thunderfork

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by thunderfork 5d ago
Off the top of my head, I know there's more than one ;)
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by thunderfork 5d ago
My understanding is that a parody has to actually parody the original work. There's a distinction between "parodying" and "using the songwriting with different lyrics". You see a lot of people doing riffs on "W
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by thunderfork 6d ago
Decent physicians recommend exercise among other preventative measures to reduce the likelihood of emergencies. Therapists will likewise encourage you to build up resilience so that "a relationship ended" is not a crisis, and also
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by thunderfork 7d ago
A Shopify monopoly (and thus a shopify payments monopoly) would be very rough for a number of reasons
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by thunderfork 9d ago
>Jamstack is an architectural approach that decouples the web experience layer from data and business logic, improving flexibility, scalability, performance, and maintainability. >Jamstack removes the need for business logic to dictat
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by thunderfork 9d ago
>github repository You have already lost the "normal people" audience
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by thunderfork 9d ago
Accounting is generally both easier to do correctly and easier to verify than security practices, unfortunately
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by thunderfork 9d ago
"throw away all software written before 2026" does technically solve this problem, if you ignore everything else the article is talking about (deployment and continuity of service)
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by thunderfork 9d ago
IIRC, in many containers embedded subtitles will be interleaved with the video and audio atoms/boxes/packets/etc., and so pulling out the subtitles requires scanning the full file. Not quite as expensive as decoding or re-enc
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by thunderfork 10d ago
I'm inferring that "banning skipping commercials" is a restriction on the part of the service provider, not on the part of France's legislature
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by thunderfork 10d ago
BOINC isn't really built for "small tasks", afaik. Once you get small enough, the work the server is doing to manage the tasks gets to be around the same cost as the server just doing the tasks itself.
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by thunderfork 13d ago
environmentalists well-known for instituting fire lane policies
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by thunderfork 16d ago
You have to look to the people for whom those decades brought joy, and realize how grandly that outnumbers complaints... and if you find yourself blessed enough to be in that position does the road, then "reading HN" is a problem
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by thunderfork 20d ago
See table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#Additiona...
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by thunderfork 20d ago
It's generally considered rude to stop reading one sentence into a message in order to shoot off pithy replies
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by thunderfork 21d ago
* Jurisdictional: Food stamps can't be adjusted by NYC itself (as far as I know), so if they're insufficient this works around that issue * Store access: Food stamps don't necessarily solve the problem of "there's n
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by thunderfork 21d ago
As a counter-example, the LCBO (Ontario government liquor store) has been demonstrably fine for decades. Failure modes exist, but I don't think they're guaranteed.
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by thunderfork 21d ago
I'm not interested in having "nuanced discussions" about whether the Roma people have some kind of Nuisance Gene that makes discussion of extermination valid If you'd like to make an argument that isn't just "e
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by thunderfork 22d ago
"it's not ethnic cleansing because this time the Jews really ARE evil, okay"
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by thunderfork 22d ago
And there's been almost no fiber laid for the last two years after Bell bought up the companies that were actually doing innovative rollout :/ "Cable is equivalent" only if you don't need/want a symmetric conne
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by thunderfork 22d ago
Unfortunately I haven't heard much about build-out since Bell bought the company that was laying all that fiber (Start.ca) I had to move to a place that didn't have fiber but by all means should be getting it Real Soon Now (urban,
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by thunderfork 22d ago
>I think there's such a strong difference between remigration and ethnic cleansing you can think what you want to think but this is definitionally incorrect
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by thunderfork 23d ago
You've mistaken a statement for an argument
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by thunderfork 24d ago
Businesses?
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by thunderfork 28d ago
this is a fact you can look up
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by thunderfork 29d ago
I don't think "produced for free" is a salve to this, completely, at least. People spending time/effort/resources on Authentic Stuff have to eat, and there's no shortage of people who have some other income sou
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
Any situation where you can extract a benefit from a stolen credit card and then sell that benefit before the chargeback renders it moot will have some fraud-based usage.
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
if it doesn't serve a purpose then why users
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
Kids can bully kids in real life for not being on <app>.
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
People pronounce drug names all sorts of ways, and there's a lot of them (with a steady trickle of new ones)

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