foofoo12

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by foofoo12 10mo ago
"voluntary" can also be pretty meaningless depending on the context. In the UK, if the police suspects you of shenanigans, they'll politely invite you for an "voluntary interview". Of course you can decide to not go
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
> Some animals are ready to go as soon as they are born That trade has an extreme genetic advantage when other animals see you as their succulent mains on the a la carte exotic wildlife menu.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
I can see from voting that this comment is highly controversial. It's actively being downvoted. Make of that what you like.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Yep, let alone life critical systems. You don't fuck with them just because.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
> 17x strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.” Yep. You can engage in sexually trafficking people 16 times with a warning. 17th is just too much dude. What sort of a deranged psychopath
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Brings back memories but I can't say they are good. It was so limited that it was mostly frustration.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
It's the reverse of the Cloaca Maxima, the Roman empire sewage system. Facebook is where unprocessed sewage is fed back to the people, straight into their hands.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Before JS had promises, JS code was plagued with the callback pyramid of doom. You needed an advanced masters degree in masochism to endure that. I don't think Python devs would have liked that.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Yep. It's ironic that reddit itself cured my reddit addiction.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
No, he's referring to politics. Far-right politics[a] encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, radical anti-communism, ethnonationalism, and nativism. https:/&#x2
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Totally my feeling too. The formula seems to be: dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine ...
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
> I really don't think Python was close to dying It absolutely was. What saved it was: 1. The data science / AI crowd that was gathering momentum any many only used Python 3. 2. No popular alternative. Perl got python as an alt
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
I learned Perl back in the day. It was fun and powerful. But I think the package management and culture killed it for me. People took pride is writing obnoxiously messy code. Package dependency hell. Gung ho borderline toxic RTFM culture.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
I use FreeCAD and it's pretty good. But I think it's impossible to learn by trial and error. MangoJelly has done an amazing job in churning out high quality tutorials for FreeCAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
I worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy. I'm concerned that the new role of "manager of agents" (as google puts it) w
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Worst thing that happened to programming, eh? Have you tried running a 2 year old javascript/node project that transpiles and gulps it's three billion dependencies into something alien - if it works. Which it won't because it
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Webapp doesn't work for me (current version Firefox): Uncaught TypeError: loading.showModal is not a function <anonymous> https://2earth.pyscriptapps.com/celtic-knot/ latest/:20 latest:20:17
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Very useful. Does anything similar exists for Firefox?
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Not to mention the cool handbrake turn when you're a teenager.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
> when our main or only way of detecting whether communication succeeded is through understanding or lack thereof That's not even a good test, due to miscommunication. Both parties might think it succeeded, but then much later on yo
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
> but tonal information can be parsed without lexical understanding Parsed perhaps, but it's so context sensitive that it's not useful, save for extremities. The same tone of voice can have so many meanings based on what's
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
That's very easy and very wrong. Let's say you have a 100 page book. Page 1 contains fundamental knowledge that allows you to understand the rest of it. If you skip page 1 then you won't understand the other 99. How much of t
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Very interesting idea. I remember reading that in visual spoken communications, only 20% is the actual words. The rest is tone of voice, body language, context, emphasis, expressions, ... all that stuff. I don't know if 20% is correct,
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Bad landing page.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Back in the day, SSL didn't exists. When it came into existence, it was quite an expensive novelty. It became a generic name that everyone knew for encrypted HTTP connections. It still is a generic name for that, even though the underl
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Unfair. Oracle excels at some things, like extortion, blackmailing and litigation.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
People understand exactly, hence the fuss. Someone finally yelled loud enough that the emperor has no clothes. People are shocked. It isn't a handbag. It isn't a shoulder bag. It doesn't look good. I won't be fashionable
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
Spot on! It's exactly how you sell a $200 t-shirt. You put it next to a $900 t-shirt.
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
My friend went to see the doctor. A very attractive nurse took his blood pressure, which turned out to be off the charts. She goes out, comes back 5 minutes later and repeats, same results. Goes out and 10 minutes later and old bearded doct
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by foofoo12 10mo ago
You're missing the bigger picture. Vendor lock in.

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