justin66

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by justin66 9mo ago
> Greenland is important piece of land for US security - and the US has eyed it for a long time. The US have the ability to do everything up to and including basing troops and missiles there, today, under treaty so it's unclear what
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by justin66 9mo ago
Ah thanks. That clarifies things.
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These are the languages an "average programmer" would use. What language are you thinking of?
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Merely the documentary function of small drones is a threat to the current US government - their game changing effect on the battlefield in Ukraine is (one hopes) less relevant here. Just the threat of people taking pictures of what's
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by justin66 10mo ago
> "going back to school" to learn what I already know pretty damn well already, given that I've been programming since I was 8 It's small consolation if sitting in a classroom is something you truly hate, but the guys
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by justin66 10mo ago
Oh that's bothersome, and it's too late to edit. Above sentence should begin "The Fed."
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> Do you have an alternative to the Fed? The appears to be difficult for a lot of people to like, but the Fed still exists because the people who bitch and moan about the Fed can never voice an alternative that wouldn't immediately
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by justin66 10mo ago
archive.is breaks plenty of sites or makes viewing them less pleasant.
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I read the above comment as "don't get out of the car when you're pulled over unless you're ordered to," and it's important advice. There was a time when one would get out of the car after being pulled over, wa
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They're going to find a way to accelerate the Windows start menu with it.
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> he also does not strike me as a villain like some of the modern day billionaires either With Musk, doge, and the handling of important programs like USAID, that bar has been set remarkably low.
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What's the corporate culture like at those companies?
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> China's subs will be much further out, trying to keep US strike groups far from the island I agree that's generally true and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Thinking it through, though: if Japan is party to the conflic
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by justin66 10mo ago
> Anywhere near the coast of China, a warship is within range of truck-mounted anti-ship missiles.[2] Lots of them. If there's a war over Taiwan, the Taiwan Strait will be a no-go zone for US warships. Not to mention China's at
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by justin66 10mo ago
Maybe not a great contrast there. HP and IBM entered the "shell of their former selves" stage of development at roughly the same time.
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"Where's the buy button?"
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by justin66 10mo ago
I meant 14, then. I bought my framework from the third or fourth batch that was available (going from memory), in November 2021 (going from email). Nothing premium about it at all. That’s ridiculous in my opinion, the quality is cringe in c
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“Mistakes were made.”
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by justin66 10mo ago
> most of the Wayland complaints you read are handwave-y bullshit, idk what else to say. The dislike of the product among users is certainly sincere. I feel like somewhere there is probably an author of a young adult novel with a title l
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> the keyboard and trackpad are just as good The keyboard on my framework 13 is fine but it’s got a very sketchy touchpad and that classic symptom of a modern, shitty laptop: the whole thing flexes if I pick it up by the corner, and ofte
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by justin66 10mo ago
> I think ultimately what frustrates me is that people don’t consider the ability to repair or upgrade your machine part of a “premium” experience, but that’s is just something I have to accept. I think it is unfortunate that our consume
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> In my programs, I have banned the use of loops. Rather, you no longer see what they're doing clearly.
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> These men were never intended to spend the rest of their lives at CECOT Kristi Noem indicated publicly that they should stay there "the rest of their lives." > nor did they. All were released in July 2025 to their home cou
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by justin66 10mo ago
Even calling it "deportation" is far too charitable towards what they've done. Deportation involves sending them back to their home countries or, if that's unsafe, to another country. These people were rendered to a pris
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by justin66 10mo ago
She's never been a reporter, and even in the kindest interpretation of her actions, it's starting to show.
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> Fraud is illegal and should be punished proportionally to it's effects. That's adorable.
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It can’t push a block of gridlocked traffic that cannot move because of the dead waymos present out of the way.
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by justin66 10mo ago
I don’t really follow any of this cynical humor but > otherwise Apple would already be doing it. The gap between what Apple ought to be doing, even if for no other reason than its own good, and what Apple actually does is sometimes prett
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by justin66 10mo ago
> Improving FreeBSD will make it easier to run BSD on non-apple hardware which will eat into their bottom line. The number of people who want to run FreeBSD on their laptops probably numbers in the hundreds. Not exactly a threat to Apple
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by justin66 10mo ago
There's a case for it when it comes to FreeBSD specifically, since macOS uses some code from FreeBSD.

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