tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
> But remember Russia has never involved itself where it does not have deep cultural ties What a convenient way of excluding entirely relevant points of argument. Ukraine suffered the first forced change of national borders in Europe sin
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. I worked for a large west-coast computer store, in the early 2000s, selling and then later building custom PCs for walk-in customers, as well as doing walk-in computer repairs on all manner of different
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by tomc1985 5y ago
"They also vote a lot more, and a lot more predictably" Literally the words out of the mouth of a close friend of mine who sits on city council for a mid-size CA suburb
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Funny, my first thought on reading this was, "why doesn't she just use `&.` and `||` and call it a day" until I realized that it's a syntax error if you try to use that with `.[]` Note there is also `data[:response][
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I'm not entirely sure that is necessary. While I think connections will take you further, nurturing relationships in the community, as an adult, is also very useful. This is something anyone can do provided they can get wherever things
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I'm personally in favor of such an organization but it really goes against the meritocratic spirit of tech. Lots of us have used tech to bootstrap a better life through sheer mastery and not a "professional" track
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by tomc1985 5y ago
What else are people going to buy then?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Really? We almost saw a resurgence with the chatbot craze that recently passed. And frankly command-line is something that GUIs do easily , or have we as a field forgotten that too? People have such a gap-filled view of the past. I barely
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> easy enough for the average layperson to use At one point it was easy enough for the average person to use, because the average person had to deal with a command-line. But tech, in its infinite quest to Make More Money, keeps chasing t
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by tomc1985 5y ago
MetaFilter's been doing this for decades and it seems to be working well for them
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Because corporate interests have brainwashed us into thinking that IRC isn't good enough any more
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The faster society learns to ignore these pitches (preferably while mocking whoever came up with it) the better society will be
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by tomc1985 5y ago
This was exactly how I was able to break out of an unprivileged user account in Windows XP, except it involved setting a timer with `at`
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by tomc1985 5y ago
As one of those users who prefers to distinguish UI from content, I support this message.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Why oh why didn't the military destroy equipment left behind in the wind-down? At least at the bases... where they keep heaps of explosives for the purpose of destroying things?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Good lord, now you're accusing me of defending the guy? Cool it.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The manner in which it was asked was very poor.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Is this the comment section of a news site or are you trying to grade a university-level student essay?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
If a specific journalist has an axe to grind they don't need to be part of a larger conspiracy to ask damaging questions. There are some people that enjoy the power trip of forcing the hand of large companies, and there are others that
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by tomc1985 5y ago
While both those things are true, the 'mostly' part is not. There are a lot of couples and singles posting their exploits and OnlyFans creators trying to drive traffic to their feed. What are you searching for that got you those
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by tomc1985 5y ago
So long, OnlyFans. You started a golden age just as quickly as you ended it.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Not much to tell... old forum friend from back when forums were the big thing. We'd play videogames together that weren't too sensitive to lag in our off hours. She had a few stories from life there, I forget what her role was. At
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by tomc1985 5y ago
This. Facebook has a proven track record of saying whatever the hell people want to hear to feel good about Facebook. To say nothing of the fact that this report seems to omit ad views and those are occupying an increasingly large portion o
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It could be something for the local US embassy. I knew some people in the foreign service that worked there once
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Has Elasticsearch done anything to fix its ridiculously bad lack of access control? People are fucking stupid, and expecting them not to fuck this up is a big ask. Too big, in fact. Secure by default or GTFO
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Elasticsearch is like the security breach gift that keeps on giving...
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Aside from obvious visual differences, how does this compare to Linux Mint?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I'm only interested in play vs bots, and in that regard I found the enemy AI quite refreshing to play against.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Desal's some pretty great tech
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Oh, don't forget the legions of cheap javascript newbs fresh out of boot camp that they can hire!

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