rootoor

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by rootoor 7y ago
Macs are the perfect dumb terminal. They look great, have a smooth ui, and require little fiddling. However, I always need to ssh onto a “real machine” to get actual work done.
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by rootoor 7y ago
I eat Children because they are delicious, not because I think they are dumb. I know they are very smart, but this fact doesn’t makes them less delicious to me. Also, the fact that I —and millions of other people— don’t feel any affection t
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by rootoor 7y ago
I don’t think that increasing police presence and surveillance is the answer to stopping petty crime, it just punishes people who need help and or creates a corrupt police dept, exasperating the problem further. If we provide avenues for pe
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by rootoor 7y ago
You could just use ctrl-{ and not have to leave home row
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by rootoor 7y ago
I am American and I generally am referring to Americans when I talk about boomers
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by rootoor 7y ago
I never said anything about boomers enriching themselves at the expense of future generations. I think blaming younger generations for not taking responsibility for what was handed to them is unfair. We are trying to fix things, however it
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by rootoor 7y ago
> what are you asking for? I want cooperation. Younger people, myself included, want policy changes that will attempt to mitigate some of the damage done by the previous generation. However, boomers are still in power and actively resist
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by rootoor 7y ago
For me personally, it does. However, I am not a typical member of gen z due to my high salary. Most of my friends, who all make much less than me, are more worried about immediate needs but climate change is a dark cloud looming over their
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by rootoor 7y ago
I don’t think it is fair to compare climate change to those previous issues and conflicts you mentioned. The fact that our society is dependent on destroying the environment and all of the related politics is a much more difficult set probl
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by rootoor 7y ago
I am surprised that there isn’t more pessimism surrounding climate change. This is the biggest factor for me personally. However, I work at FAANG so wages and other more immediate ills do not concern me as much.
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by rootoor 8y ago
This is sort of true. You can get copyright waivers for personal projects by filling out a form. They say most projects are approved but in my experience, it seems like they deny a lot of them. One of the two projects I submitted was denied
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by rootoor 8y ago
My 97 year old grandpa has a MacBook Pro and a few years back he was constantly on the phone with my mom trying to fix issues. We installed a Remote Desktop server so my mom could fix things quickly. After a visit we diagnosed the problem.
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by rootoor 8y ago
What’s your point? Are you saying that it doesn’t matter that sovergty was taken violently from the Hawaiians because their ancestors conquered the original inhabitants hundreds of years ago? Would it be fair if Russia came in and took Hawa
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by rootoor 8y ago
I worked with a grad student in college who was building models in NetLogo for modeling drug overdoses. It was pretty janky and slow. They had to run the model millions of times so I had to build NetLogo on our HPC cluster running Rocks OS
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by rootoor 8y ago
My point isn’t that blocking won’t work, it’s that any software solution provided probably won’t work for most people because it’s too easy to quit with no accountability and then because it won’t work for most people, Apple and Google have
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by rootoor 8y ago
I am skeptical that this can scale well. Not every small town can have an expensive college or university. And besides, the towns that do get/have these institutions become gentrified and all of the the original residents get pushed to
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by rootoor 8y ago
The idea that you can “fix” or “solve” software addiction with more software is silly to me. First, This requires users to setup this software. Then, there is nothing stopping them from working around or disabling it at anytime. If the soft
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by rootoor 8y ago
You are conflating leftism with authorarisam