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901.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Makes you wonder how the web would be if 'Do Not Track' and other standard methods of signalling user preference were enforceable.
902.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
> The inhibition is also likely to make me discuss things that will give others a negative opinion of me (over sharing, etc.). The 'liquid courage' brings out the inner chum for too many of us. Which, I think, is simply a sign
903.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
If I may share a personal anecdote, I went through a lot before I even had the courage to do this. Then one of those chance encounters with strangers led to a great friendship. So I'm commenting to verify your story. Though I need to d
904.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
It is a shame to watch the decline of Windows. There isn't much I can recommend to non-technical users looking affordable computing relatively under their control. Manipulation and user hostility is unacceptable. Any of these possibili
905.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Interesting points, and I concur. The best takeaway from university was some of the friends and connections, in both cases as involved in the same field as I am. Good people to know. Though, I'm sure the need for good friends and conne
906.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
When I was a child, I had a reverent wonder for technology and all it might do in the future. Realisations like this replaced that with a dry cynicism. My inner child is disappointed.
907.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Easily done. The ROI aren't as different from the the UK as they like to think.
908.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
> http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.com/2018/06/space-trucker... Both the film and that blog's stylesheet are the embodiment of 'so bad it has to be good'.
909.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Sometimes human livestock is cheaper than automation, especially when the value of life is cheapened. As an example, slave societies don't have industrial revolutions because there's never a need to invest in labour-saving devices
910.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Your comment echoes the film 'Interstellar' and I now have a desire to watch it again. Who says science can't fill the soul with wonder?
911.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
> Whilst we sympathise with the government’s desire to show action in this space and to do something about children’s safety (everyone’s safety really), we cannot possibly agree with the methods. Respectfully, stop sympathising with auth
912.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
> Amazingly badly written You know they want ambiguity. It means MPs can dismiss objectors as irrational slippery slope proponents. Then when it's appended to the statute books it only takes a few judgements to 'clarify'
913.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Is/Has there been much interest in doing this at Mozilla? More people using their renderer is good for them in the long run.
914.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Start a petition to release the source code. Let's do a Linux port.
915.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
As has been said elsewhere, anarchism means 'without rulers' and anarcho-capitalism fits this definition as it strives to remove the state, while individuals will retain their property rights. Private and voluntary institutions (b
916.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
I've built Firefox on NetBSD. I wonder how many patches are required for it. Presumably the use of rust is a dependency that needs fulfilled for building FF. Looks like there has been some work on getting rust to play with Haiku at bot
917.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
It depends where you land on the semantics vs etymology debate. Well, we'll agree not to coerce anyone to adopt a particular definition. ;)
918.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Some ancaps prefer the term 'voluntaryist' to describe their position. Though I think it is fair to call Anarcho-capitalism a form of anarchism because it posits no state and no rulers, though laws would still exist.
919.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
DOS is in there too. I wonder what else lies among the depths? Quite the achievement to have written software that is still in use and discussed 36 years later.
920.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
GNU Docs are usually quite good. I learnt how to write Makefiles from the horse's mouth.
921.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
Personally, most gifts I've given or received have been items which I didn't need and not at any great cost. I still gave them to a person of my choosing. So when dead and in need of nothing, one's wishes to give to a particu
922.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
It's also an extension of basic property rights. An owner of property may will it to whomever he pleases on the event of his passing. It's no different from simply gifting property while alive.
923.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
Your literalism is correct. I suppose we can swap 'mail' for payments/cryptocurrency to bring it up to date.
924.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
I.e., Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
925.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
The interiors are reminiscent of the Black Mesa Research Facility. Undoubtedly a resonance cascade is less preferable to a meltdown, though neither are good for human lifespans.
926.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
Hah, another disaster at the hands of Tony Blair. No wonder they are cursed. Smart™ Motorways are an appalling idea no matter who proposed them. The current government should reverse the idea. Transport is meant to enhance life, not to end
927.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
I've plugged in SNES cartridges that are 30 years old and the save data still persists. I'm guessing they got the same man who designed the everlasting Casio digital watch battery to design those.
928.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
> The memes took a great step forward when they invented writing – and then printing, and then other forms of communication, from railways and ships to fax machines. The important concepts of copy-the-product versus copy-the-instruction
929.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
The cover could pass as Meme Man's slightly more rendered cousins.
930.
by HeckFeck 6y ago
Pleasure to meet you too. > I suggest you are incorrect to assert that "no one is entitled to my CPU time." Very well, please elaborate. I'm always up to delve deeper into reason and philosophy (time-permitting of course).

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