swiley-gin

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by swiley-gin 4y ago
There is no group the current elites hate more than the middle class. The middle class pays enough attention and has just enough power to make them uncomfortable when they do nasty things. The goal of the current elites is to either materia
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
POSIX text files have lines terminated in a newline and so the POSIX text files always end in a newline. Source files are text files so they end in a new line.
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
idk, I love being an ass and disliking things.
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
*prohibit you from legally distributing it (which makes it difficult to profit from.) Also everyone way overestimates how hard it is to re implement all this crap.
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
It should be fairly obvious that taking a side is part of the PR stunt they planed for it.
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
Well I've just had the weekly "why can't you come here" call with my forign gf, failed to deliver on the couple tickets I have open at work, and posted my daily "barf into ~/stuff/*.c" to /prog&#
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
Humans are social and sexual by nature. That's where religion and the rest of civilization that reductionists take for granted came from. Don't forsake it or you will live hell on earth. Go halve dinner with grandmother and be hap
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
'fun' so often means climbing the mountain. Something we will do no matter how poor we are. Google's goal is to harness that to use it against all their users. I'll tell you now I will never work for google; I will die d
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
I've read the silmarillion and my father read me the trilogy and the hobbit to go to sleep at night. At university my professors mentioned the significance of Tolkien's work. None of what is happening here is lost on us no matter
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
The invasion of privacy compared to the degree of crime in SF is incredible. Will people question the principles that led to this or do they still think there's some inconsistency at the top? Personally I'm glad I gave up on livin
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by swiley-gin 4y ago
Software is just the smell of other computer users. Some smell nice, most smell terrible, it's nothing special either way. You can rewrite anything in an afternoon if you're in the right mood.