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cestith

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About cestith

i fix things

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    Comment #49214757

    Sometimes the goat will fill up on the tote and you can get the cabbage across, but you can’t count on it. I’m concerned about the farmer being on the water without supervision whe…

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    Comment #49210447

    Idiot president of a country where over 10% of power generated in 2025 was with wind says any country with wind turbines (he calls them windmills) is a loser country. Film at 11.

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    Comment #49200288

    One could think of it as mostly self-repairing with some outside encouragement.

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    Comment #49200198

    The whole premise seems clueless about security, accountability, and human nature. A free, fully anonymous, unauthenticated, ephemeral chat is like a middle school bathroom at best…

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    Comment #49198671

    Right now there’s some minor probing, trying to get the site to print variables. There’s racism against Blacks. There’s antisemitism. There are a few people actually trying to say …

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    Comment #49196228

    This is all true. It’s also all in a thread about GNU Hurd, which also builds on all of that GNU software plus a Mach-based kernel.

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    Comment #49185884

    Selective breeding or selective sterilization fail under Fairness, Rights, and probably Common Good. Maybe you’d get a pass with embryonic screening, but you’re fall afoul of other…

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    Comment #49183022

    We hope to wisen as we age, but there’s no guarantee.

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    Comment #49182980

    In an ideal world the data at rest would be normalized and you’d have a view or a derived table or something when needed to make queries fast when necessary. If you ever find a job…

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    Comment #49182948

    Larry Wall said the three virtues of a programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris. He meant when properly applied, of course.

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    Comment #49182642

    https://amiga.lychesis.net/applications/AmigaBoingBall.html

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    Comment #49182505

    Would you propose selective breeding, selective sterilization, selective euthanasia, war, genetic engineering, or what to eradicate such a gene? What single gene that only causes b…

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    Comment #49182438

    It’s actually Iowa leading a coalition of 15 other states making demands. It’s not a prosecution yet, but they demand the preservation of evidence. They’ve promised to protect whis…

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    Comment #49178840

    Just as valid as the five recognized models of ethics? Do tell. How does your model of ethics differ?

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    Comment #49174551

    I agree ethics can be subjective, so much so that there is more than one model of ethics. However, please tell me which model of ethics supports eugenics. Is it Utilitarian, Rights…

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    Comment #49170204

    Vim and neovim are highly configurable. Indeed, they have scripting and plugins too. Same for Kakoune, which uses KakouneScript instead of vimscript. Vis uses Lua. Micro is sort of…

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    Comment #49169456

    Ethics is a field of study. I know some on this site loathe the humanities, but those same often don’t mind using language, psychology, and sociology to make a buck.

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    Comment #49168847

    It is ethically unsound.

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    Comment #49155965

    It’s a good thing the story is about Raku then I suppose.

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    Comment #49155953

    Quite a bit has changed since 2007 for both Perl and Raku.

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    Comment #49110491

    I seem to remember recent advances in TMSR research and construction. Those tend to e much safer and have safer byproducts than uranium or plutonium fueled water-cooled reactors.

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    Comment #49109711

    The UK wasn’t on the metric system during the first world war. https://ukma.org.uk/press/metrication-timeline/

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    Comment #49099967

    I think that’s the direction the company will take if they are financially successful with their early products. This might actually be a really good technology to license out inst…

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    Comment #49099817

    This is neat for small flash pieces. I’m not sure I want to imagine the process for getting a half sleeve of one’s own design applied this way, fifteen millimeter diameter at a tim…

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    Comment #49099722

    If you can do that within your space constraints you’re probably right.