robonerd

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by robonerd 4y ago
You're asking me why I'm not kind to somebody who has fallen for / is shilling for an absurd scam? I slam the door on Jehovah Witnesses too.
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's as old as law itself, isn't it? From the Code of Hammurabi (translation from wikipedia): > If a merchant should give silver to a trading agent for an investment venture, and he [the trading agent] incurs a loss on his jo
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by robonerd 4y ago
Well if that was throwntoday's point, it's a distinction without a difference. The Korean War particularly, despite not being officially declared as a war, came disturbingly close to going nuclear.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Decriminalize piracy for natural persons (not corporations.)
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by robonerd 4y ago
How do otherwise intelligent people come to believe things this stupid? An NFT is a glorified receipt, the most it can possibly do is prove you purchased something but you can already do that with regular fucking receipts and credit card
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by robonerd 4y ago
I thought this "end of history" narrative would be dead by now. It's incredibly naive to think that major wars are a thing of the past. The trade/commerce argument against the political viability of war has been made
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by robonerd 4y ago
> GPS is probably the only useful satellite for the majority of the world, Synthetic aperture radar is incredibly useful to the military [and generally.]
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by robonerd 4y ago
OP link is a video of a discussion panel about a report which you can download a PDF of here: https://www.csis.org/analysis/boost-phase-missile-defense The TL;DW/TL;DR is that boost-phase missile defense, deemed i
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Boost-Phase Missile Defense: Interrogating the Assumptions(youtube.com)
1 points by robonerd 4y ago|1 comments
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by robonerd 4y ago
In the context of fighting a war, Kessler Syndrome is a meme. It reduces the expected lifespan of a satellite, but that only becomes strategically relevant if the new lifespan of your satellites is shorter than the war is expected to last
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by robonerd 4y ago
An attack 80+ years ago does not underscore the need for any reform today, nor for that matter does an attack 20+ years ago. Not unless you think nothing has changed between then and now, which would be silly. Introspection and reform af
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by robonerd 4y ago
This site is excellent, worth a submission of its own.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Maybe Gopher or one of those similar inspired projects is the future after all. Too weird for mass appeal.
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by robonerd 4y ago
evil-mode In other applications I mostly avoid the ctrl-v/ctrl-c and use X's highlighting and middleclicking system instead. When those aren't available, I actually prefer context menu copy/paste entries to the CUA shor
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by robonerd 4y ago
TikTok used to suggest all sorts of long-form articles. Tiktok is all short-form video; a bunch of vapid trash.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Local newspapers don't need cookies to sell ads.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> a rule stating that all takeout food must be packaged or covered > On May 6, 1986 Carmel City Council passed a resolution to enable a rewrite of the ordinance related to eating places and takeout food and make said ordinance more
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by robonerd 4y ago
You have a soul. That's a handicap if you want to keep up with bureaucratic bullshitting.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Evil-mode is incredible, for me Emacs with evil is the best vi-derived editor in the world, beating neovim and vim by miles. But as an ex-Vim user and fairly recent Emacs convert I feel like a guest in a clubhouse full of old timers. It
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by robonerd 4y ago
> But Emacs predates CUA by a couple of decades Only a couple of years if you're taking GNU Emacs specifically. About one decade if you're talking about editor macros for TECO.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> basic stuff like CUA I don't care for the defaults either, but I also don't care for CUA, so if you had your way the defaults would be just as objectionable to me as they are now. Since you can't make everybody hap
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Oh dear.. I'm not going to comment on that. I don't think it's productive. It's simple: Don't tell other people what they did or didn't experience. If you don't understand that, then you aren&#x2
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by robonerd 4y ago
Okay, I have two computers on my LAN right now, one running OpenSUSE with KDE and Pulseaudio, the other with Debian and Pulseaudio. I want to send my audio from the OpenSUSE computer to the Debian computer. What do I drag, and to where?
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by robonerd 4y ago
"Why didn't you just become a pulseaudio dev if you hate pulseaudio so much" Get fucking real, I have better things to do with my life than waste time ingratiating myself with the likes of pusleaudio devs. "Audio st
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by robonerd 4y ago
> PulseAudio doesn't code defensively against those kind of bugs. That's a reoccurring pattern across Lennart software. He gets an idea of the way things should work, maybe from the spec or maybe just from his own subject
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by robonerd 4y ago
>the graying of gnome They broke their own user -> developer pipeline through years of deliberately alienating power users.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Certain individuals took it up, but as a whole those other societies disregarded it. Just like today? How many people today own a telescope? It's a niche tool useful to some but irrelevant to most.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Sound stops and doesn't work until I restart pulseaudio. You know, the usual. I think some people restart their whole computer and blame their drivers, but restarting pulseaudio alone is what fixes it nine times out of ten.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Sickboy's Philosophy of Life. We all get old and cannae hack it anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a94jraWNG-g
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by robonerd 4y ago
Driver issues, right.. is that why my archived shell histories have hundreds if not thousands of entries for `pulseaudio --kill ; puslseaudio --start` ? Does restarting the userland sound daemon reset the drivers operating in kernel space

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