justin66

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by justin66 1y ago
Perhaps my impression was colored by the US government actually having a clear picture of what was about to happen. I won't defend Europe too much. It seems to me like Poland, the Nordics and the Baltics see Russia pretty clearly, but
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by justin66 1y ago
I'd forgotten about Zelensky's prewar media strategy. Whoops. Regarding Russia: did the strange televised meeting of Putin's war cabinet (whatever it would be called), wherein everyone went around the room and voted "yes
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by justin66 1y ago
You're not misremembering. The US government warned everyone the invasion was really going to happen, the Ukrainian government warned everyone the invasion was really going to happen, and the Russian government warned everyone the inva
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Doge Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock That Could Benefit(propublica.org)
13 points by justin66 1y ago|0 comments
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Corporate America Owes the Rest of Us $87T(bloomberg.com)
13 points by justin66 1y ago|1 comments
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by justin66 1y ago
I believe they prefer the term “pro-business.”
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by justin66 1y ago
This notion that open source projects aren't really open source unless they welcome all contributions is one of the dumber ideas in the world.
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by justin66 1y ago
> I think big data files should be handled in a db rather than in a spreadsheet. Your side lost completely. Pop a signal flare or build a bonfire, maybe someone can rescue you from the island you've been living on since the war end
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by justin66 1y ago
My impression is that unloading this debt has been an ongoing process and this just happens to be when the process ended.
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Wall Street banks rid themselves of Elon Musk's X debt(finance.yahoo.com)
8 points by justin66 1y ago|2 comments
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by justin66 1y ago
> I'm drinking coffee right now, that's probably offensive to them in some way A real student of American culture would know that it's only truly offensive if it's a latte. (I can't explain why)
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by justin66 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but your comments do not suggest that the end result of this engineering cannot be very simple, elegant, and hopefully even inexpensive if built at scale. Instead, they suggest that the team who builds it needs
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by justin66 2y ago
What they were doing appeared to be well regarded. They could have brought in other funders rather than closing. But yes, it wasn't about the money, I'm sure.
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by justin66 2y ago
> exquisite control over power quality So a... 16 bit microcontroller?
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by justin66 2y ago
Hey, it's not arbitrary. They know how to interpret the secret meaning of your tattoos.
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by justin66 2y ago
> Obstructive of something destructive allows it to keep existing. Right, but with whose money?
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by justin66 2y ago
> Comply but leak the truth to the media. Doesn't apply, everybody knows what's going on already. > Comply in a maximally obstructive way. Doesn't apply, the whole point is that the executive wants to obstruct things,
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by justin66 2y ago
That's all true, but these machines often run java code. That's something to contemplate.
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by justin66 2y ago
Very impressive work regardless. Keep it up :)
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by justin66 2y ago
Yeah, that's perfectly fair. I raised my question because it occurred to me this kind of sells the operating system short. In other words: even DOS could run Doom (with some help with a memory extender I guess, which is a technology we
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by justin66 2y ago
> Whether it's paid or not is irrelevant When someone contemplates the wisdom of an entrepreneur who says he’s going to work until he dies, they’re not worried he might volunteer too much.
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by justin66 2y ago
Why is running doom one of your milestones, given that doom will run fine on bare metal?
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by justin66 2y ago
> Somebody who holds both leftist or collectivist political beliefs and hopes for privacy is contradicting oneself. I believe that's the core obviously wrong idea we're not going to agree about.
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by justin66 2y ago
Perhaps these particular leftists want what they say they want, rather than what you've been led to believe they want.
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by justin66 2y ago
It's well known that alcoholism can be a direct cause of dementia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakoff_syndrome
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by justin66 2y ago
[X has been born] posts would be a lot more difficult. Hard to know if the babies are going to do anything noteworthy ahead of time.
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by justin66 2y ago
> This might work for you, but in general the amount of bugs is proportional to the amount of code. If you wanted to look for cases which serve as an exception to this rule, code relying on regexes would be an excellent place to start.
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by justin66 2y ago
> It's just a well-known example of a book that most people would agree to restrict. That's just completely wrong. In America it's a book most libraries would keep around as a visible indicator that they're not censor
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by justin66 2y ago
I peeked at your profile and, well, do you know about OhioLINK? I think maybe you're holding it wrong. The last time I grabbed something rare via OhioLINK it was a twenty year old instructor's manual that accompanies a calculus te
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by justin66 2y ago
> When I need an inter-library loan of a hard-to-find book, they say they can't do it since the Amazon price of the book is over $1,000. That's extremely odd. My experience is that libraries will sometimes exclude their particu

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