WackyFighter

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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
Not at all. It was a contrarian response. Walking in an urban environment is generally not very pleasant. It is often repetitive (in the bad way), noisy and there is little to look at. It the reason they often carve out space for parks and
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
> What an unnecessarily hostile comment. "Utter drivel"? I was talking about how I personally feel. Am I just imagining enjoying the things that I enjoy? No it isn't. Anytime you make an fairly straight forward statement o
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
No. Urban environments suck to walk around. What you wrote is utter drivel. If one needs to justify it by quoting authors, that suggests it isn't self evident and they are just trying to justify something that they know isn't good
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
Much like the sibling comment I started walking around the local park before spending more time hiking. I live semi rurally though and wouldn't want to walk in an urban environment. I normally feel much better after walking and cycling
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
Management Studio is a monster. I was using for years and every so often someone would show me a feature I was totally unaware of that blew my mind. Visual Studio also had "Database Project" which was amazing. Not seen anything li
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
If they charged far more than the market average in a given area then people wouldn't rent from them. Even if they bought up the entire area, people would presumably move to cheaper areas where they weren't jacking up the prices.
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
I agree that most people would use the term invasion to describe it. But this story is related to how a betting market decided to pay out. The US forces left immediately after the target (Maduro and his wife) were extracted. So according to
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
> If the actions and beliefs of a group are fundamentally morally repugnant to me, I think that it is reasonable to not expect me to be able to find "something positive" in it. No it isn't reasonable. In fact it is one of
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
Still doesn't make it an invasion. If they drone striked and thus killed Majuro it would not be an invasion. It would be an assassination. Invasion in this context has a specific meaning. The bet on the market would have been done with
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
No that is not the definition of a military invasion. > An invasion is a military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering the territory of another with the goal of militarily occupying part or all of
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
That doesn't make it an invasion. It was a capture/extraction operation. Was it a large scale one, sure. But it was not an invasion.
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
Agreed. However what happened Jan 3rd wasn't an invasion.
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
When you are referring to a military action, invasion has a particular meaning. The definition on Wikipedia seems reasonable: > An invasion is a military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering the te
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
A hit in the stock price doesn't prove or disprove their claims. What would disprove their claims is the number of properties Blackrock is buying and if it is affecting pricing at the margin.
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
I think a lot of people mean "Wedding DJ" or "Radio DJ". However there is a whole small subculture around this. A friend would go hunting for records to sample in Charity shops for old vinyls (this was pre-ebay). This ap
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
The startups/businesses that provided value survived the bubble bursting.
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
Most distros have a way of installing proprietary software via enabling additional repos after install.
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
That seems pretty reasonable proposition IMO. As other people have mentioned you can resell open source software. I have a big box Linux distro on my shelf here.
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by WackyFighter 8mo ago
Or you could get one with a better service history, the paint job and interior is in better condition, and it has the optional extras and a recent cam belt change for $12,000. It depends whether you think the extra cost is worth it.
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
> Sometimes a website that looks like shit does its job better than one that is finely crafted. It even better if it looks good and works well. You can make sites that do both.
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
> Any time something is made easier and you get more of it, it becomes worth less. That is only the case with commodities. Not creative works and/or entertainment. > But it's sort of like amateurs at an open mic night tellin
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
> Using samples is not the same as AI or creating AI videos. Nor is using photoshop or an editing suite. It is very similar. You are using a piece of software to aid in the creative process. In these cases, you are remixing previous arti
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
> Under your logic someone playing a CD is a musician. No. That isn't my logic at all. > Just pasting a rehashed joke as a genAI video prompt is not much of a creative process. That isn't what is happening. What people are d
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
Sorry that isn't true. Lots of smaller communities online, especially around small streamers make small meme style videos. Usually these are mocking someone doing something dumb online, or jokes/memes about the show etc. These are
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
His rationale ignores all the legitimate and harmless use cases for AI. I've seen people make with the help of AI comedy/meme/comedy music videos and put them up on YouTube. Making a hyperbolic statements stating that it is a
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
I've been on similar projects where the client is paying through the nose to a consultancy. I was being paid about £500 a day for my time, but I am sure they were charging the client much more.
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
It is a constant source of confusion. I see it constantly discussed in various freelancer whats-app and freelance groups. I used to get contracts checked to see if they were Outside IR-35 and I knew I wasn't the only one. So it isn&#x2
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
You can still build web apps using more basic technologies like PHP, MySQL/Postgres, and just using vanilla JS. One of the most frustrating things in my career is how over-engineered everything has become in the last 15 years.
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
It is more to do with the fact that vast majority of people aren't going to bother subscribing to an RSS feed. I am on a freelancer slack group that supposed to have a RSS feed for jobs. The feed is often broken for weeks because most
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
I never had any issue asking for a 5 figure sum. It was always the small payments I had to chase. I won't do small work as a result because it is barely worth the effort.

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