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Volundr

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About Volundr

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/whoops; my proof: https://keybase.io/whoops/sigs/V0McfypGi2_-ftJcjH550AXkiRKoesSTGFlszbAtxxM ]

me at waltonhoops.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49159973

    Are you aware of fnox by the same author? https://fnox.jdx.dev/

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    Comment #49110796

    How do you enforce the law against murder? Mostly after the fact when people get caught. It's hard to enforce is rarely a good argument against a rule.

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    Comment #49110681

    It's worse than that! Even when the product managers inputs to the engineers are constrained for many problems no two engineers will produce consistent results! In fact recent stud…

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    Comment #48885383

    Far be it from me to doubt a stranger on the Internet, but can you point out any medical textbook or dictionary written pre-2020 that limits the definition of "vaccine" to "attenua…

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    Comment #48777073

    > But who would go to all that trouble? I mean, a company I worked at had a significant amount of money stolen after the attackers spent 6 months sitting on their access waiting fo…

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    Comment #48777000

    > Maintenance should have the autonomy to do as they did Really? We're talking about letting strangers in through the literal back door.

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    Comment #48776963

    I couldn't decide which sentence of Alice in Wonderland was my favorite, so I just used the full text.

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    Comment #48771306

    > That's really tough. Marathon, by Bungie, is a good example of why this is tough - it's basically all the Destiny engine, network, and tooling code. When they shut down Destiny, …

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    Comment #48752935

    That alone would be an improvement from the status quo, but the SKG movement does go one stop further in wanting publishers to be required to leave the game in a working (local) st…

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    Comment #48728577

    I'm sorry my pun bothered you so.

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    Comment #48727464

    Sure, it increases one's borrowing power and that can be useful. But "I can use it to go deeper into debt" is pretty limited utility compared to other kinds of wealth.

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    Comment #48727447

    I'm using it to mean someone who doesn't have a place to live. Like say someone who just sold their house and didn't go and use that money to buy a different house. Yes, that's ver…

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    Comment #48724288

    > We've conflated having a home with a financial asset. And it's a really, really shitty one. My house has roughly doubled in value since I bought it, but in practice that's useles…

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    Comment #48619571

    > now I have joined the majority of the population and will no longer cast my vote. >then they are just disenfranchising a different group of people, me. "They" aren't disenfranchi…

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    Comment #48573255

    No, I said exactly the opposite. My exact words: > I wish he'd sign that executive order and tilt that windmill in the courts instead of the stuff he is pushing . You say you were …

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    Comment #48572843

    I'm not sure what your saying here? Trump lies so you'd rather his energy be spent on ICE raids, ending birthright citizenship, and illegal tarrifs than ending daylight savings? Pe…

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    Comment #48565632

    Trump's said he wants to end it. That's something I'd back him on. I wish he'd sign that executive order and tilt that windmill in the courts instead of the stuff he is pushing. I'…

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    Comment #48548213

    I guess it's "only" 40 years, but my 1985 Civic was an amazing car. Definitely not a death trap, but after I did end selling it for a 99 Acura with airbags. Still kind of regret th…

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    Comment #48425548

    How do I know the time zone of an integer? Sure there are plenty of cases where one doesn't care, but there are also many cases where the original time zone is important.

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    Comment #48401378

    I mean if we're being pedantic, unless there's something I missed the regulation you linked above only deals with shifting out of park, not starting the vehicle, but point taken, e…

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    Comment #48386321

    Yes, my riding lawnmower manual also tells me not to clear debris from the blade while the mower is running. Yet somehow I don't think the mower will stop if I do. I don't know if …

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    Comment #48170676

    Bears don't like well seasoned hikers?

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    Comment #47785194

    The article keeps saying he was arrested for going a few seconds over, which is weird because it also contains this statement: "Feary then notified police to have Blanchard removed…

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    Comment #47712178

    Reply in thread from Bunny: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/bunnycdn_ha...

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    Comment #47241148

    > Did I say my Claw (not Open) doesn't have internet access? > My email filtering system surfaces only the mails that are relevant right now - I can check the rest later. So then y…