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by rozab 6y ago
The term has a more complex meaning in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestants#...
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by rozab 6y ago
I suppose the unicode code block represents the whole history of the script. It was used for thousands of years, after all.
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by rozab 6y ago
It's one of these quotes that isn't actually present in the source material its associated with (the film that is). It is in the book, kind of: "The thing's hollow - it goes on forever - and - oh my God! - it's full
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by rozab 6y ago
Somehow it manages to get even worse the more you scroll
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by rozab 6y ago
I've seen people online get very upset at folks just for mentioning other projects of their favourite vtuber. They didn't want to see them as a real person at all. I found it deeply unsettling.
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by rozab 6y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of all the effort the US put into ICBMs, mind control etc. in the cold war because they believed Russia had a huge technological advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
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by rozab 6y ago
Furthermore, WSB today is just a pile of bots and newbies who heard about it on local news. It isn't representative of the WSB who caused this in the first place. There's been several announcements by the mods about really bad bot
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by rozab 6y ago
And most importantly, why was only buying of meme stocks disabled ? This argument doesnt hold up to any scrutiny
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by rozab 6y ago
And now .NET 5.
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by rozab 6y ago
What always strikes me when I read Factorio blog posts is how they really approach game development like engineering (moreso than most software engineers). I'm very pessimistic about software, and it does give me a lot of hope.
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by rozab 6y ago
It may be a literal use of the archaic meaning, as in 'rape and pillage'. Obviously insensitive though. https://www.etymonline.com/word/rape
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by rozab 6y ago
But in the real world, it is the choice of lens that determines the level of distortion. Nobody's digitally cropping their photos to 1/16th the size.
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by rozab 6y ago
Correct. I don't understand why people suggest direct revenue streams would help in this regard. Have you seen Facebook's profit margins? They don't need to spy on people.
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by rozab 6y ago
Do Not Track should have been made legally binding. Hell, with any sane interpretation of GDPR it would be.
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by rozab 6y ago
I have a deep skepticism about sniffer dogs. This article by the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association just about sums it up: https://nndda.org/the-double-blind-attack/ >While the scientific community highly en
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by rozab 6y ago
Are people actually OK with their image hosts looking like this?
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by rozab 6y ago
Reducing... "That's not a real paradox, which is why Quine called it a 'paradox'"? meta
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by rozab 6y ago
Right! But as I understand it, most of this wood was from managed forest, which allowed for much more efficient harvesting and also allowed for controlling various qualities of the wood. Lindybeige has a good video on the topic. It doesn&#x
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by rozab 6y ago
The Caledonian Forest disappeared long before the Industrial Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_Forest >An examination of the earliest maps of Scotland suggests that the extent of the Caledonian Fo
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by rozab 6y ago
Nobody buys a laptop for the webcam. That's why.
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by rozab 6y ago
Adblock Plus takes bribes to unblock ads: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads Great suspender contains malware: https://dafoster.net/articles/2021/01/20/i-no-longer-trust-t... LastPas
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by rozab 6y ago
Several of the extensions you recommended at the end (Adblock Plus, The Great Suspender, LastPass) are widely considered to be compromised
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by rozab 6y ago
So they used a neural net with only 4 parameters?? And they haven't compared the performance to a simple regression?
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by rozab 6y ago
Here's a good video on these from Mustard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyk84t4Q8w They have loads of content on weird military hardware like this.
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by rozab 6y ago
Your car also goes above 70 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by rozab 6y ago
Reddit is unique in that it allows you to find and connect to a community with very little friction. The other day I was thinking about buying a mini PC. I googled 'mini PC reddit' and immediately find r/MiniPCs and r/s
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by rozab 6y ago
Also check out the various Mitchell and Webb sketch shows, as well as Bruiser! That's a good rabbit hole.
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by rozab 6y ago
It seems like most people get into it from the chaos magick sort of angle, involving new-age meditation practices which are quite different to the Eastern tradition. Highly recommend reading the Psychonaut Field Manual for a deep insight in
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by rozab 6y ago
That would just defeat the point of having USB-C charging. Only the one proprietary cable would stay in the port.
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by rozab 6y ago
Which of Blow's many examples do you take issue with?

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