Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Don't know why this was downvoted. Superdetermination is indeed unfalsifiable, because the "super" part means that there does not exist anything that has been not determined, including our thoughts, this comment and someone r
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> If the most incentivised lifecycle is to seek VC investment to make a non-susitainable product in the hope of being acquired and swallowed into The Borg and shut down, we still end up with less good products. "Aim for the moon so
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I was "taught" to touch wires with the back of your hand so that if it's live you don't clamp down on them with muscle spasms. I mean their are better measures, but it seems like a good idea if you had to touch them wi
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> Why would they need to be recreated? Windows ports of vim and emacs exist I think you are missing the point here. It's not about litterally rewriting them, but about copying their design. It'd be nice to see a new advanced te
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I mean for many of them being wealthy with global warming’s consequences is better than being peasants in a better world. There are no incentives for them to cooperate. The sooner we accept that they won’t go willingly, the better for our f
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Vagrant is a dev tool, it’s not mission critical no company will pay for it. Could see a community effort with Patreon. Basically, if it doesn’t deploy into production corporate won’t pay for it.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
What is left of the big Hashicorp products? Has Consul been forked seriously by anyone?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
The Moscovy stealing "Rus" identity. FTFY
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Well the error message claims that they are infringing copyright. It very well could be that they are within their rights if the initial license/contract stipulated that they would only service the trains in their authorised locations.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I mean... that seems like a reasonable price to pay if we can get rid of nature killing pollution and potentially species ending global warming. That's just me.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Honestly I was surprised with how during the shutdowns we were still able to produce everything we needed. There were no food or power shortages. Wild animals started to return to cities. It demonstrated that most economic activity is reall
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
To be clear, Unicode fully supports APL, even if ASCII does not: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols#Monad...
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Perhaps we were too greedy (or naive?) with the peace dividend. I'm reminded of how slashing spending on R&D always looks wise for the first few years, and then it is calamitous. I think this war is really those kinds of problems c
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
They bought it already. It’s called an “architectural license. Probably not necessary for just the instruction set but I’m sure there are patents and trademarks involved that mean you wouldn’t want to go forward without them.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Device drivers aren't really relevant to servers and cloud instances which I had in mind where power savings and TCO rule. But yes, for consumer electronics it's a whole other story.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Considering how most of the software we run is open source, I don't think legacy support is that important. I think lots of organizations would be happy to switch for 10% improvement in performance or power. Open source could really fa
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Why the custom arch? If building a CPU is a challenge, then supporting an entire toolchain and ecosystem for it is a whole other level of complexity that isn't necessary or helpful. Moving from being pure MIPS only makes sense if there
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
It is exciting to have more competition in the CPU space. While it is currently possible to build a non-x86-64 desktop class computer, all the current options are really expensive (looking at you Talos). It would be nice to have more archit
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> But at some point you're going to have to give up this notion that population density can be made infinite. Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore would like to have a word with you.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Is there any product that you can just plug a monitor and keyboard into and have a dumb terminal? Something much more dedicated and less than a RaspberryPi which is overkill for something so simple.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I really hope at some point he stops writing and speed sketches the rest of the "book" so that it can be completed after his inevitable passing at the level of his vision. --- PS- not to be "that guy" but I do think that
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Anyone using Guix? I've been looking at both recently and Guix really seems more put together. (and yes, for practical purposes you need to add the non-free repositories).
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I strongly doubt it’s the people who read the guide. It’s the people who learn about it from word of mouth that produce Jira-driven behemoths. Really, try the guide. It’s minimal.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
That’s my point. Keep the guide, ditch the ecosystem. You don’t have to use Rails, Boost, Spring, or Scrum-XP-Rational-Waterfall. Sometimes back to the basics of the tool is needed, but don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> hating most of Scrum I'll just say that if you look at Scrum itself there is really nothing objectionable to it. https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html It's the other shit people pack on top of calling it
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I think that is a choice because privacy is more established in constitutional law than autonomy. Note that privacy was the mechanism for Wade v Roe.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Well as long as the interconnect isn't proprietary we can work around that. Yes, maybe it means installing a battery in the cargo basket. Less convenient? Yup. But the bike will still work and that's a trade-off you can make witho
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I mean Total Annihilation pioneered that concept and Spring RTS started as an open source clone of Total Annihilation so definitely some Spring RTS mods do, and Zero-K almost certainly does.
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This is a tragedy as some of my favourite talks were from there (watched via YouTube for me).
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> Yeah I wish the Great Books or a similar "classical liberal arts education" would make a comeback, Being a better citizen does not result (directly) in a bigger economy and all educational institutions are under pressure to d

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