laputan_machine

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by laputan_machine 3y ago
It's coming from a place of realism and facts. A place seemingly lost in the current zeitgeist. > Quorn makes chik'n nuggets made of mycoprotein with similar nutrients to a chicken nugget, Wrong again. https://www.ch
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> I ate some chicken nuggets made out of rice Do other people not see how ridiculous this is? I partially agree with Italy's decision, at least to the naming of food. You didn't eat chicken nuggets made out of rice. You ate dee
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Very cool! Hacker ethos (make a fake account to leverage sending photos), short and simple demo. Nice job
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I wouldn't worry about it, we take cheap shots at French food and French people too ;)
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> Now if you do inherit a larger project that you don't like, well, you either work on it or you switch jobs. Which you wouldn't have to contemplate if your predescessor had simply used the right tool for the right job, right?
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
As you get more experienced in programming you'll inevitably inherit projects that you didn't have any say over, when that time comes come back to this comment, I'd be interested to hear if you still feel the same way.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> When you're writing a specific program, e.g. it's never going to be anything more than "Hello, world!" , why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML? Emphasised the parts I think you
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Historically, Islamic philosophers (as they were then called) took works from the greek philosophers before them and expanded upon it. Then a few other philosphers who did not like people learning from non-muslims leaned hard into fundament
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
And yet they are routinely used to solve "simple hello world" apps. Riddle me that.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
"You don't agree with me so I'll throw my toys out of the pram" Come off it, debate is debate, you're trying to come to a conclusion, but for that to happen your mind needs to be open to the possibility that you are
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Yes, it really is odd, I couldn't figure it out so switched back to zsh. The specific issue was to do with a script we had to run to gain ssh access to an internal network. I can't post the script, but it was related to openssh. E
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Yeah I would have thought so too, but I have personally ran into this issue running fish-shell on my mac. There are some scripts I need to run that do not work even when I shebang the script to run in bash.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
These responses are hard-coded by developers, we know this because it's the same stock response every time. It is personal because it's not the model, it's a wrapper around the model enforcing US-centric cultural censorsh
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> In 2022, around 16,000 Albanian citizens applied for asylum in the UK, making up 16% of all asylum applicants. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries... What's that? Let's be real,
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
This is my experience with any linux distro I've used, I'd prefer a smaller, regularly updated repository instead of my (2023) distro being shipped with ancient versions of, e.g. node, python, openssl, etc...
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I honestly find the "holier-than-thou" speech of anyone offensive, but when it's coming from a program I genuinely find it rage-inducing. I can't be the only one, facebook devs, what you guys playing at? You guys speak t
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Thanks, that actually makes a lot of sense. So I've been using them wrong, whoops! I guess I should get myself a little bin to compost stuff in
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
"I'm ok with having my freedoms restricted so you should too"
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Sand is cheaper per kilo than used coffee grounds. "Building-grade sand" is sharp sand. It is the cheapest sand you can buy. Roman's built things out of their concrete which was full of random bits of rubble, and some of thes
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I keep my grounds but I've found whenever I use them on indoor plants it grows mould on it within a day of watering the soil. Outside plants / veg don't have this issue -- have you come across this before? I keep my used grou
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
The angle about "reducing waste" seems a bit moot. Sand is plenty and coffee is organic.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Interesting, I only ever see wild solitary bees in my (UK) garden.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> This particular green revolution is going to be privatized and inegalitarian. It's never good enough for some people is it? :)
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
The buzzing would happen whether or not I look at my device. It only annoys you if I don't look at it?
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I almost recommended this to a friend for his children. I'm glad I explored all the pages. Not really a fan of rug-pulling behaviour.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
We are humans, the greatest species on the planet. Even before industrialisation we lived on almost every continent ranging from scorching deserts to blizzard-filled snowlands. Humans are the greatest adaptors to a given environment, even i
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Is it the same? There are gamification tactics I'm not a fan of (voting system), but I find the level of discourse on HN to generally be a much higher quality than say, twitter, facebook, instagram (e.g. what we mean when we say socia
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
It's clearly not cheaper, is it! Energy prices are higher than they have ever been! What are yuo talking about? Do you know anyone that lives in poverty? I do, I help them financially. These people are struggling, and NetZero is not he
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
These things can happen suddenly and without warning. When I was 18 I was in a nightclub, my mate shouted a bit too loud into my ear (because the music was loud) and permanently damaged my hearing in my right ear, it hurts to hear certain f
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
The addition of China data would make the legend useless, but it still goes to show out sized some things are, while the UK continues to chase Net Zero at the expense of its citizen's wealth, other countries (India, China, the US) prio

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