uonpopular_th

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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
>This seems like a viciously difficult problem to solve to me. How do you hire someone for a city's transport agency who has the ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project? Anyone with those skills will surely be
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
This strawman is getting tiresome. You're equating the virus escaping from a lab with the virus being engineered with the virus being a bio-weapon with the release being intentional.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
I've been 50 since I was 12. I wonder what will happen when my body catches up with my age.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
Not really. There's just as many opportunities in every age, it's just that you've been burned enough times to realize that the majority of opportunities are nothing of the sort.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
1 and 2 are great, 3 isn't.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
>Needs a timeframe and context. Back in the, say, 1990s or maybe even early 2000s, when the modern world was just forming and the only languages students would work in were C and C++, maybe with some Bash and Perl on the side, 25k lines
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
>Where do you even begin decompressing a claim like this? Start writing the code and see where it takes you. Having done that type of work in grad school I moved from C++ to Guile for exploratory work for that very reason. I then rewrote
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
No, those people are idiots. Don't just talk about injustice, do something about it.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
The bureaucrats who should have been enabling and coordinating scientists instead decided what the policy should be for Covid19 and ruined the lives/careers of anyone who did not fall in line. The worst of these decisions by far was th
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years. Economics is a science as good as any other. It's just that a lot of people with a lot of money want it to say something so it does. No science is insulate
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
An extremist is someone who can't change her mind and won't change the subject.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
>Others have documented the sordid tale of Mastodon’s development better than I could, but suffice it to say that many queer people, people of color, and women have been cast aside by Rochko despite significant and often culturally defin
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
>What’s more terrifying is what happens to explicit material where consenting adults use filters like this? Is the law keeping up with tech like this? I hope not. I'm sick and tired of everything being illegal because someone finds
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
All my dealing with GNOME have made me dread the day that happens. We need a polyculture because we will never beat $mega_corp on a polished monoculture.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
>Zoom, Slack, Spotify, Steam, Discord, Obsidian Well yes, these are all closed source binaries. In terms of usage it's not all that different to running them in a VM. In the bad old days we just did it in an XP windows VM instead.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
They don't teach you that any more than current books do. You might gain that because you compare the two and notice the old books are obviously wrong against new data ... something the current books happily tell you too.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
This reads like someone whose spend a lot of time thinking about the problem and a lot less time working on the problem. The main gist is: Why is memory shared between two processes? The answer is: you can unblock a deadlock when you have a
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
If that were the case why are we letting bureaucrats write these?
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
Did anyone check if they also used ChatGPT to write the apology?
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
It's like a wind powered Tibetan prayer wheel. It can say the right things for me so I get forgiveness without actually doing anything.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
Old forums aren't much better unfortunately. Going back to the places where I hung out in the 00s the inmates are running the asylum now.
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
It's much worse than that. The people doing the banning on reddit aren't doing it because they are paid or told to, they are doing it because they think stopping wrongthink is a public service and will feel right doing it every ti
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by uonpopular_th 4y ago
The web is boring now because everyone interesting is banned by bland mediocrities. If you don't follow the current thing to the letter every major social media platform - bar twitter for the last two months - would remove you from cir