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by agent327 5y ago
Whereas yours hasn't been challenged nearly enough. Your position is only tenable if you are part of an upper class that has others in a lower class working for them, and involuntarily donating the fruits of their labor. In another wor
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by agent327 5y ago
On my hypothetical island, pretty much the only thing in abundance is sand. Everything else you have to work for. Who is going to do that work? Your problem is that you don't see that all that "abundance" of food was grown by
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by agent327 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure how you got to the idea that I want them to fail. The news article is jubilant about a half procent growth to the German GDP because of the corona vaccin. I'm asking what the _value_ of that half procent is.
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by agent327 5y ago
>> Should you be given free shit simply because you exist? >Yes? Surely you understand the logistical problem this brings: if you get given free shit, there must also be a party who is giving free shit. Let's say you live on a
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by agent327 5y ago
And what is the actual value to Germany, or to German citizens, that one company makes so much money? Maybe all of the 1323 employees get a bonus? Wow, that will make for some great trickle-down effect there... If anything, the value of thi
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by agent327 5y ago
Exactly! Thank you, stranger, for understanding what I'm saying :-)
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I checked out sideview, but if you click a link in the sideview pane it just changes the page in the side view. I want it to change the webpage in the right-hand part of the window.
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by agent327 5y ago
Yes, but then you end up with fifty tabs open, meaning you'll doomscroll for the rest of the day. I very much prefer to see it the way I described it, with the main page on the left and the content on the right. My screen is plenty wid
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by agent327 5y ago
No offense, but that's something entirely different. I'm looking for a way to utilize my 27" monitor to see an entire article without falling into the doomscroll trap, not a tiny popup containing a lousy summary on an even ti
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by agent327 5y ago
Here's something I'd love to have. Let's you are reading hacker news. Clicking a link gives you two options: open in a new tab, or open, replacing the current tab. Opening in a new tab works, but leaves you with a lot of tabs
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by agent327 5y ago
I wish there was an HTML shell, where applications can output not just text, but structured text, tables, even images. Where an application could have an 'easy mode' for uncommon tasks where it just prints a user interface with a
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by agent327 5y ago
It isn't all bad. The aging population will have to be supported by fewer people, which is obviously a problem, and one that can really only be solved by asking the elderly to work to a greater age. On the flip side, Japan has incredib
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by agent327 5y ago
I just straight-out don't believe that. Maybe this is by some incredibly narrow definition of CO2 production, whereby if the produce of a factory is first shipped to a harbor by a Chinese company before leaving China, it counts as &#x2
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by agent327 5y ago
Luckily we provide a GUI so they can look at it in context.
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by agent327 5y ago
That's at best a temporary situation though. If births are below replacement rate, at some point the population will also drop. People aren't going to age indefinitely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate
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by agent327 5y ago
>Fortran and C started trying to do everything and they failed You have an interesting definition of failure.
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by agent327 5y ago
The West lowered their CO2 production by moving all manufacturing to China, so this isn't too surprising. Also, China, like most of the world except for Afrika, has a shrinking population ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by agent327 5y ago
Seconded. I now store timestamps as the number of microseconds since the epoch. It may not be as fancy as an actual timestamp type, but at least it works without surprises.
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by agent327 5y ago
And let's not forget the subtle dread that comes with getting it wrong. Does that tiny edge of the traffic light that sticks into the next box make that box count as a traffic light as well? Oh no, I get another one - I must have gotte
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by agent327 5y ago
The Amiga was its own thing; it wasn't Linux + something. That gave it its own culture, and everyone just naturally went for that as well. Replicating that today would be a tough challenge. It was... I don't know, a different way
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by agent327 5y ago
No, that's not true. Both the hardware and the OS remained compatible, although enough differences crept in that applications could get into trouble anyway. One common problem was when applications assumed all memory was reachable by t
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by agent327 5y ago
But the viral property that makes this attack so insidious is, in the end, not sufficiently viral: the compiler will eventually drift away (as a consequence of it being developed further, of course) from the patterns it recognizes. The atta
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by agent327 5y ago
Hong Kong has that in some places. It makes it hard to navigate on foot, as pedestrian routes are no longer obvious lines but require entering building perpendicular to your direction, for example. However, the idea is nearly perfect. All i
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by agent327 5y ago
What's actually happening is that a mechanism is being introduced that makes it easy to censor anything Apple wants censored. Apple promises to only use it for child pornography. Apple, however, is still not a sovereign state, and as s
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by agent327 5y ago
This, a thousand times this!
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by agent327 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEwb7eRmXo Sadly no font sensitivity on display (possibly because Amiga owners take it so much for granted that they don't think of it as special), but it shows what MUI can do in terms
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by agent327 5y ago
Probably; it makes a lot of sense for large transfers.
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It's a concept that relies on a great deal of magic to function properly. The binary-only compiler we have must insert code to propagate the infection. To do so it must know it is compiling a compiler, and understand precisely how to a
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by agent327 5y ago
Pointers and (library) code were shared all over the place, not just in the message passing system. Still, on a modern CPU you could certainly do an implementation that either copies small messages, or just passes an entire page for a longe
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by agent327 5y ago
Yes and no. One problem is that it is kind of hard to describe: most features sound like something Linux sort-of has, and whenever you try to describe them people tend to disregard them as something that has been incorporated into Linux, an

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