abraxas

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by abraxas 6y ago
Of course one atrocity doesn't justify another. I'm attacking your wavering statements about the moral standing of the two sides in WWII. There is simply no fathomable comparison.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Your disclaimer doesn't excuse your painful ignorance about the scale of atrocities of the nazi regime. If you are trying to put any kind of moral equivalence between the attack on Hiroshima and the murderous war waged by the nazis you
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by abraxas 6y ago
In other words we're in the "Nobody gets fired for choosing managed AWS" paradigm.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I wish there was a bare metal option that boots RPI 400 into a BASIC or Python interpreter the way the 8 bit machines used to
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by abraxas 6y ago
Ask all those smug Europeans how they treat their Roma or even the Eastern European expats. Brexit was one big middle finger to the Polish diaspora.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Somewhat better known Polish song from the same period might be Zegarmistrz Światła Purpurowy https://youtu.be/A41PF4lUkrg It was used as a score for a recent Polish game "This War of Mine"
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by abraxas 6y ago
It depends. I can only get a good night sleep on a hard like a rock 100$ mattress that has zero frills. I'm also in my mid 40s and I have zero back issues which I suspect has something to do with the fact that I never got to sleep on a
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by abraxas 6y ago
Can you be more specific? I'm not being facetious, my company is embarking on this very path and I would like to hear what lies ahead.
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by abraxas 6y ago
More than likely but it's probably not an order of magnitude difference.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Do they have no historical backfill at all?
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Masters of their universe: how the classic game Elite was made (2003)(theguardian.com)
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by abraxas 6y ago
Here's an excellent long read for those who need the background. Well worth your time to read even if you didn't grow up playing Elite: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.wee
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by abraxas 6y ago
Nobody serious sees the Coronavirus as an existential threat to humanity unless it mutates in a way that really enables it to wipe out most humans. Climate change and the collapse of global ecosystems can absolutely manage that and accordin
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by abraxas 6y ago
What is a "Haiku machine"?
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by abraxas 6y ago
You’re in for a treat. I personally love Dawn more than any other but you can’t go wrong with her other classics.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Elections have consequences.
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by abraxas 6y ago
You’re exhibiting a serious hindsight bias. The monopoly of Wintel (remember how they were often viewed as inseparable) was full and complete. The only thing that made a dent was a rise in mobile that made the desktop less relevant and the
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by abraxas 6y ago
The only things more evil than destroying a nascent open worldwide communication platform that I can think of are some of the shit pulled by big tobacco or big oil. The examples you listed don’t come close IMO. Never heard of kids-for-cash
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by abraxas 6y ago
I mean yes, libertarianism at its core is a terribly flawed ideology because it fails to account for the phenomenon of the tragedy of the commons. The market forces they believe in do not react quickly enough to avert environmental or healt
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by abraxas 6y ago
I’m not sure if you’re too young or just don’t remember anymore but in the late nineties Microsoft literally tried to coopt the entire web. The embrace, extend and extinguish strategy wasn’t going to end with their domination of operating s
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by abraxas 6y ago
I always assumed that Bill was not a good person at his core or at least was steered into shady shit by Ballmer but it was Melinda that brought out the best in him and hence his metamorphosis later in his career. Who knows though. The fact
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by abraxas 6y ago
But only before they die.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Will the virtual threads be blocked on I/O calls though? It's usually the most common reason threads wait idle. If the implementation is just syntax sugar laid on top of an existing thread pool that can be exhausted by blocking I&
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by abraxas 6y ago
Not hard to do if you outsource your energy production to Russia and others.
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by abraxas 6y ago
No question there is a lot to dislike about java but there are also things it got mostly right or better than competing languages of the day. Checked exceptions is in my opinion one of those.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yes, this schizophrenic attitude drives me bonkers. Immature JS kids at my company love to make noises about Java’s verbosity yet spend hours debugging and troubleshooting most mundane errors because seemingly nothing is ever enforced by th
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by abraxas 6y ago
You're getting downmodded somewhat unfairly imo. People here underestimate heavily the momentum of fads in our industry. So many technologies that the industry rallied behind fell by the wayside purely because something newer displaced
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by abraxas 6y ago
And the tower of ever more obscure abstractions just keeps on growing. Until one of these fragile layers starts to malfunction and the whole thing comes tumbling down and nobody has a clue how to fix it all up. Collectively, as an industry
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by abraxas 6y ago
I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.
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by abraxas 6y ago
The amount of sheer stupidity and science denial that emanates from the No Agenda podcast is mind blowing and terrifying as the podcast has a huge cult following. The amount of societal damage from media of this kind is real. Yes it's

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