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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
When it began, it was like 30 thousand stubs about obscure small towns, so it made sense to me that this was someone's hobby
No lie, when I first encountered Wikipedia in the early 2000s, I thought it was one person because the NPOV voice was so eerily consistent
Neo is also cyber Jesus in that rightwingers have misinterpetted his e-teachings
[watches movie where one of the first scenes features a heroic white woman beating up evil white men in suits and cops]
Uhhhhh I don't understand, it's too complicated...is it about white men...being oppressed?
This movie could have had a scene where Morpheus just explains every metaphor, and it practically does, but you'd still have people insisting it's about...the exact opposite.
Also: I think the first thing we see when the movie starts is a terminal displaying a short command containing the word "trans". And we see the same text when the movie closes. Subtle!
Also congratulations to the Wachowskis for
1) Picking the last possible moment in time when payphones were everywhere
2) Getting Rage Against the Machine to play over the credits of their movie about raging against the machine
Weird how The Matrix is about everything but the MRA interpretation of The Matrix
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Tumtums deserve the best!
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that leftvalues quiz neglects the crucial bane/joker value
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USpol
People who style themselves as these electoralism wonksperts will instantly forget how districts and the electoral college works if it means they can yell at me, a central California resident, over third-party voting.
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here's my hot take on gacha games: they are the natural progression of electronic gaming under capitalism
the vast majority of gacha games have two tiers of players: whales, who can spend thousands of dollars on the game, and everyone else, who by and large don't pay but might be convinced into throwing ten bucks now and again
this mirrors exactly the structure of the real economy, where a small number of people have large amounts of disposable income, and everyone else barely scrapes by
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Somewhat long #Unix #Unix50 toot
The OS I use daily is turning 50, depending on how you define its start. #Unix50
On #Unix's 40th birthday, the IEEE's Spectrum magazine told of its start like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20190228090043/https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0
The 50th anniversary of Unix is particularly reminding me of my age because I was born within days of its manual's first edition: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html
Thankfully, *that* anniversary is still 2 years off. :p
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on june twenty first, two thousand seventeen, a user by the name of rock legend ninety six uploaded a video where he successfully installed arch linux in fourteen minutes and twelve seconds. and so began the arch linux speedrunning community
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y'all i could use some friends in pkgo! 7948 5967 9553
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Hey
If your "women and enbies" doesn't include AMAB enbies who still present very masculine
It's gross and you should keep it to yourself
Or admit that you just like girls, it's fine, nobody will judge you
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ahhh, i fucking love making claims about human nature, which are unfalsifiable and based on tautological definitions of said "nature"
Mimi Katz is a good hacker name
The answer as to "Why would do that to yourself?" is, it was for a class, and programmers of a certain age just assume you know C.
I tried learning Objective-C after doing Swift and a little web dev with languages like JS and Python. I should have introduced myself to C basics first, because all the weird shit Objective-C does makes sense once you know the problems you can run into writing C code.
Imagine trying to work with Objective-C when you don't know what a header file is or why you need one.
That was me trying to translate Objective-C into Swift.
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
