sophacles

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   by sophacles 3y ago

   I don't think that's a good analogy. Car manufacturers are required to do recalls on cars that have airbags that explode rather than inflate. Even 20 year old clunkers. They widely publicize cars they think aren't actually sa
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   It's worth noting there's a difference also between hype and genuine enjoyment/satisfaction with a product. Look at sqlite threads - they happen here all the time, and there's cyclic periods where you'll see 2-3 a d
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   Click the red PDF button. Or click the "view all formats" button to select your prefered option.
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   So the silicon valley elite are suing people who want to keep owning what they already own? Seems like they're planning a dystopian hellhole and starting out right! Why let the plebs even pretend they get rights like "property&quo
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   > means that only the fictional long tail will benefit. As a person who often reads stories on atlas obscura weeks or months after they are first published, it's nice to know I don't exist.
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   You sure to spend a lot of time trying to tell other people how to use theirs. Projection maybe? I don't know, but I'd be willing to bet if you stopped looking for insults in freindly replies and railing futily against the existen
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   This is literally the point of a lot of open source software... Sometimes its "hey i wrote this for me, here it is incase you stumble across it and find it useful". Sometimes it's "hey here's this thing i did that
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   I was watching a video the other day where some welder was skimming over settings on the welding machine and assumed I knew or cared what a vague statement "some mild grade steel" meant when he could have been marketing his cool l
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   by sophacles 3y ago

   I think you are confusing what I was saying with something else. It's general knowledge that the concept of a soul is a common the world over. There have been quite a few philosphers that have delved deeply into the topic, many of the
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    > Do you expect people the entire world over to have a Rolodex of fairytales that used to be told in your country? Well no, I don't expect that of most people. I do however expect those who claim to refute an idea to show slightly l
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    The concept of a soul is not limited to Christianity.
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    It was both. Yes it was "stop being a lazy slob" but also carried with it the connotation of "we literally have a tool that will let you learn about literally anything you want to know by typing your exact question into the f
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    There's a lot to unpack in this little comment! First of all - HN is a website where many different people, with different views post comments and have discussions/debates. Declaring that there's one singular view while ignor
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Yes! Some of my favorite memories with my pops involved him saying "I don't know, let's figure it out". E.g.: Me: "dad can we make lava?" Dad: "I don't know, it has to be really hot" Me: "We
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    My favorite part of this fact, is that a surprising number of different brassica family vegetables are just one species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea#Cultivars
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Maybe, maybe not. Lots of stuff gets put in "the back of my mind" because I'm not sure how to do it immediately. Maybe I'll think about it occasionally, or note a consequence like "oh this would be affected if I get
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Walmart, cosco, and a hundred other stores sell a wide range of stuff too. (on their websites, even if it is available direct from the manufacturer's website or other websites). Is the problem "registered in China"?
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    I would hope that your experience has at least decreased the time between "first hearing about wierdness" and "realizing you accidnetally dropped prod". It's why pay generally increases with experience :D.
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Hooray I helped on accident!(by which I mean: you're welcome :D) Glad she didn't get stranded.
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Stevens gives himself a lot of competition with APUE tho.... hard to pick a winner between the two.
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    I think a lot of people are really fed up with the status quo. Management engines, millions of lines of hdd controller code, bios/firmware blobs that are basically opaque, etc are annoying and prevent me from having control over someth
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    No. Watering the garden doesn't have to be done at an exact time. It can wait til the end of some other task. It can wait til tomorrow. Hell, depending on where you live it can wait a week.
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    I'd argue that encountering people that are slightly different than one's self is a normal daily reality for most people, and that using those people as characters in the protagonists' lives is just making the show relatable.
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    I find it easier to learn abstract things like morals when there are also examples presented along-side them. More so when those examples are practical and applicable to my life. I find this to be a common sentiment. Are you really trying t
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    It's a bit misleading to claim: "The dense parts of Europe have 500k+ cities basically overlapping.", while pretending that Chicago doesn't have 6M+ additional people in its immediate suburbs who would also be able to us
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Is it pandering? None of those things are rare, and I'd be surprised to find out any significant portion of the population wouldn't encounter them in their own school. It's literally just a representation of the real world. I
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Boston to minneapolis could pass through: MA: Springfield NY: Albany, Buffalo,Rochester Oh: Sandusky, Cleavland, Toledo, IN: Fort wayne IL: Chicago, Rockford, WI: Madison, LaCrosse, Eu Claire, Milwaukee With some fairly minor deviations on
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    Car companies do pay for out-of warranty repairs for recalls. They sometimes pay for other fixes as well, though for these other fixes it's usually because the company fears a severe loss of reputation or an expensive class-action laws
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    I presume you mean the 1890s... In the 1990s it was rare for a house to have 0 screens. It was much more common to have several - a couple of TVs, a computer, maybe the kids would have a gameboy. At least that's true of the US.
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    by sophacles 3y ago

    It's a good subscription to have. I've gotten far more value from my LWN subscription than I spent, and recommend everyone that does lowish level work get one.