okatsu

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by okatsu 6y ago
Same. I'm sure Discord is special to people today in the same way that AIM, IRC and phpBB forums were special to me growing up.
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by okatsu 6y ago
I'm not OP but I dated the daughter of very conservative parents for several years before finally marrying her. We each lived at home and in fact she moved into my home after marriage because I have an elderly (I was born late) widow a
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by okatsu 6y ago
Depends. My wife moved in with my elderly (I was born late), widowed parent and I right after our wedding because there was no way I could leave them to fend for themselves after everything they'd done for me. My in-laws even encourage
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by okatsu 6y ago
I don't have any opinion on Rust but reading about microservices, JSON and IPC in the context of a high-performance editor did make me raise an eyebrow.
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by okatsu 6y ago
I live in Montreal (in a less severely hit area) and there's definitely a psychological element to it. My elderly father lives with us. He worked in hospitals and during his heyday he had to deal with all sorts of contagious patients.
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by okatsu 6y ago
You wouldn't get fined but I can't imagine Tinder dates being seen favorably during a pandemic, even in Sweden. On another note I'm genuinely curious to see what the conclusion will be regarding Sweden's approach. I&#x27
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by okatsu 7y ago
I'm tempted to agree with you, although in the case of Epic it was about stuff like a Chinese company owning a minority stake, or devs choosing Epic as a launch platform (for actual upfront money). This time someone on a public America
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by okatsu 7y ago
I think it's often underestimated just how many people don't care and are just focused on doing their job and feeding their kids. They might passively agree or disagree with something but acting on it is a whole different matter.
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by okatsu 7y ago
Yeah, whenever I read stuff like that I feel like I've been living in a parallel world. I've always grown up around people who played video games and they've never cared about anything other than the games themselves. They mi
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by okatsu 7y ago
I agree with you but your individual account deletion doesn't really prove him wrong that he and others value their convenience over other people's rights. I've actually yet to even meet another gamer in person who cares at
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by okatsu 7y ago
My Win10 PC has been pestering me about the latest feature update(s) for months now but they repeatedly fail because of some generic driver error, which I briefly tried troubleshooting in vain. So every now and then I get to watch my PC rol
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by okatsu 7y ago
I used to say that until I started doing sports competitions and had to travel there repeatedly. I was admittedly worried because of my ethnicity but it went fine (a Canadian passport and NEXUS membership might've helped...you also wou
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by okatsu 8y ago
I dunno, the South China Morning Post reported on China essentially phasing out Islam [1], and that's on top of their ethnic cleansing with the Uyghur. 1: https://m.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/a
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by okatsu 8y ago
Yeah I'm glad this is being cast into the light. I understand that the real reason why they're going after the Uyghur is to squelsh any separatist initiatives and that their religion happens to be a convenient tool to use against
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by okatsu 8y ago
I had sort of come to peace with China having such heavy surveillance. Not because I approved of it but really there's only so much you can judge when your tax dollars go towards harming children overseas. I recently learned about the
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by okatsu 8y ago
I don't know about the democracy part but he also mentioned religion and their ethnic cleansing of Muslims seems pretty bad from what I've read.
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by okatsu 8y ago
Carlin did comedy his whole life though. And I don't personally hear Carlin references more than I do Murphy ones. Eddie quit pretty early as you know, so I can't help but suspect his time was over voluntarily. Not long ago, he ha
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by okatsu 8y ago
Yup it's his personal Twitter. No one was contesting his right to post whatever he wants. But as soon as you're trying to address an audience it comes with certain responsibilities. You're free to ignore these of course but t
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by okatsu 8y ago
It doesn't matter if they deserve it or not. I have problems with Windows 10 every time I turn on my PC. I hate the state of modern software. But I don't go out on Twitter and call everyone an idiot. What's the aim here? You
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by okatsu 8y ago
Casey always makes interesting points about modern computing and I tend to agree with a lot of what he says. Unfortunately he has a bad habit of insulting people on public platforms. Windows aggravates me as much as the next person but then
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by okatsu 8y ago
Isn't the whole point of Signal that it's e2e encrypted and therefore can't really read and share your messages? Whereas Facebook's system is centralized? So yeah you're safe from outside attacks but not internal on
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by okatsu 8y ago
The article isn't about bad encryption though. It's not about a flaw in the signal protocol or something like that. It's stuff like Moxie doesn't like F-Droid. Which is not an invalid criticism but I'm not gonna sto
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by okatsu 8y ago
I already mentioned in my comment above that when a chat app misbehaves I don't spend time doing that and that my friends are even less likely to. It might seem unfair to you but that's just how it is. If it doesn't work I mo
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by okatsu 8y ago
I'm happy for you. Buf that doesn't undo what happened to us.
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by okatsu 8y ago
I was on Wire for a time and even got other people on board. Then the experience suddenly degraded out of nowhere. The desktop and web clients would never finish syncing. Some other stuff I don't remember. I really liked the app though
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by okatsu 8y ago
Signal did what those things failed to do which is to actually gain some popularity outside of HN. I hope Matrix takes off! In the meantime if people are convincing their families and friends to get on Signal then that's a net positive
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by okatsu 8y ago
I don't know anything about Moxie derailing threads or anything like that but if we just listened to critics all the time then we just wouldn't have anything. Signal is better than a lot of what is out there and being used as scal
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by okatsu 8y ago
I'm not really sure what your point is. With or without Mastodon people have already created forums/social media groups/online communities for like-minded people and will censor or not censor it to their liking. That's t
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by okatsu 8y ago
My job right out of school was mostly C++. Nowadays it's a mix of C++ and web stuff.
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by okatsu 8y ago
I'm in QC as well and was lucky enough to land a 65k job right out of school, so it was awkward to see my classmates not only accepting 45-50k salaries but also trying to rationalize them. I think you might be right about the taboo. Bu

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