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by smcl 3y ago
Man Open Source software should not post announcements like this using a blogging platform that nags you to pay to view posts. Like it's possible to dismiss the prompt and view the post (for now at least) but something about that defin
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by smcl 3y ago
Your reply to the linked PR is great! One could either be really annoyed or really entertained by this, I’m glad you’ve got a sense of humour about it.
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by smcl 3y ago
If anyone's not sure what values to input, it looks like the values provided (67mg and 130mg) are for roughly one 40-50ml serving of espresso followed by 2x that (a double espresso). I usually have one espresso (or lungo) after breakfa
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by smcl 3y ago
So they were so harmed by the newly censored and under-friendly-control-for-$44b Twitter that they decided to spike it altogether and presume no similar social network would ever pop up again? This is qanon-level stuff man, come on.
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by smcl 3y ago
t h e m
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by smcl 3y ago
It genuinely seems closer in capacity to some theme park novelty train for kids than any kind of mass transit. It does have RGB gamer lighting though, I suppose
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by smcl 3y ago
Right, but was that the purpose of the $44b takeover? No it’s just something Elon did, in an interesting reverse on his whole “free speech” thing. Again, I am certain this is incompetence rather than conspiracy
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by smcl 3y ago
Wait the suggestion is that billionaires/powerful people bought Twitter for nefarious purposes. Is it not worth more intact but surveilled and censored than utterly sabotaged with Elon graciously taking one for the team? I’m not convin
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by smcl 3y ago
I could understand this if it was acquired and then heavily censored or monitored. Or if something more obviously destructive was done. But if this is all part of a plan to ruin twitter, it relies on having an egotistical person very public
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by smcl 3y ago
Sure it's not worth getting really upset about (unless you were employed at Twitter, or had your work/life significantly impacted by the changes) but it's gonna be hard not to feel something about what's going on there
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by smcl 3y ago
> As an example: The Boring Company. Have they pushed the boundaries though? As I understand it TBMs have been a thing for a while and plenty of pretty impressive and enormous tunnels have been built in the alps or under seas like the Ch
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah if it was like "Twitter - an X.com app" then maybe, or maybe building out the brand of X and merging the two if X takes off. This switch seems a bit sudden and misguided. I was certain he was doing some weird Elon joke but he
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by smcl 3y ago
They both got a bit cosier with the far-right too. Difference is Kanye has famously been struggling with mental health issues over the years.
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by smcl 3y ago
People think he’s an oaf and they’re tiring of his actions. I see plenty of jokes about him, and comments dismissing him or forecasting a decline in Twitter/X but I don’t see “raging hatred” here
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by smcl 3y ago
It's becoming clear that you think "socialism" just means "the scary politics that foreign people have" and don't actually understand it, otherwise you'd know what GP meant by this remark. At the very leas
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by smcl 3y ago
An American volunteered to fight ISIS and helped fight for workers rights in a brewery. That's about as close to an American hero as you can possibly be. If you're not happy with that and want to cast all sorts of other aspersions
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by smcl 3y ago
Alright so "I don't like the left " - loud and clear. Thanks for your input.
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by smcl 3y ago
If you don't like him then that's fair enough. But I've found him to be quite entertaining and at times intelligent and thoughtful, and I'm definitely not alone.
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by smcl 3y ago
Something that's overlooked both in the comments here and in the article itself is that one of the figures behind the unionisation effort at Anchor was a guy called Brace Belden. He's a pretty interesting and slightly controversia
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by smcl 3y ago
I think we should have a link that isn't totally broken. I guess a lot of people here read the headline and came to comment and share some anecdotes, which is totally fine. But the link is broken, so we should at least fix that. Here a
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by smcl 3y ago
I think where I was confused is that the applets were already programmable and interactive, so I'm just not sure what throwing JS into the mix brings. But it could be that there's some functionality it gained (XHR, perhaps?) in
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by smcl 3y ago
This isn't debate club or a courtroom, there aren't rules on how we can share how something sounds to us in an informal setting like this. If you want a nice discussion consider being a bit more polite, less confrontational and as
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by smcl 3y ago
Well I was 9 years old in 1995, didn't get the internet until 1999, and only started programming in 2001 (and even then it was Perl + C) so that was an honest question from someone who didn't experience any of this first-hand. If
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by smcl 3y ago
It's similar in Czech, "tichý oceán" - quiet ocean.
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by smcl 3y ago
I always thought the name was just a little wink and a nod towards Java and nothing more. So I was surprised to see this in the press release: > complementary to and integrated with Java Was this ever true around the time, and if so was
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by smcl 3y ago
Ahhh very carefully worded indeed. I know you desperately wanted to refer to NATO, but that would mean conceding that "Russia" (since you're conflating the USSR and Russia, and assuming modern day borders) had invaded Czech R
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by smcl 3y ago
Thanks for the tip, I would've been really quite stuck fighting those invisible assassins otherwise.
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by smcl 3y ago
That's a poor analogy. It's more like you're threatening your neighbours, fucking around with their apartments and they join the local neighbourhood watch. And as a response your reaction is to break into their apartments and
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by smcl 3y ago
I'm starting to see a pattern here - country seeks closer ties with NATO as a means of protection from Russia, followed by a war with Russia. NATO has a pretty questionable history what with Operation Gladio and the like, but I'm
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by smcl 3y ago
Russia has only fought with the countries who sought to join a military alliance to protect themselves ... from Russia? Incredible.

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