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>This seems like a viciously difficult problem to solve to me. How do you hire someone for a city's transport agency who has the ability to manage a multi-billion dollar constructi…

This strawman is getting tiresome. You're equating the virus escaping from a lab with the virus being engineered with the virus being a bio-weapon with the release being intentiona…

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I've been 50 since I was 12. I wonder what will happen when my body catches up with my age.

Not really. There's just as many opportunities in every age, it's just that you've been burned enough times to realize that the majority of opportunities are nothing of the sort.

1 and 2 are great, 3 isn't.

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>Needs a timeframe and context. Back in the, say, 1990s or maybe even early 2000s, when the modern world was just forming and the only languages students would work in were C and C…

>Where do you even begin decompressing a claim like this? Start writing the code and see where it takes you. Having done that type of work in grad school I moved from C++ to Guile …

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No, those people are idiots. Don't just talk about injustice, do something about it.

The bureaucrats who should have been enabling and coordinating scientists instead decided what the policy should be for Covid19 and ruined the lives/careers of anyone who did not f…

I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years. Economics is a science as good as any other. It's just that a lot of people with a lot of money want…

An extremist is someone who can't change her mind and won't change the subject.

>Others have documented the sordid tale of Mastodon’s development better than I could, but suffice it to say that many queer people, people of color, and women have been cast aside…

>What’s more terrifying is what happens to explicit material where consenting adults use filters like this? Is the law keeping up with tech like this? I hope not. I'm sick and tire…

All my dealing with GNOME have made me dread the day that happens. We need a polyculture because we will never beat $mega_corp on a polished monoculture.

>Zoom, Slack, Spotify, Steam, Discord, Obsidian Well yes, these are all closed source binaries. In terms of usage it's not all that different to running them in a VM. In the bad ol…