stormking

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by stormking 5y ago
Yes, he and especially his fans have been working on establishing the image of a strategic mastermind. But in reality, he's just a short, puffy old man, living in ridiculous kitschy palaces, sitting on ridiculous long tables because he
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by stormking 5y ago
I don't understand how they can advertise this font being "wider" than other ones. I skipped all those modern Programming Fonts because none of them is as condensed and readable as "TheSans Mono Condensed". That fon
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by stormking 5y ago
Rebooting does not fix any bugs, it just resets the state. I'm not sure this is really the better solution because many bugs never get fixed because "Have you tried turning it off and on, again?"
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by stormking 5y ago
I love settings, browsing the settings screen gives me a feeling about how mighty a software is. Software without settings is usually very shallow, only supporting a handful of usecases. But in the modern SaaS world, they still want to char
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by stormking 5y ago
Season 1 was okayish - the "A plot" was as strong as I remember it from the books. The "B plot" about Takeshi's past, however, was massacred.
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by stormking 5y ago
No, they can't do that, anymore, except for very specific jobs, e.g. working with children.
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by stormking 5y ago
Sorry, but no, "nostalgia for your childhood bad behaviour" is just dumb.
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by stormking 5y ago
Thank you! Every crazy axe murderer receives more empathy then the people who simply stopped trusting the system after being lied to one time too often. Two things drive me crazy: 1. How easy it is to dehumanize a significant percentage of
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by stormking 5y ago
If you get asked, multiple times, how exactly you yourself contributed to the project and you continue only talking about what "we" did, it is absolutely a red flag.
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by stormking 5y ago
> Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and China showed that it is possible. No, they just moved themselves into a corner that they will be trapped in for the next 10 to 20 years.
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by stormking 5y ago
Yes, and this is another example of the really bad management skills of our government. If you announce the wrong KPIs (XY percent vaccination regardless of personal risks) you might be performing great according to them and still fail mise
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by stormking 5y ago
Democracy in itself is nothing more then the dictatorship of the majority. It certainly doesn't constitute a just society, alone. In addition, you need at least fundamental, untouchable civil rights, protection of minorities and the ru
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by stormking 5y ago
> We missed our chance to contain it early on, thanks to those that tried to spare the economy at the cost of 'a few lives' Illusion of control. The chance was never there. Even countries who are way more suitable for isolation
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by stormking 5y ago
I agree that the real reasoning is political - it's all about saving face. But what's wrong with letting "big pharma" earn a dollar or two? They did a really great job, here, they're not selling snake oil and a vacc
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by stormking 5y ago
It's really disgusting. Some politician invented that "obligation is not enforcement" talking point and now all those tag-alongs just repeat it without thinking about it for a second. An obligation that is not enforced is not
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by stormking 5y ago
But it is. All laws are "enforced" in some way, just because sometimes it's not physical force doesn't change that. As soon as there are artificially created "consequences" and penalties, you are forced.
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by stormking 5y ago
> I’m sorry to say this but that is just plain populist. No, it's a fact. I understand why they were lying about things, e.g. the usefulness of masks, but that doesn't make it less dishonest or patronizing. You simply can'
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by stormking 5y ago
Yeah, but then the unvaccinated would only be risking their own lives. The most prominent argument for compulsory vaccination right now is that they're taking away scarce ICU beds.
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by stormking 5y ago
Right now, young people take the "booster shots" that should be given to the elderly, first. Politicians will be very proud that "XY percent of the population are already boostered". The dying will continue.
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by stormking 5y ago
It's called "illusion of control", most prominent example being rain dances.
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by stormking 5y ago
People who claim that "people don't understand exponential growth" don't understand it themselves, most of the time. They're so proud that they can answer the question about what happens to the pond that is half-cov
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by stormking 5y ago
Yeah, tag-alongs are always okay with other people being forced to something they themselves don't mind. Often they're even okay with other people being forced to somehting they themselves would hate. That's why they're
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by stormking 5y ago
And how is that not forcing?
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by stormking 5y ago
I don't understand this line of thinking. Voluntarily taking the shot yourself is completely different from making a "majority decision". Off course I got vaccinated, but I'm totally opposed to forcing it on people. It i
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by stormking 5y ago
Depends on where you are now and what you want to achieve. Deal with it, you'll probably never be hired by Google but you can still become a software or system architect in some interesting niche. I know because I am and I have the exa
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by stormking 5y ago
I give this kind of "homework" to candidates where I'm unsure if they can actually write a working program. These candidates usually have a CS or engineering degree, but only some simulation, data science or machine learning
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by stormking 5y ago
In poker, you'd call a bluff. You wouldn't get mad at the other player and call him a liar.
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by stormking 5y ago
As a german I can tell you that not being able to get rid of certain people because they will always re-enter parliament via party list is annoying as hell.
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by stormking 5y ago
Not true where and when I grew up (germany, in the 90s). Playing around with computers wouldn't get you any points with the ladys but it wasn't considered "weird", either. Around 1992, it was totally normal to ask for a
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by stormking 5y ago
Both authors assume that what we call "intelligence" and "sentience" is deeply influenced by the environment our species evolved in (plus a billion happenstances) and that therefore any dream of meaningful communication

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