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by metadope 10mo ago
> a foundation I made for myself Creative thinking requires an intent to be creative. Yes, it may be a delusion to imagine oneself as creative, one's thoughts to be original, but you have to begin with that idea if you're going
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by metadope 10mo ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Predicting the future, I can tell you with certainty that This Too Shall Pass. Just don't ask me what 'This' is: A fad, or a sea-change? My main Luddite objection to the cu
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by metadope 10mo ago
I am sad. I can't think of a single good thing that has been accomplished by the current administration. Not in its first year here and now, or in the previous four years (with training wheels and pandemic). I would welcome a generous
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by metadope 10mo ago
> you’re essentially facilitating censorship. Yes, please. I want the facility to censor. I want and need to exercise it all the time. I start with the headline, taking one full second of my time and attention. Not interested? Skip it (c
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by metadope 10mo ago
Topics from the video: 01, Super Grub2 Disk 02, Rescatux.org 03, commandlinefu.com 04, LDP (Linux Documentation Project) 05, wiki.Arch (Gentoo too) 06, wttr.in (TUI weather) 07, pure sh bible (pure bash bible) 08, ShellChe
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by metadope 10mo ago
That ship has sailed.
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by metadope 10mo ago
The only correct answer is... both answers (1 and -11). That is, if you're really interested in pursuing the position. Not only are you willing to take their tests, but you go beyond what is required, for your own benefit and edifica
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by metadope 10mo ago
This string of words made me shudder, gave me a chill. Too true.
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by metadope 10mo ago
>> If you think otherwise, you're ... [elided] Yellow card.
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by metadope 10mo ago
I am sorry and saddened to see your comment dimmed and dissed by our brethren. Everyone is in a mood, after entertaining the terror that comes with deploying unsupervised super-potent Agents, the year of living dangerously. I for one apprec
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by metadope 10mo ago
> Pizlix requires you to set up your machine thusly: > You must have a /mnt/lfs partition mounted at /dev/sda4. should say > You must have a /dev/sda4 partition mounted at /mnt/lfs
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by metadope 10mo ago
I don't see (C) the joke. inline bool isEven(int32_t x) { return (0 == (x & 1) ); }
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by metadope 10mo ago
> No one is likely to be looking up my license plate and looking at my movements, because I don't do anything that would warrant that kind of attention. Want to spend an hour on the side of the highway while the police search your v
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by metadope 10mo ago
Stars on Github mean nothing to me. Github has been the best example of a brilliant UI, presenting a large database of code for easy browsing and consumption, without requiring javascript . That was/is its killer feature. This is
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by metadope 10mo ago
Tangents are a sine of the times.
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by metadope 10mo ago
The timing of this article's publication is provocative, don't you think? Isn't there a pending Executive Order in the works that would move marijuana from the federal Schedule I list, making it a Schedule III (less restricti
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by metadope 10mo ago
Why does the HN headline here drop the original's important word: 'why'? Original (emphasis mine): >> Stanford Medicine study shows why mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis Transcribed to an HN headline
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There were indeed early warning signs that Facebook was shady. I remember being delighted with FB initially. It was a wonderful way to keep in touch with extended family and wayward friends. But then I discovered how difficult it was to con
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by metadope 10mo ago
I'm elderly now, but in my distant youth I had many encounters with police officers. Every single one of them was a blessing to me. Of course, I am a white male, and my encounters with police were probably affected by my (traditionally
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Law enforcement is mostly mundane repetitive boring work. It can't be easy sitting alongside a highway for hours on end, waiting for someone to do something that requires your intervention. Police engage in shared fantasies. Which can
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by metadope 10mo ago
> scared to wait for a cab I contend that American Unhappiness is manufactured and sustained by the constant onslaught of misinformation, broadcast by special interest groups, all of whom have it in their general plan to make you feel an
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by metadope 10mo ago
I don't think of myself as anonymous. I am a glittering grain of sand on a beach. I am anonymous only as long as nobody cares to pay attention. If somebody (or some three-letter-agency) decided to focus on me, I'm fairly certain t
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by metadope 10mo ago
I will tell you the truth, and you will be safe, believe me, because I know what is true, from my personal experience. This is the truth over which I can claim authority. My personal experience, that small portion of objective and infinite
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by metadope 10mo ago
I would've liked to have read this, but... Every once in a while I encounter a site that (needlessly, effectively) blocks access because I browse with javascript disabled.
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by metadope 10mo ago
I'm not sure I understand what is being reported here. Was $6.25 billion dollars actually donated, as stated by the APNews headline? Or is this one of those far-in-the-future revocable promises that may or may not become real? So APNew
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Your comment wins the internet, as they say, and as far as I'm concerned. Your three examples of scientific tenacity are wonderful. We all benefited from these heroic efforts in the face of dogmatic establishment Science. And your comm
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by metadope 11mo ago
> Localized phenomena like a neighbor starting a fire, Summer evenings at home in my small Ohio village are often a health hazard, a polluted nightmare driven by the perverse compulsive ignition of so-called 'recreational' yard
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by metadope 11mo ago
> The feds could raid every marijuana dispensary in the country This is not a realistic scenario, but does seem to present the argument, that Federal law and the power to enforce it is inherently and legally superior to individual State
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Agree with each of your points, but must add some counterpoints as illustration: Land of the free, home of the brave, there are some Americans who will rebel against the requirements and constraints of their lifelong socialization. I think
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by metadope 11mo ago
Yeah well there is definitely something going on, a coordinated effort to condemn GrapheneOS with faint praise (and outright scare-mongering). Here I have posted a video url I'd downloaded and watched a few days ago. It's TTS slop

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