justtopostthis3

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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
> All this because I fit a description. What was this description? I don’t know, black male between 4’11 and 7’4 probably. I have been stopped, searched, and detained in handcuffs for over an hour because I "fit a description."
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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
Are there other examples of progress that were meaningfully advanced by changing commonly established terminology which was never purposefully offensive?
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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
Until you wake up one morning and realize that all the things you loved about how the world works have changed.
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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
> completely unaware of Gandhi’s sleeping with children I was unaware, and searching suggests you are referring to him sleeping naked in the same bed as a 17 or 18-year-old, without touching them, supposedly to test his celibacy. Which i
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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
As a counter-balance, I think the name is perfect. It is relevant and memorable enough for me to find again when I am in a position to spend the money on it, but generic enough to not put off indefinitely on the assumption that I'll re
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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
Eventually I confessed because I wanted to work on some other technology problems the company had, and the owner of the company sat me down for a chat. She explained that legally, the company already owned any software I made on company tim
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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
My very first job as a young teen was basically this! I asked if I could just have access to the origin database instead of getting printouts, automated the whole thing, and continued to get paid for 15 hrs/week or whatever the legal l
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by justtopostthis3 6y ago
Got me curious. Looks more like ~1,000/yr from car accidents: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/msp/DecadeGlanceFatals_38... (Still less than I would have guessed.) Also interesting: https://www.c
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by justtopostthis3 7y ago
> The web is a thousand times better now than it was ten years ago. How?? For who?? The web in 2010: type something into Google, click first result, enjoy life The web in 2020: type something into Google, try to figure out which results
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by justtopostthis3 7y ago
Not understanding the lyrics can be part of the appeal, because it makes them less distracting. Understanding a little can make embarrassingly cheesy and saccharine pop lyrics take on a profound poetic quality. Growing up on anime and Jap
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by justtopostthis3 7y ago
Using no libraries! a1([f,f,_,_,_,_]). a1([f,t,f,_,_,_]). a1([f,t,t,f,_,_]). a1([f,t,t,t,f,_]). a1([f,t,t,t,t,f]). a1([t,t,t,t,t,t]). a2([_,f,t,_,_,_]). a2([_,f,f,t,_,_]). a2([_,f,f,f,t,_]). a2([_,
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by justtopostthis3 7y ago
Even if all of those big faceless entities have the ability to monitor my every moment, I simply can't imagine anyone finding time in the day to bother. My mother, on the other hand...
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by justtopostthis3 7y ago
git filter-branch --env-filter " \ export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Dade\ Murphy \ GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=zer0cool@example.com \ GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=Dade\ Murphy \ GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=zer0cool@example.com"
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by justtopostthis3 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6nREONy_4
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by justtopostthis3 7y ago
Amusingly, I grew a full beard at 27 or so and started getting carded all the time!
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by justtopostthis3 8y ago
Would be fun to see logs from RH back then. [2003-10-14 02:51] <rizzou> hey moot - there's this cool website at http://www.4chan.net/ you should check it out. it's really looking like the next big thing, you
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by justtopostthis3 8y ago
I use and appreciate those conveniences too, without having ever signed in to Chrome or using Chrome Sync. Many privacy-conscious people make all the same tradeoffs that everyone else does; like you, they've decided that what they&#x27
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by justtopostthis3 8y ago
Paper letters with envelopes and stamps were as ubiquitous in 1990 as email is today, and there have been plenty of articles in The Straight Dope where Cecil Adams - a fictional, but decidedly male identity - claims to have received letters
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by justtopostthis3 8y ago
This conversation seems more analogous: "I raise elephants, but they are bred to be as small as possible." "They're _either_ elephants, _or_ bred to be as small as possible."
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by justtopostthis3 9y ago
It seems possible that having to puzzle them out makes it an effective way to learn, at least if you can stand to.
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by justtopostthis3 9y ago
I have seen use-of-force training exercises that look very similar except there is actually a weapon being drawn. I don't think it makes the officer who pulled the trigger innocent, but I believe he behaved exactly the way he was train
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by justtopostthis3 9y ago
On X11 you can do better: the clipboard isn't actually stored anywhere, the program requesting the paste gets the data directly from the program that claimed the clipboard. The clipboard lib you're using just spawns xclip (or xsel
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by justtopostthis3 9y ago
I remember having to use different flags for bzip2 (j vs y) in tar on FreeBSD vs Linux about 15 years ago so I was sure they were different, but I have an image of a FreeBSD 4.10 box from June 2004 and /usr/bin/tar is indeed
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by justtopostthis3 10y ago
Press i in Vimium, ctrl-z in Pentadactyl, or shift+esc in Vimperator, and they will pass everything except esc (shift+esc in vimperator) to the page.
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by justtopostthis3 10y ago
I also applied, and my application also indicated that I wasn't looking for a job afterwards. I am a nobody, have never worked at any high profile tech darlings, was not returning to another job, have no money myself, and contribute no
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by justtopostthis3 10y ago
> given that they are specific to Spotify, rather than a set of generic credentials that just happen to work on Spotify. Actually, it looks like output from a popular tool (Sentry MBA) specifically designed to test if "generic crede
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by justtopostthis3 11y ago
Why would I need that? It's not like I'm running Wordpress or something. haaaaaaaaaa (I'm so sorry)
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by justtopostthis3 11y ago
> cheap hardware that would barely run the stock JVM I run two stock JVM instances and Redis on a $10 DO VPS that serves ~700k pageviews per day > arbitrarily ignoring whole classes of apps or languages because of some outdated bias (