paulnechifor

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by paulnechifor 7y ago
It doesn't sound like mister_hn is excusing Microsoft's behaviour. It's just that, if people think Google is the "victim" here, they are completely wrong. They both have little regard for a user's preference.
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Indeed. Maybe my English skills are fading with time, but my impression was that it works there because it's unclear who you're talking about. "Some other" is singular, but multiple people could have noticed that so it m
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Fair enough, but at least they had plural you back then: thou.
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
One example: > My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was a mess, and mine was clean! I begrudginly complied, but it took me years to see they were right. The
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Sorry for the off topic grammar question, but am I the only one who finds it confusing how people have started to use plural pronouns to refer to individual people?
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
I can see how somebody would think that "Slovenčina" means "Slovenian" though. (Slovenian is actually "Slovenščina".)
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Just because you _can_ survive without eating meat doesn't prove what I was disputing: (“Meat is bad for [...] health”). I can survive without carrots, but it doesn't mean they're bad for my health.
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
You're being ridiculous. We're literally evolved to eat meat. _Excess_ is bad for your health (such as drinking 1 liter of vegan olive oil).
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Honestly, a moderator should intervene. What's the point of linking to an article where you can only read 3 lines before paying?
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Sounds like a conflict of interest. If someone gets sued for rape, the jury doesn't get filled with rape victims.
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Yeah, it's always cheaper to just take pictures with your phone, but using old and more difficult methods makes the photos seem more important even when they are objectively worse. I've been meaning to try wet plate photography[1]
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by paulnechifor 7y ago
Abuse the exposed circuitry of the controller? Also done: https://youtu.be/tr6txZdNcc0?t=445
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
You are conflating freedom of speech with the US first amendment. Freedom of speech is a principle. It applies to private companies as well. Voltaire didn't say "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your ri
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
Depending on your setup, you might never/rarely need to use certain keys. The numpad is a waste of space, there's literally no need for it. Arrow keys are rarely needed if you use Vim and i3wm (plus vi mode in bash and vi shortcut
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
Yeah, I dislike this too. It's not as if you have to change your keyboard layout to write a foreign name. You can just copy paste it.
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
> the image didn't celebrate or honour her as a person. It was an image protraying an unrealistic "beautiful thing". People didn't even know her real name, or what she's achieved as a real person. Because it&#x27
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
It's not honest. It glosses over bad aspects. Take the blood tribute[1]. It mentions that some parents would allow their children to be taken, but it doesn't mention that some others considered it so bad that they would mutilate t
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
I don't think recompilation is required. You can use proot (like chroot) to make a local dir look like "/nix" to subprocesses. I've seen it here (but not tested it): https://gist.github.com/mbbx6spp&
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
Perpetual copyright does the opposite of encouraging innovation. Consider how many of the highest grossing movies are made up of endless sequels and reboots of existing franchises vs how many are new. I'm sure you're right that it
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
Just use the generic he[1]. It's classic and has the benefit of not injecting politics into an unrelated issue. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Generic_h...
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
Only in countries with software patents.
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by paulnechifor 8y ago
When you pick tabs over spaces you have to live with the fact that many people will pick a width different from yours. :)
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by paulnechifor 9y ago
Europe and the EU are getting conflated more and more. It's kind of like how if someone said he's American, you wouldn't assume he's from Brazil, even though technically Brazilians are American since they're from th
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by paulnechifor 9y ago
> [...] confirming what many say about the euros not really having the best interests of the UK (or even themselves) in mind in many instances. How can this be confirmation if it occurred after Britain triggered Brexit? It's a react
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by paulnechifor 10y ago
You can easily masquerade a bribe as negligence.
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by paulnechifor 10y ago
> there are no reasonable facts on why the government should resign Other than the fact that they tried to decriminalize many corruption offenses triggering the largest protests since the fall of communism. As many people are saying: thi
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by paulnechifor 10y ago
Are you sure about that? The president did trigger a referendum on this, but the ruling party jumped the gun and passed (and now revoked) this law before the referendum question was even finalized. The referendum will still go ahead. Even i
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by paulnechifor 10y ago
I really doubt it. Older people in Romania (not all but many) are nostalgic about communism. They'll say things like "sure you couldn't say what you thought, but everybody had jobs, houses, etc". They miss having things
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by paulnechifor 10y ago
The "spiral rule" doesn't work all the time. See this previous HN comment by stephencanon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775862 . Also this comment by Linus Torvalds (copy pasted because I don&#x27
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by paulnechifor 11y ago
It depends on what you do. It's terrible for media things, but it's the best OS for programmers and I don't have to go along with every UI trend Microsoft/Apple are implementing this week.

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