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by zdragnar 1y ago
> The only debatable facet of this is what specifically they meant by "militia." There's not too much to debate there; many militias existed at the time. Every state had them! Further, every border was susceptible to forei
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by zdragnar 1y ago
This is nonsense; assaulting and killing people is illegal except in self defense. In no way whatsoever does the second amendment legitimize violence.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I think "most" are fixed. I use quotes because I've seen people say they have issues that I have never run into myself. I'm currently stuck on Windows for some old school .NET work, but otherwise have been running Waylan
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Have we already forgotten the absurd amount of support the murderer of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare? Maybe it wasn't 23%, but it was certainly not insignificant. > It isn't hard to find evidence of people (especially young ones)
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by zdragnar 1y ago
...for 10 years. After that, you're back in the hole that you were in before, but without anything to draw on. They're currently taking in the equivalent of $500 billion but spending $1.8 trillion, with a GDP of $3 trillion. Under
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It shows correlation, not causation. In the vein of this thread, it's not more or less useful than other anecdotes. I posited a causation based on how the anecdotes countered the general trends in the data. I welcome counter arguments
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Cited data on broad human population shows correlation at best, not causation. I posited a cause based on the lived experiences people shared with me. You're free to disagree with my conclusion, or to suggest an alternative cause. None
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> If someone can't consent to anything, can they be allowed on the street? Well, public intoxication is illegal where I live, so presumably no.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
FWIW, my friend was accused of acting white probably around the year 2000 or so, well before anything algorithmic. Not to say that tiktok is innocent, but it certainly isn't the root cause.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Skin color isn't it, actually. I knew (second hand) a teacher in a rural area of a low population state. All white kids, she'd have kindergartners cussing her out. Very little hope for any academic future for the other grades as t
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by zdragnar 1y ago
NPM is rather infamous for not exactly respecting the lockfile, however.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Generations of family farms have been selling out over the course of my life due to the bad economics. Dairy farms consolidate, and fields are worth more for building houses on than for growing corn or soy or wheat. It used to be at least o
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The same is true in the US. Most (all?) states have state-wide speed limit "defaults" for town/city roads (i.e. 25 mph), highways and rural roads (i.e. 55 mph) and freeways (i.e. 70mph). Instead of having a speed limit sign a
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Yeah, yarn and co came about because npm was slow, buggy and didn't honor its own lockfile. Nowadays it is mostly improved, and the others differentiate by enchantments to workspaces (better monorepo support) or more aggressive caching
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Ostensibly, you could keep loaning them out...
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by zdragnar 1y ago
This is missing the point entirely. Esoteric languages are those designed to intentionally be novel in some manner, and frequently allow impractical design choices to support the art, joke or boundary-pushing novelty. They're not inten
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Don't many museums accept items on loan? Which is to say, they'll display them for an agreed upon time and return them rather than claim ownership?
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by zdragnar 1y ago
AWS services aren't designed for people just learning to program. Beanstalk and other services have billing limits you can set, but those aren't hard limits because they are measured async to keep performance up. With that said, A
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The ol all requirements up front -> design -> implement that people classically associate with waterfall came from an infographic on how not to do waterfall. Actual waterfall looks very much like actual agile, in that it is designed
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Ah yeah, that makes more sense. I lived about half a mile or a mile south of where the green line now runs and had to take a bus down university ave. Sadly, my neighborhood had long waits between buses that connected to university ave, and
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Back when I lived in the cities 15 or so years ago, it was still notably slower than driving, so many if not most people still drove everywhere. Public transit wasn't as gross as stories I've heard of elsewhere, but it also wasn&#
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Ironically, the Northstar rail line (one part boondoggle, one part "would have worked if it went all the way to st cloud", depending on who you ask) is shutting down Jan 3 or 4 in 2026, so I wouldn't be surprised to see artic
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I'm not who you asked, but my family and one of my friends were all the same. My mom sees halos around lights at night, so much so that she can't drive after sunset. Her eyes are so dry that she gets plugs inserted into her tear d
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Same, I'd assumed the LLM "prompt" was borrowed from essay prompts in school.
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I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building of m
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Being rich is a measure of wealth. In a world in which there is no resource scarcity and everyone has access to lots of resources, everyone is rich but not necessarily more rich or powerful than anyone else. The average person today is much
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"The docs" also say that it's only available in firefox. If you're going to use the docs, you should use the docs.
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It also biases society in favor of large investment landlords over the elderly, poor and young. When you massively increase the cost of something, only the wealthy will be able to afford it.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> And this is why rare earth processing left Americ Not to mention that it can take 10-30 years to open a new mine, between all the environmental reviews and court challenges. I'm always amazed that people will prevent mines from op
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It's not that they weren't useful, it's that someone higher up has to justify the expensive enterprise contract that they've foisted upon everyone else with the vague promise of saving money by using it. The consumers of

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