Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
In no uncertain terms, the only guideline I've violated as far as I'm aware is the one stipulating no political battles. As far as that, I defer to your judgment with one contention: Everyone else who were and are also engaging in
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Just to clarify, when you said "this account" did you mean me or the person I was conversing with? EDIT: Seeing as I can post a comment I'm going to guess you meant the latter, but I would appreciate clarification if you don&
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Of course, why wouldn't I? So long as would-be immigrants obey the law they are quite welcome.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I tire of repeating that ad nauseum towards people engaging in bad will, so I'll just leave you some links: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi... https://www.whitehou
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That this is not "mainly an American phenomenon".
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Streaming video gets compressed to crap. That's because your source video is crap. I'm not sure if you realize it, but all forms of digital media playback are streaming. Yes, even that MP4 stored locally on your SSD. There i
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Quite literally any country with a government worth talking about controls entry of foreign nationals. It is a privilege to enter another country as a foreigner, and that country has every sovereign right to deny you that privilege if the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
At the risk of possibly sounding crass, the practical solution is to simply never tell them of the decedent's passing. Unless the matter of concern is a legal or financial one (eg: bank accounts, pensions, insurance, etc.), quite liter
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You might be interested to know that the Managing Director of the Fukuoka Stock Exchange was arrested yesterday[1][2] on allegations that he took upskirt shots of schoolgirls. He was caught because his tablet's camera emitted the manda
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The rejection of woke ideals goes well beyond the US. The Japanese people also hate elements of woke getting into their culture and they don't even speak English.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You might be interested to learn that Trump's cabinet has at least 9 women, one of whom was the Governor of South Dakota, another who was an Attorney-General of Florida, and another who is a reserve duty Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Pretty much this. Honda was all but begged by the Japanese government to bail Nissan out. Remember that the Japanese government had a role in taking out Renault and preventing a French takeover of Nissan, their political hand was already ov
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Americans selected a president who is against "equity", "inclusion" and "social justice" Indeed. Our American values are and always have been Equality, Pursuit of Happiness, and legal justice respectively,
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Exactly what I'd expect someone from a country I'm Japanese-American, so I'm not exactly happy about Japan's state of irrelevance (yet again). Their one saving grace as a special(er) ally and friend is they can still
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Who is even the creator here? People and countries who make and ship products. You don't make rules by writing several hundred pages of legalese as a litigator, you make rules by creating products and defining the market. Be creato
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I love the retelling of "I don't really care, Margaret." here. But politics aside, this also points to something I've said numerous times here before: In order to write the rulebook you need to be a creator. Only those
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Assuming they don't or concluding they don't because they don't align to your preferences means that you, not them, are polarized. Many people here including parent commenter argue for rule of law, which includes controll
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>what is the actual cost incurred by the users here? Time. Every bit of JavaScript is more time to download, execute, and then render the page. Time is a valuable resource, users appreciate not being told to waste it. >I think it&#x27
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The ideal amount of JavaScript is zero.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Japan is one of the foremost funders of deep research. Perhaps they were once upon a time, it's questionable if they still are today. And anyway, that's not even the real problem Japan's R&D world has: The real prob
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Except when the "expected tolerance" is unreasonable. Even if the connectors and wires are to spec, the design leaves next to no margin for play. You need that margin to account for reality : Handling by casual end-users rather
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
What is the reason the spec keeps specifying next to no headroom? Clearly that was the fundamental problem with 12VHPWR and it's being repeated with 12V2X6. Any engineer worth his salt knows that you should leave plenty of headroom i
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>But then you've got to figure out and prevent all the security holes that can be introduced by adding file access, networking, etc. So an operating system?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>If someone you know is treating them poorly That's the thing though, re-read what the author said very carefully: "that person is your enemy, even if that person has always been cool to you in the past, ... or your partner has
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>When the person you love decides that someone in the world brings him or her only frustration and pain, that person is your enemy, even if that person has always been cool to you in the past, or you’ve never actually met the person, or
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Somehow y'all are getting it completely in reverse. Clearly ads in a car is going to alienate certain people, not appeal to them. That's the literal opposite of "diversity" and "inclusion". You and I both h
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Let me put it this way then: CFPB has been around for about 14 years out of the country's entire history of about 249 years. We will be fine without them.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The moral is: If everyone hates Bluetooth, the problem aren't the haters. Personally, my experience with Bluetooth has been mixed. It certainly works , but audio quality is bad for headphones, latency is bad for mice and keyboards, so
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>does not have a preferred airline company because my choice of operator depends on destination and availability That's certainly the line that can't be compromised, ultimately you fly because you wanna get somewhere. But findi

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