uncle_j

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by uncle_j 7y ago
Oh this old chestnut. This is quite frankly nonsense. You have released the software to the wider world it is your responsibility to make sure it is decent. Just because you have released it for free doesn't suddenly mean you can avoid
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by uncle_j 7y ago
It doesn't say that anywhere on the site or their github page.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
If they've haven't got that right I would be sceptical what other insecurities are present.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> xenophobia This is a smear to demonise leave voters and dismiss any valid concerns they may have. The UK is generally not xenophobic. > Anecdotally, from watching shows like Question Time on the BBC, I strongly believe that leave vo
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Using the hyper-partisan guardian opinion piece as evidence of anything is laughable. It is quite clear that many here don't want to understand those that voted Leave. Instead they are quite happy to build a straw-man.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/research-papers/peoples-stated-reasons... > This report includes several different surveys and opinion polls asking Britons why they voted the way they did in the EU referendum. It identifies t
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Nobody I know who voted leave ever mentions the bus. Sure it was part of the "Leave Campaign" but that doesn't mean it is why people voted. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/research-papers/peoples-stated-reasons...
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I don't think that would have swayed as many votes as you think it does. England has been euro-skeptic since Henry VIII. David Starky actually does some really good lectures about it. It is part of the Zeitgeist of this country.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> and just straight-up xenophobia. This is tiring to keep seeing this constant smear repeated. Sure immigration was mentioned but having control over immigration isn't the same as xenophobia. I've lived in a few different count
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by uncle_j 7y ago
The UK isn't going to turn into a 3rd world country anytime soon and the Economy at the moment is still growing faster than Germany and is projected to continue after the 31st.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
No it isn't. The money argument isn't a valid argument for the vast majority of people that voted to Leave. The people that voted leave just didn't think the economic argument is as important as you think it is. That doesn&#x
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by uncle_j 7y ago
What people keep on forgetting is that Leaving the EU was never about money. Micheal Caine said it best "I'd rather be a poor master than a rich slave".
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Yes I know. I can install it fine. Do I particularly want to use a text based installer than looks like something from the 80s? Nope. I have an Amiga 1200 on my desk and that has a better installer than most BSDs. This is essentially a dead
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by uncle_j 7y ago
This is pretty much exactly what I wanted in an OS. Decent lite-weight desktop BSD with a Graphical installer that isn't TrueOS (I don't like it).
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Youtube auto captioning doesn't work for British Accents especially anything Northern English, Scottish or Welsh. The same with any voice control, It doesn't work with my west country accent.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
The problem is that a lot of writing from ancient sources e.g. Bible, Confucius etc. get discounted because of the language used. If you actually think about what they actually meant at the time a lot of the time there is a lot of wisdom in
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by uncle_j 7y ago
It can do the same stuff in a lot of cases. It won't scale as well but that is a different discussion. You can always find things another OS can't do.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
People replace God with something else I have noticed. Many of the Atheists in the Atheists community in the United States started a new organisation called Atheism+, which alienated a lot of group and those in Atheism+ started added a lot
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Untrue. It works better than most people give it credit for. I run quite a lot of stuff on OpenBSD and it works for the most part fine. Sure if you are running Netflix or something at mega scale it probably won't be any good, but it wo
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Well it is part of anti-fragile thinking really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile I run several discords and forums and I allow a certain amount of hazing to go on. This has a positive effect in some ways obvi
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> Isn't the entire point of a community to have rules on how to behave inside or else we are kicked out? We are typically talking about nations and states (which aren't necessarily the same thing). You are born into it and typi
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Jaron Lanier's You are not a Gadget. It really changes your ideas about software and I really wish people would read it. Especially regarding Open source and regarding design. Keep in mind It isn't a programming book though and it
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by uncle_j 7y ago
No you are accusing me of racism when I made no comment about race what-so-ever. This "well you are secretly talking about black men" is you inserting your own prejudices and assumptions into something I've never said. This m
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Not at all. I should have expected such a reply though tbh. Many men work long hours and miss out on their family time. Also men typically work more dangerous jobs and are more likely to die on the job. They are also more less likely to win
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Fair enough.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> If there was a young guy dressed in sports gear and appeared to be somewhat of a lout, no matter what the colour of his skin I would cross the road. I didn't say anything about Black men. I said if I saw young men in General th
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> To a degree, yes. But are you really trying to pretend it's already perfect? Perfect is the enemy of Good. > Again, it could be worse. And I'm not trying to meddle in your life. If you and your SO want to live by tradition
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> Well, the author is saying that she is considering giving up her career in reearch which she very much wants to pursue to have children because she can't find a way to reconcile the two. I disagree. Unfortunately you have to make
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by uncle_j 7y ago
It isn't my assertion. The crime statistics in both the UK and the USA back this up. It is something like 96% of all prosecutions of sexual assault are men. EDIT: In fact it is higher at least in the UK > In 2011, males accounted fo
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by uncle_j 7y ago
It isn't seen as "real" work by other men. Men have been the bread winners for almost all of human history and thus other men don't think they are doing their bit.

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