sennight

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by sennight 3y ago
> ..the news isn't going to claim that without evidence. You are joking, right? Or maybe your definition for "evidence" includes circular references, because that is what you get when "the news" is functionally c
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by sennight 3y ago
POWER is supported on linux to the point where it runs, but it doesn't come close to fully leveraging the hardware. AIX does. Stuff like hardware accelerators, transactional memory, hardware counters, reliability monitoring and self he
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by sennight 3y ago
Like how the US impotently tried to destroy the Russian economy by fully weaponizing the USD, how did that work out? Not so great - all that served to do is begin the process of displacing the dollar as the world reserve. There is a point w
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by sennight 4y ago
As a person who as been described as an "activist investor" by several angry businessmen, I've never seen a shareholder or board member demand anything like that. The only thing that I can think of that would loosely fit your
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by sennight 4y ago
Legal is a cost center, which means that they don't get to say no. Here is how that conversation goes: Lawyer: You must include my unenforceable EULA. Anyone-with-a-brain: lol, no. Your "contribution" to this project only s
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by sennight 4y ago
Heads-up: apparently some kind of signup is required to download anything from this page. So if you heartily dislike ISOs not because of cost, but because of how insane it is to make standards difficult to actually access at all - nothing h
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by sennight 4y ago
There are a lot of things that makes recent attacks so disconcerting, and unlike anything else. At the top of the list: debanking. Mastercard is heavily involved in these campaigns, and runs a program designed to leverage their position in
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by sennight 4y ago
If by "couple days" you mean "many months", sure... The whole thing is thoroughly documented by the man running the site, as well as the handful of psychopaths at the center of the campaign. They actually came very close
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by sennight 4y ago
> You've taken it as something totally not what was the spirit of the thread. The exact same thing can be said of your reframing of "physical harm" to be "violence" exclusively. You've clearly never debated
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by sennight 4y ago
That actually sounds like an awesome place to live, where victimless crimes have been eliminated and obnoxious busybodies have no recourse but to impotently whine.
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by sennight 4y ago
> The question is always when-where-by how much.. Maybe the question should be "if". Despite the years of research, trillions of dollars, and multiple world ranked supercomputers dedicated to the task - climatologists still can
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by sennight 4y ago
> Worldviews typically include.. For people who are their own favorite subject, maybe. For everyone else it is an internal model of the way the world works, which allows you to make sense of things. So when you are interested in the way
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by sennight 4y ago
> Reading EULAs and watching ads are not the path to success. Agreed, but unlike a login prompt, those things are there for the benefit of others - not you. To continue the analogy: blowing through a login (or changing traffic signal, re
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by sennight 4y ago
That is exactly how evolution works. Now if you wanted to argue that evolutionary pressure no longer applied due to modern medicine and safety regulations... you'd still be wrong, but at least you'd look less silly. So there'
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by sennight 4y ago
You got me, I thought for a moment that I accidentally channeled Weird Al instead of Pearl Jam's Do the Evolution.
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by sennight 4y ago
> ..is not being sloppy, it's being an intelligent person. No, that is being an intelligent ape reacting to a twitching bush by running up a tree on the chance that a predator is behind the bush. The tables have turned since then. B
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by sennight 4y ago
It has always struck me that the people expressing the same sentiment that you just did put far more energy into it than the "fanatics, butt-kissers, and followers of his cult of personality"; to the point that you'd bother t
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by sennight 4y ago
> The "platform" argument is based on a misreading of an American law. ... and then you go on at length about the safe harbor provision without specifically mentioning the safe harbor provision because that would undermine your
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by sennight 4y ago
> ...some group of people are afraid to speak... What you are describing is called a "hugbox", aka: safe-space. Any platform that actually catered to every neurosis would be totally silent. > ...cancel culture is what you ge
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by sennight 4y ago
> Forcing someone to host someone else's speech... The solution is easy: stop lying about being a "platform" if you want editorial control. > ...the free speech rights of users who want a well-moderated community... Wut
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by sennight 4y ago
I don't see why "Comments like this" would make you hesitant to do anything on the Internet, unless you are less interested in understanding and addressing the violence being discussed than you are in preserving some kind of
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by sennight 4y ago
I feel a little silly responding to a literal "think of the children" argument with a call for actual reasoning instead of emoting... but I have low impulse control. Do you genuinely believe that firearms legislation/availabi
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by sennight 4y ago
I wouldn't even dare to dream for version controlled source... I was over the moon when roughly dated personal backups of research edition Unix started popping up. From what I've seen in IBM documentation and a small number of cod
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by sennight 4y ago
I won't pretend to have enough familiarity with the goings on in long past IBM management to be able to state with any authority what they may or may not have thought, but I'd be surprised if your single-minded characterization wa
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by sennight 4y ago
A few years ago I dedicated a couple of days to finding any evidence of documentation for the 801 beyond a small number of well known academic papers, but found none. It really bothers me, probably to an unreasonable degree, how common it i
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by sennight 4y ago
> ...definitely more preferable to someone who constantly asks and needs to be lead every little step of the way. Asking for clarification before starting isn't anywhere close to "needs to be lead every little step". If yo
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by sennight 4y ago
Or they realized in that moment they didn't feel confident enough in their own understanding of state machines to critique anyone who might take the opportunity to cut them down to size. It is a stupid reaction to a sensible request fo
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by sennight 4y ago
> How we got there, I don't care. Well that is a good way of ensuring that the same class of problems will endlessly reappear, while also providing a broken utilitarian end-justifies-the-means rationale that is certain to be abused.
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by sennight 4y ago
> Except I didn't say make your own... No, that is what comes next - after somebody mentions Apple's part in the herpes like spread of chicklet keyboards. > Who are you to dictate what a third party does... Who are you to pu
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by sennight 4y ago
I don't understand your point, which effectively seems to be "not all games!" This is actually a zero sum scenario, games that are pay-to-win would have been something else had the concept not been popularized. Even games tha

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