wombatpm

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541.
by wombatpm 3y ago
Nice use of ‘your’ to try and trick us bot. Oh I’ll make a stupid typo to trick the humans
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Massachusetts has a tendency to enforce
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by wombatpm 3y ago
The better bet is to process raw materials in space and send refined products down to earth. Would you rather have strip-mining and smelting occurring in space or on earth? Daniel Suarez had a lot of fascinating ideas in Delta-V
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by wombatpm 3y ago
That was right after Nelson Mandela died in prison
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by wombatpm 3y ago
No one needing hospice care is up walking around enjoying the outdoors.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Or charge to remove the casual references to how product X sucks
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by wombatpm 3y ago
In grad school I ended up managing a small cluster of SGI machines in our department. After setting up two new machines the time was wrong. I fixed it. Hours later it’s off by 12 minutes. Back and forth I go for a week thinking SGI has crap
548.
by wombatpm 3y ago
How about a diff tool to track changes in excel DATA, FORMULAS, and MACROS. Do you know how many business are run with handcrafted excel sheets that are not in source control? Which is the correct budget model? Budget.xlsx Budgetv2.xlsx Bud
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by wombatpm 3y ago
People with wrong names should be encouraged to change them to something correct.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
XSLT is just XML with pattern matching and no side effects. Lisp-ish in a way That said XML is like violence, if it’s not solving you problems you need to use more.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
If Twitter and TikTok is any indication, schools do not spend enough time on order of operations 5 - 2(3 - 1) - 5 = ?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Could it be worse than Alien vs Predator ?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Even in the future we have weak unions and crappy workplace safety enforcement. Alien lifeform - Check Dangerous - Check Ability to eat through spacesuit dome - Check Sorry dude, we going to need to quarantine your ass. Instead, all but one
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by wombatpm 3y ago
128EB of which only a tiny fraction is utilized. I imagine most tapes only get written to multiple times, but never read from. We’re supposed to restore from backup periodically to ensure the process is working but I’ve never seen EVERY bac
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Guess I should pay attention to urls more. I was all excited that this was a new logo for the Thunderbirds, as in Thunderbirds are Go! Again! With JMS hyping the B5 logo update just before announcing the new animated series, it makes one ho
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by wombatpm 3y ago
So there needs to some mechanism to extend copyright for certain properties. Some sort of extension fee that’s 1million or 10% of last years revenue whichever is higher. Such a fee would prevent squatting on properties forever, while allowi
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Elon has shown us all how to make a small fortune in social media. It’s not his fault that we don’t have 40 billion to burn buying a 20 billion business with a 13 billion mortgage
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by wombatpm 3y ago
On rewatch what threw me the most was American Airlines has a fleet of floating green houses in space to preserve the ecology of earth and one day decides nah, blow them up we don't need it anymore.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Mad Max was a breakdown in global trade and oil that may or may not have been caused by a nuclear war in the north.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Desolation Road is even better
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by wombatpm 3y ago
And how could I forget Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
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by wombatpm 3y ago
City - Clifford D Simack All of Miles Vorkosigan books by Lois Bujold Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh Stand in Zanzibar John Bruner Adiamante - LE Modesitt Jr Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen Known Space series by Larry Niven and
563.
by wombatpm 3y ago
On the internet no one knew you were a dog according to the Net Yorker cartoon
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by wombatpm 3y ago
So if we gathered all books, writings, games, etc on ever published on chess could we develop a grandmaster player without having to build a deep blue type system?
565.
by wombatpm 3y ago
You can do that, but it certainly doesn’t help you with project discovery. If you want only distribute via GitHub that’s fine. But as a developer I’d need a compelling reason to use such a project vs one distributed via pypi
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I think you misinterpreted the comment. The Payment would be required for people wanting to PUSH to pypi. Developers and people PULLING from pypi would remain free. The problem is garbage and malicious submissions.
567.
by wombatpm 3y ago
I agree 100%. I loved it when I started using 2years ago and have been sad to watch its downward slide for the reasons you indicated. Time to switch to kagi
568.
by wombatpm 3y ago
Rocko's Basilisk will thank you.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
What I don't understand is why spammers think this is a good idea. It's not like the SF short story market is flush with cash and it will make them rich. Personally, I think the spam should be flagged and sent to a chat bot that e
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Just goes to show how much you can accomplish when you are focused on schooling, instead drinking and chasing skirts

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