stcroixx

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by stcroixx 3y ago
If my choices for Linux end up IBM or Oracle, I’ll pick Oracle.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Well, CS doesn't involve pharmaceuticals so the harm caused by fraud isn't as serious.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
VB had this data grid control that we used all over the place. I’ve still never seen a JS version that’s as good as it was.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
My girlfriend had a fancy expensive 386 laptop until ‘98 I used to get my degree using stuff like Borland C++ and java. I couldn’t even afford a computer until after I graduated. Installed Slackware on that laptop from a stack of floppies
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by stcroixx 3y ago
We took one round 20 years ago a none since, still private. Then again, we’ve been profitable every year.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
I miss it. I’m too rusty to be effective with it anymore, but it’s the most pleasant to use and productive language for me for small stuff. Best community there ever was as well, mostly C and Unix system programmer types.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
I keep it all separate. Use my personal phone if I want to access my own stuff. Works hardware belongs to them and I use it for work only.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Music education got cut entirely in the East Bay public school district my kids attended. Had to move out of state.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Much harder to hide scams and break laws in the physical world where quality actually matters.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
There are plenty of authoritarian nanny states that agree with you that government censorship is the answer to these problems. For now, in the US, that's still illegal and we'll continue to oppose you on this til the end.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Not for me. Close to zero wait time in their heyday in Chicago. Drivers were the same people. By law they could not refuse a ride and they actually respected the law unlike these companies whose business model depends on ignoring laws.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
I’d go back to taxis in a heartbeat.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Their consumer stuff barely competes with itself. They can only get away with that because nobody is interested in that market. I’d also say current AI hype is hard to tell from a grift now - my team is doing some useless crap because CEO
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by stcroixx 3y ago
By having no competition and no reason to aggressively innovate.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Agree, though I think LOTR made fantasy enough of a moneymaker to make GOT not such a moonshot as these other genre kickoffs.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest - these were the first experiences that really fascinated me with computers. The exploratory conversational aspect of the text based interface is still compelling to me. I’d love to see all these gam
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by stcroixx 3y ago
I think it’s very, very generous to excuse this behavior as that of naive rubes. These people are simply currying favor with those in power hoping for something in return.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Agree. You'll never get a count of all the people who may have been interested in contributing to a project but decided against it because of a COC or language police.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Goal posts moved. I don't know anything about bullying - if that’s going on, prosecute that for what it is. Sounds like a possible law enforcement issue that needs to be investigated. I’ve worked at enough tech companies to know I d
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by stcroixx 3y ago
The only mentions in my replies about current censorship are about a petty beef between Elon and some Tesla critics and one about Elon not wanting cis used on the platform. I'm not a fan of Elon and I wouldn't have done either of
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by stcroixx 3y ago
As a kid growing up, Tipper Gore’s PMRC slapped stickers on heavy metal and rap CDs they didn’t like.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
The government has no authority to decide for me whether something is misinformation. They can share their opinions and I'll be the judge of what I trust. If Facebook reaches the same conclusion independently, without being coerced b
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by stcroixx 3y ago
In my view that's to be expected and I'd want no intervention from the government at all. I would view that as censorship. Gov. is not there to decide for me which ideas are disruptive, I don't want them or anyone in that r
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Being a government employee carries a threat with it. I don't want those people making 'requests' to suppress others points of view in any situation, that's not reasonable to me at all. I'd rather they have their
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Free speech for citizens is important to me and I'm on no political side. This seems like a great thing to me. I don't want the government doing what they're been doing or doing it again in the future, regardless of who tha
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by stcroixx 3y ago
I don’t like any censorship, but COVID as a topic was bonkers while it was all propaganda. The problem with a platform you know is censored is that you can never know what is missing - that’s the nature of censorship. Adam Schiff putting h
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by stcroixx 3y ago
COVID stands out as a topic.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Maybe for you, but for many of us it’s almost as if it was just released. A censored platform was of little use, but now you can see all kinds of ideas there. I know I use it more now.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
Putting all their dirty laundry out there should be useful towards tarnishing the reputations of the Ivies. If it can be spun that they’re white supremacist institutions, well, good luck to them.
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by stcroixx 3y ago
It’s statements like this among other that fuel git hate. Maybe this is true, I don’t know, but if it is, that’s terrible. To most working programmers these are not the same thing.

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