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by padjo 1y ago
Strange that a massive revolution would break out in a country in the midst of such a golden era.
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by padjo 1y ago
Obama acknowledging that the US overthrew an Iranian democracy for the benefit of oil companies definitely helped and could have ushered in a new era of understanding. Sadly, America then decided to elect someone with a toddler’s understand
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by padjo 1y ago
For your definition of virtue I assume?
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by padjo 1y ago
Ruby Central sponsors him to work on the project. They also own the project. Sure it’s not ideal that they’ve apparently come to an impasse of some sort but locking him out is not bonkers.
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by padjo 1y ago
If it ever stops leading with a cheery affirmation we’re doomed.
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by padjo 1y ago
Does “lest we lose critical funding because we don’t have proper agreements with our committers” not cut it as a reason for you? Genuinely curious, it seems like a reasonable explanation assuming it’s true.
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by padjo 1y ago
There is thunder in Ireland, it’s just rarer than in much of the US. I’d imagine it’s due to the prevailing weather patterns.
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by padjo 1y ago
By all means criticise the implementation but definitely don’t criticise the idea! America’s democracy would be greatly improved by being made more representative through electoral reform.
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by padjo 1y ago
Did you get your Vitamin D re-checked? I’ve been low on Vitamin D, recovered it to high levels and noticed basically zero difference over the long term.
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by padjo 1y ago
Bonus points if you manage to kill a few poor deluded saps with your unsafe product along the way.
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by padjo 1y ago
“World Kitchen in 2000, recognized that the cookware didn't need to be quite as strong, and — to make it accessible to the average customer — it needed to be more affordable.” Some pretty strong bullshit vibes from this section. Feels
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by padjo 1y ago
Pretty sure Brendan Eich had nothing to do with the name JavaScript. That was a name cooked up by the marketing department.
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by padjo 1y ago
Showing my age that I clicked hoping it would be a software tool for managing an allotment.
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by padjo 1y ago
Once you know about this building it becomes fun to use it as a reference point for any extremely ambitious, entirely impractical, but laudable project. E.g. so Jim is starting that refactor of the authentication layer? It’s going to be his
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by padjo 1y ago
Who’s “they”?
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by padjo 1y ago
I’ve heard otherwise intelligent people talk about how amazing it will be when AR systems are just a contact lens, like it’s something that’s going to happen in the near future.
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by padjo 1y ago
If your “freedom” requires walking around backwards waving a pistol is it really freedom?
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by padjo 1y ago
No offence but if you’re swing between two poles like this in such a short time you probably haven’t considered the topic deeply enough and for long enough. Anonymity can be very powerful for marginalised groups and it can be abused by trol
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by padjo 1y ago
Yep, the belief that governments would just give up control of money always seemed incredibly naive to me too.
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by padjo 1y ago
“A utility function that determines if its argument can be used like an array” I see the JavaScript ecosystem hasn’t changed since leftpad then.
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by padjo 1y ago
I feel like anyone who says about art “the juice has to be worth the squeeze” isn’t really into art.
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by padjo 1y ago
Wait until you hear about Ireland where we installed metres but ended up not using them and instead everyone gets as much water as they want for free.
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by padjo 1y ago
Please provide an example?
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by padjo 1y ago
Everyone thinks they are the good guys.
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by padjo 1y ago
Killing unarmed civilians is SOP for the US military.
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by padjo 1y ago
Fixing the payments thing has been addressed by the EU as far as I know: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...
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by padjo 1y ago
First generation Leaf was launched in 2010 second gen in 2017. That’s quite an old design for any tech that’s still advancing.
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by padjo 1y ago
I wouldn’t bother.
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by padjo 1y ago
A perfect example of the simple-minded zero-sum thinking that’s going to make the world much worse the more it takes hold.
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by padjo 1y ago
I think it’s implicitly in the context of datastore design. In that context it feels like decent advice that would prevent a lot of mess.

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