UltraViolence

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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Obviously layoffs are bad for people's health (both mental and physical), but they're an integral and important part of our capitalistic society. Companies need to respond to market and financial pressures and layoffs and hiring (
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Microservices suck and I hate the IT world for hyping it and jumping on the bandwagon to nowhere. We never should've gone with this. It makes things ridiculously difficult with almost no benefit. Just stay with the trusty old Monolith!
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Why are people all pented-up over a few layoffs? This is the normal order of things. Over the years the Big Tech companies have hired enormous numbers of bods and most of them are merely flab, adding nothing to the bottom line.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Don't buy from this company. They can't even keep their website up from the strain of a few HN readers.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
The reason Apple is so profitable is because of the iPhone. The Macs aren't bringing in all that much money and I'm postulating that Mac will lose a lot of market share because they ditched the x86 architecture. Although revenue f
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Although he's a despicable person this is completely legal and I would've done the same. Staying at your parents house is two orders of a magnitude more comfortable than being in jail. So no, this isn't a lapse of justice. ju
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Bring back the monoliths! Divided up into modules and each of those modules being developed by another team, but essentially still the same deliverable (binary). You only need to agree on an API between the modules and you're good to g
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
This will hold as long as Apple makes tons of money from its iPhone business. The minute however that this starts to sag they'll start cost-cutting and they'll start with unprofitable vanity products like Mac's.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I have famously predicted that sales of Mac's will decline and could even lead to a rout. Many professionals need Intel CPU support in order for them to run Windows on their Macbooks natively. And no, emulation isn't an option. I
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Why didn't they write it in Rust? Rust really needs a good GUI library to take off. I'm hoping the wxWidgets creators will rewrite their library in Rust or at the very least create bindings for it.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
This obviously depends on the content you're displaying. Mind you most "dark themes" in computer programs aren't using 100% black, but some shade of grey or green.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I just read an article on ArsTechnica where companies are making synthetic gasoline from wind and solar power. What will happen if this takes off, I wonder?
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I believe we can manage. Especially if Zinc-Sulfur batteries become a reality (with 4 times the capacity and based on commonly available metals).
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I would invest in oil companies if I were you. There are certainly going to be bottlenecks during the switchover since network capacity can't be increased sufficiently fast enough to accommodate all those BEV's. The switchover is,
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
It's not just the CEO who should've been fired. The COO, CTO and CIO also should've left the building with a cardboard box in their hands. This is a shameless indulgence in incompetence and recklessness. They didn't even
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Long story short: it has never been done before and that's why it's a breakthrough. Never mind that it's totally impractical and far from something we could use to solve our energy problems TODAY. We need to focus on building
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Every dirt-poor nation in Eastern Europe wants to become part of the EU, especially because of the billions in handouts of the so-called "Infrastructure Funds" which are being pilfered and used to finance nepotistic and corrupt a
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
It isn't a big deal for me. I believe if Ukraine loses the war the West doesn't lose anything but its pride, even though Zelensky is implying otherwise. Ukraine fully deserves our support for defending its sovereignty, but it&#x27
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I very much hope that Ukraine wins this war, but won't lose any sleep over it if they don't. I sincerely believe the problem started when the U.S. government Think Tanks in Washington decided Russia should be split up into smaller
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Before Russia invaded Ukraine the U.S. was already prodding to deny Russia access to its Crimean naval bases. This was why Russia saw no other option than to invade and take the Crimea from Ukraine. This is what actually started the ball ro
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I fear for Ukraine if they will eventually lose the war. If that happens they'll most likely come under the Russian sphere of influence and the West will pull back leaving them to fend for themselves whilst their entire country lies in
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
It will pass eventually since Big Tech are hell-bent on banning one of their biggest competitors from Western markets.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Because there's essentially no way to enforce the rules. All user data is processed in China and de software is also Chinese-made. There's no way in hell you'll get access and you can regulate all you want but in the end they
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
The EU is running a risky gambit by attacking U.S. tech giants whilst doing next to nothing against Chinese counterparts like TikTok. They're too afraid their population won't be able to buy cheap Chinese trinkets. And Germany is
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I see this as being inevitable. TikTok and ByteDance are secretly mocking us and ignoring our laws. They keep claiming that the transfer of Americans data to the U.S. is "in progress" and I believe the whole thing is an insider co
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Much more compact, less use of land or sea real estate, more power produced per volume and throttleable.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I thought we had passed this mark a long time ago, but only during short stints. However, the way they're realizing it by shooting a fuel pellet with lasers is unsustainable and impractical IMHO.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I always have one simple adage that I recite: eternity is a long time. We can't know what will be in the realm of possibilities in 100 years, let alone 1000 years or tens of thousands of years. It wouldn't surprise me in the sligh
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Because turning it into a workable product takes time, money and effort. As brilliant as SerenityOS is, it's still missing huge swaths of functionality people take for granted these days. Things like WiFi and GPU drivers and good audio
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Answer: no! The problem isn't pollution but overpopulation. Every year this planet gains 150 million inhabitants. One hundred fifty million! Every year!! That's simply too many mouths to feed. Also, their farts and pollution will

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