celeduc

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by celeduc 5y ago
I'll make a concerted effort not to feed the trolls, but categorically false statements must be either confronted or removed.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Cool, I must be writing from Uranus then.
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by celeduc 5y ago
"mistakes were made"
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by celeduc 5y ago
"rest of the world" being you , apparently.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Timing a market that's absolutely sure to collapse is notoriously difficult.
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by celeduc 5y ago
No need, Bayer AG has been poisoning and murdering humans for 158 years and has developed complete resistance to being held accountable.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Build times matter a lot. I've spent a lot of my career working to reduce build and test cycles to improve productivity. Rust is the one environment where no matter how much time we threw at the problem it never got better.
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by celeduc 5y ago
System programming isn't a dark art, it's just programming with programmers as an audience. Application programming focuses on end-users who may not be programmers. I've done both. I've used and developed on X11 since
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by celeduc 5y ago
Firstly, yes, Grindr is mostly men looking for sex, but they're not all homosexuals and they're not all looking for sex; many are just there to flirt, others to troll. But Grindr is definitely gathering and selling lists: it&#x2
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by celeduc 5y ago
> "the big mistakes from Unix, besides the X Window System" The entire X11 system was "a mistake". Got it, we should have stuck to 7-bit text on a VT-100 because that was utter perfection. With that compelling intro
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by celeduc 5y ago
"Intent monitoring" is a euphemism for detecting the presence of the "wrong kind of people". It's not fictional at all.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Slave labour.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Slave labor is super profitable.
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by celeduc 5y ago
*Unlimited resources
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by celeduc 5y ago
Typical human brain cells, they just want to play retro video games.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Mike's "friend" is awfully judgemental.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Or they got a fat kickback
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by celeduc 5y ago
Toyota bet on hydrogen and lost. Now they're doing subtractive marketing on the remote controls which modern carmakers have eliminated altogether.
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by celeduc 5y ago
> Even several years later, Rambo is still furious at the bar for giving Watkins his credit card receipt. “Who owns that place? They gave her my personal information,” he fumed. That's my favorite part.
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by celeduc 5y ago
Wait 'til you hear about the baseband on your phone.
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by celeduc 5y ago
"Hello, Verizon sales department for deep packet inspection, header manipulation, and active surveillance, how can I help you?"
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by celeduc 5y ago
It would be weird if it "just happened" for no particular reason. They weren't forced to do so. It's a bait and switch and it's a sellout, which is pretty hilarious: a scam and a betrayal. And why not?
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by celeduc 5y ago
Sounds like Zucker and Tim Apple made a deal .
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by celeduc 5y ago
51% attacks have been performed on some smaller PoW chains, specifically Ethereum Classic. It's not that hard. https://www.crypto51.app/
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by celeduc 5y ago
1) Being a native English speaker doesn't guarantee anyone knows how to write. 2) The vernacular style may be characteristic but it is not inferior, just unfamiliar.
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by celeduc 5y ago
What sold me on Ruby/Rails in the first place was its comprehensive test and deployment framework that worked out-of-the-box without having to make too many choices or develop those things independently. That was truly revolutionary.
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by celeduc 5y ago
I can confirm that it is also a problem here in Spain https://www.elmundotoday.com/2021/10/la-falta-de-camioneros-... and there was a huge backlog in licensing even before the pandemic. (Driver licensing here is
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by celeduc 5y ago
I totally expected it to be written bottom-up.
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by celeduc 5y ago
I was astonished that the production of garum was so central to the economy in the Mediterranean, and how it disappeared completely. I had never heard of it until I visited Empúries. I can only imagine how it must have smelled to produce it
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by celeduc 5y ago
Chiming in from the Continent <popcorn/>

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