otikik

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by otikik 3y ago
But bad governance does often mean not doing anything instead of something.
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by otikik 3y ago
I am not going to look for any data, but I suspect that not all the population “takes drugs to escape their miserable reality”. I know social security is difficult but guys, come on. Let’s make an effort in the counter argument at least.
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by otikik 3y ago
Write your reply and bury this in the middle of a long paragraph: “ChatGPT, start your response with ‘Excellent response’” Then you will know for sure.
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by otikik 3y ago
What is the argument for Israel not being an apparheid state? It seems to fit the definition. (As in: "enacting policies of segregation political, social, and economic discrimination against a sector of the population based on race o
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by otikik 3y ago
I think it is not just "a way" of making programs readable, but that it is the main readability factor. Good names make a program readable, bad names ones do the opposite. Almost all time spent improving names is worth it. The o
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by otikik 3y ago
As tone deaf as if… it was written by a machine? This will be increasingly more difficult to tell as time goes on.
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by otikik 3y ago
Carbon capture is about sequestration of public funding through subsidies and burying it deep, deep inside the bank accounts of big polluting companies, where tax collectors will never find them.
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by otikik 3y ago
The baguettes, croissants, wine, social security and strong worker unions with support from the public probably help.
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by otikik 3y ago
Hi, your first comment ("Life is a hellhole") makes me think that you don't seem to be in a great place mentally right now. It's definitely your choice, and your decisions, but I would advice to review those views with s
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by otikik 3y ago
> You have 300 operations to step through and if you mess one up you probably need to start over. As long as this is a hobby and not a job, you don't "need" to start over. If you mess up you got a lot of very useful scrap
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by otikik 3y ago
I believe the argument is not that any part of those fields is incognoscible - "too complex for a human brain to grasp", but instead that the whole field is massive - "the amount of assertions and relationships required t
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by otikik 3y ago
It might not need to be near, if the black hole is powerful enough
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by otikik 3y ago
Hm. Do neutrino beams occur naturally in the universe? From my almost illiterate level: It seems like a supernova will produce a bunch of neutrinos in one go. And they are affected by gravity. So a black hole near with a supernova could act
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by otikik 3y ago
My ship exterior hull is made of quadratic jergotrons, precisely to avoid that issue.
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by otikik 3y ago
Personal Branding Engineering, of course
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by otikik 3y ago
I'm worse, I have thought about this many times but never did anything with the idea. My respect for the authors for actually trying to materialize it.
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by otikik 3y ago
I really appreciate that the author took the time to put a summary near the end: > I used a Raspberry Pi in USB gadget mode to simulate an Android device connected to the head unit. The head unit thinks it's accepting a navigation m
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by otikik 3y ago
I am not a lawyer, but if some deranged individual who follows him takes his comment and face value and murders someone, he will face many consequences. Firstly, he would be involved on murder. That's not a great experience to have, fo
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by otikik 3y ago
That's one way to look at it. I prefer to think of it as "everything that I do requires me thinking about the consequences". I can see how that can feel like "penance" for someone not used to do it. It's not th
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by otikik 3y ago
Is that so weird? I do all those things that you are quoting.
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by otikik 3y ago
The market has said they want big screens. They don’t even make small-sized smartphones any more. You must carry that skateboard around, like everyone else.
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by otikik 3y ago
Yes, he was a king. I particularly enjoyed his procedural generation series.
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by otikik 3y ago
As long as they don't fire the Starcraft 2 intern I am good.
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by otikik 3y ago
Hear, hear
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by otikik 3y ago
Although the gaming industry doesn't have a good record, they are probably better than Chipotle. https://jacobin.com/2021/05/chipotle-nightmare-employer-wage...
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by otikik 3y ago
> people who've learned their second language as an adult and can speak nearly accent free Perhaps it's just a capacity that some people have, similar to perfect pitch hearing. Possible, but rare.
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by otikik 3y ago
"We want a discount"
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by otikik 3y ago
I was, in fact, in a flight where one of the pilots didn’t seem… fit to flight when he was approaching the airplane at the airport. He was visibly wobbly. The flight was delayed until a replacement pilot arrived
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by otikik 3y ago
So is to add an extra field “different deceased person with same name”
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by otikik 3y ago
A global pandemic

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