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by trav4225 6y ago
Uninstalling should do the trick. ;-)
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by trav4225 6y ago
I do R&D for government. A significant portion of what my group develops is required to conform to or to mimic business processes that emerged, practically accidentally, 50+ years ago. Nobody dares innovate, perhaps for two reasons: pro
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by trav4225 6y ago
No offense intended to you at all, but "the way the word rings in current English" seems super subjective. Personally, the notion of "rape" never even occurred to me when I heard this name. Incidentally, unlike "rap
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by trav4225 6y ago
On a related note, Twitter constantly gives me an error that I'm being "rate-limited" when I'm simply trying to read a tweet. A single tweet. Even if it's the first time I've accessed Twitter all month. Very bi
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by trav4225 6y ago
But, isn't "extrapolating physical appearance from incomplete data" the entire point of this project?
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by trav4225 6y ago
> That perhaps some of the emperors weren’t totally Caucasian but rendering them as such from the best available evidence is somehow racist? These days, sadly, yes. The definition of racism has been so diluted in recent years that, as yo
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by trav4225 6y ago
> What are you actually saying? That white colar workers cannot have certain benefits that come with the job because blue collar workers cannot have them? I'm pretty sure this is what is regarded as "progress" these days..
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by trav4225 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your experiences! This is good advice. I also agree that, at times, some "filtering" must occur with regard to who we work with/for.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Ah, agreed. I guess that, in my experience, not understanding SW development tends to go hand-in-hand with not trusting the developer. I found your phrase "lack of trust in you as the expert" a little jarring because (again, in my
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by trav4225 6y ago
One would wish. Personally, I don't think I've ever worked under a manager who understood software development. It tends to be all about what they can see (GUI) or about nearly meaningless metrics on a dashboard (LOC, tickets clos
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by trav4225 6y ago
Ahh, yes. This is so common in my experience as well!
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by trav4225 6y ago
I don't think Pigz decompresses in parallel.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Like I said, pretty standard! ;-)
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by trav4225 6y ago
Seems pretty standard to me. (Although I also typically only write C in C89, so modern C might be a lot prettier.)
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by trav4225 6y ago
Every web browser that exists. :)
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by trav4225 6y ago
Hahah, you're not alone. I have these thoughts nearly every single day...
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by trav4225 6y ago
> Too many people here on hn talk a lot of shit on stuff they don't really know much about beyond a cursory understanding Amen, amen!
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by trav4225 6y ago
This is pretty typical of most software these days: user-hostile and painfully dumbed down. Browsers especially seem to be able to get away with this because there are practically no non-annoying alternatives that are sufficiently secure an
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by trav4225 6y ago
Some relevant TLDR background from the article: "A self-described Communist in her political views, Elbakyan believes the paywall policy of science publishing is a kind of censorship."
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by trav4225 6y ago
This is exactly the problem with "censorship". It merely hides reality. Why is transparency not better in most situations?
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by trav4225 6y ago
discrimination: bad; killing: not a problem? Edit: I'm not being snarky. I truly don't understand this distinction.
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by trav4225 6y ago
It's hard to see how playing such games with human language can possibly lead to improved discourse. The various camps aren't even speaking the same language anymore. Not sure how we recover from that.
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by trav4225 6y ago
This is new to me, too. It seems like we're overloading an existing term with a new meaning that is foreign to anyone over the age of 30..?
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by trav4225 6y ago
I definitely have encountered this. One was even a device intended for development via USB. For some strange reason, the USB-C cable shipped with the product only supported power, requiring the customer to buy another cable for data transfe
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by trav4225 6y ago
True. I was only referring to Linux itself (i.e., the kernel), because that's what I understood the parent commenter to be referring to.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Android uses a forked Linux kernel.
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by trav4225 6y ago
LOL: "First ever audiophile network interface for music streaming": https://jcat.eu/product/net-card-femto-audiophile-network-ad...
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by trav4225 6y ago
How is credit card expiration handled? Or do you suggest another payment method?
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by trav4225 6y ago
This reminded me of a dialog I witnessed many years ago. One guy was describing how offended he was when people used the term "black", because he considered himself "African American". The other guy, who considered himse
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by trav4225 6y ago
No offense at all, just honestly trying to understand your argument. Is holocaust denial hate speech because it is assumed that deniers know that the holocaust did indeed occur and are thus intentionally lying about it in order to hurt peop

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