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by nofriend 8mo ago
the goal is to make a war unpalatable to the us public. this is not very difficult to do, since the us public doesn't like it when their own soldiers die. having fighter jets that can be remotely shut down by the us makes it a great de
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by nofriend 8mo ago
a statically typed aot compiled scripting language is... not
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by nofriend 9mo ago
it was at 120 and now it's at 85. yes it's back to where it was a few weeks ago
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by nofriend 9mo ago
>regardless that there is broad disagreement and no charges Disagreement from a class that refuses to disagree with their leader and no charges from the administration that committed the crime. >What drives someone to feel emboldened
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by nofriend 9mo ago
Once the lawyers take their cut, you could probably split a ham sandwich between the two of you.
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by nofriend 9mo ago
>To me it's just obtuseness for the sake of itself. ironic, isn't it?
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by nofriend 9mo ago
It's hardly a subsidy if it's the removal of a tax that will go away entirely if the business is shuttered. This is frankly an awful framing. A well designed tax taxes a small portion of the business' margin. If the business
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by nofriend 9mo ago
Yes and yes. Individuals have their own political views. In tech, those are overwhelmingly liberal. It follows that they would implement liberal policies of their own accord. This isn't sucking up to some policy that happens to be favo
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by nofriend 9mo ago
Why would middle click not open tabs? You middle click a link to open it in a new tab, you middle click a text box to paste into it. Neither interfere with the other. On windows, you can middle click anywhere on the page (except links, ofc)
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by nofriend 9mo ago
It works in kde wayland + firefox including highlighting text in web browsers...
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by nofriend 9mo ago
Firefox is optimized against speedometer and similar "real world" benchmarks. This is a list of highly artificial benchmarks. Mozilla could attempt to optimize it for these benchmarks, but it wouldn't do much to make the web
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by nofriend 10mo ago
the half that doesn't know how to use a vpn
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by nofriend 10mo ago
People know that models can be racist now. It's old hat. "LLM gets prompted into saying vile shit" hasn't been notable for years.
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by nofriend 10mo ago
Because lying is wrong even when open source projects do it.
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by nofriend 10mo ago
They definitely can, as anybody could, for a short enough period of time. The only ones betting they'll be able to sustain it for a long period are the ones paying the currently very inflated price for ram.
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by nofriend 11mo ago
scroll down to the etymology section
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by nofriend 11mo ago
mis means "not"
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by nofriend 11mo ago
This is such a laughable comment. Being in favour of a regulation - any regulation - is not part of the "hacker spirit". A hacker qua a hacker is interested in a regulation insofar as they can work around it, or exploit it to thei
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by nofriend 11mo ago
value outcomes, not process
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by nofriend 11mo ago
Democracy is a tool we hope makes good decisions. If the democracy voted to have you killed, would you agree with that? If not, stop fetishizing democracy as a process, and instead start supporting outcomes that agree with liberty and justi
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by nofriend 11mo ago
Well, yeah. I'd never really thought about it before, but linus was really prescient in not adopting the or-later clause. This sort of thing would be destructive to linux.
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by nofriend 11mo ago
Since it's a more restrictive license, they can't merge back the changes.
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by nofriend 11mo ago
Given how strongly he was against it, this is pretty clearly a ploy. He could release them unilaterally if he hadn't just reopened the investigation which he himself shut down.
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by nofriend 11mo ago
see eg https://xcancel.com/theo/status/1978161273214058786?s=46
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by nofriend 11mo ago
just make the price a multiple of five cents
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by nofriend 11mo ago
Types help the programmer. When the compiler gives me a type error, it is telling me about something I messed up and that would otherwise be an error at runtime. Sometimes the type system is wrong and I need an escape hatch. A type system t
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by nofriend 11mo ago
50k. point definitely remains
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by nofriend 11mo ago
in may places eg canada they don't have an explicit party affiliation. obviously they still have a political slant.
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by nofriend 11mo ago
I'm not even trying to say they shouldn't have kicked him out, just that it had nothing to do with wokeness, and more to do with philosophy of how the project should be run.
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by nofriend 11mo ago
which mattered because everyone pulls from master, because xorg stopped doing proper releases. it's certainly something to bear in mind if you intend to run xlibre though.

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