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by 2143 5y ago
Let me add that this is scheduled to be completed on 31 December 2999, which is nearly 1000 years from now. It began on 1 January 2000.
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(I'm hoping you wouldn't be downvoted/flagged into oblivion by the time I'm done with drafting and sending this). > Good to announce your cheerful complicity in mass murder on here so we know not to take you seriously
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Team-BHP. It's a car enthusiasts' website in India. Their forums section[1] is phenomenal. Their official new car reviews [2] page is thorough. There are owner-reviews of most cars as well [3] (like for instance there's a doz
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by 2143 5y ago
iPod. (Yes the underlying tech exists, but I'm talking about the device itself.) I think Apple still makes them in some places, though I'm not sure why anybody would buy it today. But if Apple continues to make them, I suppose the
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by 2143 5y ago
Rust is rather low level, yet it offers memory safety. > One is that I wanted to pay homage to many great programmers who wrote industry-pushing software in C. Some of those great programmers might probably have chosen other languages if
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> Moreso, they are unable to develop technology to eliminate us, while we can develop technology to eliminate them. Wow. Just, wow. I hope you realize that that's a dangerous line of thinking. But then again it's not very surp
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by 2143 5y ago
It's cool that you're doing this. Why not Rust?
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Thanks for clearing that up :)
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Isn't it ironic that in the name of inclusiveness, certain words are excluded? > I don't want to see the Americanisation (or worse, San Franciscoisation) of all Western cultures. I've started observing that fixes for Ameri
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> I've only ever heard it said about eliminating the single largest source of death in human history. Let's take a step back. What makes you think human lives are worthier than mosquito lives?
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by 2143 5y ago
I haven't used it extensively, but the X1 carbon impressed me. Where I live the X1 carbon is crazy expensive though — even more expensive than well spruced Macbooks. The newer M1 Macbooks have impressed me. Though I love Linux, I don&#
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by 2143 5y ago
Since you were seeking laptops I imagine you're fine with the computing power laptops usually offer. I recently purchased a ThinkPad E14 gen 3. It has a 6 core 12 thread Ryzen 5 5600U, with 24 GB of memory (8 GB soldered + 16 GB I inst
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by 2143 5y ago
> Canada accepts _at least_ 500,000 people per year through various channels, "temporary" foreign workers, international students (many of whom stay), refugees, and of course, normal immigration. And I am low balling that numbe
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by 2143 5y ago
When the wealthy of the world buy land in USA, isn't their wealth from abroad getting transferred into USA? That's foreign money coming in to USA. Technically, that's a good thing for the country as a whole.
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In principle I agree with what you say, but I'd like to make a more fine grained distinction. If the website is just static content, go for static-site generation. If it's a webapp, where you have some interactions but there'
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by 2143 5y ago
> If an online retailer already has your payment info and shipping details, it is trivial to offer a one-click experience, is it not? I'll add that some countries now have rules that prohibit retailers from storing the payments info
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Really? I bought it back in 2018 from USA and back then all the pieces seemed to be there. The print quality is fine for my copy atleast though I understand if it isn't as much as what you paid for. But then again textbooks (and colleg
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by 2143 5y ago
How about a really cheap Kindle version as well? (I don't know much about selling on Amazon so I don't even know if this is a viable suggestion). > And don't believe that people who have a free copy will never buy a formal
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by 2143 5y ago
I'm in a similar boat; while not as powerful as the new Macs, on a whim I recently bought a ThinkPad Ryzen 5 (one with 6 cores) with 24 gigs of memory. Running Linux. (To be fair my existing personal laptop was 8 years old and I was ge
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by 2143 5y ago
I agree that Mac is much better out of the box. And nearly everything "just works". I like Macs, though my personal machine is currently the latest Fedora Beta running on a ThinkPad. It's too early to tell if there are issues
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by 2143 5y ago
> That is not the case with car I felt like private cars (the ones that are not taxi/commercial) just stay in one place the majority of its lifetime. Pre-covid, I had a 45 minute commute. The other 22.5 hours my car just stayed in o
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by 2143 5y ago
The only real deal breaker for me is the package management system on Mac.
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by 2143 5y ago
I thought Mint came with Cinnamon. (Wow that was a funny sentence :D) > macOS can use different backgrounds for different monitors, GNOME can't That'd be the least of my problems. Also, on xfce you can set different backgrounds
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by 2143 5y ago
The rest of the world might notice the price increase. And if the price increases too much, it might be reduce the market share from overseas even further.
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Yes. TeuxDeux. I knew this app looks exactly like something else I've seen before, but I couldn't recall the name. However, I don't consider this to be a copy of TeuxDeux because there's nothing particularly revolutionar
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The Submarine (2005)(paulgraham.com)
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> India started buying when it didn't need to . EU is dependent on that oil and gas (Eastern Europe was forced on that dependency, Westerners stupidly joined) - e.g. cars will stop on streets, people will freeze in houses Do you thi
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"Is there a software engineer on board?" (similar to "is there a doctor on board?")
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> Damn avionics ran on Windows NT OMG. I thought for things where human lives are acutely at stake they audit every single line of code. I mean, Windows has a known history of crashes and freezes and things like that. I'd trust som
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> I realize my perception is skewed by living outside the US I too live outside the US, and never use SMS for communicating with another human. It's all WhatsApp/Signal etc. WhatsApp is ubiquitous. I'm curious — do America

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