erelde

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by erelde 9y ago
Expressed in a very rough way: I think one has to be realist about their tools and idealist about their goals. And the drive is the most important factor. If they're just going through the motions without intent, without ideal, it won&
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by erelde 9y ago
I have often argued that "being realist" is a failure in and of itself. If people said "well, there's a king and that's what it is", we'd never have got to where we are now. Ideologies ( and ideas ) are, i
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by erelde 9y ago
Where I walk and what I do on the street is private even though it's in a public space (exceptions apply). Similarly what I do and where I go on the internet is private even though it is a public space (exceptions apply). If someone fo
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by erelde 9y ago
Disposable email addresses exists precisely because we don't plan on returning. Some websites tried to block disposable addresses already, I just went somewhere else.
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by erelde 9y ago
> I don't think Rome was ever a brutal dictatorship Well, they weren't exactly choirboys from what I've heard. (I understand what you meant, but that quote out of context is just great)
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by erelde 9y ago
You can see two of my current school assignement on Github. I try to avoid manipulating strings as much as possible. ;)
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by erelde 9y ago
I am student and I like C, I've tested Rust/Go, I like the feeling of C. Maybe that sentiment will change later, but for now, I like C. It's simple and sharp and there's lots of doc/books.
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by erelde 9y ago
USA "proles" fell for populism and elected the worst neocapitalist team possible, against their own interests, that's what we're talking about when we talk about "populism". By and large people (demographically
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by erelde 9y ago
That's 1.3 shows a week. 15 hours. Podcasts and tv blogs will have work for quite some time.
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by erelde 9y ago
It's, in my view, more akin to trying to ban mathematics in a world in which mathematics exist. Tools and weapons don't exist indenpently from us, mathematics do.
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by erelde 9y ago
The point isn't that though. Very similar cities have a very different number of Apple stores. Paris and London are 500km apart, a couple hours of train or plane away from each other, both capital cities, both have ~10¨7 people.
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by erelde 9y ago
Whaa ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... Yep, it's almost true. London 8.5M. If you count all 50 "countries" (some are a joke though) it ranks between the 21st and 22nd. Tho
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by erelde 9y ago
Plus, why would we install a bash script as sudo ?
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by erelde 9y ago
I appreciate how Windows is passive aggressively compatible with mechanical typewriters.
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by erelde 9y ago
> or even notepad.exe As long as you write all your code on one line
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by erelde 9y ago
The only tablet I've ever wanted to own is a light 12-13" e-ink reader for music sheets. Sony did one as an experiment and closed the division I think?
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by erelde 9y ago
On Linux you can use virtually any file manager without anyone/anything "preventing" you from it.
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by erelde 9y ago
How many 20 characters passwords could we try in 600 days ? And by imaging the original drive unto multiple others ? I mean 18 months. It's a lot.
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by erelde 9y ago
But passwords and hard drives are not documents. What's on it are "documents" but it's akin to refusing to pull memories out of your brain.
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by erelde 9y ago
> I think we can assume the FBI has been running a common passwords/dictionary attack with common password symbol substitutions for the last 18 months I would like to believe they do... But I don't think they'd bother with
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by erelde 10y ago
On its wikipedia page its referred throughout as H2G2. H2G2 9 times HG2G 2 times HHGTTG 2 times
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by erelde 10y ago
Aka more simply as H2G2, "the" and "to" aren't required in an acronym.
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by erelde 10y ago
Also, what other tools could we have made if we had optimal tools for the existing ones?
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by erelde 10y ago
We don't have the "Oxford comma" , but we do do lists with commas. And it would be really confusing if we didn't.
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by erelde 10y ago
I'm more interested in how the board got this way.
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by erelde 10y ago
Musicians as well.
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by erelde 10y ago
Correction: they corrected it.
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by erelde 10y ago
ಠ_ಠ Looking at brew.sh.
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by erelde 10y ago
"An argument isn't just contradiction."
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by erelde 10y ago
> Ok. That's a weird detail to bother hipsterbragging about. > "Successful people have better things to do than arguing on reddit/hn"

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