skipants

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by skipants 5d ago
The sentiment here seems pretty anti-surveillance -- but why the false dichotomy? Both are important issues. It just comes off as demeaning to the people that died in 9/11. So much vitriol here today, jeez.
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by skipants 5d ago
> Fixing this broken language and attitude is a step towards ending these deaths. Is it? The person you responded to sees car crashes as an important issue to solve yet still calls it "car accidents". So maybe it's not tha
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by skipants 12d ago
Funnily enough, this is more readable to me than most Clayde jargon.
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by skipants 15d ago
the person you responded to has been a user since 2019. why do you think they artificially push it? I also use jj as my daily driver now. I like it a lot. I have no skin in the game either.
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by skipants 1mo ago
Which written language has the most history of terse, succinct writing? If Claude doesn't improve I'm ready to learn a new language just to avoid its prose. I'm only half-joking.
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by skipants 2mo ago
This was the feature I wanted the most on Github... until I started using jj. I know that jj isn't for everyone, but for me it's been trivial to see the state of and update all the stacks of branches I have on the go. Not that I d
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by skipants 2mo ago
Here's the simplest form I could distill it to. The other comments I find quite verbose or confusing, no offense intended. x: Ann's current age y: The age difference between Ann and Mary 24 = x + y (ie. their c
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by skipants 2mo ago
Uhhh... what? The OP is right; even if you do it intuitively it's still algebra. If you need a proverb to justify it: Just because your hammer is made of stone doesn't make it less of a hammer.
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by skipants 2mo ago
This works really well for me but, when I get out of the car or off the subway, then I get a bit of vertigo. I’m really afraid that using the feature too much would make the vertigo worse so I stopped.
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by skipants 2mo ago
One thing I don't quite get is how trusted publishing is supposed to be more secure. It still allows publishing if they pwn your workflow. Is it purely more secure because they can't exfiltrate your secret keys to publish again? I
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by skipants 2mo ago
Am I wrong in thinking this comment is absolutely bonkers? It's basically a conspiracy theory. When I lead teams and thought of how to motivate them to get certain things done, like code quality, I found it best to frame why certain th
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by skipants 3mo ago
That was the first thing that popped out and made me distrust the whole wiki; there's only One Right Way to store money (as integers[1], as you said) and it should have been explicit about that. You can also use fixed-point if whatever
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by skipants 3mo ago
Because it is. The average (and above-average?) investor really does not understand tech.
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by skipants 3mo ago
I feel like it's the Emperor's new clothes reading this article and seeing the praise it's getting. This sentence doesn't even make sense: > These products use very low level Linux primitives like containers, Kubernet
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by skipants 3mo ago
> I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns I'm putting this into my overflowing bucket of internet comments that doesn't "get" Canadians. Sorry to be curt but, since Canada-USA relations has be
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by skipants 3mo ago
> Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries). Now that's a special kind of joke I can only find on HackerNews
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by skipants 3mo ago
It looks interesting but, like a lot of AI, looks correct but is not. Most of northwestern Canada says you can get there by road. If you look at Google Maps, there's no roads there for quite awhile. I see one highway between Inuvik and
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by skipants 4mo ago
Pretty cool distro! I switched to Bazzite myself but I've also seen a lot of popularity for CachyOS for gaming rigs.
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by skipants 5mo ago
People that haven't read Black Swan and bet on every "sure bet" they can see
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by skipants 5mo ago
pigouvian taxes are both a stronger disincentive and help cover externalized costs. if this moves nicotine to the black market then the people/government will still pay the cost without receiving any taxes on it at all
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by skipants 5mo ago
> Despite this promising start, the conservation experiment wasn't to last, after a rival juice manufacturer called TicoFruit sued Del Oro, alleging that its competitor had "defiled a national park". ... why does TicoFruit
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by skipants 6mo ago
These are two pages telling two different things, albeit with the same stats. The information is presented by OP in a way to show the results of the Microsoft acquisition.
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by skipants 6mo ago
I think that's a fair criticism for issues where Linux devs might be blind to the friction a lot of Linux distros come with, but I don't think it's universal for all devs and for all features, all the time. Personally, althou
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by skipants 6mo ago
> 1) Kernel-level DRM for multiplayer games (looking at you, Marathon) This finally forced me to quit League of Legends (this is a buff)
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by skipants 6mo ago
Is your argument that the world isn't deterministic and so we should also apply nondeterminism to filtering json data?
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by skipants 6mo ago
As a Canadian: hard agree. Beer without head is gross.
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by skipants 6mo ago
Huh. I have the opposite opinion. I'm monolingual English for all intents and purposes but I gathered that opinion from quite a few sources, including: - We had to take spelling tests in school - English speakers make (generally light)
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by skipants 7mo ago
HA! I guess it's not as enforced as I expected.
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by skipants 7mo ago
A bit of a tangent, but I just want to say how, as a Canadian, I'm getting a lot of joy reading about this restaurant. It's a hilarious facsimile of a Canadian restaurant for a couple reasons: - There's nothing Canadian about
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by skipants 7mo ago
I agree. This: > I suspect that removing half of the bus stops in a city will piss people off and cause even less ridership. is thrown out but how do we know it's true? That commenter throws it out as their opinion but my opinion is

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