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Well apart from the whole 'highest rape rate in Europe thing'.

But that's a small price I'm willing to let women pay.

>None of us have the automatic right to stay and work here, and that isn't the intention of the program. Immigration is not a right, it is a privilege.

It's fucking wild that immigrants get this and half of US citizens don't.

I left a shithole to move to a better country. Imagine my surprise when I get here and the people supposedly on my side want to turn the country into the same shithole I left [0]. Then the people who see the problem are also the ones who want to impose a Christian Sharia.

[0] And have succeeded in California at least, there's now the same slums from the worst parts of town in the third world there.

Yes, and that's why the immigrants who make it are the best and brightest. The average ones didn't cut it.
Living in the US is a privilege not a right until you become a citizen.
The benefits are split $200,000 for faang and -$150,000 the rest of the country though.
> That's just not true. All but a handful of the smallest LAN parties I attended I the 90's and early 00's included console gaming. It was pretty much assumed there would be consoles at a LAN.

You should have gone to better parties.

Until you dropped your screen on the drive way into your friends house and heard the magic sound a CRT makes when it implodes.
Re:Thinking Forth on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:12AM (#33681011)
That's literally what it's for. Forth is the simplest language to get running on hardware which you have no idea how to program directly. Much easier than doing it for C.
Split screen was never a part of lan parties. The reason why lan parties stopped was because it was hard to move a tower around.

Even during that period it was much easier to go to a lanshop and play there either as in lan or on the proto cloud servers they had.

Many fond memories of early battle.net and much fewer of steam.

Intel to the German high command that allied troop strength would be severely depleted in the 1919/1920 winter.
Re:An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:42PM (#33677974)
Just buy a keyboard ffs.
Re:An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:05PM (#33677735)
To anyone reading: don't just be a consumer. There are enough projects made for people who just consume. Emacs is still a project run for people who make stuff with it. Please go somewhere else if you have no interest in building anything.
Re:An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:03PM (#33675855)
>I'm a writer and I'm really good at punctuation and spelling, do I really need to learn how to write a good story?

Vim is a text editor, emacs is a text manipulator. If you never want to do more than copy a rectangle of text from region a to region b then you don't need more than vim. If you want to write tools that fit your workflow you need to know elisp.

Re:An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:59PM (#33675817)
No.

Vim is a text editor.

Emacs is a lisp interpreter whose dialect of lisp is specialized for text manipulation. In emacs the user interface is incidental to the main goal of programmatic text manipulation.

In vim the user interface is the be all and end all. Which is why vim is now a specialized emacs mode when you need character based text manipulation.

Re:Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20% on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:40AM (#33668625)
Yes.
Re:$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:10AM (#33667816)
>Every criminal we have caught was stupid, ergo all criminals are stupid.

Sure thing bud.

Re:$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:51AM (#33667724)
>Hur hur, street smarts better than smart smarts.

It's a solved problem, and has been since the first bitcoin paper. That no one read that and just heard "magic internet gold I can get rich from" is their problem and not mine.

You don't get rich quick off the bitcoin protocol however so we have people run places like FTX: centralize and get the big bucks because they provide convenience. Then act surprised when it goes tits up like every other centralized system.

Same thing with people not encrypting their emails or not using tor as a bridge to the internet. In short: if you're the type of person who doesn't have their own key, yeah, prepare to get wrenched. The rest of us can manage our exposure quite easily.

Re:Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20% on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:23AM (#33667225)
The idea that Mozilla spends 1/500th of its budget on firefox is wrong. Just look at their fillings.
We could call that problem something fancy like the Byzantine General Problem and try and figure out ways to solve it mathematically.
Re:Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20% on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:34PM (#33666175)
A dozen at least, yes.
Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230 on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:23PM (#33665640)
This is nostalgic. I remember this exact same conversation about transgenderism in the late 00s. The 'progressive' position at the time was that these were a minority of mentally ill people mostly amplified by the GOP to discredit the push for gay rights at the time. Ironically enough the people who said that to me are now republicans going on about the dangers of groomers.

Now that you've been visited by the ghost of Christmas future I hope you take the opportunity to become a better person and stop yourself from becoming a conservative in 15 years.

Re:Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20% on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#33665608)
Firefox is sucking up all the donations for such browsers. So no, them dying would make a thousands flowers bloom.
Re:Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20% on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:27PM (#33662511)
>Look Mr. Government, we're not a monopoly. We have a competitor! *

*Who were funding and have neutered to the point where they've lost 90% of their market share in the last 10 years. Have fired all their developers and are spending the money on spending that looks a lot like what GFX did.

Mozilla is a dead weight around the neck of the internet. The best thing that can happen is that it dies and something new, run by people who actually make things, is created again.

When was the last time anyone was excited about a firefox update?

Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230 on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:23PM (#33662456)
Sounds like she'd be a darling of the woke crowd if she chose to be a man instead of black to be honest.
Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230 on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:12PM (#33662277)
How?
Funny how the literati have discovered that twitter is bad as soon as their friends no longer run it.
People assume that empathy is something that nice people do. It isn't. It's just another tool. Back when I cared about liberal politics [0] one of the points I constantly made was that we needed to be sympathetic and understand conservative worries even if ultimately we didn't care. I had managed to get dozens of hard right people to consider ditching the GOP when attacking the party in a way that their base understood.

[0] Having OWS raided in the middle of the night with flashbangs and killdozers made me seriously reconsider who you support politically. Thanks Obama!

Twitter doesn't need 10,000 engineers to keep running. I'd be shocked if a well designed system would need more than a hundred given the head counts as some of the places I've worked at. That doesn't stop Musk from killing it in the transition from here to there.

And what glorious fun we're all having looking at this train wreck.

You want HFT experts because this is the definition of an HFT system. Those salaries even in Australia start at $200k for a junior developer and go upwards quite quickly.

Of course OP thinks that $80k is a good salary for a developer so that ought to tell you how competent she is.

Because I've seen it even in places where the guy doing the hiring was the major share holder. He flat out told me that no one would pay a salary like what I was asking. It went downhill from there and he didn't take it well when I told him I was making more than that now and I figured this was going to be a relaxing year to wind down from my current position, hence why I was asking for less.

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