barneygale

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by barneygale 2y ago
> $100k buy in at the hedgefund I know. Its a big figure for most but starting salaries, friends & family, and personal loans will get you there. Surely this is a HN culture bubble? Very few people can borrow tens of thousands of dol
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by barneygale 3y ago
Thanks - I'd previously read the rules but totally misremembered them, I thought you were /supposed/ to reply when flagging!
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by barneygale 3y ago
I didn't flag that one I don't think, but I suspect the use of "cope" set some folks off.
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by barneygale 3y ago
Sorry, I'll just flag their comments in future and explain why I'm doing so.
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by barneygale 3y ago
Please don't accuse people of lying on HN without evidence, it lowers the quality of the discussion. I've flagged your comment for this reason.
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by barneygale 3y ago
Really well - they make the best web browser around!
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by barneygale 3y ago
I don't care whether you believe me or not.
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by barneygale 3y ago
I pay them via Patreon. Google will never see any of my money.
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by barneygale 3y ago
> So if I pushed back on the notion that my identity is a "malignant, parasitic-like condition to which 'white' people have a particular susceptibility" [1], by e.g. stating it is merely "okay", that would b
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by barneygale 3y ago
> So the phrases are not themselves racist, They /are/ racist. You can read about any of them on wikipedia, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
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by barneygale 3y ago
You're leaning 100% into prescriptivism, taking the literal meaning of "It's Okay To be White". The vast majority of far-right slogans are innocuous on a surface reading. The most famous of all - the 14 words - are compl
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by barneygale 3y ago
You're spot on - it's the idle thoughts of a privileged white man trying to justify racism, but he presents no new arguments, and dresses the whole thing up in academicese.
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by barneygale 3y ago
> There's nothing at all dehumanising about the phrase "The Poor" (if you think there is, compare to eg “the rich”. Are we dehumanizing the rich every time we call them that?) Yes. That's why anti-capitalist protests
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by barneygale 3y ago
> Is there even any interpretation that would allow this to be seen as anything different than industrial style IP infringement? Parody is protected by copyright law
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by barneygale 3y ago
I avoid it where I can, but some folks only post videos on youtube. It's much harder for a video-sharing alternative to get off the ground because google (and others in big tech) completely distort the playing field.
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by barneygale 3y ago
I suggest you try to get in contact with charities specialising in human trafficking. They may be able to help you find your original identity and country of birth. If your parents were European it's likely your birth was registered
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by barneygale 3y ago
Can your country of birth not provide consular assistance? Presumably you're still a citizen there, whether or not you have access to your passport.
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by barneygale 3y ago
Parasocial technology fetishism. Gross.
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by barneygale 3y ago
Most of the alternatives you suggest are implemented in PAX, which is an extension of the tar format. The EoF block is useful if the archive is written directly to physical media without a filesystem: it lets you determine where the archive
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by barneygale 3y ago
Good riddance - it is unethical to work for these companies unless you attempt to sabotage their operations from the inside.
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by barneygale 3y ago
If a structural engineer points out that a bridge is unsafe, you don't call them "engineerbrained" and gesture at all the motorists still using the bridge. Why do we accept this bollocks in software engineering? Meta are not
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by barneygale 3y ago
> If people are so upset, why didn't they migrate to something like Debian or SuSE when CentOS got axed? Many people did. The remainder were too tied up in the RHEL ecosystem (including CentOS) to make the move, but red hat's r
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by barneygale 3y ago
CentOS Stream is also affiliated with Red Hat
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by barneygale 3y ago
> They can both be private methods in a single module, the example still applies fine? It does, but you're now looking at an edge case that rarely arises in practice in a well-maintained codebase, and certainly not one to design you
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by barneygale 3y ago
> For example, say A is a patch that renames the function foo() to foobar() Why are you allowing commits to land that break interfaces? If this is a public function it should go through a deprecation cycle. If this is a private function
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by barneygale 3y ago
You've misread my comment. Whether you rebase on the target, or merge in from the target, the effect is the same. My point is that you only need to do that if you encounter git conflicts that must be solved manually.
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by barneygale 3y ago
If conflicting changes have been merged in, GitLab/Hub will tell you that your branch has conflicts and prompt you to update/rebase on the target branch. That doesn't happen simply because your branch is out-of-date with the
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by barneygale 3y ago
Merge queues/merge trains solve a problem that only exists if you require all PRs/MRs to be based on the tip of the target branch. And there's little reason to do that unless your codebase is a total mess.
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by barneygale 3y ago
North Korea is democratic - it's right there in the "DPRK" name. Does it also call itself communist? Then it must be!
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by barneygale 3y ago
Gosh, I've never seen it despite years on the site. Sorry!

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