Beltalowda

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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I moved back to my native Netherlands after several years abroad and encountered significant problems with the bureaucracy, more so than in any foreign country I've lived. I don't think it's an expat problem, rather it's
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> The only people who seem to disagree focus on the aesthetics of code over the clarity of explicitly telling the reader your intentions to terminate a statement. Okay, I'll bite. I don't think "aesthetics" and "
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It's not so much about "privacy", IMO. It's about being unreasonably bothered by others for their for-profit content.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Did you see the video in the article? Pushing a microphone like that in someone's face strikes me as an unreasonable invasion of personal space. It's not "asking a question" like you or I would: "excuse me, [...]?&q
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Well, I'm not a HP spokesperson ... if you really want to know then I guess you'll have to find out for yourself.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
git, mercurial, and bazaar were all released at pretty much the same time (within weeks of each other in March/April 2005). AFAIK all in response to the whole Bitkeeper situation at the time. I don't think performance was the main
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Of course, Git won for a reason 1. Linus Torvalds wrote it 2. GitHub 3. Linus Torvalds wrote it To be fair, there are some real differences; e.g. there is no easy "hg rebase" by design, and whether that's a good or bad t
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It includes printers. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Inc.#Current_operations "In fiscal year 2022, total revenue of US$63 billion included US$29.2 billion from the sale of notebook computers, US$10.7 billi
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Your comment implies it will break on anything that's not "Linux on Intel/AMD", but that's not the case. Most architectures are either little-endian or support both little- and big-endian (although not all operating
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
HP made $63 billion in revenue over 2022, with $3.20 billion net income. No way they will file for bankruptcy in 2023. Ridiculous prediction.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I don't think there's any way to register for more than 10 years(?) You still need to rely that the registrar and registry keeps operating for 10 years. For .com and common TLDs you can reasonably rely that it will keep operating
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
By this time humans have evolved to be pure energy creates so we won't need computers any more.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> I think some of the boring-ness is due to manipulation from OpenAI Probably; but that you have to instruct ChatGPT to tell a joke is kind of what I mean. A sufficiently smart ChatGPT should be able to tell if a question makes sense and
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
The EulerOS Linux distro from Huawei was "UNIX® certified" at some point, although I think it expired as it turned out that no one really cared.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
The default motd on OpenBSD is "Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system." You can argue what exactly is or isn't "Unix" until you're blue in the face as there are multiple defini
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I blame Pokémon for this erroneous view of evolution. Your Charmander has evolved in to a Charizard!
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Now that we have the unambiguous Cerutti Mastodon site from 130kya, it might need to be re-evaluated. I don't think you can describe that as "unambiguous"; there is plenty of criticism. The other site you're referri
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Re: your robot example, my first reply would probably be a joke, or a sarcastic response because it's clearly a silly question. "Yes, humans should work for our robot overlords and couches are just a way of slacking off", &qu
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I don't see any rights being taken away from me. CoPilot doesn't copy my code, it just learns from it, just as you can. "Others can learn from this" is one reason I release stuff as open source in the first place. People
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
No, I didn't say that. It holds up for most of history, except for a fairly small window of ~50 years where communication was faster than travel (after that travel was fast enough that almost anywhere was less than 1 month away).
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I've actually had quite a few people positively comment on my unmatched socks, including on dates. I now wear unmatched socks on purpose.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
From what I can find: In 1858 – when the British Raj was established – it took about half a year since you had to go around cape the good hope. After the Suez canal opened in 1869 it took only ~2 months. In the following two decades expansi
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Alexander the Great and the Mongol empire are specifically addressed in the article. Maybe read before "entering the chat"?
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It's a matter of scale and frequency; people were posting significant amount of low-quality nonsense generated by ChatGPT. The average quality of ChatGPT was (is) significantly lower than the average human answer and there were thousan
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> It's the same with banning ChatGPT from StackOverflow: Who cares and who notices? People were posting low-quality rambling bullshit, sometimes completely off-base, without even bothering with the most basic of smell-tests. People
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> The range of possible outcomes is enormous The most likely of which – if this lawsuit ends up winning – is that corporations will have new ways to sue everyone and that the world will be a worse place. Copyright expansion has never ben
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I sometimes do something like: var foo string { // Do stuff // ... foo = "..." } { // Other section... } You can also split stuff up in to sections, but for some kind of fu
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
"Easily treatable" is indeed a bit of a stretch, but the cancer variant Jobs suffered from (pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor) seems to have a ~61% five-year survival rate, so that's significantly better. If you're going t
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I'm not really interested in discussing the truth of religion itself, just the meaning of "forgery" and "authentic" in this context. You don't need to believe any of the religious claims to discus that.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
You can't "scientifically prove" that I didn't write this comment under divine inspiration either. Making unfalsifiable claims is not hard. I guess what you're saying is technically true , but adhering to an extr

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