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by sshine 2y ago
My principle on giving the Hitler salute is to not do so publicly, or in the presence of elderly, Germans or jews you don’t know. Because whether you mean to be funny, try to provoke, or you’re a neo-nazi, it leaves room for ambiguity. If I
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by sshine 2y ago
That is absolute bonkers. I hope you’re having fun, because that kind of logic won’t lead you anywhere where people get paid to reason.
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by sshine 2y ago
The amount of mental gymnastics people will go through because they dislike a controversial billionaire is nuts
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by sshine 2y ago
He said “My heart got out to all of you.” If he had said “SIEG HEIL!” I would totally be on your side. But it was plain old American English, and it was about love.
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by sshine 2y ago
> His gesture was _exactly_ like Hitler's. Hitler's was unlike the general population's, as it had a bend to it. You can bend reality all you like, but the intent of giving the Hitler salute was not there, as he has said
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by sshine 2y ago
> As a German: He did As a Jew: He didn't. (This argument is absurd.) He was interviewed about it, and he said he didn't. How does being a German get you to jump to conclusions? Are you born with a special ability to detect
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by sshine 2y ago
I’m happy you’re not near my car.
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by sshine 2y ago
I don’t respond well to peer pressure. It makes me sick to the stomach. Peer pressure from aggressive behaviour is ironically how Germany’s population got talked into committing genocide. I’ll start doing what other people say for no good r
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by sshine 2y ago
Also, if you call everyone a nazi, all you have is nazi bars. I was called a nazi last week for driving a Tesla, and I have Jewish ancestry. The word hardly makes any sense.
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by sshine 2y ago
Cloudflare took down our website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808 A user running an online casino claimed that Cloudflare abruptly terminated their service after they refused to upgrade to a $10,000/month
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by sshine 2y ago
It’s a terrible thing. Cloudflare is the company I hate the most: I think (what I know of) their tech is done right, and they’re just too big to put my eggs in their basket.
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by sshine 2y ago
How it renders on mobile: Rust simplifies numerical variable initialization by allowing type annotation directly within the value assignment.
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by sshine 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying that; I didn’t check my sources. For comparison, 81-85 IQ points is where the US disqualifies you four being unable to follow basic training. And 75 IQ points considers you mentally retarded. So for a country average t
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by sshine 2y ago
Boeing flies into building. Missile hits hospital. Captured dam floods city. Drone explodes civilian’s head. Upset leftist scratches swastika on car. I see the similarities.
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by sshine 2y ago
No, commits can be co-authored. And the committer and author don’t even need to be the same! But the point, as I read it, is: what matters is the context, i.e. if a line is faulty, how did things look like when it wasn’t faulty? The commit’
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by sshine 2y ago
Only if there’s people inside. Otherwise it’s vandalism.
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by sshine 2y ago
Because it is destruction of private property. If you can destroy my car, I can set fire to your house, because, you know, Swastihouse. Our society hinges on protecting individual citizens from vandals and thieves, otherwise we’re back to t
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by sshine 2y ago
I’m not.
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by sshine 2y ago
Yeah, before high-level languages, programming was mostly done by mathematicians and electrical engineers who felt adventurous. I also had BlueJay on my first semester. But fortunately I had machine architecture, compilers and operating sys
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by sshine 2y ago
I've heard from people older than me that this is how people felt about compilers. https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/when-compilers-were-the--ai... He provides some sources (7) at the bottom of the article. To pick
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by sshine 2y ago
There’s a chance the Trump administration can bring the US out of its massive debt hole caused by every single recent administration before it. So yeah, it’s definitely accelerating, but the outcome has not been decided. I’ll happily take m
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by sshine 2y ago
Just because people see it this way now doesn’t mean that is how it all ends. The perspective of historians implies that they look back and see that it was, indeed, the end. Which it isn’t.
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by sshine 2y ago
I teach 2-3 days a week from 13:00--16:00. I freelance 2-3 days a week outside of teaching hours, so 16-24 hours. My freelance aligns highly with my interests, so my personal programming projects are in fourth row having just had a child. I
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by sshine 2y ago
Do you have kids?
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by sshine 2y ago
"I'm not buying a car! And I'm especially not buying a Tesla!"
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by sshine 2y ago
Netscape / Firefox once broke the browser market. We need a hero.
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by sshine 2y ago
I switched on mobile and on MacOS. I intend to switch on Linux soon. > Yes browsers share your data, it's a browser... No, my software does not betray me. If money could buy better software, I’d spend it. Unfortunately, commercial
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by sshine 2y ago
Gas prices and insane taxes based on car’s weight (as a proxy for its toll on the road).
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by sshine 2y ago
> a single human cell is more like an ecosystem than a machine Good point. Not to mention the massive reliance on organisms like mitochondria and bacteria that don’t even share the host’s DNA. > [imitate human labor] within extreme
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by sshine 2y ago
It's been a while since I read the original article, https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf > The Imitation Game > "Can machines think?" We may need to redefine what these words

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