wackro

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by wackro 1mo ago
Presumably if you're driven by paranoia to buy or make a Faraday box you will be paranoid enough to try putting your phone in it and calling it
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by wackro 2y ago
What would the rough timeframe be for seeing adoption of this into the language? I was considering introducing the OneOf library into our codebase, but if this is < a year or so away it might not be worth the effort.
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by wackro 2y ago
When the machines rise up and start taking prisoners you might wanna make yourself scarce, my man.
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by wackro 4y ago
I remember reading part of a study a few years ago that noted that youtube was the only social media (in the study) that didn't negatively affect mental health. In fact it had a slight positive impact. If I find it I will link it, but
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by wackro 4y ago
That was their position once NATO had expanded eastward. Here's an extract from a NATO report[0] in 2000. The whole chapter is genuinely worth a read: > Nevertheless, in August 1994, Boris Yeltsin again said to the reporters, that R
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by wackro 4y ago
I don't know who this Mearsheimer is, but your comment is essentially ad hominem because you haven't addressed the point. If it helps you, the same thing has been said by others e.g. Chomsky. Could South Africa join NATO? Thailand
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by wackro 4y ago
It'd make for a good TV drama wouldn't it?
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by wackro 4y ago
Astronomers could ignore newly spotted supernovae if their timestamps would be unfavourable to their lottery chances, no?
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by wackro 4y ago
>a tax on people who can't do math. The national lottery in the UK sends about 25% of the money to charities, so for some it's a form of charitable giving. Also what the other commenter said about dreaming.
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by wackro 4y ago
When I visited Morocco I discovered that haggling is seen as an intrinsic part of a transaction. A lot of tourists aren't used to haggling or are afraid to do so out of a perceived risk of offending the seller. But if you don't ha
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by wackro 4y ago
Somewhat unrelated, the typography and use of color on this article are sublime. No cookie popup either. What a joy.
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by wackro 4y ago
I was given a fresh copy of Windows at work the other week and had to install all tooling afresh. I decided to take the opportunity to try meld. The first merge I did, even after reading the website, I couldn't fathom it. I understood
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by wackro 5y ago
>call Putin's nuclear bluff. And what do you think would be the outcome?
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by wackro 5y ago
Milka, Nutella, Lindt, Kinder. Kinder Bueno is a good example of what I'm taking about. I know it has hazelnuts in. There's no bitter cocoa 'kick', just a sticky sweet taste. It's like chocolate for people who don&#
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by wackro 5y ago
European chocolate is rank and tastes like hazelnuts.
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by wackro 5y ago
Are wikis and subreddits hallowed ground or something?
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by wackro 5y ago
I see. It was the ambiguity over your usage of 'imaginary problems'. But yes - your previous comments seem to suggest we're actually on the same page regarding patterns.
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by wackro 5y ago
I put it to you that the OOP concept of a factory exists because in OOP your factory is often (though not always) a type, and types tend to need names. In e.g. FP there are no objects and therefore no instantiation but you can separate this
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by wackro 5y ago
>solutions to imaginary problems This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what patterns are. The GOF book is used to this though. A design pattern is someting that will naturally crop up if you adhere to certain design principles. If yo
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by wackro 5y ago
I made a WordPress site for a friend through Ionos's managed offering. After a couple of months of the site being up, they decided to detach the database for literally no reason. I had to go through support to get it back up. I'm
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by wackro 5y ago
Yes. The same as almost everyone buying crypto. But hoping that it would become a usable currency.
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by wackro 5y ago
I bought into monero hoping it would be the next big thing. Fungibility/no public ledger made it seem like it had way more utility, but it turned out 1) virtually nobody buys crypto in order to spend it, and 2) its only real world use
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by wackro 5y ago
Yes. It's no secret that in the real world justice favours the wealthy, for more than just the fact that money buys the best lawyers.
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by wackro 5y ago
Prison time is based on harm (or so the theory goes). How much harm is done by any action to its victim is subjective to the victim's circumstance. Calculating harm isn't a maths problem, which is why judges exist. Moreover, wishi
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by wackro 5y ago
I recommend an ad blocker. Haven't seen any of that kind of thing in years
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by wackro 5y ago
And some will never understand humour either
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by wackro 5y ago
Regarding lifestyle, I think if it were objectively a lifestyle upgrade then everyone would seek to do it. I am a contractor myself, and see it as an upgrade, but I've come to realise a lot of people's lifestyles don't come f
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by wackro 5y ago
Your rate would have to be over £1000 a day. Your typical rate is half that, i.e. the person you're replying to is bang on. The only person I heard of on a rate that high was someone doing automated trading stuff for one of the Rothsch
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by wackro 5y ago
The fact that crypto exists without borders is great. But your idea that the only thing stopping sceptics from embracing it is fees is wrong. Also, your tone makes me think you've got a dog in this fight.
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by wackro 5y ago
> ... but the real problem of the skeptics is that they can't let go of their fiat. >But the response of skeptics will always be "but I have to convert my fiat money". Here's a thought experiment for you. Your moth

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