@cartman82 I just realized I should commit bugfixes on certain days so that the activity graph spells out 'deez nuts'.
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RE: Betrayed by github activity graph
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RE: Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon
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RE: Android without google?
Are you saying that this android can run on a phone without google underneath it, at all ? As in, without a gmail, without any google drive, and without any google play ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling androids without a google. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that google is more than just Google Play ? Its a whole system that runs the phone from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Google just spent $9 billion and many years to create Nexus, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. RIM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing Blackberry but could never keep up with Android. Microsoft tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Google.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Android could be extended to the point where it runs the entire phone fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of google. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
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RE: The Raku Programming Language
@Gąska said in The Raku Programming Language:
@pie_flavor said in The Raku Programming Language:
「a9」++
gives「b0」
.Wait what? Does it mean
"image9"++
gives"imagf0"
? That's way more retarded than I initially thought.Good question!
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
God fucking dammit.
I have a friend, who I was going to start a service for Minecraft servers with. Previously, he'd officially started a company, which I and some other people are members of, but the official filing was as far as we've ever gotten on actual projects. I'd rather not release the details of this service, which I will call SB, but trust me when I say it is something that is both in decent demand and very profitable, on the condition that it is cheaper and has better features than the entrenched competitor. Him, I, and a couple of other developers had planned for a while about this, and getting SB up and running was always in between a priority and a rainy day plan for us. If it became popular enough, it could have actually turned into a full-time job.For the last few months, his Discord server, which is where a few different things he manages take place, has had a new section: cryptocurrency. I have stayed completely out of it, but I know he's been very active in Bitcoin trading and creating his own cryptocurrency. So far it has not managed to infect anything else. Until now.
Today, he came to me with this fantastic new proposal - instead of paying for SB with real money, users could pay with a cryptocurrency. Not anything that already exists, mind you, but a currency that is created and maintained for the sole purpose of paying for SB with it. We would manage the official mining pool, after mining a ton of it, and people could either mine it themselves or buy it from us, and then use it to pay for SB. Every claim that people would just mine it and then we'd be giving SB subscriptions out for free was met with 'but we'd just sell that currency back to other people so we get money in the end'. Every claim that complexity would alienate our non-insane users was met with 'but they don't have to use it if they don't want to'. Every query as to just what the fuck the point of the currency would be was met with 'it's anonymous, and you should go look up how crypto works because you evidently don't understand it'.
He's the head, and he makes the decisions. This is going on the project whether I like it or not. I am fairly confident that we're doomed.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Rare video of @lucas1 in the process of destroying a thread
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RE: Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications
@powerlord said in Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications:
There's another post about this whole mess now, this time from StackOverflow's CTO:
A great post full of absolutely nothing. "We hurt you and we're sorry" for a couple of paragraphs, and then absolutely jack shit on the topic of why any of this was decided on, which of Sara and Monica were directly lying (given the claim about repeated violations vs the claim of zero violations), etc.
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RE: Excuse me? Do you have any idea how telecommunication companies work?
Christ on a cupcake. There's 'incompetent' and then there's 'flat-out retarded'.
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RE: In other news today...
Mr Zelensky, a political novice, is best known for starring in a satirical television series Servant of the People, in which his character accidentally becomes Ukrainian president.
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RE: WTF Bites
So I felt like getting some homework done on the train ride home today. After all, it was due at midnight. And what do you fucking know, it actually has a usable mobile interface! In educational software! Astounding!
Anyway, it went a lot faster than I thought it would, and I noticed it was skipping numbers. I go back to the question list, and it says that certain questions can only be completed on desktop. Okay, that at least makes sense. I'm surprised they got the math box to work on mobile (they actually had a custom keyboard for it), so I'm sure there's some wild and woolly stuff that mobile just isn't cut out for.
I was wrong. The desktop-only questions are the ones that have reference images in the 'Figure X' area. That's what you couldn't implement on mobile? Seriously? -
RE: WTF Bites
: your plugin isn't working with this thing you explain how to set it up with
: did you read how to set it up including the part which tells you to enable dynamic accounts
: yes I did the dynamic accounts are enabled
: can you check again please just to make sure?
: ok
: yes they're enabled
: fine. please post the configuration
:dynamic-accounts { enable = false // etc.