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by stackghost 2mo ago
Nobody is saying that their minimal default install is itself problematic. But trumpeting your default install's safety record doesn't actually say much when the default install doesn't actually do anything. As soon as you a
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by stackghost 2mo ago
NB: "Pi" in this context refers to an agent harness of some sort, and does not refer to the Raspberry Pi. I was confused.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
OpenBSD has a reputation for being... selective about what they admit is a security-relevant bug.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>writing code is the actual fun part of the job though. You mean typing the actual code into the editor is the fun part for you? For me, the fun part has always been "cause computer to do novel things", and actually typing&#x2
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Traders have no more special insight into economic policies than anyone else. The economy != the market.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>Sorry, why are their sources of funding relevant? Because money is power, are you new? You claimed that some unspecified "They" are attempting to force a socialist utopia/dystopia upon us, and that "They" are se
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>Because the green movement is largely made up of socialists Okay, and where are they getting their political clout and funding? I believe in following the money. Where does the money come from? >I don’t think it’s accurate to assum
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>[seeking to] mandate digital currencies, mandate digital IDs, impose "chat control" and eliminate all privacy. None of this has anything to do with a purported green movement that seeks to end private ownership of cars. Moder
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>Why should people be able to own private property like cars, we should all be using government owned means of transportation in our new socialist utopia. Given that electric vehicles including cars, busses and trains all exist, can you
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>You forgot the bike lanes that take up road space but nobody uses. Where I live (city in the PNW), bike lanes see heavy use year-round.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Who is "they"? What is their motive for wanting to "force people out of cars"?
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by stackghost 2mo ago
For those like me who were not abreast of this issue: the FBI was able to arrest some kid who hacked/is alleged to have hacked a jewellery retailer through a VPN. They were able to track the hacker via the user's GDID, which is
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>how has no on mentioned the typo in the title Perhaps because it's irrelevant [0]. >Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're t
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by stackghost 3mo ago
It's too late for that excuse now.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
It was an early-war thing. Later Yakovlev designs were particularly formidable, both in game and IRL.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
In one of the IL-2 Sturmovik games you could fly the Polikarpov Po-2. It's pretty fun because it can maneuver effectively at a speed below the stall speed of most German fighters, so it's pretty much impossible for them to "
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>It's not that single person who threatens the world, it's the complete American elite and the whole American society who push for wars and more wars, and the current NPC of the day in the office is just their tool. I agree tha
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by stackghost 3mo ago
It has felt inevitable to me for a few years now. The market != the economy but a major crash can still trigger a credit crunch that will materially affect regular people. Look at the insane valuations on some of these companies. They ca
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Plenty of American firms do this too, notably Apple. Made in China, Designed by Apple in California, lmao
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Of course it's (indirectly) a symptom of that. What's the alternative? Proprietary closed-source operating systems owned by corps who can be compelled to insert covert backdoors? If BSD was as popular as Linux it would have the e
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>I don't think the novelty explains very much, the digg/reddit comment tree format is a clear improvement in the sense that it makes it easier to find and track interesting discussions. I always liked the aspect that you could
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Ah, this was the piece I was missing. I assumed the heat of impact and/or re-entry would sterilize just about anything that wasn't an engineered heat shield.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>impacts would likely have sent life back and forth between Earth and Mars By what mechanism is an impact giving some debris on Mars enough delta-V to reach Earth, without obliterating Mars and also sterilizing the debris due to heat and
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Once again, an indie software project provides an abject lesson on why naming is important. The name "Xonaly" is difficult for English speakers to pronounce and difficult to remember (because it's a nonsense word) and so it w
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I stand corrected on the "writing lines of code in decades" portion but not on the rest. I think RMS does far more harm to the movement than he does good, and this ignorant, luddite take on GPUs is a poignant example.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
You need to identify yourself to the phone and electricity utilities so they know where to send your monthly bill. My ISP knows my name because I pay them for connectivity. I am okay with this. If I misbehave here, dang can just ban me.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>an ideological position on "GPUs" as a category is bizarre even by Late Soviet FSF standards. The FSF and the GNU project are both paralyzed by their inability to move on from Stallman. He may have been a visionary 40 years a
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>The important part was always knowing when to use them. Two things can be true simultaneously. I think there was a time when deep familiarity with implementing algorithms was important.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
> Someone who has studied CS and software engineering for decades will craft different prompts from someone without that background. This, to me, is the biggest differentiator. In terms of results, there's a huge yawning chasm betw
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by stackghost 3mo ago
> The US constitution limits what government can force on the people. The US constitution also prohibits: - refusing to spend money that congress has appropriated - dismantling congressionally-created federal agencies without congression

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