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Expressed in a very rough way:

I think one has to be realist about their tools and idealist about their goals. And the drive is the most important factor. If they're just going through the motions without intent, without ideal, it won't lead anywhere. The will to preserve (imo absurd[0]) or the will to change.

Of course, there isn't any one true model of thought. So I'm surely wrong.

[0]: I don't think anything can last, civil rights included, but things can come and go

I have often argued that "being realist" is a failure in and of itself. If people said "well, there's a king and that's what it is", we'd never have got to where we are now.

Ideologies (and ideas) are, in my view, stronger than facts, which often only represent the past, while ideas shape the future.

(these days the word "fact" is a bit of a trigger, but I thought about that well before all that jazz, and the current phenomenom seemed to prove my point to many of my friends)

Where I walk and what I do on the street is private even though it's in a public space (exceptions apply). Similarly what I do and where I go on the internet is private even though it is a public space (exceptions apply).

If someone follows me in the street for hours (days, weeks, life) and note everything that I do, I'd be right to call that a violation of my privacy ?

Disposable email addresses exists precisely because we don't plan on returning. Some websites tried to block disposable addresses already, I just went somewhere else.

I don't think Rome was ever a brutal dictatorship

Well, they weren't exactly choirboys from what I've heard.

(I understand what you meant, but that quote out of context is just great)

You can see two of my current school assignement on Github.

I try to avoid manipulating strings as much as possible. ;)

I am student and I like C, I've tested Rust/Go, I like the feeling of C. Maybe that sentiment will change later, but for now, I like C. It's simple and sharp and there's lots of doc/books.

USA "proles" fell for populism and elected the worst neocapitalist team possible, against their own interests, that's what we're talking about when we talk about "populism".

By and large people (demographically) who voted for the democrats won't be much affected by the GOP gov, but the people who voted for the GOP will be badly affected.

If a mod comes here, I vote for closing this post, I feel it is very very prone to political flame wars.

That's 1.3 shows a week. 15 hours. Podcasts and tv blogs will have work for quite some time.

It's, in my view, more akin to trying to ban mathematics in a world in which mathematics exist. Tools and weapons don't exist indenpently from us, mathematics do.

The point isn't that though. Very similar cities have a very different number of Apple stores.

Paris and London are 500km apart, a couple hours of train or plane away from each other, both capital cities, both have ~10¨7 people.

Whaa ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

Yep, it's almost true. London 8.5M. If you count all 50 "countries" (some are a joke though) it ranks between the 21st and 22nd.

Though in my city (Paris 11M, I think), similarly sized, there's only 2 Apple stores.

Plus, why would we install a bash script as sudo ?

I appreciate how Windows is passive aggressively compatible with mechanical typewriters.

or even notepad.exe

As long as you write all your code on one line

The only tablet I've ever wanted to own is a light 12-13" e-ink reader for music sheets. Sony did one as an experiment and closed the division I think?

On Linux you can use virtually any file manager without anyone/anything "preventing" you from it.

How many 20 characters passwords could we try in 600 days ? And by imaging the original drive unto multiple others ?

I mean 18 months. It's a lot.

But passwords and hard drives are not documents. What's on it are "documents" but it's akin to refusing to pull memories out of your brain.

I think we can assume the FBI has been running a common passwords/dictionary attack with common password symbol substitutions for the last 18 months

I would like to believe they do... But I don't think they'd bother with that.

On its wikipedia page its referred throughout as H2G2.

H2G2 9 times

HG2G 2 times

HHGTTG 2 times

Aka more simply as H2G2, "the" and "to" aren't required in an acronym.

Also, what other tools could we have made if we had optimal tools for the existing ones?

We don't have the "Oxford comma", but we do do lists with commas.

And it would be really confusing if we didn't.

I'm more interested in how the board got this way.

Musicians as well.

Correction: they corrected it.

ಠ_ಠ Looking at brew.sh.

"An argument isn't just contradiction."

Ok. That's a weird detail to bother hipsterbragging about.

"Successful people have better things to do than arguing on reddit/hn"