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by stirfish 5y ago
It's not that every Linux app is as good as it's non-Linux equivalent, it's that using either Linux/not-Linux for long enough makes you good at doing what Linux/not-Linux is good at. It's more like if you grew
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by stirfish 5y ago
When I was 15, I checked out nosferatu from the library and watched the whole thing in silence, not knowing there was supposed to be a score!
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by stirfish 5y ago
I think the point they were making is, the effects policing (even in a police state) aren't felt uniformly by everyone. A society could throw "almost everyone in jail" and you might not feel it at all.
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by stirfish 5y ago
I bet airport security could be sped up too. A stranger sticking their thumbs down your waistband sends very strong message. The more you automate, the less personal the experience becomes.
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by stirfish 5y ago
>Seems like a really slow, cumbersome technique to monitor people I agree. I wonder how many times they found what they're looking for? Maybe slow and clumsy is part of the goal. It's a deliberate interruption that signals some
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by stirfish 5y ago
5. Make money
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by stirfish 5y ago
It's nice to be able to see what a new language is able to express easily. Have you ever browsed Rosetta Code? I find syntax interesting because it shapes how a language is used. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rose
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by stirfish 5y ago
Why would I reinvent it when I can buy it for $13 from Walmart? https://www.walmart.com/ip/FR-4-2-Pin-Style-Power-Connector-... Edit: this one has three prongs, for safety :) https://www.amazon.com/Linm
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by stirfish 5y ago
Cuck is a little more specific. A cuckold is someone who spends resources raising someone else's offspring. It's the other end of the derisive term "welfare queen".
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by stirfish 5y ago
Techbro is a mindset, not a socio-economic class. It's like the nerd version of an instagram influencer. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Techbro
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by stirfish 5y ago
A colonel at my job shared this video about a submarine commander who just joined a new ship. He didn't have time to learn a whole new vessel, so he switched from giving orders to expressing intents. He found that all the way down to
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by stirfish 5y ago
Which services well be denied to the left? I'm also curious about your plans for regulatory agencies.
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by stirfish 5y ago
This thread doesn't deserve your patience, and yet we are still blessed by this comment. We could all (myself included) try to be more like you.
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by stirfish 5y ago
What does "prepare to reap what you sow" mean? I'm baiting you btw.
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by stirfish 5y ago
That's a pretty cool slippery slope you just constructed. You've almost convinced me, but you forgot to tell me that they'll take my guns and make me gay.
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by stirfish 5y ago
When you turn 18, you should start your conservative-only trucking company that only trucks food between rural areas.
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by stirfish 5y ago
There are like 70 ICU beds left in Dallas. May the odds be ever in your favor. https://covid-texas.csullender.com/?tsa=E
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by stirfish 5y ago
Thank you. I'd never heard of zoro before, but I'll be depositing my paychecks here from now on. It looks a lot more fun than the bank :)
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by stirfish 5y ago
Where did you get your P100? Everywhere around me has been out of both those and oxygen tanks. It's made welding pretty difficult. Edit: I appreciate your thorough and patient response to the parent comment.
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by stirfish 5y ago
>Alice respected personal preferences of people wearing respiratory protection, I've found that a lot of people think of the masks like a gas mask - supposed to keep everything bad out. They are more like the breath guard at the sa
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by stirfish 5y ago
Maybe they were addressed to a five-year-old Richard Feynman
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by stirfish 5y ago
Someone wrote a worm that went around patching the vulnerabilities that another worm was using. This fix made things worse, as this second worm was using more of the network as it spread than the worm it was trying to eradicate. I'm wo
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by stirfish 5y ago
"you don't have to comingle" is a fine solution to the comment I replied to >The short answer is that my wife and I have different opinions about how to track data.
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by stirfish 5y ago
My wife and I are a family. In a sub thread about family accounting, I said how this family does accounting. I don't know what to tell you.
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by stirfish 5y ago
We gather our own data without any conflicts. Sorry, I thought that was apparent.
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by stirfish 5y ago
My wife and I have separate bank accounts
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by stirfish 5y ago
Think global, act local. Replace everything on your desk with blueberries.
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by stirfish 5y ago
Same, "what the hell", then I followed the link to twitter to see if it was a joke or troll, then another "what the hell" I'm black
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by stirfish 5y ago
>“We should be much more worried about population collapse,” Musk warned in a series of tweets last week, You aren't missing much
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by stirfish 5y ago
Why?

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