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by pokey00 3y ago
> This is a valid criticism of the Python community and something the core language maintainers should look to address. The author didn't include one of his custom source libraries that's not needed to understand the code, so t
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by pokey00 3y ago
Until they start blocking VPNs like other streaming services? Piracy is a solution that doesn't end up a cat and mouse game. Sounds like op is paying for the content but it's region locked, so the dumbest form of pushing your cust
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by pokey00 3y ago
You didn't have to convert voltages all the time for things you did in a car until relatively recently. All the typical 12V stuff could've run at 48V no problem. By the time we wanted to put computers in cars and charge our cell p
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by pokey00 3y ago
Your maneuvering system just needs to be able to get tanks spinning.
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by pokey00 3y ago
Why cut it in half? Spray (or Mylar) on the outside.
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by pokey00 3y ago
A sudden discontinuity like that but continuing the same curve and jumping back... that's equipment malfunction 99% of the time.
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by pokey00 4y ago
> It's a travesty how this has been handled. Massively rich corporations deflecting blame, lying to the public, and trying to cover up their own malfeasance in the pursuit of relentless greed. Profits over people, as usual. Do you h
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by pokey00 4y ago
eh poor example imo; that's guaranteed by the Constitution, not legislation.
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by pokey00 4y ago
Backing this up- I see that complaint all the time about US education, but I know me and all my peers had this impressed on us throughout our (public) schooling. People just don't care because to them, the word is right but the spellin
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by pokey00 4y ago
Are you kidding me? Government law enforcement sent her a cease and desist and threatened to charge her for protected speech. It's not a gray area. The purpose of the letter was to harass and intimidate a citizen for criticizing their
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by pokey00 4y ago
Tough question to answer. Historically, privately owned artillery has been OK and was crucial during the Revolutionary War and all sorts of little skirmishes throughout the 19th century. It still is OK with the right tax stamps, but that do
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by pokey00 4y ago
definitely, but I like to think most people here are more self-aware or are less extreme about shouting down others. the heavy-hivemind topics always have a couple of good "woah there..." meta comments, and unlike reddit, they don
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by pokey00 4y ago
Enshrined in the Constitution are the founding principles of the world's first liberal democracy. The men who wrote it and the electorate that ratified it were just a couple years removed from a horrifically bloody struggle for self-de
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by pokey00 4y ago
> If the purpose of private gun ownership is to empower citizens to overthrow a tyrannical government, then no registration process should be warranted for destructive devices like javelins or SAM batteries. This is non-sequitur to me. Y
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by pokey00 4y ago
Yeah, there's some gray area there and grenades are probably the best example. Separated from philosophical side of things, they are legal to own Federally at least, at $200 a tax stamp. I don't know anything about the jurisprud
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by pokey00 4y ago
home and work?
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by pokey00 4y ago
Telling, huh? In what way? I'd love for you to expand on that.
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by pokey00 4y ago
God the tone of your comment just set me off. What's the ugly sentiment and uglier mind? Just put it out there, whatever -ism you're about to accuse the parent poster of. Let's hear it without your cute little innuendo. This
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by pokey00 4y ago
Yeah, I use them all the time for the specific memory layout part. At the same time, I've never had to go as far with optimization as trimming a few bytes off my structs for the program's memory footprint. If that struct is gett
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by pokey00 4y ago
I mean, are you really going to argue that the sole fact that the kids' genitals weren't entirely visible makes it not child pornography? Despite the fact that it was children being 'clothed', posed, and filmed purpose
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by pokey00 4y ago
like the other response pointed out, that's not my interpretation- there's a diversity of viewpoints, and that's the interpretation that I was taught by the Church I went to and by my parents. I commented to expand on what
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by pokey00 4y ago
Context? Different Christian religions and people have varying ways of reconciling the two. I (raised Catholic) was taught essentially that with Jesus's death, the old rules went out the window; all that goofy shit God used to command
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by pokey00 4y ago
Also from Buffalo, same experience- someone bringing up religion in conversation would be odd. Would be really weird if they start talking about their relationship with God, praying, etc. Not that there's any problem with this stuff, b
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by pokey00 4y ago
I've tried this before, writing "return to sender" on spam, except was putting them back in the mailbox with the flag up. The mailman threw a minor fit after the 3rd or 4th time I did it, left a note in the mailbox complainin
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by pokey00 4y ago
Backing this up, because without the context I thought it looked like a goofy/funny quirk in the law. But god damn... > The tapes contained numerous vignettes of teenage and preteen females, between the ages of ten and seventeen, st
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by pokey00 5y ago
Well, that's a pretty poor example to use to try to make your point. The Dixie Chicks (a country music group with a socially conservative leaning fanbase) went to a foreign country and decided to shit on their president for whatever th
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by pokey00 5y ago
You've managed to provide a perfect example of what the parent comment was trying to point out. You've turned several extremely complex political and social issues into angry one-liners you can scream at your fellow countrymen- yo
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by pokey00 5y ago
I'm just sort of discovering the fediverse "scene". I still have a lot of research to do, but decentralization is very appealing to me. I have some questions, and maybe the answers will help other people too: * What aspects a
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by pokey00 5y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the info. That does seem like a real problem, and I do see the complexity of the issue. Are there any current proposals for tackling it without adding centralization? Or do we just acknowledge/accept that that's
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by pokey00 5y ago
Does firstmastodon.local need to be federated with anothermastodon.local for you to follow someone on it? I don't understand the system well enough to know if this is a dumb question or not.

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