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by ilammy 4y ago
> Incidentally, the "many centuries ago" framing is revealing of a general attitude I've noticed from Americans They don’t say “in Europe 100 miles is a long way, in America 100 years is a long time” for nothing. 100 yea
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by ilammy 4y ago
How do you access the cloud if you lost your laptop? Or even all of your stuff burned down along with your house? How do you remember a strong passphrase after four months in hospital recovering from a cerebral trauma? Emergency emergencies
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by ilammy 4y ago
Okay, I'm interested, how did one get car fuel back then? Did people have to send one of their servants to a chemist for a mixture?
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by ilammy 4y ago
And when you live in a world with 8 billion people, that’s a lot of food to sell.
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by ilammy 4y ago
Oh, you can find opportunities. They just don’t have the RoI and scalability that hedge funds are looking for. Sometimes bigger scraps reach the ocean floor and it’s a big day in bottom feeder’s life to stumble upon one.
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by ilammy 4y ago
You heathen, how can you even suggest that the number goes down!?
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by ilammy 4y ago
It is (mathematically) possible for individual people to work fewer hours with the workstation being manned for exactly the same amount of hours. It just requires paying salary to more people and higher administrative overhead. And slowing
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by ilammy 4y ago
An apocryphal one from the Russian-speaking corner of the Internet. I thought it was in the classic Rootless Root , but turns out I misremembered and it’s a different thing. I tracked down the source if you want to read more: [1][2][3][4]
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by ilammy 4y ago
Hence single-use. Like in that koan about checking for your password on the internet. Humans gotta make up new jokes, while AIs can only rehash the one they know. At least, until AIs generalize the concept of humor, categorize 17 essential
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by ilammy 4y ago
So, jokes are effectively single-use Turing tests?
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by ilammy 4y ago
What’s with the “water spending” numbers here? It’s not like the water in shower gets “used up”. Your meter counts 50 liters, but that’s not 50 liters of precious water supply permanently removed from the planet.
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by ilammy 4y ago
This is like saying that continuously surveilling people when they are outside of their private property and live-reporting it to the internet is not a huge ethical issue. For you are always at risk of being seen when in public and the rest
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by ilammy 4y ago
You don’t need to lower the limit. Just wait for inflation to do its thing. No new legislation or public debate necessary.
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by ilammy 4y ago
> If you tax second homes, people will not buy these, not put them out for rent Which is exactly the point of the policy. If the society recognizes that private landlordship is net negative like smoking, it’s expected to be regulated o
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by ilammy 4y ago
If it’s manageable – just don’t. Build from scratch. Make sure your build works from scratch and completes in acceptable timeframe. If it’s painful, treat the root cause and not the symptoms. If it’s unbearable due to circumstances out of y
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by ilammy 4y ago
This is a lesson that I've learned after going all-out on actions once. Now my makefiles in addition to the usual "make" and "make test" also support "make prerequisites" to prepare a build environment by
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by ilammy 4y ago
You can go wherever you want. The house isn’t going anywhere, it’s still registered as yours and you still pay taxes for it, with a discount if you designate it as your primary residence.
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by ilammy 4y ago
Because who knows what’s on the list of excommunicatable offenses. Today it’s war of aggression, 40 years later on not enough diversity and inclusion could qualify, or the eagle knows what else. Hope for the best prepare for the worst.
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by ilammy 4y ago
Oh sweet child, try transferring your “dollars” out of your country first – especially into US – before you claim they are real.
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by ilammy 4y ago
Depends on your threat model. Most people protect against access by whoever stole their laptop, with Microsoft and TLAs not being considered a threat. Those who do probably don't use Windows in the first place.
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by ilammy 4y ago
TeX itself is not really complex. The implementation is fine. The hard part is the ecosystem. Any contender is going to face a daunting task of explaining why adopters should throw away 50 years of collective work of thousands of people t
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by ilammy 4y ago
> since PRs usually cover a feature or a fix for a ticket, these frequently involve doing multiple things to implement the feature or fix the bug Hence the calls to “split changes into multiple smaller PRs” you hear so often, since the
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by ilammy 4y ago
> Remind me again why the brake pedal isn't a button buried in a sub-menu? “Because title 49, subtitle B, chapter III, subchapter B, part 393, subpart C, paragraph 393.40 of Federal Safety Regulations requires us to install brakes
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by ilammy 4y ago
> I care entirely about the context of the developers mind when he committed that specific line of code. In squash workflow, the PR is the context and the unit of change. It’s shoehorned onto git only because of GitHub. In some way i
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by ilammy 4y ago
> How exactly could a TPM be required for Linux? Of course it would not be "required" required —so long as you're okay with maintaining your own distro, with forks of everything having essential TPM-based security featu
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by ilammy 4y ago
> It's really hard to track, especially on the CLI. git log --first-parent --max-parents=1 Now you don't see merge commits. Forbid merge commits with conflict resolution, and you're done.
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by ilammy 4y ago
Probably an exaggeration, but caveats apply. Say, you get paid in USD. You got paid: 10000 USD Income tax: 15% Government exchange rate: 130 ARS per 1 USD Unofficial exchange rate: 330 ARS per 1 USD Now, if you do thi
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by ilammy 4y ago
Moreover, not only you’re not counted as “unemployed” while attaining a degree — after you get your degree, you’re left with a hefty debt: a pretty nice incentive to not stay unemployed!
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by ilammy 4y ago
> How do you differentiate between "if enough people demand it on Twitter" and "if our consciences demand that we act"? Easy: for-profit organizations do not have conscience, in principle.
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by ilammy 4y ago
It's "broken" in the sense that other parts of the society depend on non-enforcement. Start enforcing it more often and the house of cards starts crumbling.

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