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maplant

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    Comment #49189447

    What I'm saying is that Hurd is just a kernel in the same way that Linux is also just a kernel

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    Comment #49188605

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, just Linux.

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    Comment #48748348

    Don't get your hopes up, it'll be used in deadlock's volleyball game mode

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    Comment #48376047

    I wish they would re-release the HP50-g, I had one somewhere but it got lost and I _loved_ that thing!

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    Comment #48297426

    Not to distract from what is undeniably a pretty cool thing, it's hard to even call these "games" as there's absolutely no decision making going on. I absolutely loathe games like …

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    Comment #48213625

    I plan on using it to create a backup password/2FA device... eventually

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    Comment #48195381

    These glasses look absolutely stunning

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    Comment #48125909

    I can't speak for the parent but I have a 5090 and it works perfectly fine

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    Comment #48069206

    There’s on called “sonic boom: link and smash?”

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    Comment #47783605

    I'm not really sure what position you're taking but taking a rake can certainly change the legality of an activity; in California, playing poker in private is considered a social g…

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    Comment #47543930

    The cops from the John Woo HK action flicks I've seen would love this

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    Comment #47328443

    I'm not really arguing with your point, I'm correcting your incorrect description of what I'm saying. To argue with your actual point: I don't really care about the overall context…

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    Comment #47328052

    > He edited his reply to me multiple times... I got the sense from your reply that some extra clarity would be beneficial. > This is unnecessary. OP came out with "AUTHOR IS INSANE…

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    Comment #47327658

    > Did you edit the wording of your original comment slightly to emphasise the "actively disallowing them" in every situation? I did not.

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    Comment #47327483

    Did I say that my way was the right way? No: what I said was actively disallowing tests in every situation was the wrong way. There is no ability here for the cost benefit analysis…

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    Comment #47327011

    Having a culture of not ever writing tests and actively disallowing them is so insane I can't even imagine why there's anything else in this post

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    Comment #47219378

    A dictatorship? Are you being forced at gunpoint to talk to people? Perhaps more unsurprisingly, at the mere suggestion that socializing is good for you (it demonstrably is https:/…

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    Comment #47219330

    Talk about Poe's law. I know what ECDSA is and if you brought it up in a random conversation unprompted I'd try to find your spaceship so I could escape the conversation on it.

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    Comment #47008335

    That is linked literally in the first sentence of the article

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    Comment #46996828

    They don't. They will probably get added in R7RS large. They're available in scheme-rs regardless: https://scheme.rs/Standard%20Libraries/prompts/

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    Comment #46990499

    I think people underestimate how pragmatic meta programming can be because there are some obvious downsides. Arguably one of things that made Rust so popular was its inclusion of p…

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    Comment #46473282

    what a coincidence, I'm switching fully over to linux tomorrow

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    Comment #46470166

    This is a 9% drop in _sales_, not the stock

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    Comment #46465356

    I very much doubt that the authors would disagree with the statement that socializing is a fundamental human need considering they wrote it themselves