Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
I think a lot of things he listed in how things currently are (under "Upstream Projects") are either wrong or overblown. For instance, the claim that the Linux packaging scheme doesn't work for proprietary, closed-source soft
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>You think so little of your fellow countrymen that you don't trust them to receive information from sources other than the government? He clearly said that he was Canadian. I'm American, and my countrymen just elected someone
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Maybe it's different in SanFran/SV, and likely very different in trendy start-ups, but in my ~15 years of working in the private sector in big, medium-sized, and small companies, I never once was even invited to a happy hour after
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>During that same meeting, we gave “anonymous feedback” on Post-it notes. She read off each Post-it and addressed each person that wrote the “anonymous feedback” if she knew who it was. She has done this multiple times, and each time it
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by Arizhel 10y ago
So you think people in Mosul who refuse to fight for ISIS, and violently resist them, are traitors? Nice to know that you support terrorism. And before you try the "ISIS isn't a government" BS line, the same logic applies to
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No one still uses Unix applications from the 1970s. Lots of people still use Windows applications with the limitations mentioned here, either because they refuse to give up their 1990s Windows applications, or the weird little ISVs refuse t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Linux has the same thing, called WINE. It already works quite well, and if they had access to the Windows and Win32 source code and a staff of full-time developers, it'd work flawlessly. An API translation layer doesn't prove tha
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Did you miss the part about it being helpful for restoring GI function after a bad disease? Things like dysentery and cholera were pretty common before modern times. An organism that can recover from diseases like this is going to live lo
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What's really astounding is reading that, and looking at the dates. He first formulated this rule in 1955 . And he's still working and making real contributions! We really need to work on greatly extending human lifespans, if f
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Phones do not have square millimeters to spare. Actually, they do, when you're replacing the battery with one with 3 times the energy density. Use some of the saved space for your DC-DC converter.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Also, removable batteries and the audio jack get in the way of dust/water proofing. My Samsung Galaxy S5 proves you wrong on this. >Why do you want a giant, useless, 100+ year old analog port on your 2017 device? 3.5mm jacks are
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by Arizhel 10y ago
If this thing really has significantly higher volumetric energy efficiency than existing Li-ion batteries, then it's already good enough to be used in cellphones, at least according to me. I don't care if it's 2.5x heavier;
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Or, perhaps, in 1 million years, humans will evolve to be significantly less-intelligent aquatic animals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_%28novel%29
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Windows 10 already sorted out the filename limitations. No, it hasn't. Filenames are still case-insensitive (and in a terrible way, where it seems to remember how they were first typed but that can never be changed), backslashes a
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That's not true. Windows in particular is greatly limited by past design choices, such as filename limitations, the security model, the fact that many programs have to be run as administrator because that's how they were written
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Linux is not a monolithic system. It has a monolithic (sorta) kernel. There's a big difference. You're arguing monolithic kernels vs. microkernels. Microkernels didn't even exist when UNIX was invented, so no, they are no
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This is incorrect. People did indeed think appendices were just useless throwbacks for a long time, but more recently the medical community recognizes their usefulness. They're basically like a first-level bootloader for the GI syste
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. The problem here is that there aren't a
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That's still slavery, because some fraction of them doesn't want to serve. So if there's any punishment for refusing to serve, or for deserting, then it's slavery. If there's no punishment, or if they're allo
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No, it's not. It is utterly impossible for the government to defend the nation without soldiers. It's also impossible for the government to create soldiers out of thin air; they have to come from the populace (or hire foreign me
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by Arizhel 10y ago
They don't, that's kinda the point. The idea is to place the blame on the people.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>If you're proposing higher pay for soldiers, then you go from an army of slaves to an army of mercenaries. Is that such a bad thing? I'd rather have an army of mercenaries any day over an army of slaves. The mercenaries are
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Actual terrorists generally aren't deterred by the threat of prison. You're talking about people willing to blow themselves up; they're not worried about prison.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I believe one of the driving factors behind individual military success in theater (aka war), in addition to protecting your peers and pride, is that urge to finish the fight so you can get home. Having Burger King and Subway stifles th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Now imagine you're a country with less than 10% of the population and need to produce a force of 200k soldiers in order to have a credible deterrent against an aggressive neighbor. How do you do that without conscription? Just go w
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>YMMV. If you need legal advice, retain a lawyer. So I need to find a lawyer and pay him $1000+ so I can see if GitHub is safe to use? I guess I'll just stick with storing projects on my computer at home and skip this cloud-based st
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Now you're acting like the geologist on Mars doesn't have a radio to talk to all his colleagues back on Earth. Yes, NASA has made mission changes post-launch, but these are usually simple changes, consisting basically of single or
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Unlikely. All the European cars I've seen also have the signals on the left stalk. However, this is the US, where the steering wheel is also on the left. It sounds like your car cheaped out and kept the same control layout for both L
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yes, but this is major evidence of short-sighted thinking. If you're resorting to using a silly marketing campaign to convince people worldwide to come apply for jobs in your city, you have a serious problem already with a lack of ski
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Given that they're apparently so desperate that they're resorting to this ridiculous tactic ("come interview in NZ and we'll pay for the trip for you!", something that used to be totally standard here in the US and

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