tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
Fun fact: the XDJ-XZ hybrid console/controller appears to run a BSD of some kind. I wonder if the other products do too?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
There are laws in place that specifically handle writing bad checks. While I'm sure double-spending Bitcoin transactiosn is illegal in some way , it is probably covered under a more nebulous fraud-type statute. I'd be curious to
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> I think that’s the point. He’s not very principled. That... is a statement. So, the guy that openly flouts decades of prison time and enemy-of-the-state status (from the richest first-world country with a nearly unlimited budget for tr
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by tomc1985 5y ago
How are they going to get this thing on-site in 10 minutes? and I have a hard time believing a brushfire in parched areas is going to stay small enough to contain in that time. Have they seen how quickly a room in a house can be completely
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> I can tell what generation an engineer comes from based on attitude to whimsy. Younger devs almost always don't like them. Oh they do, it's just its more of a preference for some cute thing out of marketing. "Made with
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The running-over bit, sure, but I feel like this neofintech stuff is enabling a whole new cohort of grifters
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> I for one am surprised by the negative sentiment only because the tech industry seems to be all about it. Between the prevailing trend of rent-seeking subscriptions and shoving NFTs/blockchain into anything that some knucklehead t
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I think you are discounting the fact that in the second scenario you don't have to work . I don't know about y'all but that is my fantasy.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It's a really strong game if you judge it on its own merits. I had played through most of disc 1 of the original just before it came out, and I liked all the extra detail that the remake added to the gameworld. It's a shame it&#x2
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> emergent patterns to create a form of ladder While I think there are very strong whiffs of alchemy (i.e. belief) in a lot of forms of technical analysis, a number of these patterns have a psychosocial story to them, and the pattern its
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It isn't whether or not more and more people know it, it's weather or not they can overcome their emotions to use it effectively. And I think that proportion of people will continue to remain insignificant
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by tomc1985 5y ago
But that also gives it power... the more people act on a given indicator the more powerful (even predictable) it becomes So then you end up with this weird catch-22 where the indicator only has value because people are watching it, while it
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by tomc1985 5y ago
More of that moronic "let's serve our primary customer segment and fuck everyone else" aka "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black" Modern capitalism... thanks, Henry Ford
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You just described everything that is wrong and also most profitable about Youtube culture
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Am I the only one alarmed that WD maintains a public registry (via DNS) of MyCloud device UUIDs, their public IP, and their private IP? How many of those are on networks with exploitable routers? Like, you have an external entrypoint and
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Worked as a Perl dev for 15 years and enjoyed it. The hardest thing was the number of ways to do OO Perl using Perl5. Everyone has their own flavor. And TMTOWTDI was a motto the community was proud of. One of my frist dev jobs was slin
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by tomc1985 5y ago
My only beef with lottery players is that they always take forever in the convenience store line.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I think it is more that one has the ability to see "the man behind the curtain", and at how badly the deck is stacked against you for most things. Seeing and hearing the lies promulgated absolutely everywhere and knowing they are
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> I'd be interested to hear your opinion defending professional sports taking itself as seriously as it does then. Also stupid. Athlete worship is as bad or worse than celebrity worship. The obsession with and tribalism from profess
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I don't think highly of regular sports either.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> If you don't to want to install it you can still play the game, just not on any of the 'pro' servers. The worst thing gaming has ever done was think it was anything like professional sports. I think that I'm in fav
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I don't think anyone truly does that 100% of the time.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Ok but whatsapp and reddit are very very different. It is very easy to see how people can dissemnimate kiddie porn in an unmoderated WhatsApp group. But for a post to make it to the global reddit front page (not your personalized homepage)
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You own things, yes? How did you choose them? How did you even discover that they exist? That's what advertising addresses.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It's a right insofar that comprehensive identity data is additional meta that is attached to the message. But all that is truly needed is the message itself; we don't even need a single field for username. The internet is anonymou
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Now I feel too old to go to festivals, bars and clubs and make new friends that way. 37 here and I don't understand how you could feel this way. At least where I am the bar/festival/music scene is alive and vibrant and
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I don't think you realize just how insidious advertising is. Repetition builds awareness, which will infiltrate almost any thinking about the product or whatever. Every time you recall an earworm jingle, the ad is serving its purpose.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> reddit or twitter does not and regularly on reddit illegal porn (child & animal) is making the front page of reddit before moderators take it down. I am on reddit multiple times a day for years and I have never seen this happen.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> We're doing animals a favor, see! Hardly. I'm simply arguing that some combination of current agricultural practice is little worse than the natural alternative of having to spend one's life constantly on-guard so that t
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And my point is that the bucolic pastoral life only exists as created by humans. Everywhere else almost all animals are subject to the whims of the food chain, which can be as cruel if not more cruel than we humans. It's a much wider v

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