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by stackghost 2mo ago
Indeed it's almost like open source projects can use their collective intelligence and decide for themselves what's acceptable and what's not acceptable when it comes to free git hosting, irrespective of "the norm".
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>To me, this all sounds like the kind of fuzzy reasoning and nondescript language that turns communities into popularity contests and backstabbing competitions. Welcome to society. There is no such thing as a meritocracy.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
An airliner weighs a certain amount. In cruising flight, the lift on the aircraft is exactly equal to the weight (because it's neither climbing nor descending). Aerodynamic drag falls into 3 buckets: parasitic drag, wave drag, and l
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by stackghost 2mo ago
The term "powerpoint" has been genericized in the common vernacular to mean any electronic slide show, like kleenex for tissues and sellotape/scotch tape for transparent adhesive tape. It might not have reached legal generic
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>There's no install or cloud login, everything works offline. The default deck is around 560 KB and it doesn't need to fetch anything once you got it. This is the best feature.
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Rizon, hackint, and Libera, among others
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>Unskippable? I turned the station at the first sign of commercial, and still do. If one of those "radio-wide commercial minutes" per hour, I'd try the public station, or made a selection from the ten-disc changer. ;-) Yes
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Marketing and advertising are two related but distinct functions.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>US regulators don't order ISPs to block websites. Of course they do, mostly for intellectual property reasons.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>Most "state-level" adversaries are just high school dropouts working border jobs told to "investigate suspicious things". Even dumb cops know how to use a Cellebrite machine.
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>I signed off the air for the last time in 1994 [...] radio has changed drastically, and it just wouldn’t be any fun for me today. I don't agree with this premise. FM Radio is definitely more corporate today, but I grew up in the 9
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>I know perfectly well what I said in this thread and don't need to re-read it. It wasn't long. Then you should realize your replies have been obnoxious, and that's why you're getting the responses you're getting
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by stackghost 2mo ago
What if the surveillance state is also run by idiots?
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Go back and reread yourself in this thread. 1. Someone says they don't like rationalism 2. You say there's no such thing 3. Someone else suggests your defense of rationalism is materially similar to how scientologists defend th
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>So you want the government to fail at the things you want it to fail at, yet you're trying to project that onto conservatives? There's an important distinction between wanting the government to fail, and wanting the government
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Textbooks, especially in the early years, are a minor part of education. I want them to have an actual human teacher.
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>Trump is the result in that breakdown of trust, not the cause. I agree, and my comment should not be construed to imply otherwise. It's Americans themselves that are the problem, which is why the decay of America will long outlive
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In going to choose to take this as a compliment :)
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Every school kid in the USA, you mean? Because I think other countries would rightly perceive the world you described as a dystopia. I don't want my kids' education to be surrendered to the whims of Big Tech douchebags any more t
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If rights can be capriciously and arbitrarily curtailed by armed agents of the state while effete judges yeet sternly-worded letters into the void, then those "rights" are worth about as much as the USA's signature on an inte
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Sadly, this Soviet attitude of complete cynicism and disbelief of any and all official sources due to corruption and incompetence is going to become more widespread and mainstream. The USA is speed running a destruction of trust in public i
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Sure. But I think the "near future" to which you're referring is going to be a longer tail than many EV maximalists expect. I would be shocked if IC-engined vehicles were no longer being produced in 2050.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>No you're confusing where agency lies. I assure you I am not. >The Nasdaq 100 is just a fund. Its existence doesn't force you or anyone else to do anything. People can choose to buy stocks, and people can choose to buy the
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The suburban people buying Ram 9001 Warlord Editions are not the target market for this truck.
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I say this as someone who will be buying an EV as his next vehicle: EV proponents have a strong propensity to gloss over the very real drawbacks of battery-only vehicles: - Towing anything outside of charging infrastructure/away from t
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>I’d love to find a corner of the world where this hasn’t happened yet [...] Start one? There's definitely a market for software that doesn't give off the corporate, mass-produced, one-size-fits-all energy. 37signals famously
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>So what was the point of suspending Boeing's authority to do those inspections? Disclaimer: I used to work in airworthiness certification as well as maintenance and design modification engineering for the C-130, but not for any of
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>no need to treat them like assholes just for that. Hmm, I wasn't trying to imply anyone is an asshole for enjoying things. Is that how it came off?
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by stackghost 2mo ago
That's actually a great question. Valuation of public companies is part science, part art, and part total bullshit. You can go way down the rabbit hole on this sort of thing. In days of yore you'd look at the fundamentals like:
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>others just want to live life as a passenger, not think, and have AI do all the work. Fuck, doesn't everyone? The future we were promised is one where machines did all the work leaving humans free to pursue a richer existence, whe

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