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by pling 12y ago
I have three children so your assertion is incorrect. If it means that the world is a better place afterwards for them, some hardship for us all is not a bad thing. That includes me and my family. It's not an anarchist pipe dream. It h
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by pling 12y ago
Civilian monitoring networks. We watch back?
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by pling 12y ago
Yes people are evil and these people manifest themselves in the form of corporations, governments and agencies. There is the second system effect as well where one of the mechanisms above manifests itself as something evil when the compon
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by pling 12y ago
I think a non-violent approach is unrealistic. History tells us that tables only turn when soldiers refuse to shoot citizens on order of the government and turn the guns back against them. The best interim approach is to destroy all means o
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by pling 12y ago
This looks really cool. I haven't built my own PC for a number of years and probably wouldn't consider it any more to be honest (MacBook FTW). I will however recommend this to anyone who does ask me about self-builds :)
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by pling 12y ago
Its shit at those things as well. Months of VSTO and Outlook forms will make you realise it's a pile of crap.
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by pling 12y ago
Outlook shortcuts are a complete bastard. You have Ctrl-F as discussed which is completely different to the rest of windows. You have alt-S for send as well which is used in some language for special characters. And the most annoying is shi
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by pling 12y ago
> Sounds like the Master Programmer has never worked at a company that crunched you for 80 hour weeks, for weeks. Nor has the master programmer worked for a company populated by utter morons who leave a large minefield in every task wher
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by pling 12y ago
Sorry but that's just an idiotic assertion. Closed source proprietary crypto, you just don't know who wrote it, who audited it and who backdoored it and who knows of any flaws in it. Open source crypto, it's there. Go read th
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by pling 12y ago
This. Ex IBS sufferer here. Fixed it myself after 3 years of hell from doctors who quite clearly were a) short of any realistic knowledge on the matter and b) quite clearly using me as an experimental subject for everything the drug company
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by pling 12y ago
Or avoid the tool treadmill to start with... That is my philosophy. Managing licenses sometimes has a large overhead as well.
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by pling 12y ago
What is said and what is done rarely have any relation in politics.
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by pling 12y ago
105. We had to pay for the 500 tier for that. Fuck all extra value. 395 seats for nothing. Not only that, it's a pile of crap. It's slow, unreliable and requires so much configuration to bend it into an acceptable shape that it ha
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by pling 12y ago
Pay pay pay pay pay pay pay. I have all of that and pay nothing. It builds up otherwise very rapidly. For example the company I work for currently churns out a mere $16k a year for JIRA now that the pay pay pay has caught up...
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by pling 12y ago
That's not a proper C compiler though, as Microsoft like to point out regularly as a lame excuse...
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by pling 12y ago
It already runs RISCOS ;)
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by pling 12y ago
They're teaching my daughter python here in the UK at age 10. I got taught BASIC (BBC BASIC) and some ARM assembler [1] in 1992 at school in maths. [1] ARM assembler because our maths teacher was moonlighting selling RISCOS software an
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by pling 12y ago
Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away. They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less...
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by pling 12y ago
They just draw a black box over the text in the PDFs now... (No joke)
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by pling 12y ago
Slow, painful support, absolutely crazy latency, cocked up reverse DNS, bad peering.
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by pling 12y ago
As someone in the UK, I'm quite happy for amazon to provide me with low cost items on this basis. The tax is fixed rate VAT here in the UK so everything I buy from a tax dodge means I'm effectively getting a small rebate against m
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by pling 12y ago
OVH is a bag of shit. Nothing but pain. If you want quality try bytemark/bigv or Colo with exonetric. Edit: I tried linode and was pretty happy but I don't trust something so far from home. Also tried digital ocean but the lagging
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by pling 12y ago
Docx and Odt will live forever. 99% of the population will continue to use them. Hell I write hundreds of pages of documentation every year in Word 2010 and use LibreOffice at home because its easy. I use LaTeX for anything that is 'pu
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by pling 12y ago
I think they're all pretty poor. Sure they're a reasonable choice for conversion to HTML but they're only a subset of that and HTML is pretty easy to write and separate style and content these days.
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by pling 12y ago
a) markdown isn't expressive enough. In fact it's pretty horrendous to edit and separate content and layout IMHO. I'd go as far to say I prefer docbook over markdown. It's fine for github readme's but not typesettin
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by pling 12y ago
It depends how you work and how stable your product is. I think they are patch heavy i.e the CVS tree is used to apply patches to and that is that. CVS has some advantages then as you can pin individual file versions on a tag rather than ha
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by pling 12y ago
My wife's grandfather designed buildings like that in the 1960s for the Ministry of Defence in the UK. They had special wall and ceiling coverings, artificial floors and were lined with RF shielding even back then. They had an immense
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by pling 12y ago
This. Most people seem to buy the propaganda and support it universally.
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by pling 12y ago
You're looking at the wrong corporations. ISPs are fairly small game in the corporate hierarchy. They've become low ranking gatekeepers unexpectedly which is why they're targeted. What you need to look at is high finance, def
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by pling 12y ago
I agree entirely. I'd be a noisy activist but I'd rather subvert the system silently and educate my children to be ethical, upstanding and to quietly have zero respect for implied authority. Better a grey man[1] than a dead man wa

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