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2016-02-20 at 7:23 PM UTC in Welcome to Texas mother fuckers
Being pro-gun doesn't make you crazy, I like you, but you're just spouting off liberal tier cuck rhetoric at this point.
Could you pack any more lame buzz words into there if you tried? Any suggestion that arming students is now "liberal tier cuck rhetoric"? Do you even know what rhetoric means?It's just here in Texas we believe the right to bear arms. And I know you're joking, but I still think its highly immature to compare college students (adults legally able to own guns) to primary schoolers as if there is any satirical correlation.
What's immature about it? I actually don't even mean it satirically (also that's not how you use the word "correlation"), we've known for a long time that, beyond adolescence, age is an inverse correlate with rates of violent crime (see, that's how you use "correlation") so arming one of the youngest adult populations in america may actually be worse of an idea than glocks for grade schoolers.Nice job adding nothing of value to this thread. I've owned several guns in my life and never used them irresponsibly. My parents own guns are very level headed people. But at the same time my parents grew up in a different time where it was perfectly normal to go to school and see gun racks in students trucks with loaded rifles, and school shootings were definitely not as common back then.
"Nice job adding nothing to this thread"
Yeah, because you anecdotal non-evidence is really contributing to the conversation. Wait, you mean a felon in texas is claiming he owned a gun (which was subsequently taken away by the police) and hasn't used it irresponsibly? Yeah, I'm totally gonna reconsider my stance on gun control now, because if that's not a knockdown argument for "give everybody guns" I don't know what is.Might as well ban knives, cars, power tools, and anything else that could be used irresponsibly.
Aaaand it's tired pro-gun recycled argument #327. See "social utility" or read any of the other literally hundreds of threads on gun control that have come up in the community for why that argument is a total non-starter. -
2016-02-19 at 7:50 AM UTC in Life Is StrangeAnyone played/playing it? I finished it recently. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by it. I thought it was going to be 12 hours of cute/fragile marry sue in your face and I mean that was there to a degree but I think it did a lot of things really well. It was sold as one of those "your choices matter" games but I think most of them didn't. I mean clearly good decisions early on help in terms of gameplay but as far as I can tell there were one or two and a half choices (one being contingent on the other) that effected end-game state, all roads really lead to the same place. And the ending was clearly supposed to be like an agonizing choice but it didn't take me a second to choose.
IN SPITE OF ALL THAT I actually felt emotionally invested in the end. This is probably painfully obvious to everyone who played it but I didn't notice until you revisit the opening scene of the game. One of the first lines you get is "Hitchcock called film 'little pieces of time', but he could have been talking about photography" and the clear fourth-wall-penetrating implication is that videogames are the same. With that as a mission statement I think the game made a lot of sense, it wasn't really about making choices, it was about capturing a moment in american history, framing some of our cultural anxieties, and hopefully providing some catharsis thereby. And I thought that was something it did really well. Almost all of the gameplay was trivial (at times tedious, ala the "evidence board" minigame thing, that shit was stupid) but there was something about being gently coerced into participation that lent reality to characters. Even if it was, for the most part, a series of token gestures the act of making choices did a good job of making the subjects seem more real. -
2016-02-19 at 6:23 AM UTC in Usenet is the only TOTSE-like experience still alive
Fair enough. Usenet has its fair share of problems these days, and always has (primarily spam) but I still find it very interesting. My biggest draw for paying for access is the small technical forums. It feels like there are still people around who give a fuck about discussing rather that shitposting for gr8 internet points.
Yeah, the comp.lang.* tree is surprisingly well informed/helpful although I haven't read any groups daily in years.I've never actually used it, oddly enough
aren't all the decent networks pay2play?
I think you can get all the discussion groups on free providers (if you're not too tin foil to use google groups, not sure what else is out there by way of a free service), and usually pay for the binary groups. -
2016-02-19 at 4:33 AM UTC in How does this phising site look?Yeah, sans the ads it looks the same. Generally you'd want to mirror the link targets as well, you'd expect a user to land, click through a forum/thread and not authenticate until they were ready to post it renders right on Chrome stable/OSX
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2016-02-19 at 4:28 AM UTC in Usenet is the only TOTSE-like experience still alive
Usenet is a decentralized network. Think of it like a forum that can be hosted by anyone. The best part about Usenet is getting the best scene release files, it's even better than torrents in some regards, although it has slowed down in recent years.
I wouldn't really call usenet decentralized. I mean sure, there isn't one central usenet server but there are (roughly fixed) N syndicated servers, entry into the network is not democratic and retrieval of user information is not significantly more involved than from a centralized BBS.
Also scene has always been shit, it's just before good private trackers popped up it was the least shit in a sea of super-shit. The majority of scene rules are just cool-kids-club tier garbage. They can't even beat screeners to the relevant private trackers anymore. -
2016-02-19 at 4:13 AM UTC in Lanny - WTF you cunt mother fucker, i cant BeLiEvE it ,wtf wtf WTFghdfyuhgfyufygfu
Lanny… you aren't on any other forums are you? Like… certain weeaboo related websites for torrenting?
No. No… I KNOW YOU ARE. And stumbling on you there is weird. That reptar… so very… familiar.
Oh shit, I found you too (political affiliation thread). I can't post much anymore because most the mods hate me, at one point one of them PMd me and was like "stop being so confrontational or you're going to get banned". Every time I start posting regularly eventually someone starts deleting my posts or gives me the same threat. In the end trolling autistic weebs (especially that one guy in the tech forum who posts in every thread about how BSD is god's gift to operating systems even when it's wildly irrelevant and in the face of any and all evidence to the contrary) isn't worth jeopardizing my access to sweet sweet chinese cartoons. I've been posting on totse spinoffs for so long I can't participate in "safe space" forums anymore apparently.
IDC is good though, it's kinda like what HB used to be, lots of dumb inside jokes and shitposting but at least no one tries to tell you to play nice. -
2016-02-19 at 2:17 AM UTC in Aww fuck, you faggots are still alive?lord lord lord,
lord of the edges,
watch out for that edge! -
2016-02-18 at 6:02 PM UTC in What are you hacking on?
Ugh, that proprietary DB stuff sounds fucking annoying. How did you figure out how to connect to the db to make your CLI client work? I'd assume the protocol would be proprietary as well. Ditto on the 3d game project.
Yeah, but the protocol is pretty simple, no encryption so I just watched a few requests through wireshark. Auth is done through LDAP so that can be handed off to a library. The actual protocol is text/linebased, Basically HTTP but the status line has a different format. I haven't tried it out on large query results so there may be some custom mechanism for row-chunking but I want to get the simple case done first, hopefully I can demonstrate value with that and get my employer to pay me to develop/maintain this thing. -
2016-02-18 at 5:48 PM UTC in Spotted Lanny Screeches at Obamado the pink dots represent my power level?
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2016-02-18 at 5:44 PM UTC in Welcome to Texas mother fuckersTexas was just jealous that Florida was becoming the crazy capitol of the US, needed to do something to spice shit up, and what could be better than an "arm the students" crusade? Shame they missed out on the "pistols for primary schoolers" initiative though.
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2016-02-18 at 3:16 AM UTC in I think about killing myself a lot
I don't think a few dollars is too much to ask for what they think their life was worth, and if they die, their estate gets a few dollars on the phone bill on top of all the other costs. There's no reason for a huge elaborate multifaceted bureaucratic department devoted to fucking losers
Frankly what you just suggested sounds a lot more bureaucratic than just paying whatever miniscule portion of a federal budget it takes to run a hotline service. -
2016-02-18 at 3:12 AM UTC in "Brave" BrowserI like Eich, even if he did inflict javascript on us and hates homos. He is, based on all available evidence, a really smart guy and I can really get behind the work he did and values he espoused in the early mozilla days. This just doesn't seem like a great idea though. There are a lot of things wrong with web browsers in 2016 but ads aren't one of them (that's a content issue, "fixing" it at the browser level is just wrong). Also the comment about "we went with chromium because we did some science stuff and it's faster than gecko (which happens to be made by the company that kicked my ass to the curb)" got a good chuckle out of me. If I had to put money on it I'd say it's probably true chromium really is faster but not to a degree that represents any business significance.
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2016-02-17 at 3:53 AM UTC in Lanny - WTF you cunt mother fucker, i cant BeLiEvE it ,wtf wtf WTFghdfyuhgfyufygfu
$0.99..tzzz…. He got it for free nigga.
This. Gandi, my registrar, did this promotion where they gave you three domains under a randomly selected tld to all their customers that had spent X dollars with them in the past. One of my three was a .space domain. -
2016-02-17 at 3:40 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Lazy. You don't need to carry a huge amount. Just look around.
Fair enough but it's mostly an economic consideration. My food costs are almost negligible, probably averages out to $50 a week (ran between 10-20 a week when I was in school), not including eating out. So even if I could halve my weekly spending, if it takes me another 30 minutes then I've lost money.Sent this to a Chinese drug supplier I'm interested in, the replacement for tic-research/till.i.come@riseup,net:
Care to share? If they have anything good I'd be down for a combined order if it meant better pricing, know the last one didn't work out but more disposable income means I don't care as much if something goes belly up. -
2016-02-17 at 3:01 AM UTC in I login as rootI login as www-data
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2016-02-17 at 2:53 AM UTC in I learned to PHP
what's the equivalent in python?
It looks like you lost part of your example, presumably "System::" wasn't the end since I'm pretty sure that's not valid syntax. -
2016-02-16 at 7:39 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Bought 4 wines to trial at Grocery outlet. Business model, how they're able to offer such massive discounts: http://goodcheapvino.com/grocery-outlet-wine-department-incredible-wine-bargains/
Blog, wish there were more contributors: https://grossoutwine.wordpress.com/
You should give it a try, Lanny. You enjoy thrift stores, this is like a thrift store for alcohol and food items. http://www.yelp.com/biz/grocery-outlet-san-francisco
Too far to walk, don't really want to haul groceries on the bus. Besides, I'm quite happy with my 2 buck chuck. Have you tried it? The shiraz is actually one of my favorite wines, having tried a fair amount of nicer stuff (although I can't claim to have any real critical insight, it just tastes good to me). The pinot grigio is nice if you don't like reds.You bet I'm going to trial all of them today. Hauling those bags around was good exercise, but hard work. Lanny, you'd be in tears if you had to carry bags of the same weights to the distances I've regularly done so.
How much do you carry and what distance? I walk about a mile uphill to my grocery store, shop for 1-2 weeks at a time. Never weighed how much that is though.Now, time to watch Léon: The Professional.
That's been in my queue for a while now. Someone compared it favorably to non non biyori which seemed kinda funny but w/e. Post a review when you finish it. -
2016-02-16 at 7:28 AM UTC in I learned to PHP
not sure what you're referring to in the first paragraph without specifics, but by flexibility and hard to fuck up I meant I haven't come across anything it's abhorrently bad at (though I have a tendency to hack shit together instead of worrying about their libs and standards) and data/type handling is a lot simpler (both good and bad) than a lot of other languages. you don't have the same issues with data/pointers and memory locations like in c, or translating between arrays-refarrays-hashes-etc like in perl, and as a result I find troubleshooting and error handling to be pretty straightforward. PS. keep in mind I don't use object syntax.
So one of the big ones is the tendency of people to pass around associative arrays rather than objects. I'm not a big OOP person but just a data object analogous to a struct would be fine, the issue comes when you have no schema, you're holding onto a thing and your only way to know what its structure is is by r_printing it, and you'll never know if the next similar looking thing is going to have the same keys or not. That's the crux of the flexibility complaint at least. There's also a culture of mutating arguments that toxically interacts with the former custom which, ok, if we're comparing with something like C then it's not significantly worse but I think one of the most important things we'd like to see out of a high level language, the reason we pay so many cycles for an interpreter and high level constructs is to get tools that are slower but easier to reason about and "here's a thing, when control returns (and god only knows how much time has passed or how system state has changed) it's going to be different" is the opposite of easy to reason about, even if we're not worried about concurrency (which we should be). Then there's the whole "everyone is in the global namespace by default" thing, pervasive reliance on globals, and clunky ass NS system for people who do try to do the right thing. -
2016-02-16 at 7:08 AM UTC in Lanny, I'm tired of clicking fucking streetsignsIf you don't have anything to hide then be less paranoid, if you do keep it up. PMs are broken so I don't know what you'd be trying to hide anyway. I won't lie, my opsec is pretty shitty. I've done the bare minimum to ward off DDoS attacks (we had a few significant ones early on, nothing worth noting in a while) and like sysadmin 101 stuff (disable root login, fail2ban, the standard iptables setup etc) but I think one of log dirs is publicly available lol(although there's nothing sensitive there) and I've hand patched the code in a few places so god only knows what kind of downstream issues that caused.
Also you probably shouldn't take my word one way or another on the matter, gag orders and such. I think zok actually did get one once, although I don't imagine we draw enough attention for that kind of thing anymore. -
2016-02-16 at 5:32 AM UTC in I learned to PHPIt is light and easy to deploy. Is it flexible? I mean it is malleable but I don't think you need a program to get all that big before changing the system becomes more difficult as a product of that malleability which I think is, in some sense, contrary to the idea of software being flexible. Also I think the abundance of footguns and kinda batty defaults makes it trivially easy to fuck up.
I mean it has its place and a lot of what are clearly poor decisions today can be explained by the fact that it was designed for CGI scripts, although the fact that mod_php has been like 99% of how PHP gets executed for a long time now, across multiple major version releases, and the language still pretends like "pipe stdout to a socket" is how people use it seems to suggest this isn't actually a valid excuse anymore. I'd almost prefer perl, that way I could at least feel cool when producing eye-bleed inducing one liners.
