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drewbug01
4d ago
If you actually clicked through to their homepage, I imagine you would find the “what does homebrew do” section quite enlightening.
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drewbug01
4mo ago
> Your "clever" coworker can't sneak a seventeen-layer abstraction into the codebase because the language won't let him. Oh boy, the author has clearly not seen some of the Go codebases I’ve seen.
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drewbug01
6mo ago
> but that’s part of why it is so valuable “part of” leaves a lot of room for each of us to insert our own definition of “valuable” here.
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drewbug01
6mo ago
There is no shortcut to art, but that’s part of why it is so valuable to society and so rewarding to create. But don’t let that discourage you. If you want to make your own art, keep working at it. You will always get better with time and p
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6mo ago
> EDIT: downvotes - why? - I think this is a good idea (I'd do it for my sites if outages were an issue). Because that's a monumental amount of work, and extraordinarily difficult to retrofit into a system that wasn't init
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drewbug01
8mo ago
Did you come to that conclusion after watching the videos, or just after reading statements from DHS?
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drewbug01
8mo ago
Why do you think it’s so important to get in this guy’s head, and to give him this graceful excuse of “maybe he just panicked?” Obviously someone panicked. We can clearly see they did not line them up and actually shoot them with a firing s
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drewbug01
8mo ago
“secession territory” Honest question: what territory do you think we are in now that is better than “secession territory?” Honest to god question. Federal agents are executing citizens in the streets!
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8mo ago
Do you know how they died? Here’s some reporting on the people who died (the ones listed on that page): https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-deaths-assa... Kinda deflates things a bit, don’t you t
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8mo ago
> If you say two different and contradictory things, and do not very explicitly resolve them, and say which one is the final answer, you will get blamed for both things you said, and you will not be entitled to complain about it, because
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8mo ago
> If your metric is an LLM that can copy/paste without alterations, and never hallucinate APIs, then yeah, you'll always be disappointed with them. I struggle to take comments like this seriously - yes, it is very reasonable to
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8mo ago
> you you can’t, they can. Important distinction.
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9mo ago
> The more surprising part is the unusual reactions of the other people getting a better picture and context of what I’m explaining without the usual back and forth - which has landed me my fair share of complaints of having to hear mini
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drewbug01
10mo ago
There is a world of difference between “passing a state law that directly contradicts federal law” and “declining to proactively enforce federal laws in ways that are not required by those laws.” To drive the point home: federal immigration
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10mo ago
You keep saying “nullification”. Can you explain precisely what you mean by that? Because as far as I’m aware, immigration law is not a concern of the state, and what folks typically mean when they say “nullification” in this context is “th
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10mo ago
> But this notion that roving bands of assassins are driving down the street looking for browns is likely an exaggeration (made worse by misinformation on social media). Assassins? Nobody said that. But my friend I can assure you they ar
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10mo ago
In a way, the article understates how bad it is. I live in Chicago, and in my neighborhood every lamp post (and mailbox, and other surface) has a poster detailing your rights. “Fuck ICE” (and related) signs all over. Most businesses and a l
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11mo ago
> probably with the premeditated goal of trying to sue and/or buy time for the likely illegal aliens working for him My bad. Didn’t realize you already knew his heart, and that this was premeditated. And that you clearly know who hi
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11mo ago
We clearly aren’t watching the same video. What you see as “thrusting” sure looks to me like he was trying to stop himself from a full-on run - why did he grab a door handle on the wall? Why would you grab and pull like that if you were try
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11mo ago
Here’s a letter from a Senator, asking Kristi Noem to correct the record after it came to light in court proceedings that the DHS lied: https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy... Here’s an art
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11mo ago
> People can and have successfully sued, winning substantial sums of money in the process. I would be quite interested to know if you can cite sources on that. > And we also live in the social media age where nothing gets more of thos
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11mo ago
> Instead, you're looking more at tens to low hundreds of instances …based on what, the independent research ProPublica did? DHS doesn’t even keep statistics on how many citizens they detain so I’m not sure we should be assuming the
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11mo ago
> Because you didn't tell it to make a "professional analytics application" for a while and then switch to nonsensical "unicorns and rainbows" at the end. You forgot to trick it into the "gotcha!" situa
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11mo ago
> The chances of a citizen being targeted by ICE is low. You can’t start with this premise, though. Recent rulings allow stops based on “probable cause” such as a combination of “speaks Spanish”, “is brown”, and “is in a place where we t
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11mo ago
Why do you believe DHS is speaking honestly here? Available reporting indicates that judge ruled on Thursday, and that DHS deported on Friday. Moreover, available reporting also indicates: > DHS and ICE did not respond to questions from
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11mo ago
If someone is taking the time to refute ChatGPT’s output and telling you why the answer isn’t applicable in a given situation, it certainly implies that ChatGPT wasn’t “correct enough” at all. What situations do you think it’s fine to be “c
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11mo ago
> And we're talking about 170 citizens who were definitely protesting and interfering with police duties How, exactly, do you know they were interfering?
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11mo ago
> So you are truly convinced that out of hundreds of thousands of interactions with ICE What time frame are you thinking of here? It’s very easy to minimize problems if you’re defining the time frame to be years, or something. It’s bette
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11mo ago
> The people elected the politicians who appointed the Supreme Court justices (the governed giving their consent). I seem to recall a recent instance where a Supreme Court seat was stolen from the politician with the right to appoint the
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11mo ago
If the protests truly were as violent as the administration claims, if ICE agents were truly out there fighting for their lives, etc … then they would prosecute. It wouldn’t be “not worth it” to prosecute if things were really that dire.
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