johnny53169

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by johnny53169 4y ago
> My advice for the young who don't want to do what it takes to pursue their profession is to put in an application at McDonalds. Smiling and burger flipping is an honorable career too. If you actually think that you wouldn't w
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by johnny53169 4y ago
> I don't get the mentality that people think they're entitled to be coddled. This is pretty bad faith of you to interpret the argument this way, the OP said nothing about being coddled. > Personally I'm glad there are
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by johnny53169 4y ago
> Even so, a bricklayer who was the son of an Austrian village policeman and had a bloodline tainted by a bastard great-grandfather -- was able to marry into the Kennedy family. Why? Because Arnold Schwarzenegger became a successful mult
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by johnny53169 4y ago
> They'll also use this info to advertise to you, send you flyers and coupons in the mail, for example. It would be good to say which country you are talking about, in Europe this has never happened to me outside of online stores or
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by johnny53169 4y ago
Does every human activity need to be productive? Why would you care what others think about your hobbies?
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by johnny53169 4y ago
Are you seriously trying to argue there was less domestic violence back then? Extended family can help, but they can just as well think you deserved it or turn a blind eye.
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by johnny53169 4y ago
It's very interesting, did you and your mom ever talk about your respective programming career? How was it like when she was a programmer?
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by johnny53169 5y ago
They fixed the font handling in this release
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by johnny53169 5y ago
Cult of personality? Are we living on the same planet? As far as I know people talk about him a couple of time a year. No statue, no memorial. Yeah people erase his flaws a bit, yes it's a bit annoying, but he actually tried to do some
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> In VR you multitask by bringing the computing environment into the virtual environment. So there is no deficit there. Writing/typing would be really bad in VR though, and that's a major need for meetings, I don't see a g
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by johnny53169 5y ago
"Eat the rich" is a stupid slogan, I still don't understand how a Walmart greeter is a meaningful job considering it almost only exists in the US.
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> Would you prefer those jobs just didn’t exist? They don't exist in my country and people don't seem sadder for it.
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by johnny53169 5y ago
We are all alive in the same way
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> And there are also plenty of adults who don’t need to work who do those jobs. Do you have any numbers on that? Your comment sounds like what an out of touch rich person would say, since only rich people can do without money. > That
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> then they go back to not caring about linux. So they care so little about Linux they are going to release a subsidized console using Linux next year? Give me a break with your cynicism.
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by johnny53169 5y ago
That's nice to hear, and to correct my previous comment, Australia is the biggest producer of iron: > In 2019, the country was the 2nd largest world producer of gold;[1] 8th largest world producer of silver;[2] 6th largest world pro
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> Slaves sent to mines were basically sentenced to death. It's less bad now, but being a miner is not much better nowadays, even more so since most of the mines are in poor countries with little care for the workers and rich countri
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> Like legit half of it is drug use questions. That's on purpose: "Communities That Care (CTC)[1] is a program of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention" "The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) aims to re
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> (3.) carbon capture, and one gets to 75% emissions reduction with less than one percent of cost increase Carbon capture and less than one percent cost increase looks suspect to me
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> It would take at least ten years to educate the nuclear engineers needed to build dozens or even hundreds of them. And even then they don't have experience, they are juniors building very complex multi billion dollar installations
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> What is the result of such spending? Did they actually spend $1 billion? Or they did and spent on overpriced services? Without knowing what they did the amount is meaningless
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> How about "I need to message other people in a way that doesn't make everyone I know have to change the current way they do things". Isn't that the exact purpose of those walled gardens, so it'd be hard to chan
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by johnny53169 5y ago
What would be some of those issues for you?
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by johnny53169 5y ago
Corrected thank you!
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> Which is stated as fact when it’s not even true. Fat has been stripped out of everything. Even milk has the fat taken out of it. Look anywhere and you will see “fat free” Stripped of everything including pizza, burgers and fries?
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by johnny53169 5y ago
I'm so grateful for Shuttleworth ongoing support for Ubuntu for 17 years, it all costs a lot but Ubuntu has been a key contribution for Linux. It's important to praise good contribution IMO
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by johnny53169 5y ago
If you're part of a small group of people, it's easy to call your buddy when something bother you or a point of view you don't like gets published
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> Terrified, and behind by 10 years. Terrified? When Tesla will sell more cars maybe, they are badly lagging against virtually any other car maker, let alone all of them.
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by johnny53169 5y ago
> If the most legendary game developer of all time thinks Roblox is fine, are you sure he's mistaken? If he was the most legendary game _designer_ sure, but in that area he hasn't been very relevant in a while, as a programmer
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by johnny53169 5y ago
Wouldn't that mean that people created a system that can be used with normal pictures? So your code was literally to flag an innocent photo?

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