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pwdisswordfishy

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About pwdisswordfishy

We can do without patronizing disclaimers.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47738327

    In my password, I have the Collectivity of Saint Martin flag emoji and United States Minor Outlying Islands flag emoji next to the French flag emoji and US flag emoji. For good mea…

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    Comment #47704383

    So ist der Geist!

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    Comment #47661850

    You can tune a fish, it's that the command for that is fish_config instead.

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    Comment #47640564

    It should not be legal to enforce full stop. If you don't want to be disparaged, make your conduct worthy of not being disparaged. When you're being lied about, sue for defamation;…

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    Comment #47637614

    > it’s easier to draw pictures as a matrix of bytes that are transmitted from left to right and top to bottom This argument is pretty silly: visualizations can always be changed. F…

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    Comment #47628211

    > Marc Andreessen was right about web browsers. Actually, what about web browsers was he right about?

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    Comment #47597681

    Or wait until P3655 ships, which will bring std::wcstring_view.

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    Comment #47591166

    You need a better sense of humour apparently.

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    Comment #47586133

    "Italic" does not merely mean "slanted".

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    Comment #47586051

    A coding font is supposed to help you distinguish between characters, not confuse them for each other. Also, ASCII ligatures usually look worse than the proper Unicode character th…

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    Comment #47571479

    Wow, some corps could offload some of their costs to "the community" (unpair labor), while end users are as disenfranchised as ever! How validating!

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    Comment #47569554

    There's no ignoring it. It was raised pre-emptively in the very first comment: " the way that "professional" is used as a euphemism in Americans' bizarre discursive repertoire ". >…

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    Comment #47569545

    > reluctance to really talk about class and their own position in the class system in favour of lip service That's by design, obvs.

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    Comment #47560903

    But if the assertion fails, the program is aborted before the pointer would have been dereferenced, making it not UB. This explanation is bogus.

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    Comment #47559826

    Nope. There's no broader debate. "Professional" means "X is getting paid for this", not "X is paying something in order for X to be able to do this". It's that simple. > To put an …

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    Comment #47557589

    > if we can't afford 1.50$/mo, then we aren't really professionals and are just coasting on real infrastructure subsidized by professionals This is a strange claim. Whether someone…

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    Comment #47555820

    This tweet is misleading (shocker, I know; Twitter and misleading ragebait—who could have guessed?). It claims that "Up to 90%" (accurate, or at least plausible—but unsurprising) o…

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    Comment #47452187

    Because "This has to be one of the dumbest, most reckless threads to have been posted (and so vociferously defended) on HN." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419913

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    Comment #47451844

    OH NO THE POOR CAPITALISTS

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    Comment #47451013

    > Ofcom really thinks that their laws apply globally. How silly of them. Obviously, only the US jurisdiction can do that.

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    Comment #47443541

    "Lethality" is a noun.

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    Comment #47435669

    Presumably, if reader mode is to never allow any website-programmable interactivity ever (as I would expect), it would be much harder to do, though.

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    Comment #47435642

    s/discourage/avoid encouraging/ but yes.

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    Comment #47431402

    You have been bamboozled.

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    Comment #47423458

    Strong crackpot vibes, though I might be wro-- > use for the treatment of autism Never mind.