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by vacri 9y ago
I'm of the opinion that there are no good ticketing systems. I've seen a fair few of them (but haven't looked in the last year or two) and I realised that the problem is this: the amount of information you need to store to ma
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by vacri 9y ago
Do mayors in the US actually control the whole city? Here in Melbourne, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne is actually just a local government position (despite the grand-sounding name), only managing issues in the CBD area (36 sq km of greater me
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by vacri 9y ago
'coming back' means they lost their job at some point. And Trump hasn't 'come back', because he's still in his first ever term as a politician (and it's extraordinarily difficult to fire him - a US preside
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by vacri 9y ago
"Don't board moving vehicle" is an instruction which implies no penalties. "Don't board moving vehicle/legal code #123v4" is an instruction which implies legal ramifications if you disobey.
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by vacri 9y ago
Trump isn't really proving me wrong. He made a lot of promises. He's completely unable to get any of them done; he's a completely ineffective politician. He's alienated his own staff and political allies. He won't s
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by vacri 9y ago
The counterpoint is, however, that the 'risk' is real: while most parents wouldn't hold the ministry accountable for minor risks, 'most' is not 'all'. They're doing CYA for a reason, not because they
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by vacri 9y ago
I was talking about enforcing stigmas via the law, not about the pets.
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by vacri 9y ago
> and the occasional stigma Doesn't the US constitution's first amendment enshrine a citizen's right to care less about social stigmas? As in, people can't be penalised (by the government) just for bucking the socia
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by vacri 9y ago
One of the things that this visitor to CA found disturbing was how so many signs have the code number of the law listed on it. Made the visit feel more police-state-ey. Even the little cart that carries tourists up the hill at Alcatraz had
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by vacri 9y ago
Count me in as well. This fearmongering about AI really is nonsense, as is all the 'we must regulate it now' stuff - how can we regulate something that is so ill-defined to begin with? As for the lethal autonomous weapons, they&#x
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by vacri 9y ago
Brexit is a good example of this. There was a lot of grassroots discontent, but it took educated elites to organise and focus it into something they wanted. The people at the bottom just simply don't have much experience in organising
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by vacri 9y ago
It doesn't shut the machine down though, right? Just kills all the processes? I remember reading somewhere that solaris-killall was only a part of the shutdown process. I remember having a related problem with an ubuntu cloud server a
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by vacri 9y ago
It's not ugly, so much as unconventional. It's also aimed at developers rather than c-levels or the general public. As for 'what is tarsnap?', the very first block of regular text on the tells you, in bullet-point form.
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by vacri 9y ago
By skipping the second half, you missed the push of "I've been on Oprah, therefore this company will be successful". Seriously, the last 20 seconds before the logo reveal starts is footage of him on Oprah.
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by vacri 9y ago
> So where should the cut-off be? Is it $3500? $350? This kind of debate tactic always puzzles me, forcing a binary state on an opinion. The quoted bit even implies a spectrum, given the adjective 'utterly'. I can't imag
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by vacri 9y ago
Curious that in the geographical support charts, The Left is on the right :)
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by vacri 9y ago
It's a false equivalency, comparing Trump supporters to similar in other countries. The AfD gets 5% of the vote. Trump got nearly 50% of the vote. Every population has its extremist idiots, but for nearly 50% of voters to willingly cas
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by vacri 9y ago
It really isn't. Programming is still a niche skill - we've had a generation now that's grown up with their eyes glued to computer screens and now smartphones, and the average user still isn't any good at troubleshooting
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by vacri 9y ago
Maintaining projects with MySQL in them is still a thing, yes.
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by vacri 9y ago
> [5 Random Blocks] [Z and S in any order] [Z and S in any order] [5 Random Blocks] Any dab hands at regex out there? I think this is the regex to match, but something feels wrong about it (([^sz]){5}[sz]{2})([sz]{2}([^sz]){5})
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by vacri 9y ago
I don't understand your problem with someone having a mentor. I've been a sysadmin for approaching a decade now and I have a mentor, and no-one's ever called me a fraud at any stage. So what if she has help from someone more
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by vacri 9y ago
Profanity is not synonymous with abuse. People use profanity all the time here. Similarly, the mods will still take a dim view of you if you keep it clean while abusing someone.
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by vacri 9y ago
> So "all time" is still wrong. If you're going to be that pedantic, then the full phrase is "all-time record ". It's specifically referring to the record . If we don't have recorded temperatures fr
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by vacri 9y ago
> Exactly how would "closed pores" change thermal regulation? Less sweat, where the cooling mechanism is evaporation.
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by vacri 9y ago
> without A/C ... and clothes, shoes, agriculture, metal, etc etc. A/C is a luxury, yes, but humans have been without pretty much all artificial things for most of their existence.
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by vacri 9y ago
I must have missed the part where Antifa gets a free pass. Antifa, like nazies, is a label used like a bugbear. Most often it's seen by ideological opponents who use it to discredit gatherings of protestors: "Oh, there were $LABEL
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by vacri 9y ago
> I'm not sure you understand what freedom of expression really is. If we're being honest, then frankly, this is patronising. Just because I don't 100% agree with you is no reason to claim that I don't know what I&#
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by vacri 9y ago
> to make housing the same fraction of your living expenses And when housing is the same fraction, the disposable income after that fraction is removed is far, far higher. As Bill Gates says, once you can afford the $30 burger, there&#
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by vacri 9y ago
Can you please link me to some examples of violent pro-communist rallies in the US? Besides, did you miss the whole McCarthyism thing in the '50s in your history class in school? And even here on HN, there are plenty of people who use
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, since you're arguing against standards in scientific research, then we may as well disband NIST and get rid of SI units.

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