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by vacri 9y ago
You had to scroll past quite a few animated announcements and read past several lines of other updates in order to find this 'also-ran' item in the footnote .
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by vacri 9y ago
'western' means 'west european and similar', not 'western hemisphere'. It basically means most of europe (now) and the anglo 'new world' countries, though the exact countries involved vary depending o
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by vacri 9y ago
That's a philosophy that most musicians can't adhere to.
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by vacri 9y ago
A colleague had another problem with hot desks - a visitor would arrive at his floor and ask "Is Bob here?" => "I don't know". Without hot desks, you know where Bob sits and have a good chance of finding him. Wit
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by vacri 9y ago
The author doesn't want "an OS", but "an OS that operates like one out of a sci-fi movie, tracking and interpeting my actions and responding to natural language". Toy OS projects aren't this.
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by vacri 9y ago
> but most of the complaints are implementation details ... because the answer to a lot of the posed questions are those implementation details. It's a bit like saying "There should be peace in the middle east. The details of
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by vacri 9y ago
> It brings to mind OpenSSL after Heartbleed. It's three years later. What general-purpose OS other than OpenBSD is using LibreSSL?
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by vacri 9y ago
> My point is that the technology isn't that hard. I disagree - the technology is extremely hard. You're talking centuries of staff-hours to make your OS, if you want it to be a robust general-purpose OS and not a toy. Just t
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by vacri 9y ago
Yes, because "They're in the philipines... it'd take them longer" is totally the same as "black chocolate" (who says "black" chocolate anyway?)
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by vacri 9y ago
When you have to rely on a one-in-a-billion genetic freak to make new records, we are 'close to the limits'. When you have to have teams of scientists and coaches working to improve one individual just a tiny bit, we are &#x27
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by vacri 9y ago
I remember watching a b-grade Chinese kung-fu film. This side of the river had the master with six sons, that side had the master with six daughters. The second master really wanted a son and was overjoyed when his next child was a son. H
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by vacri 9y ago
Testing/QA accounts are one use-case where you can get a ton of mail.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Superhuman, however, is only targeting a fraction of the email market: business users who will pay a subscription for a more powerful client. For this reason, the browser version of the email app only works in Google Chrome. If they&
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by vacri 9y ago
What am I missing here? How is the openly racist GP comment not pounded into the gray? Or flagged?
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by vacri 9y ago
It's not 'simple maths'. Those are ' on-campus suicides', not 'all suicides in the demographic'. Your own link also points out that suicides are mostly elderly rural people, which doesn't line up wit
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by vacri 9y ago
I pick Apple's California campuses. Now, where are the people flinging themselves off company buildings there? This apologism misses the fact that the Foxconn suicide statistics are about suicide attempts on company grounds reported to
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by vacri 9y ago
Amazon didn't start out as an online retail behemoth. There was a time when that patent made them more competitive, especially in the early years of the online shopping experience.
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by vacri 9y ago
People also don't want to spend their day scrubbing toilets, but there are plenty of janitors out there.
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by vacri 9y ago
O_o
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by vacri 9y ago
Why should the ACLU defend the rights of a group intent on causing violence to other citizens? You could argue that their name actually means they should work to prevent that group from getting support, given that that group wants to infrin
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by vacri 9y ago
The 2nd amendment didn't work for them. They got their 'victory' (money << couple of dead people) through the courts later on.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Most always need volunteers. Depending on the place, it can either be more effective to donate money or food. It should be noted that some charities are drowning in unskilled labour, and that folks shouldn't take it personally i
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by vacri 9y ago
You don't have to be independently wealthy to be rich. Most middle-class people are neither poor nor rich, though they'll usually tell you that they're poor as fuck if the topic of money comes up. Very few of them have any pe
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by vacri 9y ago
If the government is unlawfully seizing your property, why aren't you at your property defending it with your gun, rather than engaging in a rally downtown? Besides, it's pretty clear that their issue is the 'intent on commit
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by vacri 9y ago
> they often don't have any loyalty to any airline. What do you expect? Not to be injured because of the flight. Is that too much of an ask?
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm 6'6" with broad shoulders. I can't take the window seat because of the curve of the plan. I usually have to take an aisle seat where I can (and also pay the extra for the legroom). The problem with the aisle seat, on
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by vacri 9y ago
One very important thing missing from this primer is that Make targets are not 'mini-scripts', even though they look like it. Every line is 'its own script' in its own subshell - state is not passed between lines. Make i
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by vacri 9y ago
I find that when discussing politics with an American, I want to say "you know what I fucking mean" more than when discussing with a European. Americans tend to attack the surface meaning of what you say rather than the actual mea
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by vacri 9y ago
> Is that really your argument? That black people had less free speech in the past, so we should get rid of free speech now? No, that would be you putting words in my mouth. I'm asking when was this supposed time in history when f
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm beginning to think that as soon as someone says the word 'agenda', you can safely ignore what they have to say. That word is never used constructively in political discussions.

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