gustavus

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by gustavus 4d ago
Open Source never meant having to give your software away for free, it was always free as in speech. In that you could see the crap you got and change it if you wanted to. But you're right I'm sure that if there hadn't been t
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by gustavus 4d ago
I brought this up all the time I argued with co-workers I advocated for Open Source because I knew where this was headed and every time it played out the exact way this comic did. Now I just post a link to this comic in discussion about th
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by gustavus 4d ago
Like a bunch of guys with guns couldn't defeat the well drilled and maintained British regulars that are backed by massive warships. Or a bunch of dudes with guns in the jungles of Vietnam couldn't beat a modern military with figh
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by gustavus 7d ago
That really proves the point though worst case scenario, releasing a nerve agent into a crowded subway, multiple subways resulted in a grand total of 14 deaths and 50 serious injuries. bum bum bum It's not that that isn't tragic
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by gustavus 7d ago
That's only for bad people who don't agree with the right thoughts and the right thinking. Don't worry as long as you don't disagree with the government you'll be fine citizen, after all you wouldn't want to di
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by gustavus 7d ago
I agree this is double plus good fellow citizen. Only bad persons who want to do bad things and Eastasia supporters would not want to have their activities tracked at all times, why would anyone want to allow bad things to happen when we co
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by gustavus 13d ago
I care far far far more about technical excellence and capability when it comes to security critical pieces of software like 1Password and as long as they demonstrate they are capable then I could care less if the founder voted Rasputin and
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by gustavus 13d ago
One question I've got is why Texas? It gets very warm there and DCs need cooling. Wouldn't like Wisconsin or Minnesota or Michian be cheaper. I mean Michigan's whole schtick is land of 1000 lakes, and that's not even con
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by gustavus 13d ago
It's actually an interesting question there. Because I've been wondering if I buy something in taking ownership of it, whereas if I steal something I am still taking ownership of it without compensation. However if I'm not bu
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by gustavus 16d ago
I think in this case the OPs point is that even with the money the electric company can't do the necessary maintenance because it violates environmental laws about cutting down trees or disturbing the habitat of the Blue Titted Elbonia
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by gustavus 17d ago
https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/ In short it won't be. Less than $100 in a century during the highest recorded rainfall in the US.
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by gustavus 22d ago
So i may be an anomaly but I'd say 20-40% of all places I shop have a specific fee to cover CC transactions using a CC vs Cash.
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by gustavus 23d ago
I mean you may be trying to make a point but the counterpoint is Einstein, Bohrs, Planck, Shannon, Turing, Von Nuemann, Feynman, Bohr and most of the other big names all came out during that time. In contrast since then we've had almos
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by gustavus 23d ago
Well first off if you ask Microsoft everything is Copilot. Secondly the confusion is designed to benefit the bull** by using ambiguous language they can do as humpty dumpty did in Alice in Wonderland and say "When I use a word, it mean
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by gustavus 27d ago
COBOL Visual Basic Low-Code Power Platform Although AI substantially changes the situation the hard part of being an engineer was never the code. A technician is defined by the tools they work with, an engineer is defined by the problems th
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by gustavus 29d ago
Save yourself 5 minutes and just read the Wikipedia article on "The Dilbert Principal" it's more useful, has more content and doesn't have this atrocious layout.
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by gustavus 1mo ago
> So where are we now? Instead of the HOA president spending their day driving past "problem" houses to look for any rules violations, are we going to have them doing that with Flock cameras instead? What a dystopian nightmare.
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by gustavus 1mo ago
I mean asking ChatGPT got me this answer that around 49% of 30-34 year olds grew up in social housing in the UK. Sources and reasoning included in response. So I'd say that's a pretty strong signal. https://chatgpt.com&
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by gustavus 1mo ago
I mean we've got multiple generational families that have been living on council estates all their lives and raising the next generation to do the same at the same time the NHS is collapsing all around, so there's that example.
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by gustavus 1mo ago
Well obviously the works produced by a typewriter aren't speech because the works are produced not by a person but a mechanical contraption. And let's not start with a blog post or website comment. Those aren't speech because
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by gustavus 2mo ago
Ive noticed that when people say we need more education or we need to teach critical thinking or something like that often what they really mean is "It is obvious my position is the intelligent one and those who have a different posit
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by gustavus 2mo ago
I love how people blame anonymity for the current internet problems. Whereas when anonymith was the default we had almost none of the problems. Most of the problems seemed to have started once anonymity stopped being the order of the data,
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by gustavus 2mo ago
A lot of the answe are reddit-esque throwaway answers and political shill bots, but for a more nuanced answer. For a long timeant people were brought up on the "End of History" idea. That after the Cold war mankind would all get t
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by gustavus 2mo ago
They don't need strong arguments they need emotionally resonent ones, "AI is using all your water" is a more primal, plus doesn't matter they just flood with a thousand different arguments. And updoots might not but plen
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by gustavus 2mo ago
I suspect rather foreign actors seed some of the anti data center narrative in order to try and reduce American capability to compete in the space, just like the Soviets did with nuclear in the 60-80s.
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by gustavus 2mo ago
So even will all the effort we've put into solar and decreasing coal, being more economical unless there is massive widespread international cooperation to suddenly and rapidly start deindustrializatizing the air we breathe will be doi
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by gustavus 2mo ago
> Our analysis of NielsenIQ grocery data shows a trend in negative unit growth starting in mid-2025, masked by steady price increases. But since February 2026, units have stepped down sharply enough to pull sales lower across the US. Pri
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by gustavus 2mo ago
We all know that's where they are going with this.
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by gustavus 2mo ago
The government has a list of pesky troublemakers to target individually if they prove too annoying? I'm sure the good people of Germany can figure out something to charge someone with.
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by gustavus 2mo ago
Won't that just unfairly displace the impact onto the economically disadvanteged as they are the least likely to have the flexibility in their schedule, inadvertently forcing more of the maintenance burden onto those who are int be lea

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