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metadope
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About metadope
6502 & 68k asm -> C64+Amiga -> 128k Mac+Laserwriter -> Postscript -> MSDOS 6.22 + Brief + Borland C -> Windows 3.1 -> Visual C++ -> W2kSP3 -> XP -> Globalstar+QDM -> Perl+COM -> Metaprogramming -> W7Ult -> mp3+x265 -> ArchLinux+Wayland
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Comment #46562755
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Comment #46562545
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Comment #46562158
Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SanjayMehta for guiding me to this post. This is a Substack site with a redirect (just in case you've sworn off Substack).
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Comment #46554384
Here you appear to be using "illegal aliens" as a synonym for "immigrants". Groups that aid and support immigrants are doing a service that benefits America and all Americans; we s…
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Comment #46554112
Agreed; in general, doxxing people is wrong. In general, politics are polarizing and reactive, and are to be avoided on a mostly-technical discussion site. In general, Gruber is an…
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Comment #46553671
Yes, I love the redundancy of English. Language makes a playground of our minds. And yes, "picturing" is another way of saying "imagining", but to me and my mind it carries more of…
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Comment #46553376
Apologies for my sibling reply here (now flagged and downvoted to oblivion) if it was offensive to you. I thought I knew you irl and was making an overly familiar joke. Typos are n…
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Comment #46547737
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Comment #46546674
Coincidentally, my wife promised me some kinetic interdiction this weekend.
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Comment #46545807
Si habla español : Let's go!
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Comment #46544972
It's a good theory. The militia that DHS has deployed in search of immigration law violators has spilled over into confrontations with US citizens partly because of the lack of acc…
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Comment #46539399
I would expect humans to care about humans. Your judgment of hypocrisy is yours to own; you point out nothing but your own opinion. You left umpteenth behind a long time ago; you f…
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Comment #46537615
Watching an innocent and beautiful American woman being shot in the face three times at point blank range in broad daylight by an agent of her own federal government while sitting …
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Comment #46537301
Militia on our streets without discipline or uniforms. That's what caused this tragedy. The administration early on made the decision to allow/ require ICE agents to wear whatever …
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Comment #46519189
This is someone's attempt to re-litigate reality. I browsed with javascript disabled (as I always do when visiting unknown or untrusted sites) and discovered the page was rendered …
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Comment #46506708
The links provided by @Terr_ above show that this particular de-funding was indeed approved and ratified by the legislative branch, passed by the house and the senate, signed into …
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Comment #46505954
I am a noob. I remember, it was not too long ago, when I first read the guidelines, took a deep breath, and submitted my very first comment. I was immediately downvoted. Zero karma…
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Comment #46505409
"I've got your hemisphere right here," he said, bending over.
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Comment #46505322
Anything critical of the administration is going to be, by definition, political. There is a large contingent within HN who never want any political discussion. This appears to be …
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Comment #46505043
> If they put AI into systemd I’m retiring to a cabin. Mot bad They'd call it systemaid
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Comment #46500042
And you've been right about Trump, Rubio and Venezuela all along, so keep posting your opinion. I sure hope you're wrong about Cuba being next, but I'm sure there's some Miami resi…
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Comment #46499870
Please don't ask a question, then follow immediately with your opinion (showing your question was meaningless rhetoric). You had me going for a moment there, as I was still in a st…
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Comment #46481155
This headline is an awful application of the HN algorithm. The original headline reads On The Fence , which, of course, is a meaningful phrase (though wordy and trite, wsj). Elimin…
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Comment #46478018
This just in: 1776 comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348 No guideline will divert a determined, thundering herd. We are what we do, and it appears we do care ab…