Alan_Dillman

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by Alan_Dillman 3y ago
>f one thinks that some corporation--any corporation--owes "faith" or loyalty to their customers If you don't think it is well past time to start forcing ethical behaviour on corporations... I don't know what to say t
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by Alan_Dillman 3y ago
>Lead pipe but instead of a dozen people in the pipe factory it's a few hundred You haven't been in a factory lately, or toured one from 100 years ago? Its exactly opposite to how you say. Mechanization slimmed the employee cou
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by Alan_Dillman 3y ago
>Could they prove that I copied that single line from them? Would anyone care? A year from now, you could decide to write something, and the obvious appears in your mind, and you type it out. It just happens to be identical to a line tha
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by Alan_Dillman 3y ago
It sounds like the author is part of a wonderful community.
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by Alan_Dillman 3y ago
Most people's internal alarm for self preservation starts yelling long before endurance is truly tested. Nobody sprints for 24 hours, but I am certain that even the average couch potato can keep walking for 24 hours. They'd be hur
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Depraved, even.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
This this^^. Anything that can stay coherent and on topic longer than a typical human is useful. I'm a stochastic parrot at some level too.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
There aren't enough Catholic priests to go around anyway. So the priests are often hopping back and forth between parishes, figuratively and actually. So its no real surprise they don't want to go after the straight ones, and yet,
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Lick 'em and stick 'em, got it.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
So happy for those two devs.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Bunch of twaddle. I'm not doing it for the engine, I'm doing it so the windows thaw out, and partly so that the passenger compartment is warm. I'm doing it so I don't get in a friggin accident and kill someone. Oh yeah,
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Sure, but there has to be stray wolves forming new packs. Every pack in existence started that way. While there is no fight for who will be "The Alpha", obviously there is a patriarch and matriarch of the pack.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Exactly. This is why it is dumb when people say "The odds against life arising at random is astronomical." It did happen, therefore, the convoluted path to life wasn't what the skeptic speaker thinks it was. Multiple-endpoint
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
That's similar to how it works in my Canadian workplace. My employer has a pool of workers, and when a project is coming up, the manager phones around and fills his or her labour requirements. Lots of us work secondary jobs too, and t
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
"Forget everything you know about slipcovers." I also had no expectations about something called Perfluorocubane.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
>So: why should we--why should anyone--care about your half-arsed opinion? I don't think you effectively critiqued yakshaving by repeating what he said about the commentating art community. Their opinions are worth no more than his,
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Thank you for this.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
And lamer than I had anticipated. While the actors faces are intrinsic to our memories of those films, there is nothing in the films existence intrinsic to those precise faces and identities. The existence of nothing hinges on Julia and Tes
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
I don't know either, but in English one definition/sense of para is "beyond", so it is "beyond language symbols", which shapes up to be something in the sense of a sort of programming paradigm where everything
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
The world is bigger than the USA. The chances of getting caught in a mass shooting are lower than you are estimating, and pedestrians are more impacted by automobiles. We have those viruses and diseases too, you know.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
>why are they not using it in situations where it would be clear, to any individual with that knowledge, how useful it would be? Who is to say it is not? By analogy, if you are laying under your vehicle, loosening a bolt with a wrench, a
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
I remember when this was knew, thinking, "Its so cool, but too technical for me to do!" Now it would be, "meh, I've done harder". Thanks for the wonderful memories.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
I agree!
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Right? Its so close to being wonderful, and I really like the raspiOS desktop. I think we're right around the corner from a new ARM frontier opening up. Tomorrow (today!) my experiment is a minimal systemd linux. Thanks, something in y
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
I'd love to. My Raspi-4 8gb is almost enough for me, just need a little bit more oomph, and rammier and roomier RAM. I wish the openGL/Vulkan were better. I've long waited for a proper ARM based desktop. If I can find somethi
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Maybe. The only reason I keep facebook active is because I have 25 first cousins, and that doesn't include their spouses, or the 25 children that comprise my younger first cousins once removed, some of who are adults already. So when o
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
A "I only want to see [5] posts a day from Freddy" function would be good.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Or dumb as tire.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
In short, oodles of noodles is a better chew than fewer, stranger noodles in your alphabet soup.
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by Alan_Dillman 4y ago
Except when they don't. I had dice as a kid that did not follow this rule.

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