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by 0815test 7y ago
The "Linux" kernel even in something like LineageOS is heavily forked and in practically every case relies on userspace binary blobs for critically-important functionality. It's a far cry from what you can run on PC's,
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by 0815test 7y ago
Data is defined by behavior, even for "plain old" types. The point of "objects" is that sometimes you can implement the very same behavior in ways that are essentially isomorphic from the POV of your outside code, and
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by 0815test 7y ago
The social media account costs $0. If you actually want to play at being a social media "influencer" online and reaching strangers to a non-trivial extent, you'll definitely be looking at some real costs.
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by 0815test 7y ago
These issues aren't solved with "social welfare and safety nets", that's just throwing good money after bad. I'm totally fine with a kick-ass safety net for people who are actually in poverty , aka have trouble fun
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by 0815test 7y ago
Windows is a tolerable touch OS because at least it has a touch mode. Linux (GTK+3 at least) is a lot better of course, even though this does involve a bit of a disadvantage for pure keyboard+mouse users.
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by 0815test 7y ago
We should go back to system color (usually medium grey) as the default background for webpages. Not sure why more recent browsers have replaced it w/ white, this makes for pretty poor usability/accessibility.
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by 0815test 7y ago
Forget about upgrading - they could just press the Turbo button on that 286. That's what it's there for!
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by 0815test 7y ago
Hey, let's not get orangutans into this. They're pretty chill and tolerant, not really known for their antics-- Maher should apologize to them, since he was so unfair as to suggest that Trump might share any commonality with such
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Maybe we need to retreat from the idea of the nuclear family altogether, and raise children in extended families or even communities I don't think this will work very well. Extended families are one thing, and people can and do ma
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by 0815test 7y ago
And yet the Chinese are successfully using real actual Scientific Socialism ("with Chinese characteristics" - but Scientific Socialism nonetheless!) to raise hundreds of millions of their fellow countrymen from the most extreme
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by 0815test 7y ago
If you don't like the current maintainers' policy on "future project direction", you can always fork the project. Yes, this involves an increased maintenance burden since you need to actively review what the upstream is
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by 0815test 7y ago
Do people really 'get punished' for believing, e.g. financial conspiracy theories? I really have to dispute this. People believe (or rather, affect a belief) in these things because they get socially rewarded from holding&#x2F
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by 0815test 7y ago
The stance that "the world is arbitrary and makes no sense" is itself far from uncontroversial! Indeed, the very term "modern world" suggests that our world (in contrast with the "pre-modern" one) does derive m
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by 0815test 7y ago
> the major complaint around these authors is that they seem to just tear down the “grand narratives” of the past without showing the way to a better future. IME the main complaint is that they seemingly operate from a standpoint that t
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by 0815test 7y ago
"Social pressure" comes in many varieties. Many, perhaps even most, extremist positions aren't sustained by truth seeking based on perceived evidence, but by 'evaporative cooling' of fringe social groups, pushing th
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by 0815test 7y ago
It's "there", it's just not official anymore. AFAICT, Debian has no such thing as different "tiers" for official ports, everything official is at "tier 1" at least wrt. official support (LTS is not w
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by 0815test 7y ago
There are unofficial "non-free" Debian images (both install and live) that contain said non-free firmware, though. And though they're 'unofficial', they may be needed to enable even fairly baseline features on recen
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by 0815test 7y ago
Protip: please don't say "humans" when you can just say 'people', or even 'folks'! It makes you sound a lot more, well, human , and less like a poorly-programmed, clunky robot. Related: https:/&#x2
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by 0815test 7y ago
Rust has excellent support for compile-time codegen.
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by 0815test 7y ago
The real "convergence" is all about bringing the plain old desktop design aesthetic to the smartphone. "Bad network connectivity" is a fiddly modem connection at 300 baud, compared to that what you get on smartphone
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by 0815test 7y ago
wxWidgets is good for cross-platform support on Windows and Mac, but it just wraps GTK+ on Linux. And the native bindings are rather crufty MFC-like C++, I'm not sure that there's even an idiomatic Rust binding just yet.
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by 0815test 7y ago
> You can get along just fine in C++ without knowing the exact aliasing rules from C Nope, you can't. These are exactly the things that introduce undefined behavior (i.e. total breakage) if you aren't very careful about what
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by 0815test 7y ago
It's even better than that. You can grind metal oxides that form a sizeable fraction of Earth's crust and are relatively easy to extract into a sort of "dust" or "sand" that will actively sequester carbon out o
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by 0815test 7y ago
Interesting, but I'm not sure that there's much to this. Just because your response is "socially oriented" doesn't mean you're productively dealing with a stressful situation. I mean, we've all been involv
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by 0815test 7y ago
The commenter says that people residing in some (historically poor) places get subsidized. This can definitely be a cause of density increasing beyond the optimum point. But yes, I would just phase out that system and replace it with somet
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by 0815test 7y ago
Slums are due to insecure property rights, basically. You can't sell the land if you don't have anything approaching formal title to it, and for the same reason you aren't going to invest in high-quality housing or amenities.
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by 0815test 7y ago
Cell<T> (1) is not safe to reference across threads, and (2) can only mutate via the equivalent of a memcpy. It can be useful in many ways, but there is a real sense in which &T and &mut T (which would probably be called &
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by 0815test 7y ago
> That comment seems to imply that we should forgive (or forget) the sexual assault of a slave because she was assaulted by someone who deserves to be celebrated ... I don't think it implies any such thing. It's a reminder that
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by 0815test 7y ago
Rust developers have actually been very cautious about integrating the 'usual' sorts of PL-theory driven features in Rust. The PL theory of Rust-like languages is still in its infancy in many ways, but it has already usefully info
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by 0815test 7y ago
Barry Goldwater had significant reservations about the CRA's constitutionality, that's the only reason he voted against it. And he freely let people use that vote against him, without ever trying in the slightest to make it sou

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