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by rixed 1y ago
Or the voucher obtained by scanning your boarding pass in some airports.
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by rixed 1y ago
You can achieve some of that by moving to a foreign country which language you don't understand. A good experiment to realise what a relief it is to suddenly have all offline advertisements removed (and some online too, when localised
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by rixed 1y ago
It is definitively lazy to ascribe to "capitalism" any cultural trend, because indeed that's always going to be a first order explanation for everything, but isn't that even more lazy to "just let people enjoy"
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by rixed 1y ago
What is "prosperity induced" is the disappearance of the demographic bomb in wealthy-enough cultures. But my understanding was that further limitations below the reproduction rate was more "recession induced" and a gener
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by rixed 1y ago
The massive waste of human lives that result from the extreme poverty displayed in the movie is indeed the worse regression imaginable, and the worse objection to the reverence of modernity, but we are so accustomed to it that we would all
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by rixed 1y ago
Maybe training your critical thoughts on mundane things helps to understand less mundane things, and give one the good habit of not letting alien ideas settle in unchallenged? Like gym for the mind? Ignorance is no more bliss than physical
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by rixed 1y ago
If you tell your opinion about the origin of someone's taste to that person, it's not a personal attack, it's just you being honest and open to discuss your opinions. If that person takes that as an attack, it just shows how
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by rixed 1y ago
If it's Ok for you to claim that your taste in movies has no deep roots beyond what's immediately accessible to your consciousness, it's also Ok for us to derive from that claim that you are, indeed in this instance, incapabl
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by rixed 1y ago
> Because we often lack the tools to challenge these structural problems at their root through collective action (...) we tend to interpret these structural problems through a purely individual, moralistic lens. Isn't that the other
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by rixed 1y ago
Similarly, I have written several smaller programs using my own literal programming tool, and although the experience is interesting as it forces you to think deeper at every step, I came to the same conclusion that the end result feels har
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by rixed 1y ago
Or QBE, "Query By Exemple", that was another try by IBM to make a query language directly usable by anyone.
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by rixed 1y ago
To me, the refutation looks significantly more substantiated than the charges.
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by rixed 1y ago
I envy the simple world in which you live. In mine, assault rifles ruin even more innocent people lives.
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It's also appealing each time they are deployed internationally, but to "others".
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by rixed 1y ago
...and they do not exclude rare but real bad side effects.
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by rixed 1y ago
Convenience is not the only possible reward, and the post touches on this. I've stayed in many inconvenient places and the immediate benefit is often that it forces you to go out of your way to find good places to work from, to get foo
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by rixed 1y ago
I'd recommend be welcome.org which is truly community run and owned.
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by rixed 1y ago
The app you have to pay premium to prevent them from selling your details to advertisers and scammers? Ha yes I totally trust them.
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by rixed 1y ago
Seriously, if you believe that you can simplify human thoughts about politics with a one dimensional rule, be it straight, curved like a horseshoe or a more fancy shape, you should take it as a sign that you haven't quite spent the tim
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by rixed 1y ago
For some definitions of "close enough" that includes sending each others in camps, making it a crime to defend the other opinion punishable by machine gun, and of course, full scale military invasion of the other country. But yeah
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by rixed 1y ago
Did we invent public education? Ha, no, just a rant against outdated regulations that are annoying to tech bro billionaire on a mission from God that he met during an acid trip (or was it burning man?) Not sure if from 1998, or satyre?
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by rixed 1y ago
This is nice, but the article left me unconvinced that you need textures at all. Be it a checker or the drawing on a circuit board, can't you keep everything as vectors, thus avoiding the problem entirely?
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by rixed 1y ago
...and transfer all those pixels to the browser.
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by rixed 1y ago
You could also avoid divisions entirely, while still keeping 100% correct perspective, by "rasterizing" the polygon following the line of constant Z. You would save the divs, but then you would draw mostly outside the cache, so no
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by rixed 1y ago
> when downvoting, please offer some insight why you disagree And remind that (down)voting is not for (dis)agreement.
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by rixed 1y ago
What's insightful about parent's comment is that it not only question the need for the new toy but also the need to do the homework faster.
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by rixed 1y ago
AI for classical education can be an issue, but AI for inverted classes is perfect. Going to school to listen to a teacher for hours and take notes, sitting in a group of peers to whom you are not allowed to speak, and then going home to do
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by rixed 1y ago
I mean that we already have SMTP headers for metadata. Such as in-reply-to (no need to quote the whole mail at the bottom of yours) and obviously the sender (no need for an explicit signature), and you could use x-face if you needed somethi
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by rixed 1y ago
Ah, let's not get started about "Why email signatures has won" :)
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Irak, with it's stable government, large population, large army inherited from the war with Iran, and natural resources, was a strong political player in the middle east, and not quite aligned with the USA (for instance, being able and

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