mystified5016

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by mystified5016 1y ago
The shitty salesman who won't leave your stoop is harassment. Religious evangalists who keep coming to your door after you tell them to stop is harassment. When someone tells you to stop and go away and you refuse, that is harassment.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
You are exactly the kind of annoyance I'm trying to avoid. I don't care at all what you have to say. I have my own problems and I'm trying to mind my own damn business . You don't have some God-given right to demand t
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I can count on one hand the number of times a stranger approached me and didn't either try to harrass me or ask me for money. I don't think my headphones are depriving me of some grand experience of human life.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Morality and law are completely disjoint. On a Venn diagram, it's two circles separated by about a lightyear or so.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Buying a used car instead of new is essentially theft from the manufacturers. Won't someone think of these poor helpless mega-corporations?!
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Police no longer feel the need to do their jobs, and Americans in general have just lost any sense of empathy or even awareness of other people. But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to se
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by mystified5016 1y ago
This was a huge trend on Tumblr like ten years ago. The millennials got bit bad by this and I guess genz inherited it. Or maybe this is just how young people think when given access to this type of information.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
The old fashioned way: elbow grease and lots of squinting and swearing at your computer
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by mystified5016 1y ago
IME it's less of a "throw more resources" problem and more of a "stop using resources in literally the worst way possible" CI caching is, apparently, extremely difficult. Why spend a couple of hours learning about y
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by mystified5016 1y ago
No, it isn't.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
That's an interesting point. The absolute hardest part (for me) about learning a language is listening comprehension. I can read, write, and speak French at a reasonable level, but I've never been able to understand a native speak
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Maybe computers wouldn't have gotten slower as time goes on. We definitely would not have Electron and that's a world I want to live in.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
If that's the case, why not simply delete all controls and shove them into a smartphone app? Right, because it's fucking ridiculous to expect a driver to fumble through menus while driving.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
By and large these loopholes are only accessible to people with enough money to buy islands. The ultra-rich get tax loopholes and the rest of us have to make up for it with increased taxes and decreased government services.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
That's pretty much all the major governments these days. Globally we're sliding back to authoritarianism, likely as a prelude to WWIII
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Almost nobody uses it as a currency. The vast majority of people cannot buy daily goods, food, gas with bitcoin. It is an investment vehicle , not a functional currency. For most people you can't use it as a currency if you tried.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
That goddamn flap on the back that gets stuck folded under the thing every time you back up.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Yes, absolutely. It's maybe not a literary masterpiece and it's suspiciously similar to The Martian if you squint. But not many books can get me laughing out loud the second or third time through. It's a really fun read and I
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by mystified5016 1y ago
The only games in my library at all that don't work on linux are indie games from the early 2000s, and I'm comfortable blaming the games themselves in this case. I also don't play any games that require a rootkit, so..
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by mystified5016 1y ago
The point is to poison your ad tracking profile so that advertisers can't figure out who you are and what you'll buy. No matter how secure your browser setup is, Google is tracking you. By filling their trackers with garbage, th
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by mystified5016 1y ago
At the startup I work at, we have an AWS instance that only runs our GitLab server. The damn thing runs at 10-15% CPU nearly constantly (because GitLab's founding assumption is that everyone wants to scale to ten million global users)
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Yup. They even typically come with separate 1x and 10x loops. They're a common pack-in item with low- and high-end clamp meters.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
AI is the equivalent of going from stone abacuses straight to smartphones, skipping all computer and calculator development in between. We go from a society where only a very few people are literate in math to one where everyone has a lit
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by mystified5016 1y ago
It's wild watching other Americans trying to carefully avoid acknowledging the absurdity of "get a job and submit to capitalism or die". Admitting that there might be another way and that it might be much better would be ad
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by mystified5016 1y ago
First because generally in order to be a good person you have to care what happens to other people. Second because the second order effects of reverting American society to Victorian slums would be incredibly bad for the economy and your ta
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by mystified5016 1y ago
WinForms, WPF, UWP. They abandoned forms and WPF, and UWP is getting much the same treatment. Also there was the whole framework/standard/core fiasco
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by mystified5016 1y ago
IME, it's sort of like the difference between C and C#. Kotlin is incredibly expressive and can get quite complicated. Java is a bit more brutally simple (and obviously more verbose). As a C# dev primarily, I love Kotlin, and I'
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by mystified5016 1y ago
How many enterprises want to use two or three generation old second-hand leased servers? As a homelabber I can see the sense, but as the IT guy at a small company it doesn't sound like a great deal. If I were in a situation where I nee
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Why take the risk? If you remove the drive when decommissioning a machine you now have 100% certainty that there is no possible data leak and it costs nothing but two minutes of labor. If you care at all about data leaks, there's l
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Also there's "allow anything on the other side of this public 'charging port' own the things you bought"

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