Longlius

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by Longlius 3y ago
The issue is that the convention in many languages is that the name order depends on the origin of the name in question. In Japanese for example, native Japanese names are always spoken in Family-Given order but English names are always spo
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by Longlius 3y ago
Yeah they can have folks trained up a year from now assuming they can fill the spots immediately. For the next year or so, they'll probably be far below capacity.
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by Longlius 3y ago
Yeah the main thing I've found helps is if there's a regular Teams/Zoom meeting where everyone just pops in for like 30 min to ask questions. Then you can use that as the springpad to launch into one-on-one sessions. You do n
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by Longlius 3y ago
>However you could argue that ALL loadable kernel modules are violating the GPL equally Except most loadable kernel modules are in the kernel source tree and available under the GPL.
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by Longlius 3y ago
This is one of the things that always got me. People always seem to act like Woz is just too nice to be outraged on his own behalf or something, and we need to do it for him. Woz is a smart guy and a definite people person. He likely knew w
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by Longlius 3y ago
This has been a fight going back to the 90s at least when consumers first got their hands on high-grade encryption and the US government tried to backdoor it. It failed. And it has consistently failed whenever the alphabets try to bring it
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by Longlius 3y ago
I'm not sure why "mathematically impossible" is in quotes in the article. It is, in fact, mathematically impossible.
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by Longlius 3y ago
I got the new Pangolin12 a few months ago and it was a bit of a nightmare. USB-C with alt-dp was completely nonfunctional (the USB hardware would constantly reset and all my external storage would be unmounted and remounted and ethernet ove
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by Longlius 3y ago
My experience with System76 laptops has been mixed. Some of their models are great, many are fraught with issues. I would definitely not buy one if you're not in North America as there's a decent chance you'll need hardware s
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by Longlius 3y ago
An A press is an A press, you can't say it's only half!
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by Longlius 3y ago
> Things like doorbells/thermostats/light switches I'm not too worried about because they don't have network effects Until the government comes in and mandates you need such and such light switch/thermostat/
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by Longlius 3y ago
Windows has basically already been relegated to an OS I run on a PC dedicated just for gaming. I do all my serious computing on a mac now and my windows PC is a glorified game console.
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by Longlius 3y ago
I believe LLVM was chosen because it was easier to make new compilers to work with it. GCC's intermediate representation was a bit of a mess for a long time and from what I understand, Apple did not find GCC's Objective-C support
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by Longlius 3y ago
The main reason why reddit works as a platform is because its mods and subreddit regulars do a lot of unpaid work. Where is reddit going to find enough people to work for free on such short notice?
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by Longlius 3y ago
I don't think de-dollarization is particularly pushed by places like China. From the Chinese perspective, dollarization is a good thing because it means they can engage in intl trade without needing to open up their domestic currency a
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by Longlius 3y ago
How did you read that from what I said? The people who would benefit most from de-dollarization would be the US working class working in manufacturing, agriculture, and primary product exports because suddenly their labor would be cost-comp
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by Longlius 3y ago
What is frequently lost in these discussions is what reserve currency status costs the US - namely in having an overvalued currency. This the primary reason why US labor is not cost competitive with the rest of the world except in the hig
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by Longlius 3y ago
The UN is not a government. It is a mostly voluntary organization that exists purely so we never end up in a situation like we did in 1914 or 1939 where the countries of the world are just not at table talking to each other. Yes, the UN doe
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by Longlius 3y ago
I like how the one thing Hacker News can agree upon is that the tax prep software business is unabashed rent-seeking.
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by Longlius 3y ago
> China itself (apart from rising costs) isn't really the entity causing this despite what the narrative may sound from US media. China has been literally abducting foreign workers and you think the fact that companies want to leave
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by Longlius 3y ago
I think it's good, but I really wish the solution was, "We need parents to take a more active role in their children's lives and supervise their internet usage" and not, "Lockdown and de-anonymize the web."
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by Longlius 3y ago
It also creates a world where developers who have created code and specifically protected it with copyleft licenses to ensure that derivative works always remain a public good are having their rights laundered away via LLMs. I fully expect
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by Longlius 3y ago
There's a somewhat famous (possibly apocryphal?) story about the USSR's campaign to get its hand on American minicomputers to reverse engineer. The CIA would intercept shipments they suspected were being sold to the Soviets and fi
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by Longlius 3y ago
I dunno why there's such an inordinate focus on changing the FSF. The FSF is what it is. It feels like instead of going another ten rounds with the leadership, it'd be more productive for the detractors of the FSF to simply make t
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by Longlius 3y ago
There's nothing wrong with chain of trust. There's everything wrong with the end user not being allowed to choose which chain of trust to allow.
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by Longlius 4y ago
What does a natural nuclear reactor have to do with a nuclear weapon? There's almost no connection between the two.
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by Longlius 4y ago
I imagine some form of this will eventually take place but it's going to get ugly - retirees have far higher rates of political participation than young people and will fight tooth and nail to protect their wealth.
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by Longlius 4y ago
Remember how prices exploded when we had supply chain problems last year? Labor is not exempt from supply and demand, and an individual's baked-in demand for labor doesn't decline just because they retire (in fact, in a lot of way
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by Longlius 4y ago
I would expect any sufficiently powerful macro system would have to be this way. Don't most editors ask you whether or not you want to trust some code before opening it with full privileges anyway?
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by Longlius 4y ago
It is incapable of reasoning, actually - at least in this case. It has no internal understanding of chess which is why it makes illegal moves.

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