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Thrir94994i

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Thrir94994i··on Get all your sources
Nixos is a perfect toy for techies with too much free time. Decades ago it would be *BSD, Gentoo, Arch and so on.

Opensuse with snapshots and some repo magic, can do 99% of functionality, without learning yet another abstraction layer. But dealing with RPMs is very unsexy.

Thrir94994i··on Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditional Surrender (2020)
Last paragraph is very scary. US president holds a button that can destroy the world. Great responsibility! It must be an intelligent person of highest personal integrity!
Thrir94994i··on Laid-off masses have a message for Zuckerberg, Benioff: We'll never come back
> And if they do come back, they’re likely expecting an average pay bump of 25%, Wong added

Single tech position gets like 100 applications, thousands of its remote. I think this guy is out of reality!

Devs in countries like Poland are now thriving, many of those jobs moved into cheaper regions!

Thrir94994i··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
This is how statutory rape works. Consent is invalidated by a law!

If person are intoxicated, they are prevented from resisting. So even if they give a verbal consent, this consent is invalidated by section 261 (a)(3), because they were prevented from resisting.

Thrir94994i··on USB Power Delivery for Hobby Projects
I really hate USB PD for hobby project. You are getting into territory of cheap Chinese power adapters and voltage regulators, with high risk of fire! It is very easy and cheap, to find power bricks for any voltage, with much much better quality!
Thrir94994i··on NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
357 bytes for bootstrap compiler binary is VERY impressive!
Thrir94994i··on Latvia to start conscripting men for mandatory military service, starting 2024
> The application and evaluation processes for women and men are identical and do not distinguish between them. The Center for European Policy Analysis reports that Latvia has “comparatively good female representation within the Latvian National Armed Forces.” At present, women make up 16.5% of the army’s 6,700 military personnel.

They could easily boost that number by conscripting women. My "military service" in nearby country consisted mostly of wiping arses of elderly patients in hospital. Anyone can do that!

Thrir94994i··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
California Penal Code section 261 (a)(3)

> If a person is prevented from resisting by an intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or a controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused.

Look up statutory rape, duress... If you want some actual cases, search at relevant forums. I am really not going to give legal advice here.

Thrir94994i··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
You were right maybe 20 years ago. But now many judicial precedents t say otherwise!

> Drunk but conscious people are very much able to consent

"Conscious" is highly individual state. I would strongly recommend you to look up current situation, it may prevent a very nasty situation, where judge has a different opinion!

Most guys I know take god knows what drugs, mixed with vodka and Redbull... Far from shining beacon of "consciousness". But they are still able to walk and talk, and somehow get home...

Thrir94994i··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
> The 55-year-old social worker now spends her weekends on the dancefloors of illegal.... “Recently, I met a younger man with an amazing body. It was probably the best sex of my life.”

In dating app you can filter out old people. So this old person would not have a chance there!

Her only chance is in night club, where she can rape drunken guys! People who drink alcohol can not give a consent! And that guy wery likely regrets it, when he wakes up in the morning!