gkya

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by gkya 4y ago
literally shut the fuck up
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by gkya 4y ago
Yeah that's definitely what it was. I'm no westerner, so I know what this looks like and what local fascists interpret it as. Tell your stories to someone else. Also, quoting your link: "According to the Alma-Ata police, on t
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by gkya 4y ago
"Our belief in the power of personalities and ideas may blind us to fundamental truths: after all, every year, another penniless revolutionary pens a new version of Das Kapital or a new version of Mein Kampf." I won't bother
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by gkya 5y ago
The people you list aren't white enough for westerners to care. That's what it is, that's all there is to it.
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by gkya 5y ago
Ban.
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by gkya 5y ago
I suggest you go to a non-techie relative or friend and ask them permission to use their facebook for a moment.
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by gkya 5y ago
> No wonder why normal people like walled gardens, the UI is more streamlined and (mostly) more respectful. Have you seen someone use Facebook as of recent? Respectful?
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by gkya 5y ago
The replies to this are so funny :D "It's illegal! Immoral! Assassination! Theft! Murder! Felony! To the gallows!" Yeah, no. So it's legal, moral, and acceptable that software and websites are made, by you folk reading t
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by gkya 5y ago
> I don't understand why houses should be excluded from the capitalistic process Because it sucks and nothing should be included in it.
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by gkya 5y ago
Social sciences, and, yes.
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by gkya 5y ago
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Map_minus_USA....
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by gkya 5y ago
Reading the comments on this topic, I can't but feel validated for having quit my programming career right as it started. You lot sound so absorbed into your privilege that you can't even begin to think about the human side of the
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by gkya 5y ago
> DMCA/copyright doesn't cover other people's tools That is probably exactly why they are doing this. They lack the legal grounds to slience, so they instead opt for the feral means.
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by gkya 5y ago
"Unnecessarily political" is a nice abbreviation of "his politics are hurtful, hateful, and part objectively wrong".
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by gkya 5y ago
So he was offended and needed a safe space for his logorrhoea, I see... I did read the entire website (didn't mean to, it was an accident, one that I resent). The guy's basically full of himself and bordering on alt-right if not j
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by gkya 5y ago
So I went over and looked around this Felleisen person's personal website, and... how do I put this, he is one unpleasant insufferable dude. Enter the rabbit hole: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/ > →
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by gkya 5y ago
There's Linux Mint Debian Edition, basically Linux Mint you know but based on Debian, with some tiny quirks. It's maintained by Linux Mint folk themselves, who are the makers of Cinnamon itself.
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by gkya 5y ago
> They charge for something they have no property or own. A bearded man calls this "surplus". Scientific journal business is the pinnacle of capitalism, what every company strives to become, including the ones fellow HN people
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by gkya 5y ago
In my use case as a grad student in phonology and a linguist interested inter alia also in sociophonetics, de-anonymised data could get me in big, career ending trouble. Imagine me studying some minority's language use, even if the rev
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by gkya 5y ago
Enable, not incentivise. Incentives are there, curiosity, community, gratification, etc. What people lack is the financial security to do nice things untainted with commercial interest, even in modern countries with proper welfare.
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by gkya 5y ago
Didn't know Thunderbird did NNTP, thanks! Can you get your own mailing lists on public-inbox, or would you have to self host? I'd love to self host git and a mailing list but setting up mailman/sympa/etc. seems to be too
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by gkya 5y ago
No "good" NNTP clients, maybe besides Gnus and slrn, which are rather obscure. Gmane was relatively popular, and it was great but went down for a long time, which probably further obscured NNTP. IDK if everyone who used to use it
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by gkya 6y ago
> It’s a systems language, not a functional language for describing algorithms in CS whitepapers. This kind of toxicity is why I left programming behind as a career.
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by gkya 6y ago
I made a list for linguistics here: https://gkayaalp.com/blog/20200319_lingpreprints.html Some of them are general social sciences tho.
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by gkya 6y ago
This is a very benign and positive UI change tbf. I say that as someone who heavily uses this app since many years and who is _very_ conservative w.r.t. software. I've switched to the beta and am really happy with it. Not just chang
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by gkya 6y ago
I think that's how ESS behaves.
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by gkya 6y ago
That's a nice song you're playing to yourself.
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by gkya 6y ago
I'm slowly learning the Android IDE. Text editors have the following advantages - One config for all: no need to specify keybindings for each program, and other settings - Similarly, multipurpose tool: a text editor can help with most
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by gkya 6y ago
I can use almost any editor, ed(1) included, fairly efficiently without any config (well not exactly efficiently with ed). I also have a 7kLoC init.el, and a couple little packages I've written. Just because you wouldn't starve ea
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by gkya 6y ago
Not exactly gotchas, but things to learn. Syntactic complexity is the first barrier to entry to any language, and it's the hardest part to learn as you go, because in general looking up functions (or classes, etc.) as you need them is

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