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by 0815test 7y ago
> Personally, I'm from Spain and I'm not annoyed or upset about English being the lingua franca. I think we should abandon the idea of English "belonging" to its native speakers. When I talk to people from Germany, fr
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by 0815test 7y ago
There's nothing "rare" and "very specific" about parallel processing, what's "rare, very specific" is the amount of software that's been rewritten/redesigned to take advantage of it so far
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by 0815test 7y ago
Computing technology is more egalitarian today than it ever was. Unless you're gaming, doing software development or serious science-related work, you can get away with something baseline and dirt-cheap, and it will work just fine. Ma
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by 0815test 7y ago
Sharing, copying and indexing are things that you can't do if DRM gets in the way. If the alternative is a printed book vs. a fake digital book that you can't actually use effectively because of DRM, I'll take the printed
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by 0815test 7y ago
> ...instead of viewing flashcards, you take batch tests, typing answers into blanks, tabbing from one field to the next. The machine grades your answers as a batch, and you can take a new test immediately over just the unanswered/i
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by 0815test 7y ago
> ...there was still that nagging feeling that if you could only get a system with just 64k more memory, you could do WONDERFUL things, instead of the mundane things you were working on. To me, that feeling only really went away in very
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by 0815test 7y ago
> if you reverse that, you will often have to remember many different foreign words for one card. This is one of many, many reasons why spaced-repetition systems should support dependencies - as in, "delay card X until after cards A
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by 0815test 7y ago
And proof that "ethnostates" are a terrible idea - see the amount of Han Chinese elites who are now fleeing that sinking ship and trying their luck in Western countries (that in turn, by and large, started out as "ethnostates
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by 0815test 7y ago
The amount of "feedback" involved in climate systems is the very thing that makes them incredibly hard to predict and make solid claims about. The claim that there is "consensus" that a runaway process will happen if
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by 0815test 7y ago
I actually agree about the scaremongering coming out of the Thunberg camp, but come on, it's not like she's doing this personally . She's a figurehead for a relatively niche movement that's trying to make it big, and sh
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by 0815test 7y ago
AmigaOS actually did use : as a volume marker and / as a path separator below the volume level. "Volumes" on AmigaOS were actually more like generally-usable filesystem namespaces; the feature covered not just "hardware
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Write-only, because only the functions (‘WORDS’) are named - no parameter names You could use lambda notation to name the parameters of a function, while still preserving postfix function application as in FORTH. This would effectivel
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by 0815test 7y ago
Interestingly, there's been proposals to try and let the market evaluate the "goodness" of a CEO. It basically involves issuing futures on the company stock which (1) only pay if the CEO is fired by date X, otherwise the f
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by 0815test 7y ago
Huawei did the same thing. Started out with their phones being unlockable (not that it did much good, the hardware was hell to work with), then took that away. Even on existing hardware. That 's when people in the consumer tech com
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by 0815test 7y ago
> IMHO the 8-bit Ataris were a lot more innovative than the Commodore 8-bitters (including the C64), despite being a couple years earlier to market. ... The 8-bit Ataris were the actual predecessor to the Commodore Amiga (not surprising,
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by 0815test 7y ago
> It's a huge undertaking building an app for Android today without using Google's services, and sometimes even impossible. F-Droid developers manage to do it. Sure, they might not publish their apps on the Google-Play Store (s
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by 0815test 7y ago
> ...names of sources in hostile nations... Ooohhh, that's quite on point actually. Guess what Assange disclosed plenty of, at great risk to these sources' safety? He is quite far from any sort of genuine journalistic ethics
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by 0815test 7y ago
Crowdfunding is not inherently limited in scale. If it can raise $5k $50k or $500k, there's no reason to think it couldn't raise $5M. Or even $350M for that matter. The reason these projects aren't being funded is because
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by 0815test 7y ago
> The spire is gone. The original one is never going back. What's the point of making a copy ? AIUI, the spire itself actually dates back to the early 19th century - if so, rebuilding one in the same style would be quite appropriate
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> ...get it funded before I even make the product. Strictly speaking, you don't have to do this. You could make the product, send it under a strict NDA to a variety of widely-trusted 3rd-party reviewers/critics, with whatever
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by 0815test 7y ago
> things... that provide a common cultural experience. That's what the public domain is for, of course. It's too bad that this limits us to 1923-or-before material (in the U.S., and ignoring non-copyright-renewed stuff from la
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by 0815test 7y ago
Look at what people routinely pay for in crowdfunding models, where all costs are 100% transparent and marginal cost is indeed generally low or even zero. You'll find a whole lot of indie stuff ( very high-quality indie stuff in fact
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by 0815test 7y ago
More relevantly, swapping pages to flash storage would kill the flash storage itself. (Flash memory has terrible write endurance, and what endurance it has relies on obscure GC algorithms that would interact quite terribly with a "swap
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by 0815test 7y ago
It's not about "othering" at all. We were discussing brexit... so why haven't the UK left the EU yet, like they said they would? Because that doesn't work, can't work, and everyone knows this. It would be a
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"Crisis actors" - for real, this time around!
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"Core counts" on GPUs are quite misleading - what are called "cores" on GPU hardware would be called "execution units/ALU's" on the CPU. GPUs have significantly-enhanced memory throughput, and can us
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by 0815test 7y ago
>>if the police are after someone "that person must have done something wrong" and therefore "deserved" whatever happened to them > This, to me, is one of the primary tenants of what is evil about naziism, or ty
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No need for Windows. There was an official Linux implementation back in the day, codenamed Kylix.
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> Uh, isn't that what tablet mode in win8/10 is for? It's also what i3wm is for. And the latest versions of GNOME ought to be finally usable on touch-enabled tablet- and 2-in-1 PC's. I expect Linux with GNOME to del
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by 0815test 7y ago
Paper, gunpowder, the compass... the list goes on and on. You probably use Chinese-origin tech every single day, without even realizing it!

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