larsonian
Joined 4 years ago
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Comment · 5 days ago
I wanted a PC so bad I used to "wire up" a pocket calculator to a TV with a piece of string and pretend it was a keyboard and the TV was the monitor. My parents didn't trust me with a "real PC", but they did eventually get me a Famicom clone that at least had a proper keyboard. What they didn't know was that it also had BASIC, and thus my fate was sealed.
Comment · 5 days ago
256 whole kilobits per second? Talk about instant gratification. You kids and your fancy broadband connections, back in my day all we got was dial-up at 56k and we liked it!
Comment · 10 days ago
Right? "Oh, as long as I understand what it's doing on a high level, it's fine". Good thing the devil's never in the fucking details, then.
Comment · 10 days ago
It is used adversely all the time by all sorts of propaganda. And no, you're not a special enlightened snowflake whose priors are so fine-tuned that your confirmation bias only lets true facts through.
Comment · 11 days ago
Mostly by way of confirmation bias.
Comment · 11 days ago
Prove what? That it's possible to lie on the internet and then SEO these lies to the top of a search ranking? We kind of already knew that.
Comment · 2 months ago
Ireland? Where'd you get that from? They have a perfectly typical European system where you are expected to apply from inside the country for renewals [1]. You can still do it from abroad, but then you're not eligible for the simpler online procedure:
> You must currently be present in Ireland to be eligible to renew your permission to remain online. Applications submitted from outside Ireland will not be accepted.
Nigeria I'm less sure about. From what I can quickly google, they have a few classes of temporary work visas that aren't extendable (which isn't particularly unusual), although they do list at least some as "renewable upon regularization", and I'm unfortunately not well-versed enough in Nigerian immigration law to know what that means. For actual long-term immigration they have a document called a CERPAC, and the respective website [2] doesn't seem to mention whether you have to leave Nigeria to renew it, only that it's done online. Common sense suggests, however, that if you did have to leave, it would be mentioned somewhere on there, likely in big bold letters.
[1] https://www.irishimmigration.ie/registering-your-immigration...
Comment · 2 months ago
Name one country, then. None that I'm aware of require you to leave the country to renew an immigration visa. Switching from a visitor visa to an immigration visa, sure. But if you're already on an immigration visa or residence permit, it's normally expected that you are, well, an immigrant. That your home, domicile, center of vital interests, whatever you want to call it, is in the country. I know of immigration systems that require you to apply from inland instead of from abroad in this case: most European systems work that way, for example, and I believe Canada and Australia too? But why would you require an immigrant to leave the country to extend their residence in that same country, other than to fuck with them?
Comment · 2 months ago
Are you kidding? It's a very obvious case of quote injection. Not some subtle race condition or anything.
Comment · 2 months ago
Whatever it is, it seems to be getting worse: started with pull requests and Actions being down, now I can't even list my repos. Might be the worst one yet.
Comment · 8 months ago
Normal humans don't pass this benchmark either, as evidenced by the existence of religion, among other things.
Comment · 8 months ago
NYT is more of a tech company than you might think [1] and they've been one for longer than you might think: the de-facto standard profiler for Perl [2], of all things, comes from them.
Comment · 4 years ago
Cloudflare is absolutely a false comparison. Punishing Nazis is a good thing. Punishing all Russians for the actions of a government they have no say in based solely on their nationality is being a Nazi (which is not a good thing).
Comment · 4 years ago
Maybe, just maybe, the two things you might think are only superficially alike, bear a much deeper resemblance.
See how two can play at this absolutely pointless game of offering pithy remarks without any argument behind them?