wtbob

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by wtbob 11y ago
> a video game that includes lessons on Iranian constitutional rights It's been noted regarding the Soviet satellites that only a tyrannical government needs to shoot to keep people in ; one might likewise argue that only a tyranny
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by wtbob 11y ago
> What is the correct way to force a link to open in a new tab, then? What is the correct way to stalk, hunt, kill, stuff and mount the user? Answer: there is no correct way to do something which is fundamentally incorrect. > Unfortun
903.
by wtbob 11y ago
Is this one of those true things we all agree not to talk about? Because I sure don't see anything wrong with it: if a guy's wife is unhappy with his job, then he'll get a new one.
904.
by wtbob 11y ago
You're quite right, but does it make sense to conflate objects and namespaces that way? Might it not make more sense to separate the concerns?
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by wtbob 11y ago
> I have only lived at the West coast which largely seems at odds which some other parts of the country. Parts of the South come to mind immediately. The circumstances people live I seem so very different and thus are their needs and con
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by wtbob 11y ago
I thought it meant 'washing day' originally …
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Pure server rendering will work for webapp. But if one day the client decides to have iOS/Android apps, the backend will need to be updated to provide Rest APIs. Why not make the REST API the rendered API? Just render state to HT
908.
by wtbob 11y ago
> Javascript is a great language. I think you must be suffering a misunderstanding about the meaning of one of those words. JavaScript is a hideous, misdesigned, sad and ultimately embarrassing language. It's hideous: curly bracke
909.
by wtbob 11y ago
Really pretty. Given how small it is, I wonder how difficult porting it to other languages would be; it might make a decent little reference spec for lightweight GUIs.
910.
by wtbob 11y ago
I absolutely love StumpWM, and never want to go back to a non-tiling, non-Lisp window manager. I love that I can connect to it from emacs using SLIME and recompile pieces while it's running. I love that it uses my entire screen, cl
911.
by wtbob 11y ago
I remember pubs in the late 90s: dimly lit, filled with smoke, quiet rock music, quiet people, waitress who'd drop by when you called her over. I could bring in all my books and write a term paper for an entire afternoon, and they nev
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by wtbob 11y ago
Yes, and in regions outside of America there are folks who prefer to see lengths in decimetres and there are folks who prefer to see lengths in centimetres. Sure, it's easy to convert by sliding a decimal point, but they want to see t
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by wtbob 11y ago
Over a decade? It's over twenty years old! SSL/TLS & its XPKI are complete and utter jokes.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> What I dislike is that temperature and distance in a couple of apps are now in US units, which I find unreasonable. I should be able to choose SI units if I want to. And I'm in the opposite situation: I prefer British English but
915.
by wtbob 11y ago
Yeah, that one got me too. I really hope these servers just call them telnet admins and don't actually use telnet in 2016.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> What freedom and democracy? Our side was a ruthless dictatorship too. It was less bad, and had potential to be more good. As I noted, it was imperfect. > You make a good point about violence sometimes begin necessary. But making th
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Did you read the article? Did you read my post? I read his entire article and quoted it. Pacifists are to violence as anti-vaxxers are to medicine: freeloaders.
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by wtbob 11y ago
I think a software mutual aid organisation could be GPL-compatible, too: it'd be one legal corporation whose members (human or incorporated) would be using the software collectively. It'd be an interesting idea, surely.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> My position has its roots in the Vietnam War, when I was a conscientious objector Ah yes, the Vietnam War, a last-ditch attempt to preserve some freedom and democracy (albeit imperfect) from a bloodthirsty regime which killed tens or h
920.
by wtbob 11y ago
> If the overall complaint is that it's not built into the OS, well, welcome to UNIX, island of isolated, uncooperative, and sometimes broken toys. > I like UNIX, don't get me wrong, but some of the API design is truly appal
921.
by wtbob 11y ago
I'm still pretty firmly in the camp which believes that a lot of logic ('business rules,' if you like that phrase) should reside in the database. IMHO DBAs are useful, in much the same way that ops folks are useful: they hav
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by wtbob 11y ago
I wonder if the Cuban food in the U.S. is the authentic version, imported by those who were able to flee the revolution, while the food found in Cuba today is the result of fifty years of poverty.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> I do wish to exclude myself from any community that deliberately includes Yarvin and his ilk. > I will happily discuss or debate ideas with them on any topic, in any forum where it makes sense to do so. > But I'm not oblig
924.
by wtbob 11y ago
> Seems pretty obvious to me, why that failed - the linked specification describes how to represent a tree of pairs of byte strings. What do I do with that? Whatever you want to. Once you have lists, trees and byte strings, you have eve
925.
by wtbob 11y ago
I rather think it wasn't a result of decreased public housing but rather of the closing of the asylums.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> The drug addicts and mentally ill who go on ambulance rides every week or more. These people are abusing their freedom and abusing free services. At what point do we either restrict their freedom or retract their free services? &#x27
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by wtbob 11y ago
> If you need to debug it, it's trivial to even look at the hex dump of packets. The problem, of course, is that it's not trivial to generate those packets in an interactive fashion. That's what's great about proto
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by wtbob 11y ago
Y'know, I have a terribly powerful desktop always running at my home; I'd love to be able to load a container on it which does all this processing locally.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> in that regard I don't think secretaries are essential. Ah, now we've gotten to the very nut of it: you don't think that secretaries are essential. Never mind that the sort of folks who employ them seem to think that
930.
by wtbob 11y ago
That's an excellent point. I have no problem purchasing a new phone every year, because I'm well-off and consider it a new toy (don't worry, I give to charity too!). I recently replaced my old $15 thermostat with a $200 smart

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