orbital223

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by orbital223 9mo ago
> So now I think to myself: if I want to remain portable, I'll just write a python script How can you know that your Python implementation won't send your credit card details to an LLM when it runs your script? It does not foll
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by orbital223 1y ago
I don't need my car's airbags 99.99% of the time.
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by orbital223 2y ago
I got more of a Ratatat - Tacobel Canon vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=use8dcTn4tI
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by orbital223 2y ago
> Leading comma ensures one line diffs It does not. It just moves the edge case to a different position: trailing comma has the "issue" when adding an argument to the end of the list while leading comma has it when adding an ar
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by orbital223 3y ago
This has been my exact journey, been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox, finally got fed up a couple of years ago and switched to Vivaldi. It's such a breath of fresh air not having to dread update notifications anymore.
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by orbital223 3y ago
> and thus neglect their main product Neglect would be a step up. It feels like they are actively trying to antagonize existing users.
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by orbital223 3y ago
> All that's required to be a naturalized US citizen is to be physically born in the U.S. Or to be born to U.S. citizen parents. A naturalized citizen is someone who was not born a citizen and then becomes one. Both of your examples
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by orbital223 3y ago
> That's the intent of the policy they oppose, so... /shrug There is a world of difference between "intent" and reality.
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by orbital223 3y ago
The rule of thumb according to youtubers is that 1000 video views is worth about $1 of ad share. Youtube's ad share is about 50%, so 1000 video views should be worth about $2 of ad money for Youtube. Youtube Premium costs $12 a month w
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by orbital223 3y ago
You can define a one-to-one mapping between the sets {1 2} and {3 4}, but I don't think anyone would say they are equal.
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by orbital223 4y ago
- Ted Woodford ( https://www.youtube.com/@twoodfrd ): Stringed instrument repair, mostly old accoustic and electric guitars. - Artisan Makes ( https://www.youtube.com/@artisanmakes ): Hobby machining. - Rex Kru
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by orbital223 4y ago
Because if you're an executive that signs off on a project spinning out, and that project then becomes wildly successful, you're going to be blamed for letting that super lucrative project "escape".
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by orbital223 4y ago
> Why do you say this is wrong? Exposing uninitialized memory as valid values tends to be a really bad idea.
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by orbital223 4y ago
DYN_ARR_RESET should probably be called DYN_ARR_INIT instead, as calling it more than once will leak memory. The handling of endptr in DYN_ARR_RESIZE seems to be incorrect. If I have an array with 2 elements and capacity of 3 and I DYN_ARR_
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by orbital223 4y ago
> Children do have rights. Some of them are restricted. Exactly, therefore the claim in OP that "They can't claim a fucking fetus is a person and then not give it rights." isn't really sound. Our legal systems already
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by orbital223 4y ago
> They can't claim a fucking fetus is a person and then not give it rights. Of course they can, we do it all the time. Children, for example, are people and they have very limited rights (especially in the area of freedom of movemen
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by orbital223 4y ago
> Or, you know, we could just stop trying to tell others what targets to use. If it's not ok to tell others what targets to use, then it's also not ok to tell others what targets to support.
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by orbital223 4y ago
> come up with the cleanest, easiest-for-humans syntax as possible, and tell browser vendors to fix their damn engines W3C has zero leverage over the browser vendors. If they tried to do this the end result would be the same thing that h
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by orbital223 4y ago
> keep China out of "trivially easy to prove that the West is better for its own citizens" China has concentration camps.
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by orbital223 4y ago
Doctors without borders provide free labor to needy children in war torn countries. Programmers provide free labor to first world corporations worth millions of dolars.
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by orbital223 4y ago
> Where did children get breakfast before capitalism? Historically speaking the vast majority of them just didn't.
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by orbital223 4y ago
> This is very uninteresting data to Google. It's not about how interesting the data is to them, it's about the hubris of believing they are entitled to every last bit of our data.
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by orbital223 4y ago
> The reason people say binding is because the words “immutable variable” are an oxymoron. Mathematics has had immutable variables since long before computers.
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by orbital223 4y ago
> Getting new blood thus may entail getting rid of the Old School interface and going with whatever is 'current'. Reminds me of the arguments for Firefox getting rid of the "Old School" interface and copying Chrome to
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by orbital223 4y ago
DAX, used in Microsoft's Power BI, allows for identifiers with spaces.
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by orbital223 4y ago
> I am a new to development but I've noticed that lots of errors pump through code where "No method X defined for nil object" or something like that. Thats the kind of thing a good programming language is supposed to help
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by orbital223 4y ago
> The test would fail because it doesn't compile, so you make it compile. But in this situation the test will fail regardless of what you wrote in the test code. So the supposed usefulness of the test failure showing that you are ac
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by orbital223 4y ago
> Next time you visit your 'Corrupt High Priest Doctor' who represents the institution of Medicine, who recommends a therapy, why don't you ignore him and make your own concoction, at home, using the 'alt method'
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by orbital223 4y ago
> (if we can accept a red squiggly line under a misspelled word, would it bother anyone to have it automatically added under verifiably factually incorrect claims?) If you are ever able to find a definition of 'verifiably factually
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by orbital223 4y ago
> No way I would tell my kids to take up with some a-hole online That was my first instinct as well. But thinking about it, the second interaction seems to have solidified to him that the person didn't have any actual argument again

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