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by rcoveson 5y ago
What's your alternative? If it's just memorizing a huge set of passwords plus the ability to add to that set whenever you need, that's awesome. But if you're doing what most people do instead of a password manager, which
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Sounds like it should have kept track of who taught it things, like a child. "Here's your fucking spreadsheet" " gasp Who taught you to say 'fucking'?" "It was George in Accounting Employee ID #37289
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by rcoveson 5y ago
The appeal of vocabulary games is that they encourage you to flex your memory. They remind you of words you know that you might not use under normal circumstances. As for the luck, sure, there's some of that. But you have plenty of gue
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> ...no one wanted to run other peoples code. This obviously didn't stay true; the browser is everything the JVM wanted to be today. A JIT for a universal programming language and multiple layers of sandboxing. I don't think pe
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by rcoveson 5y ago
I don't think this would hold up in court, and I hope it wouldn't persuade a jury. One of the things that jumps out at me is that those two different perceptions, "circus barker" versus "deadly fucking serious"
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by rcoveson 5y ago
That is a really interesting case. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is a special case where you have to use `NATURAL JOIN` over `JOIN ON`. The problem is just that the Postgres SQL grammar (maybe most/all SQL g
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by rcoveson 5y ago
FWIW we do have `NATURAL JOIN` already, which is a lot worse than this proposal.
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Adding to this, there's the overwhelming despair of a young idealist being forced to accept an unacceptable situation. It's plain to the pragmatically disillusioned that the right course of action is to plead guilty. However, not
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Alexandra Elbakyan is still alive and well, and Sci-Hub is going strong. Swartz' prosecution and persecution were totally pointless. Copyright is unenforceable.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
"High" and "low" are relative adjectives. The meaning of "high-level language" has changed. C was considered a high-level language, and it is now considered a low-level language. Not by everyone, of course. The
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> But unfettered growth isn't sustainable, this has been proved again and again. This is vague, and assumes the conclusion. All we've ever known is unfettered growth, and it's been accompanied by people "proving"
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> For sure. But at some point there won't be enough humans to run an advanced society. How can we acknowledge that we need a lot of people to run the sort of society we ended up with today without also reasoning that the more advanc
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by rcoveson 5y ago
You can indeed "have your cake and eat it too" if the platform is on your side. Take ad blocking software, for example. A browser that really works for you will let you visit websites that want to force ad views on visitors and wi
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Depends on how you're positioned.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
A few other thoughts: 1. Instead of hosting the images yourself, you're linking directly to Meredith Corp's image servers. They probably won't appreciate that; if you scaled this out enough they'd likely ban your referre
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by rcoveson 5y ago
It's even worse than I thought. I simply put in their suggested ingredient to search on: rice. Of the four results I clicked on, only one actually used rice. The other three used rice flour or rice wine vinegar. Technically correct but
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Yes, one might say: > Perhaps none of these things can be reproduced in the physical world in a perfect manner, but the concepts really are perfect.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
The word/concept "perfect" was "developed" by "fallible and irrational humans" as well, so we do have the authority to apply it. The 3/4/5 right triangle is perfect. The perfect fifth in music is
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by rcoveson 5y ago
With all my heart, I'm rooting for the authors of this approach. Anti-cheat and DRM hide behind the defense of practicality and cost efficiency, but these products are absolutely evil. As personal computers are becoming more and more a
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> I'm sorry, I don't understand this question. Many people could theoretically do or not do things at some point in the future to benefit any given piece of software, so any answer would be purely speculative. It is no longer p
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> ...it's pretty hostile to me and makes me not want to talk to you. Evidently not to a sufficient extent. That the FSF and GNU are more closely connected to Linux than they are to Windows and macOS is self-evident. Roughly 100% of
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by rcoveson 5y ago
You're just being intentionally obtuse. The original comment's argument was that Richard Stallman's return might result in higher quality software from the GNU project. That clearly affects Linux, since large amounts of GNU s
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Saying that Richard Stallman has "nothing to do with Linux" is like saying that Naughty Dog have nothing to do with the PlayStation. They don't work on the hardware or OS, sure, but they do happen to write some of the most po
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by rcoveson 5y ago
No, I really don't think they would. The gym is a lot of people's "third place[0]". Not to mention that exercise in particular releases happy chemicals independent of whether or not it is making/keeping you fit. 0.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Only if they include an explanation of how they get away with using unsigned integers for financial software.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
I have seen some concern about this issue in El Salvador. But "latinx"? Not once. It's unpronounceable in Spanish. You only see the letter X in indigenous place-names like Mexico or Oaxaca, and there it's pronounced kind
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by rcoveson 5y ago
I don't doubt it. I believe it was a results personalization issue. A history of queries related to one game caused it to include that game in all game-related queries. Maybe exacerbated by the heroes:legendary relationship? Who knows.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
The other day I was watching somebody search "Mass Effect Legendary Edition Ultrawide Support" while logged in to Google. They repeatedly got nothing but results for Heroes of the Storm, a completely different game which they had
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Welp, LAMP stack doesn't scale. Time to hire some microservices teams and set up a k8s cluster.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Yes, thank you very much. Fixed.

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