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by Torwald 6y ago
No, a real human being trying to be helpful.
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In this comment I want to provide three basic thoughts, that I think are having the potential to be helpful for Rukshan in his blogging endeavour. The first one is about due diligence and the two times we have to make a first impression. In
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The scale of the time-span looked at is the skewing factor, that makes sense.
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You can do have a sort of VR studio akin to a gym. The spots in these "gyms" would accommodate for everything that is needed, space and equipment wise. That would solve the problem the parent is stating. Monthly membership. You go
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The subhead says "…calling into question the steady march of progress in human history." Has anyone here an idea where this notion of a "steady march of progress in human history" is coming from? To me, reality seems mor
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by Torwald 6y ago
In a country where the local regime is the party engaging in unethical, unlawful conduct, some factors change their algebraic sign.
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by Torwald 6y ago
In the discussed scenario, Bitcoin is more secure than a traditional currency. The local regime cannot take your Bitcoins away from you, which it could by hyperinflation, reform etc with the traditional currency. In other words, the trust i
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Do you want to see my stamps collection?(computer-stamps.com)
1 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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> I wonder how much of our modern idea of kings as supremely powerful dictators is just a result of posturing and good PR by past kings. Depends on how you want to look at it. Kings of ancient times where often seen as gods or god-like b
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> VMS was definitely more elegant Please, can you offer an example for this?
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Persado Raises $21M Series B Round(wsj.com)
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On one of the slides it says "Great use of my first name" when in fact it uses the whole name or whatever was given in the name field. Since you are here, why did you write "first name" when "name" would be mor
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by Torwald 6y ago
Thanks, I know see better what you mean. But, wasn't that achieved prior to Rust by realtime OSs like QNX?
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staggering competition seems to arise in this field https://org-web.org
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> The tech industry you are referring to(SiemensNixdorf/Commodore) was mostly consumer hardware Both Siemens and Nixdorf build mainframes. Later Siemens had it's own version of DOS. Most Commodore PCs were used in office enviro
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by Torwald 6y ago
This is much bigger than your comment makes it out to be. There used to be a real IT industry in Ger. We had Siemens-Nixdorf as a very decent global player. We had Commodore producing their PCs in Braunschweig. Now all that's left is t
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by Torwald 6y ago
This is big. And it can only grow with future legislation. This could tie in to security measures and standards in the future. We will see what happens, but it is a strategic advantage as for now.
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Maybe, but it's not the "biggest natural predator" the one so big it already started to squeeze you out of your habitat by sheer quasi-monopoly power. Lidl is easier to keep in check. For at least WalMart (it's happening
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> I have a suspicion Bare Bones Software just has a philosophical objection to context-aware indenting Yeah, either that or they are procrastinating on some quirk deep in their engine they should rewrite already.
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I don't get it. What about the JVM or ObjC or C#? How is it that only with Rust the things you stated are coming to us?
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What kind of tools are that? I ask because I am sure I can point you towards a solution. Please give me more detail.
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> but he has committed no crimes on Indian soil, so they're not arresting So India and Germany have no extradition agreement? If so, probably the reason why this guy is in India.
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I don't think this is possible. On this planet, if you are willing to put in a solid effort, people will take it. Or am I overlooking something?
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> " …here’s the method I am using at the moment with great success. You need a random-number generator to work it." http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2014/1/22/random-tim...
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by Torwald 6y ago
cross-links is supported by some editing tools. (For example I use MacDown it does that.) It is not part of the MD spec. I do not use org-mode, but I know it well enough to admit it is unbeatable.
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> it's finally conceivable to have software that works reliably. Care to elaborate what you mean by that?
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> I'm probably gonna keep doing my technical writing in BBEdit until I die, but that's a different post. Please produce that post. Also, why not developing in BBEdit?
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> a certain intellectual curiosity-satisfaction User interface design (UID) and user experience (UX) are interesting topics. Have you ever conducted an oil change at your car or some other minor mechanical task? Wasn't it fun for a
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A thought about goal setting(mindingourway.com)
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> If you’ve done something banworthy on one of their properties you’re obviously not worth keeping around anyway as you’re likely to violate policies elsewhere. That's a violation of that "assume stupidity instead of malice for

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