Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
My apologies, I should have been more deliberate: The cause of peace will be hindered, but this won't entirely be Trump's (or Harris's in another timeline) fault because Biden already missed the boat on this at least two year
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Note: I'm also going to reply to your other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42200520 ) here to save both of us time. First off, this is a war that America (and indeed the west) isn't a direct party to
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>In other words the "new antitrust" is just people who dislike big, successful companies trying to bring them down a peg. Apple is "large and powerful" because it sells products people love. Why is that unjustifiable?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>it's easier to make these criticisms in retrospect. For what it's worth, I've been critical of our (American, subsequently western) response since the first one. Speaking as an American, our response was and still are luk
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Common Ukrainians are increasingly suffering war exhaustion[1], if current trends continue then next year could reach a point that Zelensky might lose popular support all together. This is alongside war-support exhaustion from America. One
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The linked article is just repeating numbers and findings from Gallup: https://news.gallup.com/poll/653495/half-ukrainians-quick-ne...
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>on the cheap Human lives are not "cheap". Sincerely what the fuck, my dude.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think you're not understanding the whole argument: We're not helping Ukraine defend themselves, we're not containing the "imperialistic expansionist nuclear-armed empire". If we were then this war would have ended
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>instead the donations was more like getting rid of older stockpiles, and for some systems moving the modernization schedule up. That is precisely the benefitting of the military industrial complex that I am fed up with. >"its po
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I used to support Ukraine winning the war at any cost (them losing and that result being recognized implies that warmongering is acceptable). However, that war is now in its third year with no end in sight. Our (the west's) response
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The truly sad/crazy part is that most people today still don't expect China to break promises quite so quickly and blatantly. Oh well.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Thanks. The summary seems to be: Google is a big player in many markets, but not a monopoly. And the combination thereof is an unholy abomination. Namely the unholy trinity of Browser + Malvertising + Search. Nothing can compete again
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Malvertising? Yes, malvertising. There is no such thing as non-malicious advertising in this day and age. >Also, have you missed how terrible e.g. Edge is for user privacy? I mean, Edge is Chrome. The only saving grace is that it all
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The most obvious example is malvertising. Chrome is pushing ManifestV3 with extreme prejudice and Youtube pushes ever more malvertising by the day. Why can Google do this? Because there is no competition.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Allow me to break this down: * Google effectively holds a monopoly of the browser market (Chrome). Apple (Safari) only exists because of vendor lock-in, and Mozilla (Firefox) is a vassal state; all "other" browsers are Chrome. * G
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I'm surprised people haven't revisited the Gimp's UI. The most likely reason is the GIMP devs don't consider it a use case.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Most of the open source tools in the embedded space are just a bit crap. Anyone who sincerely thinks GIMP can replace Photoshop or is otherwise good will never understand why professionals eschew open source software when there's
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That's because Windows 11 only comes in 64-bit flavors and Program Manager as bundled with XP would be 32-bit. WoW64[1] can't bridge 64- and 32-bit binaries in the context of system components, such as the shell. Try running that
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Yes, a large part of why Japanese society appears (and in fact performs) so perfect is because of an absolute fear of shame. From the moment you are born you are taught to care about what and how others think and feel about you and your con
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If anything I expect modern software engineering to have significantly higher risks of failure than programmers of ye olde days. Why? The first step today would be installing Discord[1], the second step would be updating code live 420 no sc
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>anything beneath the programs are a means not an end. This. Absolute backwards compatibility is why Windows (particularly Win32) and x86 continue to dominate the desktop market. Users want to run their software and get stuff done, and t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Incidentally, this is why most drivers broadly support 2000/XP (NT5), Vista/7/8/8.1 (NT6), and 10/11 (NT10) in those specific groups.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Tim Cook prefers a different mouse than Apples's own Magic Mouse. >But does it really have to be framed like that? Eating your own dog food is a very important metric of product quality.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Program Manager is a shell and was actually included in Windows all the way through XP SP2 when it was phased out. You can probably run it in Windows Vista through 10 if you copy the .exe over, too.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>By taking down this post, you're acting against everyone's freedom of speech. As far as I understand flagging on Hacker News, everyone's free to flag anything and becomes [flagged] upon receiving enough such flags. So it&
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>My last purchase was a Vivobook S(15?), and even with the discount I regret it to this day. I have an ASUS Vivobook S14 with an Intel i7 12700H, so about 3 years old at this point. I love it, runs Windows 11 (and the games I play) just
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
What Britain doesn't have geographically is more than compensated with what they do have politically. Again: The familial ties and friends. The era we live in right now is Pax Americana, the United States is top dog. But so long as the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>You're changing your arguments whenever I address the previous one. Have you noticed? Nope, I already pointed out the study is speculative bullshit: The axiom is "potential algorithmic bias around July 13, 2024". "P
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Heck, Lancelot was a self-insert hero, that came during a renaissance around the myths. The way I understand it, the French also loved the tale(s) of King Arthur but hated that they didn't have a role in it because Anglo/Fre

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