CrazyPyroLinux

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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
...which he apparently forgot all about the very next day. I don't know what they had him juiced up with (maybe Pervitin, appropriately?) but that's the most coherent I've ever seen him before or since. The simple solution t
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
That last one was a win.
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Ah the "expert fallacy." No, there are very few "experts." Mostly just career deep-staters or unelected-bureaucrats or whatever else you want to call them. Just look at the great results we've gotten so far from th
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
10 SUPPORT $CURRENT_THING 20 GOTO 10
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
> All we have been able to find out is that it's written in visual basic 6. That alone should already tell you everything you need to know...
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
> All auditors are concerned with is version numbers. That's because they're all* automatons with hard-coded brains that compel them to reduce fuzzy concepts like risk to a 1 or a 0. /vent *Well, every one I've ever
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
"Snowflake?" Either you're projecting, or that doesn't mean what you think. Don't forget that there were people like Rich Salz who took their ball and ran home crying[0] because of a freaking word. Was this just a f
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
I already can't commit to a master branch or have a master key, because reasons.
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
So in order to prevent book burnings we must...burn books that advocate book burnings?
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
When it's at the behest of government, there's a word for that.
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
> I want to get a dog and stop running in place in BigCity. I can't recommend this enough!
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
> it's not necessary to hold these groups to the standard of being logically consistent and rational all the time Not that we can't forgive and make mistakes, but aiming for other than "being logically consistent and ratio
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Not myself, but channeling another: "Research on toxic communication patterns in relationships shows that contempt is an accurate predictor of divorce." https://www.emberrelationshippsychology.com/blog/the-mis
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Any time I hear a political ad, it makes me think of the spoof ones in Vampire Bloodlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ovLsFhd-EM
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
And the military was running pysops on that too: https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-social-media-psyop-military-rus... And then there was this plan from 2019: "Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greate
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Talk about shooting the messenger! You have nothing to say about the crimes they exposed?
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Did you unironically make an ad hominem? Well it sounds like you got it figured out what's best for everyone's health, ethics, and economics. Thankfully we have wise people to tell us what we can and can't work on...
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
I'm reminded of Margaret Thatcher's response to this: "He'd rather the poor were poorer, as long as the rich were less rich."[1] Every ethical dollar earned is a byproduct of value creation. Maybe you meant somet
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
TLA+ [1] and Idris come to mind. Also Clojure Spec [2] For the specific case you mention, "taint analysis" would be appropriate. [1] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/11/09/tla-with-les...
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
(Sincerity not snarkiness, and wasn't a downvoter) Do you not have an emergency fund? It was always important, but hopefully 2020 was a wake-up for most people.
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Thoughts on Functional Programming just had a short episode about Smalltalk. The thesis was that its ratio of functionality to small size was due to the willingness to repeatedly rewrite it in pursuit of improvement. https://eri
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
> People are just hell-bent on re-learning 200 years of banking history firsthand. Maybe just the last 109 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act Or just the last 79 years https://en.wiki
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
> and people with a criminal government/monopolies So...everyone?
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Tip-of-the-hat to our founders, for sure! But I'd say they were architecting a government, not a society. That's a very important distinction, and without it you can end up with some really destructive Statist/Authorita
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
"FBI Foils FBI terror plot!" Happened in Michigan, too.
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
I wasn't necessarily suggesting to "do nothing and make no effort" - That's a strawman and false dichotomy. Sure, we can generally try to do more of what works and less of what doesn't. But usually the type of peopl
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
I think one of our greatest failures as a species is the hubris of _thinking_ that we can "architect a society"
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
Upvoted. Why in the world was this flagged? I don't think it's off-topic, since the topic is particularly relevant to git newbies, and the committing of stuff that shouldn't be in the repo is a huge problem I've observed
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
These days https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo is superior.
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by CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
You're free to do what you want of course, but that's a shame. So many great shows.

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