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iikoolpp

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We must secure the existence of libertarianism and a future for white male programmers
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iikoolpp··on Twitter to ban political advertising
> and yet he's generally leaning left of course

Words clearly do not have meanings anymore

iikoolpp··on Twitter to ban political advertising
Telling the government "I know you've told me to take it down, but we specifically designed it in such a way that we can't take it down" sounds like an incredibly good legal strategy that will definitely not backfire.
iikoolpp··on Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
I didn't mean it like that.
iikoolpp··on Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language
I used Nim for a few projects. My best description is that it's fun, but everything feels kinda off when writing stuff.
iikoolpp··on AirPods Pro
I disagree; this website is awful. If you hijack the scroll event to do something like this, instead of just... letting me scroll, you're very much going to hell.
iikoolpp··on Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud
Let us assume that a situation that will never happen will happen. Suddenly, everything is bad! Therefore you are all filthy virtue signallers.
iikoolpp··on Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission in 1982
> My bet is whoever figures out a carbon capture -> green oil solution is in for big wins.

Otherwise known as a tree

iikoolpp··on Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
> by saying that, yes, in fact a Dutchman is worth 11x a Nigerian.

I'm pretty sure economists actually genuinely believe this statement.

iikoolpp··on Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
Everything is only going to get worse
iikoolpp··on Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
Opened the article expecting it to be a more abstract cost. Turns out it's about economics. Christ alive.

"Yeah, billions are gonna die, but what really matters is my house prices are gonna go down."

iikoolpp··on Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
> you’re comparing a highly homogeneous culture

Are you talking about a different Switzerland than everyone else? A country literally made out of three different cultures (French Swiss, German Swiss and Italian Swiss)?

iikoolpp··on Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation
iikoolpp··on Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli
/mu:sul/
iikoolpp··on Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
Didn't realise cash was suddenly outlawed
iikoolpp··on Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
Or, reworded: "Please put 300 weasel words to sneak it past the Civility Detector 3000"
iikoolpp··on How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
> Assume you need 2,500 calories/day

Well, your first mistake is there

iikoolpp··on What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health
> Something that has been mushed up from its original form to the point of being unrecognizable

Sauces are the enemy!

iikoolpp··on Show HN: Bel
> that all other things being equal, the debuggability of a language, and the pleasure one feels in using it, will be inversely proportional to the length of programs written in it.

Busting a gigantic nut when I see a blank file

iikoolpp··on I tried to hack my insomnia
> I did that last night, got tired and went to bed around 10pm. And then I woke up at 1am. Now that it's approaching 6, I'm getting tired. But this happens to me occasionally and I know from past experience that my two options are:

This is how your sleep schedule is naturally designed to work. Sleep for a bit, wake up, sleep again.

iikoolpp··on Function Currying in Go
In 3 months time: Off-topic: I see 'dev.to' and I don't tap because I can't face the pop-ups and nag modal. Sad to think, at one time Medium used to be the cleanest reading experience.
iikoolpp··on Function Currying in Go
Ah yes, the Go mantra. Make your code as dumb and long as possible.
iikoolpp··on Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood
I eat every 20 hours or so nowadays, I think that qualifies as "intermittent starvation" for people here. I still feel like shit.
iikoolpp··on Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood
> still good to teach them their importance and that they should eat some things even though they don’t taste good

I remember my parents trying this on me one night until I vomited their mank vegetables all over the dinner table. Never again.

iikoolpp··on No Radical Changes in GNU Project
Love too be friends with a war criminal and mass murderer.
iikoolpp··on Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
Nothing. We're fucked. The world will die in the pursuit of expanding growth and profit.
iikoolpp··on Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
Dying from air pollution to own the citylab writers
iikoolpp··on Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro
It's cheaper. I don't care about the ethics. Steal away!
iikoolpp··on Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
If your bank provides an API, sure.
iikoolpp··on Pricing niche products
Whereas I own a £1 keyboard and I prefer it vastly more than any mechanical KB I had before.
iikoolpp··on Auto-Antonyms
It's been fully co-opted everywhere except in the headspace of internet prescriptivists.
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