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rbanffy

194,611karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

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I was going to make a joke about SREs, but then I felt hurt.
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"By Evan Gough"
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> Are you saying no one expects the US to win a war? I certainly don't
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I've heard more than one complaining that Iran was an everybody problem because "nuclear weapons" and that the US is doing all the heavy lifting. I usually reply to that with reminding …
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> why and why are Americans dying for this? This last one is to distract people from the Epstein files. And, maybe, get some oil as well.
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Don't forget the Portuguese. They were a superpower thanks to their investment in maritime technologies.
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At this point, everyone is thinking about getting nuclear weapons.
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Are you comparing NPR with Fox News and their definitions of victory.
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> by unqualified people. That's what the public education system was supposed to prevent.
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So, it will be quagmires from now on.
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I really hope that next time they do their job vetting nominations for the judicial branch.
27d ago·view thread
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She knows fully well where she’ll end up if she doesn’t play ball and allow the US to do whatever they want. That’s not what I’d call being in control. All that’s left is a varnish of legality.
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A mobilisation such as what we saw in WWII is unthinkable because it'd crash markets. That's one reason.
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Combined with a coup.
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So was Russia's campaign to destroy the social fabric of the US. Without a single shot fired even!
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I want a telnet port connecting directly to the Hercules console when it runs headless, as that is the way it ends up running in Docker. The Hercules console does a lot of heavy lifting that could be …
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I really wish they released it under a GPL license. Unless an event starts an adoption uptick for greenfield projects (and it'd take some time for that). I wish they had an easy way to deploy an …
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I prefer to say AIs are prone to misremember things, as well as humans do. The more you read and learn, the more material you have to get confused, unfortunately. We might want to work around the cert…
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They are in a tough spot. They have to pick between milking their legacy clients who have been running VMS workloads and don’t want to port them to anything else, and a much more risky attempt to deve…
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