Gormo

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by Gormo 2mo ago
> The president and his cronies are openly immune to any recourse from the law at the moment. How do you reconcile that proposition with the observable reality of the courts routinely blocking the current administration's excesses?
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Not everyone is on board with the idea of HTTP being the exclusive universal IPC bus.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> If someone thinks abortion is illegal because it's against right to life. So bombing abortion clinics is justified. Is that how this works? No, that's definitely not how it works, and your example clearly doesn't compare
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Defender of the Crown I see a lot of DotC influence in Paradox's grand strategy games. Especially so when playing CK2 or CK3 in the British Isles.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Putting the numpad on the left is actually a potentially great idea. It lets you keep your right hand on the mouse or arrow keys, while entering numbers with your left, rather than having to switch your right hand between them constantly.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Looks much more Amiga/ST inspired to me. Apple never had a "wedge" form factor Mac, and the OS design seems to be both named after and visually reminiscent of the Amiga's. The command key and use of Homebrew seem to be
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by Gormo 2mo ago
What does what they say have to do with it? If memory manufacturers believed that elevated demand were likely to persist indefinitely, expanding supply to reach the optimal market-clearing price is exactly what taking advantage of the
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by Gormo 2mo ago
It seems that both your article and OP's are clearly stating that the suspect was not indicted, and that the charges were correspondingly dropped, and are entirely consistent with each other. Can you point out where you are seeing a co
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by Gormo 2mo ago
And are able to capitalize on the fact that some voters are more afraid of terrible outcome A than terrible outcome B, and others are the reverse, to shoehorn both A and B into policy.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Approval voting is reasonable, but a ranked-choice ballot with either IRV or a Condorcet tabulation would be better. Proportional representation would be catastrophically worse than the status quo.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
The comment you're responding to didn't formulate the argument as "I am against [X], therefore I am justified in destroying property used to do [X]", but is rather closer "[X] is itself illegal and therefore I am
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by Gormo 2mo ago
From what I'm seeing online, it looks like Houston started installing Flock cameras in 2022. How were they investigating kidnapping cases before that? I'd be astonished if decades of methodology and infrastructure for investigati
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Backwards means backwards. Sure. Just as the people walking away from the cliff edge are literally going "backwards" in relation to the folks whose trajectory will take them off the cliff. You can make whatever comparison yo
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Not relevant to the point I was making at all - the state running digital payments is no more an incentive to stop cash payments than Visa/MC. Yes, it is. The state acting as a direct intermediary for all transactions creates new
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Even worse. Now your headphones cost 10-15x as much, consist of a collection of small standalone parts that are easy to lose, need to be recharged, and can't be easily interchanged between audio sources.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
But why would I bother with a dongle to compensate for a problem I can just avoid in the first place by not buying a phone without an audio jack?
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by Gormo 2mo ago
It's also extremely expensive. I'm more interested on seeing the next iteration of the PinePhone to fulfill the full Linux phone dream. In the meantime, commodity Android phones are still good enough.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Using a dongle makes it impossible to charge the phone or connect it to any other device while using audio, which I do all the time. I also frequently interchange my wired earbuds between my phone and laptop, and don't want to be bothe
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by Gormo 2mo ago
No standard audio jack? That's a dealbreaker for me, especially for something touting modularity, repairability, and user control.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> That can be massive benefit or a dystopian nightmare depending on the people in charge, That just resolves to "dystopian nightmare", then. Any system whose proper functioning is dependent on always having the right people in
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by Gormo 2mo ago
You're motte-and-baileying here. Arguing that there are natural/desirable monopolies for government to possess in certain high-risk cases does not automatically translate into an argument that it's desirable for governments
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> The end result is private entities taking money out of the system at some stage, How is it possible to take money out of the system? Those private organizations are just participants in the commercial economy, right?
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by Gormo 2mo ago
No, the previous commenter is absolutely correct that cash transactions offer decentralization and anonymity far greater than Visa or MasterCard.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> I don’t want international private companies controlling payments, better have my own elected government manage it. The ideal of course is decentralized payment systems with no middlemen, but if there are going to be middlemen, a compe
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by Gormo 2mo ago
In 2026 "backward" is a dysphemism for "reliable". Not sure what's making you shudder about carrying a payment instrument that doesn't need its batteries charged, doesn't need to run firmware or an OS, d
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by Gormo 2mo ago
But that's always been the case. Phoenix and AMI have been the dominant BIOS providers for over 30 years. Both have always provided modular tookits for OEMs to customize their own ROM images, write their own ACPI tables, etc. UEFI
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Back in the early 2000s, we were encouraging all of our friends and family still using AOL to come over to the open web. Little did we know that they'd provide the impetus for the open web to gradually turn into a new version of AOL.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
There are probably mitigations they could come up with, but variable latency in actually obtaining files seems like it may be an inherent characteristic of requesting data by content hashes rather than specific locations.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Dario acknowledges that AI is structurally centralizing but attributes this mainly to chips and scaling laws. Is that a correct idea to acknowledge in 2026, with the proliferation of open-weight models hitting an inflection point, and
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by Gormo 2mo ago
A one time pad would have a finite number of uses available, which could lead to logistical complexity if it was being used as a primary auth mechanism. The card actually makes sense, as it amounts to a physical artifact that implements a u

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