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by themafia 4mo ago
Perhaps Boris Johnson shouldn't have interfered with the peace process at the behest of the United States. Anyways I'm sure the Ukrainian citizens enjoy being used as props to justify inhumane actions.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> the frailty of US munitions stock There's noting frail about it. It's just unable to support the insatiable appetite that every administration seems to have for dropping them on people. Perhaps we need a "second source&
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by themafia 4mo ago
> But luckily it's pre-printed in the crontab man 5 crontab Way easier.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> The same logic will now extend to any written content that agents need to reliably consume. Get your rapacious hands away from my website please. > and actively degrades programmatic access. That's your problem. You choose the
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by themafia 4mo ago
> The message you’re sending is that you think I’m not capable of reading and writing my own emails. The message they are sending is you, as a user, do not matter to them. Only the analytics and KPIs do. They spent lavishly on this cr
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by themafia 4mo ago
Yea and the cost of fuel has zero downstream effects on the economy.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> A third of it going into these new issuances doesn't need to break anything. Other than it not going somewhere more productive. Are you willing to just bury 1/3 of your income in the back yard?
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by themafia 4mo ago
> That is short-term thinking. Then why IPO? Isn't that even shorter term thinking?
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by themafia 4mo ago
> they've produced the cheapest way Were we struggling to do this before? Was the overall percentage reduction in costs? Was some other achievement held back because we couldn't accomplish this? What is now enabled? > to
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by themafia 4mo ago
Are you actually optimistic?
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by themafia 4mo ago
Sure. You're just experiencing aliasing though. Are you not? > There are 3,215,709,724,700,470,902 64-bit (unsigned) integers that can be written as a product of two 32-bit integers. That can be written as a product of one or more
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by themafia 4mo ago
> In a sense our eyes experience contrast on a sliding scale There's a whole visual center to check the amount of incoming light and adjust your pupils for you. It's intentionally reactive. > and there is no absolute zero i
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by themafia 4mo ago
I suggested we move off of github to avoid issues about a year ago. Every developer on my team looked at me like I grew a second head. Just because you're a developer doesn't mean you're a hacker or you care for the craft on
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by themafia 4mo ago
HBO's Barry, unbelievably, covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzzg3q1YuUE
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by themafia 5mo ago
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by themafia 5mo ago
People are saying they detect a lot of "hate" in these comments which I don't see or agree with at all. People clearly have negative opinions about this and they're expressing them rather openly but to confuse this with
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by themafia 5mo ago
The people should. There cannot be any other correct answer. If the ownership class or the political class _can_ possibly compete for control of it, then they're both too large and too corrupt, and need to be revolted against. The
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by themafia 5mo ago
> The audience here has never wanted to admit that the codebase doesn't really matter. Are we talking about speed testing websites or the code that controls space vehicles? Perhaps extreme generalities do not provide useful insight
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by themafia 5mo ago
Which is interesting because a) the site title includes it and b) I obviously made a common mistake which has nothing to do with the point at hand.
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by themafia 5mo ago
Title changed to remove "Earnst & Young". Why? It seems deferential to an entity that, in this case, certainly doesn't deserve it.
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by themafia 5mo ago
> more efficient agriculture meant a population boom More efficient agriculture meant a more efficient population. In cases where environmentally possible this obviously encourages a population boom but they're not necessarily syno
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by themafia 5mo ago
Farm labor demands wax and wane with the seasons with harvest typically being the most labor intensive; so, it was actually stationary motors that did the most to reduce labor demands. Tractors mostly helped farmers eliminate the need fo
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by themafia 5mo ago
> “Humans are valuable.” You can just say it As if that's hard. Here's the gut check: "Individual humans are inherently more valuable than corporations."
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by themafia 5mo ago
> an in-process method invoke. Pedantically it's an in process virtual machine for operating on structured data. Which is precisely where it shows it's weakness, in my experience, when you end up with complicated table struc
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by themafia 5mo ago
> “We remain firmly opposed to these actions, and any disclosure outside proper coordination that could harm our customers and the digital ecosystem,” Precisely. /Your/ customers. I have no obligation to them and you profit h
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by themafia 5mo ago
> portage doesn't compile anything. it tells gcc et al to do stuff. That's a difference without distinction. Portage does patch packages. So it involves itself directly in the compilation cycle. > it runs are deterministic
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by themafia 5mo ago
This is the long tail of monopoly and cartel power. We need a fundamental change in the _size_ of corporations. They're otherwise too big to regulate and changing expectations will achieve nothing.
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by themafia 5mo ago
> Guy sells zero days elsewhere. No problem. The CIA will give it's high level officers millions of dollars in gold bars simply for the asking. I'm sure purchasing exploits doesn't even require a purchase order.
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by themafia 5mo ago
They intended to defraud this home owner engaged under contract for their own profit. This wasn't unforeseeable or accidental damage nor due to a misunderstanding on their part. It's also not a dichotomy. It can be both criminal
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by themafia 5mo ago
> will be easy to deterministically test side by side. How are you ever going to get test coverage over the massive number of possible system states and configurations? Are you going to compile every package in portage on every architec

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