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by specproc 1y ago
Title needs a correction: Hideous charts with JRuby and JFreeChart.
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by specproc 1y ago
Having worked in the non-profit space my whole career, I've always thought having government funding for OSS would be a great use of money. It's a really underutilised resource. States invest in cultural production, e.g. by film g
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by specproc 1y ago
Work is gaseous, it expands to fill the available space.
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by specproc 1y ago
I cobbled together something that generates playing cards from html and css. Currently running off a csv, building a game for a friend's birthday. The experience with printers has left me thinking there's a gap in the market for _
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by specproc 1y ago
Fair critique on the promotion, but you do see that a lot round here. I share the frustration though and the article resonated with me. I'm currently working on a project that's being inappropriately done in cloud functions, and i
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by specproc 2y ago
The writing was nauseating. I lost track of the number of times the author said "the best". I honesty can't see the benefit over a small laptop. With the glasses, you're carrying more things, it's an expensive setup
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by specproc 2y ago
I made the jump a few years ago and the experience has been largely great. Lots of learning, which has been half the fun, and no goddamn ads in my start menu. Totally usable as a daily driver, provided you don't need Windows only softw
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by specproc 2y ago
Out of interest, is that an advertising invoice or something like GCP? I'm sorry, but until we can find a way to close down the countless other tax loopholes exploited by multinationals, I'd be completely happy with a 10% DST on a
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by specproc 2y ago
This tax was introduced as a straightforward way to actually get tax revenues out of a multi-billion dollar industry that does not come remotely close to paying its fair share of tax in the UK. The digital services tax was a limited counter
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by specproc 2y ago
It's been a US-led project for the benefit of American corporations. If I was running the trade emergency room in any European state right now, I'd have "stop enforcing US copyright" up there next to "reciprocal tar
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by specproc 2y ago
Linux is going super strong in 2025, I'd say we're in the best health we've ever been. Totally usable on desktop, so many vibrant distros that all bring something different. The phone situation is so tragic, they're so c
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by specproc 2y ago
They did Bibi, which was good. Growing a pair in its old age.
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by specproc 2y ago
I'm sorry, but going back to my very first post on here, staying in living memory, the US has a vast litany of egregious human rights offences to its name. This is an objective fact of record. The notion that it's any better than
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by specproc 2y ago
Well argued. Unipolarity has however also seen considerable brutality, in the places the empire cares about (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) and the places it doesn't, like Rwanda. My point was made in frustration at the flippancy of the par
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by specproc 2y ago
South Korea was torn apart by a brutal US-led war; Japan nuked, twice, by the US. For every country where US barbarism has led to stable, peaceful societies, there are countless ruined shells: see Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya for recent
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by specproc 2y ago
FYI I'm writing from a former Soviet state and need no lectures and whatifs on matters of the USSR. A US-led unipolar world existed between 1989 and 2025. Multipolarity is the norm, even the British empire was truly top dog for like 50
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by specproc 2y ago
Well, given that countries are a relatively new thing, that's a question that's complex to answer. I think what you mean to say is name a European country that wasn't doing all that stuff, because most of the world wasn'
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by specproc 2y ago
It's scale. North Korea is mainly abusing North Korean human rights, the US has brutalised many more countries, not incidentally including Korea. Yes, I'm very familiar with the Russia situation, but are you trying to say all arre
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by specproc 2y ago
> Someone's going to run the world, you know. The entitlement in that statement is jaw-dropping. No, no one needs to run the world. And I definitely, definitely can compare US actions to Hitler and Stalin. Vietnam alone, over fifty
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by specproc 2y ago
I'm sorry, but the US has an abysmal human rights record. It has a per capita incarceration rate lower only than Rwanda, Turkmenistan, Cuba and El Salvador (which is a prison subcontractor _for_ the US). It has started more wars than a
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by specproc 2y ago
Nicholas Carr has a nice book on the dynamic the author is describing [0], i.e. that our skills atrophy the more we rely on automation. Like a lot of others in the thread, I've also turned off Copilot and have been using chat a lot les
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by specproc 2y ago
Yeah, for anyone with a modicum of technical capacity, the year of linux on the desktop was about five years ago.
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by specproc 2y ago
Yeah, likewise, just wish they did Linux
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by specproc 2y ago
Many of the acts I listed there were truly genre-defying, progenitors, originators and auteurs: I'd point to the Beatles, Sabbath and Zappa as some cases in point. For me it's a tough stretch to argue that any of them had a genre
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by specproc 2y ago
The best music is about sex and drugs. Edit below to respond to that downvote and expand on my comment in the context of parent. The best music is about sex and drugs, implicitly or explicitly. Perhaps the parent is worried about their chil
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by specproc 2y ago
Big, big love for iNat. Up there with Wikipedia as an Internet treasure. Spring is coming on here and it's getting a lot of use in our house! Don't even have kids. I'd defend it over ChatGPT if you're prepared to wait. S
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by specproc 2y ago
Counterpoint, my father is very IT literate, at least he was. Managed IT for a large government organisation in Europe, taught me code. Has done his best to keep up over the years. He's completely useless these days, particularly aroun
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by specproc 2y ago
Spent a lot of this evening reading this book and hoot turned to horror. I feel the need to scrub every shred of Meta from my existence.
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by specproc 2y ago
Totally pwning these n00bs.
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by specproc 2y ago
Aye, very valid indeed, but you need to go into it aware of the author's biases and read on the basis of that. Doesn't stop a book being (vaguely) true, and certainly doesn't get in the way of enjoyment. Another good example

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