CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
It's funny how by now, you know some xkcd numbers by heart.... Me, I'm a typical 386.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
AIUI "DOGE" doesn't even have any staff of its own (yet?), does it? Except maybe Elon and possibly some other techbroligarchs at the very top.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Who said assassination? Could be that someone convinces him to stop behaving as erratically as he does. (Yeah, doesn't feel all that realistic...) Or someone who finally manages to convince the American public that he isn't a hero
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by CRConrad 2y ago
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946281
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, I think that was the GP's point: Then it either isn't "a national treasure", or it needs to be bought by the state.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
He mentions this being a follow-up to a similar earlier post: https://chriskiehl.com/article/thoughts-after-6-years . HN discussions on that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25887373 (4 years
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I think Fichtel & Sachs first came up with this idea [two gear internal hubs - CRC] in the 1970s Not sure, but it feels older than that to me: ISTR riding bikes in the 1970s (and later) that had them, and those bikes felt far from
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> 1890 returns while the rest is asleep. Typo on the year; it was about 1 98 0 that the air traffic controllers were last the target of presidential threats.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Eh, what? No, it is -- or at least used to be -- the other way around. Features are what the programmer puts in the actual application code. "Feature flags" are a (new-ish) way of making the transfer from older to newer versions o
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"Community" is not the same as "nation state". Maybe getting the two concepts confused is why you seem not to have quite grasped at least one of them.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> What you’re saying is that there’s this key organ of government—the “non-political civil service”—with independent responsibilities exercising their best judgment, that somehow isn’t even mentioned in the constitution! You're sayi
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by CRConrad 2y ago
So... Where do you stand on the 2nd Amendment on gun control, and why? (Yes, trust me, it is relevant.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> And Trump won the popular vote. Not in the 2016 election he didn't. (And AIUI the last one is beginning to look a lot closer than first assumed, too.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> You could probably get away with it if you can find someone who moved abroad and forgot to notify the authorities. Even then, you'd have a really hard time getting a new passport or ID card in their name. And if they'd moved
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That's a valid concern, but only for a rather infinitesimal minority of people. Pretty much the definition of a "corner case", so rather irrelevant on the whole.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> "Appears to make gesture" "Appears"??? It's on fucking videotape! Are you saying his arm was actually down by his side all the time, and it just "appears" as if he's raising it? (Perspective?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It may be falling short of what you think it should be. It may not be falling short of what you think it should be. > A bunch of the rest of us don't think that, though. And if a bunch of us do think that, what then? &g
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> What are you referring to as the LoC triple classification? Lines of actually working code; lines of commented-out inactive code; lines of explanatory comments. HTH! Naah, gotcha, the other "LoC"... But only got it on about
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yes, it is. Yours.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
A mere dozen years. Kids nowadays, the attention span of a fruit fly...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The attempt at the "GNU OS" failed No it didn't: GNU / Linux is a huge success.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> But it's so ingrained into our heads that shell is "too hard" that people... ...That people apparently don't even try to learn bash. It isn't really all that hard.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I hope you get to a friendlier, more enlightened place in your life where you no longer feel the need to retreat from your lack of an actual argument into supercilious snark disguised as patronising benevolence.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Also, the core of systemd is not even particularly big. People often mix into completely optional modules So how "optional" are those modules in practice -- how many systems run just the init core of systemd and not the who
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Your choice of word (spread/ingrain itself) seems to imply there is malicious intent. Software do not sneak itself into distribution by themselves. No, you're right: It's people that do that. And those definitely can hav
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The problem is that if the only complaint with systemd is that it's too complex As I understand it, that isn't the only, nor even the main, complaint with systemd. On the contrary, the main complaint with systemd is that, l
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Ah, yes indeed, seems I'd misread it; sorry. (Sheesh, WTF is that guy talking about??? Now not only "feature flag" doesn't mean anything any more, but "hardcoded" doesn't either!)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Fully native allows you to choose to have no runtime, or a garbage collector, Are you quite sure of that? I think you're getting stuff mixed up here. AFAICS, a native-compiled language might very well have mandatory garbage collec
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> So if all your distrust is about how Microsoft made you install big updates I don’t know... What you don't seem to know is what I actually wrote, that you replied to: That was not about "distrust of Microsoft", but a qu
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If you don’t like the toxicity of Microsoft in windows 11, why were you okay with it with Windows 10? Who says I was? It just came with the computers I bought / was given by my employer(s) in recent years. But they'd said tha

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