alphaalpha101

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by alphaalpha101 8y ago
In the Witcher 3 you are playing a specific character created by the developers. It's a bit like a JRPG in that sense. Most western RPGs have you play as your own character.
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by alphaalpha101 8y ago
I pay an inescapable 15% goods and services tax on everything I buy. So yes.
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by alphaalpha101 8y ago
>However, some people find computers frustrating, stupid or boring. Such a person probably wouldn't enjoy a job working with them all the time - and it's difficult to build the skills that let you advance your career if you&#x2
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>I made it a hard and fast rule: if I found two technologies that could solve a problem, I would choose the one more people were using. I didn’t want to include an obscure graphics API and then discover that no one had ever called set_co
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>As a further point of fact, Facebook (and Google; Facebook is not alone here) stalks even people who _can't_ have a Facebook account. For example, children under 13 in the US. Surely this is illegal, though? One way to get the laws
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>Consider older mediums; does broadcasting a TV show put it into the public domain? Or playing a song on the radio? It certainly should do.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The one regulation that could save a nation from FB, Twitter and Instagram is to ban advertising. All of it. Ban all advertising anywhere for any reason.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Uber is (in my opinion) a scam, and (objectively) not ride sharing. 'Ride sharing' does not even begin to describe Uber. There is no sharing going on whatsoever . It's a taxi company that just ignores the law on principle to
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
It's nice to be able to simply copy-paste commands from the internet sometimes. (obligatory: yes you have to be careful when you do.)
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
So don't say yes when they offer to purchase you
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
What else would you write it in at the time? When you have a TeleType you can't exactly use a visual text editor, can you?
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Interest rates aren't high for fun. They're high because credit card borrowing is unsecured and high risk. People default on credit card debt all the time, and they also pay it off slowly.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Scaevolus, I recognise that name. #0x10c-dev on freenode? rmmh? skybot? I created a logsql.py plugin for skybot, it just logs to the DB instead of to text files. Is that something you'd be interested in merging back in?
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Correction: Haskell jargon. The continued conflation of Haskell and functional programming as a whole annoys me greatly. (The majority of functional programming is not statically typed! Clojure and the other lisps are far more widely used t
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
This seems like an enormous amount of tooling complexity to simply have a few dependencies for your program.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The difference is that I don't want all my Go programs in a different place. I have my place where I put projects. I have ~/projects, ~/oldprojects, ~/defunctprojects. I have ~/contribprojects for things that aren&#
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I've always felt similarly about Lord of the Rings. It feels so authentic and real. Every other similar fantasy novel just reads as if everything in the story was made up for the purpose of telling the story, which of course it was. In
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
You're assuming bootcamps have been valuable. They haven't. They're complete garbage.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
If someone is disruptive or negative, then you should get rid of them immediately.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
This is why you don't mention you have a disability...
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
That's been well covered elsewhere in this thread and other threads. I'm not going to say the claim it's not viable is original , nor am I going to argue that claim. But it is on topic.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Which won't do anything, because you can't magically make tunnelling cheap
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The viability of hyperloop is nil. It doesn't exist. It is literally physically impossible for it to be viable. I think it's on-topic whenever hyperloop is on-topic.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Yeah the impact on roads increases with the fourth power of vehicle weight. Why doesn't the tax?
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Another systemd release, another bloating of the attack surface of the now-standard init system. I'm sure this is useful but init is absolutely the wrong place for it.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Software is not mathematics. A web app is not mathematics. A compiler is a little closer, but still isn't.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
When people can buy necessities and luxury items but depression is at an all-time high, they aren't doing well either.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The same way 'reasonable' is defined everywhere in the law: it's up to the interpretation of the court.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>You aren't entitled to a college education. But you are. We have a right to an education. My parents paid literally $0 for their education, because university was free, in a time with much lower productivity and less wealth. The st
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Most of the time people calculate it as if all the current cost were just transferred to the state. But of course in reality, when universities were free in the past they weren't allowed to just raise their prices to whatever they felt

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