Taywee

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by Taywee 3y ago
A sales tax of any sort can be avoided by not buying the product. I assumed nobody would misinterpret the common colloquial term "Apple tax" (meaning "Apple's much higher than typical profit margin"), which I didn&#
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by Taywee 3y ago
I would love to be able to socket one of these suckers in a Linux desktop for a reasonable price. I'm loving seeing competition in this field, but I don't like using MacOS and don't want to pay the Apple hardware tax.
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by Taywee 3y ago
I think that exemplifies why the patent system should at the very least not have the same rules and terms for physical products as for software, if it should exist for software at all. The time and capital investments to start up are just s
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by Taywee 3y ago
And there's no point inventing anything as an established company if you can just aggressively buy IP and leverage existing property. There's a balance to how much IP protection actually encourages innovation, and we're far o
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by Taywee 3y ago
That's a pretty fragile and fault-prone method, and is extremely prone to typo squatting. I'm glad something like this isn't popular today, because it would very quickly be capitalized on by scammers, who wouldn't even
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by Taywee 3y ago
The cognitive dissonance of being a company that makes all its money spying on users, has a profit motivation to prevent others from spying on users, and needing to pretend to take the moral high ground for PR reasons at the same time.
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by Taywee 3y ago
You'd rather use explicit function calls for all linear algebra and geometry operations? I don't think adding two vectors using an overloaded + is that spooky or distant.
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by Taywee 3y ago
You still need to understand the code you are generating, testing, and debugging. LLMs don't replace a need for more expressive programming languages.
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by Taywee 3y ago
It's literally the definitions of the words: > A reason or excuse given to hide the real reason for something. > That which is assumed as a cloak or means of concealment; something under cover of which a true purpose is hidden; a
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by Taywee 3y ago
There has been legislation that wasn't bought. There has been legislation that just had huge public support without major industry lobbying. Lobbying is effective, but it's reductive and dishonest to pretend that it's the onl
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by Taywee 3y ago
A lot of other compilers are the same way. gcc and g++ are higher level wrappers around their low level compiling and linking executables. It depends how you define the terms, including what you mean by "program".
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by Taywee 3y ago
This isn't 4chan. Cut down on the shitty snark.
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by Taywee 3y ago
It helps by putting more emphasis on growing things native to a region, rather than feeding the entire world on corn, rice, wheat, dairy, pork, beef, and chicken.
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by Taywee 3y ago
Those are reasonable approaches. You must interact with more reasonable conservatives than I do. The ones I interact with regularly tend to worship the rich and reject any approach that involves any change at all. As far as "racial ine
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by Taywee 3y ago
That's not what the words mean. "pretext" and "pretense" both imply that there's a hidden purpose for something in the first place. Using those words implies that the COVID lockdowns were created entirely for t
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by Taywee 3y ago
There really aren't, proportionally. Most of the cities are not reasonable to live in without owning a car. And I'd rather if the bus was an option at all. The bus is expensive and unreliable in most US cities. Getting somewhere b
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by Taywee 3y ago
This isn't just my perspective from media, but from living in a city with a very conservative base (Colorado Springs). I've seen very little political action from conservatives that wasn't reactionary and to the tone of &quot
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by Taywee 3y ago
I think most people would be happier if they could drive less and had fewer cars to contend with while walking. Forcing people to be pedestrians would be likely a significant improvement for their health and quality of life. As an American
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by Taywee 3y ago
Yeah, I've got the same question, and I see the same trend in American political issues. There's an obvious problem, and the left-leaning want to try to solve it by either increasing power and control of one (usually governmental)
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by Taywee 3y ago
> when the swivel-eyed loons claim that the COVID lockdowns were a pretense to control everyday people while rich people swanned around having a lovely time, they’re not entirely wrong. I don't really believe that it's a "
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by Taywee 3y ago
Implementing a subset of C or C++ as a scripting language is actually a lot of work, and is not fun to actually script in.
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by Taywee 3y ago
WebAssembly is pretty good at filling the same niche, but it takes a lot more work to interface between the guest and host than Lua.
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by Taywee 3y ago
I dislike 1-based indexing, but I also don't really care that much. In my experience, people react with disgust to it, then get used to it, and still prefer 0-based but discover that 1-based isn't all that much more awkward in pra
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by Taywee 3y ago
Actually relying on panics for unwinding in any way is not encouraged in any way, and compiling with `panic = 'abort'` is really common, and completely removes all stack unwinding support.
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by Taywee 3y ago
They said "in theory", which is a contrast to "in practice".
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by Taywee 3y ago
Depends what you mean by "little things". If it's "a little thing that happened", then absolutely. If it's "a little thing that happens regularly", then it's worth discussing it before it snowbal
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by Taywee 3y ago
8 billion humans as of last November.
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by Taywee 3y ago
I used to be the same way, but I've intentionally changed myself to fix it. First, I don't treat my code as an extension of myself. My code is not me, and criticism of my code is not criticism of me. I love a good solution, and I
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by Taywee 3y ago
You don't need snap. Follow the Pip instructions: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip Or docker: https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#ru...
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by Taywee 3y ago
If people want that badly enough under a FOSS license, there's nothing really stopping them from implementing it themselves, as an add-on or a fork of the BSD-licenced codebase. If it's actually gated, not enough people care enoug

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