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by louthy 1y ago
>> Not being able to access porn without a VPN is not the definition of "authoritarian nightmare". > Linking your real identity to the ability to load text on a computer you own absolutely is. You're responding to so
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by louthy 1y ago
Yeah, it objectively is better. Because if the government is trying to do good things and they mess up in the process, then good people can change it. But if the people are bad, then they're gonna do bad regardless. One is a functio
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by louthy 1y ago
> The UK is an increasingly authoritarian nightmare. The US should start a refugee program for UK Hilarious, you literally have a president shutting down free speech by getting a talkshow taken off the air so that the owning media compan
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by louthy 1y ago
Welcome to the Cloudflare captcha on every site you visit, the internet is now broken for you.
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by louthy 1y ago
> Your analogy falls flat because they have to connect to the website, not the other way around It’s not my analogy, I’m just running with it ;) But to run with it more: connecting to the website is analogous to an order. Like a person o
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by louthy 1y ago
Whilst I appreciate your point, I'm not sure the analogy works. Your 'book' (website) is being deployed from your warehouse (web server) and you could chose to not deliver to the customer (the client web browser) based on th
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by louthy 1y ago
> The perpetrator was a second-generation African migrant He isn't a migrant. He was born in Wales. He's British. 100%. This is exactly the kind of language that starts the wheel of hatred rolling. Nobody knew anything about
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by louthy 1y ago
> it would depend on how you define extremism I don't need to, the government already has widened the definition to include white supremacists and has a list of proscribed groups. This allows Prevent (the de-radicalisation programm
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by louthy 1y ago
Just to be clear, the OP (@TacticalCoder) originally wrote this: > “People are scared of what's going on. Both criminality and religious extremism are rising at a more than alarming rate.” He then edited the comment once I called
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by louthy 1y ago
We literally had riots in the UK last year due to white supremacists. It is writ large all over social media, especially because of Elon Musk, who I assume you lionise based on your handle. Its hateful rhetoric and actual violence is on sho
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by louthy 1y ago
I moved to London in 1996 and even Notting Hill wasn’t fully gentrified then! I used to walk home from nightclubs and have no issues (early morning, empty streets, dark alleys, etc). I actually did it recently (for old time’s sake), walked
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by louthy 1y ago
Before anyone comments that the numbers are from 2020. I think the important point is the relative position of the UK to other countries (scroll down to the rankings table) Crime is “generally down” in the past 10 years according to the ONS
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Fair enough, then this caveat should still apply: “Trends in police recorded violence with and without injury should be interpreted with caution, as improvements to recording practices have had a substantial impact on the recording of viole
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by louthy 1y ago
Not sure what statista.com is, but it’s not the Office for National Statistics, here’s violent crime: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand... There’s a note: “Trends in police recorded violence
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by louthy 1y ago
:D Dalston high-street mostly. It’s insured anyway, have it: I’d never argue/fight with a mugger! Which seems to be what happened to Rolex guy: no watch is worth fighting for, just hand it over.
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by louthy 1y ago
This is far right fear-mongering rhetoric. It’s the standard hatred of ethnic minorities whipped up by bigots. The UK is not on a “dark path”, that’s absolute nonsense. Nor do people live in fear. I assume you don’t actually live in the UK.
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by louthy 1y ago
You don’t get to sidestep a country’s laws just because you happen to sit outside of the country. If you want to provide services to people within any country then you must obey their laws. If you’re unwilling to accept this, then you must
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by louthy 1y ago
Ah, the memories of inputting listings from magazines and books like these, only to find that I’d have one character wrong and the whole thing would fail (and I didn’t know enough to fix it). The vibe coding of its day! :D
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by louthy 1y ago
> Paul Davis has lurked here at least as long as you have, and it would have cost $0 just to ask if that card is currently supported in Linux I didn’t need to ask him, I already owned it, I just needed to dual boot Linux to find out, it
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by louthy 1y ago
Who uses plugins? ;) The reason I have a need for so much IO is that nearly all of my processing goes through external hardware (EQs, compressors, delays, reverbs, filters, phasers, chorus, summing mixer, multi-FX units like Eventide H3000
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by louthy 1y ago
This works well for me on Linux Mint: https://solidstatelogic.com/products/ssl-2-plus-mkii It has pro quality converters and is plug-n-play.
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by louthy 1y ago
> The reliable way to do this (I found) is check the kernel source tree first Sure, in general that's good advice, but it becomes more complicated depending on the solution/situation... I’d bought the RME card long before I was
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by louthy 1y ago
Bitwig works on Linux, but the problem I had was that my pro-audio soundcard [1] didn’t have supported drivers and I couldn’t get the open source drivers to work. I tried switching to a Dante based solution: none of the Dante based apps wor
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by louthy 1y ago
Slightly confused. My suggestion was to run the initialisers after the new object has been constructed (cloned+modified). The semantics are the same as you describe even if the underlying implementation is different. What am I missing?
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by louthy 1y ago
> The biggest constraint was the schedule didn't support a new version of the .NET IL format (and reving the IL format is an expensive change for compat purposes, as well). My biggest sadness reading this is that what MS have done i
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by louthy 1y ago
> in general you'd have to carefully limit all uses of "with" for objects with precomputed values What you’re describing is incidental complexity. It is not a good thing. We can’t constrain the complexity with language con
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by louthy 1y ago
Sure, but you’re talking about a 25 year old feature (structs). One that was implemented like that for performance reasons in C# 1.0 – because we were all using single or dual core machines back then. Records were a relatively recent featur
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by louthy 1y ago
> The behaviour is expected for the language design. So, Microsoft meant it. Ok... > Whether developers using the language expect it is a separate matter. Really? Perhaps read the 'Principle of Least Astonishment' [1] to se
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by louthy 1y ago
Cloning anything creates a new object of a known type (well, the runtime knows at least) and so if the object re-runs the init-properties of the known type then it will be the same as constructing that type afresh. You could even imagine a
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by louthy 1y ago
> wouldn't expect a clone If I create a new object I would expect the 'init time' properties to be initialised. Regardless of how it was initialised. The current approach just leads to inconsistent data structures, with s

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