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by marble-drink 7y ago
> He was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accused of having sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island. Where I live (the UK), that is perfectly legal and I believe any man would jump at the chance t
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by marble-drink 7y ago
I'm so relieved to find that at least on hacker news people can still evaluate this situation with reason. Out there it's a witch hunt and Stallman is now a witch. RMS is a great man but sadly has difficulties communicating with t
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by marble-drink 7y ago
A better solution would probably be to revoke driving privileges of anyone caught speeding in these areas. Make it very public that this is what will happen. Then do it. I'm sick of irresponsible drivers. If you speed on the railway yo
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by marble-drink 7y ago
What's your point? I don't enjoy any of the stuff you mentioned. I don't need it and refuse to work harder to get it.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Thanks for confirming my point. A personal vehicle capable of effortlessly transporting you, four passengers and ample luggage across thousands of miles at 70mph+ isn't even luxury!
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Personally I drive the top-spec Civic of 15 years ago. I would never own a current luxury item because I don't think it's worth spending my entire life working for a product that will become normal a couple of weeks after I buy it
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by marble-drink 7y ago
That's only OK if you do actually plan to overtake the guy in front of you. If not you should leave enough room for the guy behind you to overtake you. It's really annoying when people sit with no space but don't overtake.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Just get out of your car and tell them if they aren't moving. It's not that scary. I don't get why people don't just get out of their car except in extreme anger. You'd really sit there and type something up to comm
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by marble-drink 7y ago
"Attack" is a technical term and doesn't imply malicious intent. Many attacks are accidental or the result of negligence. Some are performed by researchers in purpose but without malicious intent (e.g. the attacker wants to p
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by marble-drink 7y ago
I live right next to a major highway construction project. They work in all weathers (or at least try to) and 24 hours a day. 100% male. Funny how nobody is crying foul about this clear case of discrimination. Yet in tech/IT we're
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by marble-drink 7y ago
What if they are dropping out because they are not good at it? I like playing music but I'll never be good enough for any orchestra. If I had been told ever since I was a child that a) I can be a professional musician if I want to (in
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Yep. There is no point at all knowing anything that is presented here without understanding how the API actually works from a high level. For me it was an "aha" moment when suddenly everything made sense (and I realised how nice d
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by marble-drink 7y ago
It is indeed ridiculous. I've personally stopped drinking alcohol at all. There is simply no good reason to imbibe a poison that makes me sleep worse and feel worse the next day. I've stopped using other drugs too, but there are s
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Don't worry about it. It's easier to just stay in gear than try to compete with everyone else trying to get a car length ahead. If you have to go through such an ordeal every day then reducing stress should be your main priority.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
"Diversity" in tech means "we should have programmers with skin colour X or genital configuration Y". But I don't care about people's skin colour or genitals. It turns out people are diverse anyway and that&#x2
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by marble-drink 7y ago
I don't participate in "stop and go" by positioning my car far back from the car in front and selecting an appropriate gear such that my car will keep rolling with just the engine idle. It means you don't waste any fuel
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by marble-drink 7y ago
I've started to avoid using GPS navigation whenever possible for these reasons. Navigation is a valuable skill and using GPS means you don't develop it or forget it. I've noticed a strange phenomenon where people will listen
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by marble-drink 7y ago
You just eat twice as much as you normally would on the feeding days. It's easy and exactly what obese people do except they do it every day.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Of course you can get enough calories to maintain a stable weight. Some people maintain a morbidly obese weight with no effort.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Absolutely. There's this popular sentiment today that says anyone can do/be anything. It's certainly popular in tech, but I have limited knowledge of other areas. Talent is becoming a bad word. But I'm convinced that one
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by marble-drink 7y ago
> These are not the only two options. There's a third activity most of us seem to have forgotten - to simply be. Unfortunately, "simply being" if you live in the first world and especially the US is consuming.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Yeah. Even Europeans are shocked at the level of consumption in the US. Driving absolutely everywhere. Air conditioning everywhere keeping the buildings colder than necessary. Heating keeping them warmer than necessary. All plastic packagin
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Do you get irritation from the Permethrin?
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Wow... I've been waiting for this for over 10 years now. The previous version was an example of a loss when Flash started to die. Since I don't install Flash any more I've been unable to use it. So glad to see it back.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
I've found that many workers in the UK are really not that bothered about work. They'll actually turn down work if they don't feel they'll get enough money for it. Just the other day I was in the garage and they were con
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by marble-drink 7y ago
The drive towards "HTTPS everything" has merely caused users to forget what it is and therefore simply trust Google. Needless to say, this is exactly what they would want.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Bananas are the chicken breast of fruit. Boring/predictable, depending on your perspective.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
I've been using IRC since the 90s and Teams is a regression, plain and simple. I agree with all the points made in the article. But hey, at least it has "stickers" for children.
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by marble-drink 7y ago
Security fixes, performance enhancements, new features. There are many reasons. But the point is you update in a controlled manner. You don't just push the latest version of everything out on to prod, but you also don't keep pushi
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by marble-drink 7y ago
They are, but pip doesn't know if they are transitive dependencies or not or if they conflicted at install time. Pip-tools helps with this.

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