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by michaelwww 4y ago
I didn't really get what they hate about it. I read some mild annoyances, which I had a hard time understanding because I grew up in an 800 sq ft house with 2 parents and 5 kids, then served on a submarine in the US Navy. I'm prob
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I get what you're saying but I don't think it's that depressing or surprising, but that's a big discussion better had in other places.
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by michaelwww 4y ago
If you owned Twitter and the site was suddenly flooded with calls to attack election officials and raid election offices what would you do? You'd probably meet with your lawyers and find out what kind of liability you had, then you&#x2
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by michaelwww 4y ago
> What exactly is he supposed to do? When Twitter is flooded with threats of violence and calls to form mobs will he just do nothing? Is that what you are suggesting? He can take the site dark if he wants and he may have to.
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by michaelwww 4y ago
It will be easy to switch to another platform and there will be tools to help as this post indicates. 4chan users are having fun saying the N word on Twitter and Le Bron James is complaining about it. And this is only day 2. I certainly thi
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I find this whole situation to be incredibly depressing, especially with Musk tweeting out a fact free insinuation about Paul Pelosi (since deleted without apology.) The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night N
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I haven't read Grisham but that's how I felt about Crichton's books. His books were treatments designed to made into a movie and read like that.
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by michaelwww 4y ago
Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019 (min 39, sec 46) https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=2386 Describes how Douglas McIlroy designed a language, wrote a compiler in the language that he designed that did
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TMG (language): A self-hosted compiler from scratch on paper(en.wikipedia.org)
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by michaelwww 4y ago
From the size of it, I'd say it's about the size of Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma city bomb, which was a 16 ton truck filled with fertilizer. All trucks over this bridge were supposedly inspected, so I think it would have to be
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by michaelwww 4y ago
Debate (almost 10 years ago) TypeScript vs. Dart about the best way to improve JavaScript Anders Hejlsberg (Microsoft) and Lars Bak (Google): TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqbCQuK0gM
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by michaelwww 4y ago
not ready just yet? It looks like it barely does anything https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1576021072239300608
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by michaelwww 4y ago
You're right, the novelty would wear off quickly, but it doesn't hurt anything for me to organize a data set about myself just in case
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I'm old so I've been planning on this for awhile. I have a folder that contains all my personal data: photos and videos, journal, all my saved social media posts, all my emails and all my anonymous handles leading to everything I&
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I'm not even sure what NIMBY means but if it means concerned about the development in my hometown then I'm NIMBY.
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I repeat, the University should build dorms on their land up on the hill. They have plenty of it, but they want to preserve it's natural beauty
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by michaelwww 4y ago
The locals wonder why UCSC doesn't build housing on their land? Admittedly, it's a beautiful spot up on the hill and housing blocks in the meadow would be a crying shame from an aesthetic standpoint. So don't expand the unive
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by michaelwww 4y ago
Ok, I'm NIMBY. So? I'm sure you would too if they were to build a 5 story apartment building overlooking your backyard. My point is that Santa Cruz and San Jose are very different. Santa Cruz is a spot of natural beauty worth pres
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I guess we could just let the homeless smoke meth and shoot heroin in the Redwood forests like we used to and not do anything
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by michaelwww 4y ago
They are... several huge apartment blocks downtown that are ugly as sin but necessary. The homeless problem in Santa Cruz is mostly about drugs and mental illness. People who couldn't keep an apartment if you provided them with one.
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by michaelwww 4y ago
Call it what you want, but the goal was to keep Santa Cruz from turning into Waikiki, Hawaii with high rise apartment buildings lining the ocean. We fought to keep Lighthouse Field from being developed. I think it was worth it even if I can
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by michaelwww 4y ago
> Setting up slum cities is now the standard of progressiveness in America The alternative was to continue to let people live in the surrounding forests while shooting up heroin with dirty needles, trashing the woods and causing lengthy
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I live in San Jose and currently can't afford to live in Santa Cruz
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I suspect you don't understand the difference between Santa Cruz and San Jose. Have you been to Santa Cruz?
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by michaelwww 4y ago
Santa Cruz native here: I can understand the author's frustrations coming to Santa Cruz from the outside but there's more to it. He's describing a UCSC problem because the university is expanding without building enough dormi
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I'm not sure what level of expertise is required to do this. If it's not that hard then other countries could be suspect
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by michaelwww 4y ago
That's why people are starting to blame it on the US because we had means and motivation. They surmise it was done to prevent a deal between Germany and Russia for the winter. But Russia could have done it knowing people would blame th
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Nord Stream pipelines supplying gas from Russia suffer 'unprecedented' damage(dailymail.co.uk)
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by michaelwww 4y ago
I guess it depends on who wins in November
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by michaelwww 4y ago
Interesting. So there are mathematical systems that describe reality extremely well and this is testable. There's beauty in that, like the sun flower and Fibonacci. I was looking for something to rekindle my interest in math and this m

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