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erelde

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    Comment #14022514

    Expressed in a very rough way: I think one has to be realist about their tools and idealist about their goals. And the drive is the most important factor. If they're just going thr…

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    Comment #14022078

    I have often argued that "being realist" is a failure in and of itself. If people said "well, there's a king and that's what it is", we'd never have got to where we are now. Ideolo…

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    Comment #13986325

    Where I walk and what I do on the street is private even though it's in a public space (exceptions apply). Similarly what I do and where I go on the internet is private even though…

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    Comment #13976986

    Disposable email addresses exists precisely because we don't plan on returning. Some websites tried to block disposable addresses already, I just went somewhere else.

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    Comment #13975310

    > I don't think Rome was ever a brutal dictatorship Well, they weren't exactly choirboys from what I've heard. (I understand what you meant, but that quote out of context is just g…

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    Comment #13967632

    You can see two of my current school assignement on Github. I try to avoid manipulating strings as much as possible. ;)

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    Comment #13967068

    I am student and I like C, I've tested Rust/Go, I like the feeling of C. Maybe that sentiment will change later, but for now, I like C. It's simple and sharp and there's lots of do…

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    Comment #13967002

    USA "proles" fell for populism and elected the worst neocapitalist team possible, against their own interests, that's what we're talking about when we talk about "populism". By and…

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    Comment #13966879

    That's 1.3 shows a week. 15 hours. Podcasts and tv blogs will have work for quite some time.

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    Comment #13960309

    It's, in my view, more akin to trying to ban mathematics in a world in which mathematics exist. Tools and weapons don't exist indenpently from us, mathematics do.

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    Comment #13930937

    The point isn't that though. Very similar cities have a very different number of Apple stores. Paris and London are 500km apart, a couple hours of train or plane away from each oth…

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    Comment #13930710

    Whaa ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... Yep, it's almost true. London 8.5M. If you count all 50 "countries" (some are a joke though) it ranks between…

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    Comment #13930058

    Plus, why would we install a bash script as sudo ?

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    Comment #13930012

    I appreciate how Windows is passive aggressively compatible with mechanical typewriters.

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    Comment #13929822

    > or even notepad.exe As long as you write all your code on one line

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    Comment #13929097

    The only tablet I've ever wanted to own is a light 12-13" e-ink reader for music sheets. Sony did one as an experiment and closed the division I think?

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    Comment #13922042

    On Linux you can use virtually any file manager without anyone/anything "preventing" you from it.

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    Comment #13921833

    How many 20 characters passwords could we try in 600 days ? And by imaging the original drive unto multiple others ? I mean 18 months. It's a lot.

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    Comment #13920784

    But passwords and hard drives are not documents. What's on it are "documents" but it's akin to refusing to pull memories out of your brain.

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    Comment #13920776

    > I think we can assume the FBI has been running a common passwords/dictionary attack with common password symbol substitutions for the last 18 months I would like to believe they …

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    Comment #13918079

    On its wikipedia page its referred throughout as H2G2. H2G2 9 times HG2G 2 times HHGTTG 2 times

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    Comment #13914430

    Aka more simply as H2G2, "the" and "to" aren't required in an acronym.

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    Comment #13913287

    Also, what other tools could we have made if we had optimal tools for the existing ones?

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    Comment #13894612

    We don't have the "Oxford comma" , but we do do lists with commas. And it would be really confusing if we didn't.

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    Comment #13868211

    I'm more interested in how the board got this way.