ywyrd

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by ywyrd 13y ago
They don't work. "Verbatim", which claims to be what "" used to be, does not work either. Nothing to be done about it.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Yes, because pieces of paper given out by men with guns are the font of all truth. ADD: Fuck this statist cesspool.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Because anything that requires running a database is burdensome, and even those of us who roll our own services are becoming less patient with software that requires hand-holding just to walk.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
According to this article, they were never trying to create Windows on ARM, just another locked-down walled garden a la the iPhone app store.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
No, just as with Slashdot, I see it as very vocal but a definite minority, at least in terms of posts and comments.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Funny, we both see the same algorithms, but I see the exact opposite results.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
"If they can't even get search right, who would trust them with anything more?"
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Me: "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!" Them: crickets
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by ywyrd 13y ago
The heck with the prices. They not only won't tell you how much it costs, they will practically come right out and tell you that you, as one of the Great Unwashed, will never be able to buy one of these. Because they won't sell to
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Keep in mind this quote comes from the same man who said, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Some of us live under the federal poverty level, where any sum of double digits or more is significant.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
I would hate to see the legislative definition of "random".
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by ywyrd 13y ago
youtube-dl not only bypasses the wait, but also the asinine "age verification".
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by ywyrd 13y ago
"asking random people to invest in your ideas is also illegal" 1) You learn something new every day. 2) I don't want to live on this planet any more.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
These sensationalist headlines say a lot about the media's doom-ridden agenda.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
That's why I never agree to any terms and conditions online.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
That's why I never agree to anyone's terms and conditions online.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
The crazy/frustrating part to me is that this takes place "even when you're not signed into an account".
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Because that amounts to leaving a note in the cookie jar that says we really, really promise not to take any cookies unless we absolutely need to.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Most likely the "open source tea party" post wherein Mr. Shuttleworth collectivized and dismissed any and all critics as irrational haters with nothing of substance to say.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
Originally by some of his European colleagues.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
So he went to the SJW echo chamber of LJ/DW.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
They will claim they have no money for cops, post offices, libraries, kittens and apple pie, while they continue to spend billions waging endless war on anyone, foreign or domestic, who does not kowtow.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
When you treat adults like children, and children like babies, you get exactly that. And that's why a hundred years ago 14-year olds were captaining their own ships, and today you have 40-year olds who can't do their own laundry o
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by ywyrd 13y ago
There is no "we", but I also disagree that it would "destabilize things". I think that after a brief initial upheaval, it would stabilize things to a great degree, and in a positive manner.
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by ywyrd 13y ago
<i> can also just ask a human "please make me a sandwich" without specifying anything, and (most) humans could proceed to do so without more details</i> Depends who you ask. My mate and a few close friends would k
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by ywyrd 14y ago
I wish I had saved the results every time over the last few years that Google showed me a page it claimed had what I was looking for, when neither searching the visible text or even the source code of the page produced any such string. I am
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by ywyrd 14y ago
I keep checking every so often, but searching for "this phrase" or +absolute +requirement is still broken. Even "Verbatim", isn't. If they can't even get simple search right, who would trust them with anything more?