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by troad 6mo ago
I think it's a stretch to call Apple's ARM transition "planned obsolescence". The M-series chips are very clear improvements on what came before and there is a clear rationale for that transition. We're talking here
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by troad 6mo ago
Anonymous mirror: https://xcancel.com/Lina_Hoshino/status/2046112493320458649
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by troad 6mo ago
> Theocracies oppressing their own people while aiming for expansion, particularly, must be dealt with. > Else, they will eventually oppress the entirety of humanity. We poured trillions of dollars into Afghanistan trying to do just t
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by troad 6mo ago
"Debate me bro"
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by troad 6mo ago
They all suck. There are no good polities in the Middle East. At this stage into the genocide-counter-genocide cycle, there are no clean hands left. We need to switch to renewables asap, and just withdraw completely from the Middle East. Th
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by troad 6mo ago
There's an SMBC strip that makes your exact point, except they intended it as satire, whereas you seem to mean it in earnest. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
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by troad 6mo ago
That's how all education works. It's the spiral model of teaching. In one grade you learn a bit of this and a bit of that, then the next year you retread, and flesh all those things out by adding more depth and complexity. Rinse a
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by troad 6mo ago
Posting this here just in case it saves someone time trying to figure out what's going on with `pnpm audit` (and why their CI might be failing, etc).
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NPM retires audit endpoint; breaks pnpm audit(github.com)
4 points by troad 6mo ago|2 comments
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by troad 6mo ago
It's pretty clear you're not a good faith interlocutor at this point.
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by troad 6mo ago
That's absurd. Are you, right now, compliant with all relevant laws and regulations in Turkmenistan? Do you have legal advice to back that up? Why not? Is it because you're a criminal ? No! Of course not! It's because you do
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by troad 6mo ago
That would be rather surprising to the large number of law schools that teach European Law as a core subject, such as the Panthéon-Sorbonne (Droit européen), Bologna U (Diritto Europeo), and Humboldt U (Europarecht). Equally surprised would
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by troad 6mo ago
European law imposes a great deal more obligations on a business than that. This claim is simplistic to the point of disingenuousness.
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by troad 6mo ago
> "We're unable to serve this website without compromising your privacy... " More accurately, "we do not have the staff or funds to figure out what every single random law around the globe requires of us, and since f
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by troad 6mo ago
Precisely so: the OED's role is descriptive , in that it is to describe English as it is used, not how it ought to be used. It provides evidence of a grammatical rule - it is not the rule itself. You can speak however you like, ther
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by troad 6mo ago
Yes, let's get the protractors out to find out if the man who's turned Twitter into a far right cesspool, and has served in a far right government, and constantly tweets far right things, may just have far right sympathies. /
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by troad 6mo ago
It is wrong, in the sense that native speakers do not say that, and it triggers what linguists call a "grammaticality judgment" in a native speaker. Same as "He eat apple" or "I am go to school". These may be c
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by troad 6mo ago
No, Frenchman is fine. It's a neutral and common descriptor, and I've far more often heard it said by French people than about them. Similar to Spaniard. Not everything needs to be perennially problematised.
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by troad 6mo ago
The original claim was "People shouldn't even be in the industry unless they can administer a Linux server, even if that has nothing to do with their role." It is a very significant moving of the goalposts to now suggest this
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by troad 6mo ago
I keep reading posts like this, but the people who say this never actually seem to enlighten the rest of us troglodytes by, say, writing a comprehensive, all inclusive, guide to doing this. If it's so easy, surely it's no big unde
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by troad 6mo ago
I'd be dependent on pre-existing binaries that are closely wedded to a particular platform (OS, libc etc), and it over time it would become more and more difficult to attest to build integrity / ensure reproducible builds. (Is the
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by troad 6mo ago
I feel like there's too much of a fetish for self-hosting. There's this pernicious idea that a language isn't a 'real' language until it's self-hosted, but a self-hosted compiler imposes real costs in terms of
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by troad 6mo ago
Thanks, that's a great answer and I really appreciate it!
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by troad 6mo ago
> For me, the table is extremely powerful. I like it that it can be used as a sparse array, a hash, a vector, whatever. Of course one must know, at heart, the difference between pairs() and ipairs() and what it means for your data, thoug
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by troad 6mo ago
That's quite a shift from your earlier post that US conduct "led to" the Islamic Republic, and a more measured and reasonable take. But in as far as the US had a secondary role in recent Iranian affairs, it was a very distan
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by troad 6mo ago
Except we're not talking about the Pahlavi dynasty, we're talking about the Islamic Republic. You're trying to draw some direct causal link from the '56 coup to the '79 revolution, just because that's the concl
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by troad 6mo ago
But you don't need an Apple device to contact iMessage users. Every iMessage ID is a phone number (SMS/RCS) or email. You've listed a whole bunch of alternatives available to you, but for some reason you demand that Apple cha
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by troad 6mo ago
The 1979 Islamic Revolution was staged by Iranians, in response to the despotism of the Pahlavi dynasty, founded in 1925 by Iranians. It is a disease of the Western mind - and particularly Western academia - to deny agency to others, espec
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by troad 7mo ago
Idk, I was kinda expecting to be downvoted to oblivion, but these were surprisingly upvoted posts (with the post noting that the other fellow comes off as young being more upvoted than the others). So it seems like there's some support
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by troad 7mo ago
This may be an age or geography thing, but Weather.com/Retro looks a lot more like the weather channels I remember than either of your two links. I don't think they were trying to recreate the thing you were expecting, but it seem

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