pookha

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by pookha 4y ago
Getting some heavy John Carpenter vibes with this Europa situation.
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by pookha 4y ago
My position is simple...An unelected and non-adjudicated EU commission bureaucrat can't micro-manage my software -- or tell me how to write it -- just like I can't open source all of their calendars and tell them how to manage th
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by pookha 4y ago
Apparently there are something like 1K derailments a year in the US? Had no idea...Seems pretty high. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/02/17/tra...
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by pookha 4y ago
I felt like I was going to get murdered by some guy wigging out in NYCs subways. And I'm attuned to sketchy situations thanks to my youth and there was a menacing vibe even without the nutter. And the bus? God no. I rode the city bus a
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by pookha 4y ago
In America it's not just partisan it's state sponsored. The American media has a history of being covert propagandists. George Edward Creel was the OG master at slipping in narratives to publications. Creel never used straight-out
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by pookha 4y ago
Only half? Good lord.
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by pookha 4y ago
I like to view governments like John Gall viewed systems. Government -- like systems -- will expand to fill the known universe. Encryption makes the known unknown so it's not built to last within unchecked government system sprawl.
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by pookha 4y ago
I like the word "crystallize". Generally speaking cults are big on that.
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by pookha 4y ago
Hard for Europeans and some Americans to comprehend this but the US Constitution restricts the government not the other way. The Bill of Rights is meant to protect natural human rights from government systems. US funded academics are bound
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by pookha 4y ago
We need specifics... My view of racism: A specific and targeted activity aimed at a race of individuals with the aim of removing their ability to compete in the free-market. Examples: CIA backed rebels in South America sent (oddly) marked d
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by pookha 4y ago
If we can launch wildly complex space hardware to look into the deepest regions of the universe we can bring down a balloon without the IronEagle dog fighter theatrics. You have to admit this came across like some old-timey George Creel pro
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by pookha 4y ago
I'm no balloon pilot but I'd assume you could just puncture it and bring the thing down gradually?
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by pookha 4y ago
WASM-side rendering. :)
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by pookha 4y ago
Very difficult to get accurate info out of China but a multi-nation tribunal painted a pretty clear picture on why it's so easy to get organs in China: https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/ I think there'
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by pookha 4y ago
There's no rule of law in China. It's strictly a fascist crony capitalist regime. And there's not much room for human error. If you fuck up in China you might pay with your life. They have an organ harvesting system and all i
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by pookha 4y ago
svelte, sqlite, postgres, a little bit of dropwizard, Java LTS 17 (maybe kotlin).
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by pookha 4y ago
It wasn't misplaced...There were some horrific pieces of "hacker" software that were floating around in 05. Wasn't uncommon for a disgruntled employee to load malware onto a company's network and bring down operatio
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by pookha 4y ago
LOL. Just imagine unleashing prime P.T Barnum on silicon valley. He'd "circle-back" and get some shit BOOTSTRAPPED.
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by pookha 4y ago
Doesn't at all read like a step-by-step guide to make money. I got more of a "7 habits of effective people" for the 19th century vibe. I honestly don't even think he wrote this. He's probably just licensing his nam
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by pookha 4y ago
Large complex systems don't work.
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by pookha 4y ago
It's weird how Europeans have this fedual surf mentality.
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by pookha 4y ago
NOTAM could be run from a pre-historic Toshiba mainframe. it's static. Doesn't need billions in funding.
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by pookha 4y ago
I don't see the point of eating meat unless you're willing to work on your bow skills and can hunt and clean an animal yourself. I like the discipline that it takes to be a vegitarian and I think the disconnect that the US public
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by pookha 4y ago
From my experience a "superstar" programmer is either somebody with Bi-Polar (works 40 straight hours) or a scam artist. Seen that playout now many,many times. A bi-polar worker can handle insane levels of work. it's just vi
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by pookha 4y ago
If you don't like somebody on Facebook you can report them for offensive content. I posted something that some asshole facebook friend didn't appreciate and they dug through my facebook feed and found one image that was borderlin
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by pookha 4y ago
I actually hate this. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves. It's 2023...Treat people like adults. They don't need a corporate CUNextTuesdaY Hal interface to walk them through a sign-up form.
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by pookha 4y ago
Back in the 70's and 80's people were pretty frugal. The average person was experienced with Lay-away, balancing checkbooks and not a lot of people had credit (high interest rates). What you're witnessing now are just older p
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by pookha 4y ago
At one point in my life I was an avowed socialist. It look years for me to see through the bullshit to understand that "Capitalism" is really just negotiated (unplanned) order and sometimes that order is high-jacked by moron'
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by pookha 4y ago
You can buy meat sourced from ethical ranchers. You don't need to bite the bullet and be an early adopter for some science experiment. And you seem to have no issue with the millions of acres of land dedicated to growing genetically mo
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by pookha 4y ago
By all means start the business. You'll soon realize that the regulatory overhead is draining your resources (can't pay the bills) and the FDA doesn't have enough mobile inspectors available to inspect the beef. Of course the

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