sourcepluck

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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I've probably 10 more questions, but you've already shared generously in a couple of other comments. Thanks for that. I've bookmarked, and will investigate. Best of luck with it
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I forgot https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-l...
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Didn't re-read, of course
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Wow, that's so very cool! Olimex are wonderful!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I'm waiting on "Code" by Petzold to arrive, which I'm hoping will scratch a similar itch, but this seems like a really great way to do it! The nand2tetris course seems so very great. Emulating it all in C sounds fun.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Oh wow, it's happening there! I've followed and starred and bookmarked and all that, and will be having a browse around a bit more closely when I get a moment. I think I'm roughly understanding what the group is about. I&#x27
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Geez, where do I sign up? Sounds great. Don't listen to the pseudo-realists who chase dreams of grandeur rather than doing something (at least semi-) useful or good with their lives.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Thank you, that's wonderful, I'll be sleuthing there and getting a feel for things. Cheers!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
This may have been true at some point... in the 90s? I'm not sure if it actually was even true then. In any case, it isn't true today: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t480/ https://pine
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Agree with the other responder, largely. I've been bothered a few times by Emacs locking up, but never enough to be actually upset about it. Bugs, I don't see it, it is very very solid for me, I can't remember the last time s
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Eww, an unclosed parenthesis. Horrid! The Lisp gods will not be happy. Excuse me, HN people!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
The word "free" is being ruthlessly abused here, surely... If I follow the link there, it costs 239E for a 5-day pass, where each of the 5 days must be used in a 1 month period. That's not "gratis", that's 47.8
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Lol @ "office horror software". So apt.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Hmm, reading a bit more on the same article, i.e., this one here: https://www.vegasmaster.com/gambling-tax-free-countries/ I see these relevant lines: > The laws concerning gambling tax around the world aren’t a
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I only learned yesterday after reading this article that, apparently, a good many countries have no taxes on gambling wins. The reasoning is - again, from my quick bit of reading, if someone in the know wants to correct me please do - that
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Betfair, or somewhere else, if I may ask?
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Could you share the name of your former employer, or if you can't, could you share the name of similar employers? I'm on a bit of a probability (gambling, sports betting, stats, etc) kick these days, and I'd be interested in
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Does anyone have any links to political analysis of what's going on with chess.com, and its involvement in various scandals? I think your wager has something to it, in any case. I think there'd be material there for an investigati
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I loved browsing the emacsconf videos this year, really nicely presented, and such cool stuff happening. Still have lots to watch, but so far in particular the infrastructural and UI type stuff seemed amazing, there's loads happening!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
What is better, from your experience? I'm a happy Emacs user, but think having more options is great, and I've delved into some Common Lisp and certainly am eager to learn more. So I'm thrilled to see Lem continue to be devel
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Great to see Netflix being derided, I instantly feel soothed. One other curious and quite insufferable thing which exists now is when a show/movie/game will give an unmistakeable and unsubtle nod to some other bit of media or info
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
THE WIZARD WENT WEST THROUGH THE DOOR AND INTO THE GARDEN
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Now you're really on to something - someone give this person some VC money, please!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Couldn't disagree more about Arcane, I thought it was the usual pedestrian writing and mish-mash of tired tropes we've come to expect from mainstream productions. A friend was pushing me to give it a try, a friend who likes Marvel
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
A company wants to do action x. "If x leads to legal issue y, how much could it cost us?" "If x leads to reputational issue z, how much could it cost us?" -- that's my guess for the two things that matter when a com
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Yes, yes, yes and yes. I hadn't explicitly said to myself that even for a modern company OpenAI maybe has a particularly fond relationship with this Orwellian use of language to mean its opposite. I wonder if we could go so far as to s
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> Reductio ad Hitlerum (Latin for "reduction to Hitler"), also known as playing the Nazi card, is an attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practised by Adolf Hit
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Yes, thank you for asking
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
The opposite of the fantasy football subreddit is probably moreso someone making minor specific side-points about language use and expecting others to read carefully, i.e. me in my initial comment, rather than the person misinterpreting the
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I didn't mean to poke fun, but I can see now that it triggered some pretty hard responses. I should have attempted to be clearer - I specifically only meant to question the "fun" part. I didn't mean to suggest it's

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