
> The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. This has nearly always been true. "Manufacturing consent"

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