dialamac

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by dialamac 6y ago
You win.
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by dialamac 6y ago
I’m glad you think highly of your poetic abilities, but I have no desire to engage in that pointless argument. Edit: and yes.. uh comment deleted as charged, since you had edited after I replied.
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by dialamac 6y ago
[See screenshot]
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by dialamac 6y ago
I’m amused that a number in this thread saw these observations as a “diss”... that’s more on you then me. I didn’t pass any value judgement on these differences, merely that they exist and demonstrate some fundamental differences in the his
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by dialamac 6y ago
I don’t think that is an indictment of the moderation system. You can’t replace a dead community with excellent moderation. Slashdot’s dead because it failed to produce worthwhile content and not be an even uglier pile of ass. The mod syste
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by dialamac 6y ago
> The last time it hit, at a Chinese restaurant in SF, Not to not take it seriously, but isn’t there a lot more stuff in American Chinese food other than MSG? Like of the 1000s of chemical substances that would be in a plate of Chinese f
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by dialamac 6y ago
> the language designs are so similar that I could just as well imagine a world where Python is the web development lingua franca, and Ruby has all the machine learning libraries. Well aside from the startling implication that Ruby is a
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by dialamac 6y ago
Old 78 records were produced with equipment from recording to cutting and pressing that is long since obsolete. Even if you overcome the challenges of dealing with laser equipment (dust, tracking).. what extra information are you really get
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by dialamac 6y ago
> This is the trouble with audio in general: people not only prefer different sound profiles but also perceive sound differently, which makes it difficult to get rips (at least in my limited experience). The problem with worrying about t
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by dialamac 6y ago
This is about C, not C++. Though I haven’t been there in years, I chuckle to think what would have happened if you made this mistake on that news group.
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by dialamac 6y ago
You have no evidence to back this claim up, because it’s not true.
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by dialamac 6y ago
Um.. no it wasn’t. Git was a complete trash fire on Windows when GitHub was founded for one. I started using git when I was working on embedded Linux professionally in 2005, witnessing the whole bitkeeper saga. I am keenly aware of the hist
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by dialamac 6y ago
My guess, probably because they’re idiots. “ A lightweight, standard publish/subscribe mechanism should be identified; possibly something like MQTT (which would have the added benefit of allowing for network-wide communication). In the
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by dialamac 6y ago
I mean git is wildly popular because of GitHub, and probably that was something to do with it in the Rails community... a community that if anything is culturally the opposite of the kernel dev community (or at least very different). I don’
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by dialamac 6y ago
Love that it was a “hacker” rather than a bored teenager or some casual idiot, or even a disgruntled former or current employee. Invoking the hacker term I guess is supposed to make it absolve gross negligence in even the most basic securit
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by dialamac 6y ago
Have they really though? iOS has always shared the same underpinnings as OSX. Although much hyped with Big Sur, iOS features have dribbled into OSX since at least Lion (more than 10 years ago). They’re still distinct operating systems (than
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by dialamac 6y ago
> railrodders are fun What is a railrodder? This is the first time I’ve heard of its use outside the title of this film, and I’m pretty sure it’s referring to the Keaton character.
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by dialamac 6y ago
Is it really? Or is this just availability bias. You choose to hang out on HN and read whatever e-rags cover startups. Meanwhile there’s probably a new plumbing proprietorship or small software consultancy starting nearly everyday in your t
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by dialamac 6y ago
https://www.apple.com/rss/ Open this on an Apple or android phone. On iOS this will even prompt you to open the App Store to find a feed reader (#1 is still Feedly). RSS icons were ubiquitous like fb and Twitter icons
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by dialamac 6y ago
> A big one, that was the case even before social media, is the inherent geekiness of it. "RSS" is an acronym after a geek's heart, most people don't like it. Like WWW, RCA, GE.. (the latter two of the most recognizab
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by dialamac 6y ago
No idea what you’re talking about. There was the run up to the communications decency act and obscenity prosecutions but these were far more risky for the peddlers, not the consumers (and some were prosecuted). There was the old hilarious C
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by dialamac 6y ago
Names are not copyrightable in any case. You mean trademark.
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by dialamac 6y ago
It never did. The difference is that you can use logical replication since 10 to prevent downtime during upgrade. Which if you were using it a year ago could have been done.
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by dialamac 6y ago
The point with referring to a review article/meta is that you are free to look at the references themselves. Adverse effects secondary to dissociation can obviously be troublesome for some using in a professional clinical setting, whic
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by dialamac 6y ago
I thought the “beauty” of Bitcoin is that it is free.. unshackled, unregulated. So in your mind how is that not an open invitation for powerful and well funded interests to manipulate it? I think the simpler question is why wouldn’t it be m
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by dialamac 6y ago
You need to look harder. Schizophrenia and psychotic features are relative contraindications for use of ketamine per APA guidelines. “It is unclear whether patients with depression that is not treatment- refractory or patients with other ps
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by dialamac 6y ago
Ketamine is a not uncommon thing in psych today. It is routinely prescribed. The problems are that it does seem for most people the effect is short lived (weeks) and psychosis is a thing (the poster below saying it’s never an issue even in
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by dialamac 6y ago
Yeah that’s nice, so at least you can be involved in something where there is no doubt of large scale unfettered manipulation. I guess that certainty is a plus for some.
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by dialamac 6y ago
Microsoft or Oracle will be glad to sell you something then. Geeze the babies around here.. not every project maintainer is going to agree with you as was apparently the crux of the original complaint. You don’t always get your way. And App
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by dialamac 6y ago
Then let them learn their lesson. The thing is I have done stupid shit due to carelessness, but I’m not so entitled to blame it on someone else. If a potential source code contributor cannot read the contributing guidelines AT ALL that is

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