mikrl

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by mikrl 2y ago
Most programming languages exist just because devs would rather write 1000 lines of spaghetti than see 7 ‘)’s at the end of a 100 line lisp program. /s
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by mikrl 2y ago
I don’t think this would work in the US. Not in much of the country anyway. Eastern European style commie blocks, though rudimentary (eg no elevators in many) solved a pressing housing problem post war in that part of the world, in societie
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by mikrl 2y ago
> For example, your Genetic Information, date of birth, and sex will be retained Quite possibly the most terrifying thing I’ve read recently.
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by mikrl 2y ago
Growing up in the EU in the 00s there was always the public health concerns of E numbers causing this or that. Ironic in a way, because E numbers mean that the specific chemical has been cleared as a foodstuff in the EU, IIRC. Though I supp
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by mikrl 2y ago
Consider this though. In the case of Britain, they got the artifacts because they established a protectorate over Egypt and thus were able to excavate and do civil engineering. However, the fact that the artifacts were there to be discovere
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by mikrl 2y ago
>The plucky gen alphas will be in the cube farm I find it so ironic that around the turn of the century, cube farms and suburbia were the ultimate evil and seemingly a fate worse than death in the pop culture. Meanwhile in 2024, me and m
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by mikrl 2y ago
South Seas in popular culture typically does refer to the South Pacific and Polynesia though. I’d also say the South China Sea too. But in Newton’s day yes, I think the colonial adventures were still very much focused on the Atlantic.
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by mikrl 2y ago
>My counterpoint is wondering how many would have been destroyed by ISIS or civil unrest in some of the less stable regions of the world. This line of thought is fascinating to me. We should preserve them for all of humanity? Who chooses
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by mikrl 2y ago
If you think about it, he pioneered the style of completely annoying, insufferable yet somehow entertaining content that you see all over TikTok… But he had to commit to a full interview and release it on classic media, then later on, inter
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by mikrl 2y ago
Sonic Youth were dicks to him too. Honestly whenever I’ve watched an interview with a musician I like they’re mostly either matching his energy or just pleasantly surprised. Whenever I’ve heard of a bad interview it was never an artist I pa
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by mikrl 2y ago
If you got a few of those motorized windows and hooked up a laptop running MS’ operating system to control them all, but only during certain times of day, there would be a window where your windows would be Windows windows.
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by mikrl 2y ago
Perhaps that was intentional, or came from a collective subconscious desire to commemorate, yet also to forget and move on. Interwar abstract art such as cubism had twisted and distorted figures, some was a reaction to the twisted and broke
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by mikrl 2y ago
Since critical thinking is performed by humans, surely the same human ‘flaws’ apply. I would think that having characteristics of humanity is not necessarily bad for a human oriented system, and I can also point to any number of atrocities
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by mikrl 2y ago
>Thinking critically is in direct contradiction with the notion that everyone's opinion is equally valid Democratic societies tend to follow the model that truth comes out of conflict in the marketplace of ideas: the best idea wins,
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by mikrl 2y ago
>Of course, another big "collectivist capitalism" success story is China, which is also fiercely nationalist. Yugoslavia had a dynamic market socialist economy and was powerful enough to align against the USSR for decades, yet
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by mikrl 2y ago
Did the landmass change? Canada is a successor nation to British North America. The strategic reasons for a potential attack are similar, and the same risks remain. The US invaded and failed. Had they succeeded I doubt the British would inv
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by mikrl 2y ago
It’s because when the US thought it could invade and conquer, they were thoroughly trounced and had their original White House burned down. The strategic calculus never made annexing Canada a viable proposition beyond then, and there are en
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by mikrl 2y ago
>Anglo-Canada and the US have all the good things in common and no war/trauma keeping them apart. It was on the table. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red From the Canadian perspective too, don’t think a
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by mikrl 2y ago
It happened to agriculture in Stalin’s USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
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by mikrl 2y ago
The preferred spelling of nonse is n-o-n-S-e although c-e is an acceptable ethnic variant. Source: originally come from a time and place where you call your friends one for a laugh (and shout it at actual ones you know from cars)
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by mikrl 2y ago
A philosophical question is whether one could have it all? Maybe the relative poverty fosters that kind of culture, and a high earning society necessarily becomes atomized, or perhaps atomized societies fosters high earning.
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by mikrl 2y ago
That is one of the most interesting ideas I read from Friedman. I assume the administration of such a program is heavy though, but with future technological advancement and bureaucratic reform it could be possible. The idea of replacing al
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by mikrl 2y ago
I remember in the last year or two, a lot of fury about a mod that de-DEIed a AAA video game. People were asking what kind of monster would do such a thing and it was pulled from the hosting site, but it turned out the modder just enabled t
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by mikrl 2y ago
It’s all over eastern Canada. Driving through New Brunswick every gas station had the common selection. My small town gas station in Ontario had supply issues because as soon as some cases got delivered the zoomers/αoomers would buy it
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by mikrl 2y ago
I think enshittification is removed enough from its root word to be acceptable. I’ve heard it said matter-of-fact-ly on podcasts which otherwise avoid blue language.
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by mikrl 2y ago
The trailer was golfing with flames, there was nothing I could do buddy. Worst case Ontario right there.
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by mikrl 2y ago
Couldn’t escape (the geese) if I wanted to…
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by mikrl 2y ago
From experience, counting small stock (10s of pieces) in a warehouse allowed me to zone out into a high fidelity mental landscape. At one point I was doing my job and vividly hallucinating what I was going to do in dwarf fortress later that
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by mikrl 2y ago
I could not reproduce it by hand without a reference nor do I have a keyboard installed which offers it as a symbol, nor was I going to look it up to add the spice to a shower thought tier HN comment. I see you have provided it, making it m
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by mikrl 2y ago
I was expecting it to be a Russian acronym starting with the letter Я which is pronounced Ya. It acquired its backward R glyph when it was changed from an old Slavic letter I cannot draw.

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