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by ajross 1y ago
Which also explains why very old APIs like struct timeval and struct stat have namespaced field names.
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by ajross 1y ago
> Valve is the only company I know of [upstreaming fixes for open source software] Sorry, that's ridiculous. Basically every major free software dependency of every major platform or application is maintained by people on the payro
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WiFi literally covers basically all of the urban US already, I'm not understanding this point. It's true that there's no single service one can sign up for and you have to bounce around cafe and Xfinity and whatever "Fre
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> mobile companies will probably make a more efficient use of the space Uh... wat? Something like 70%+ of all internet data anywhere goes over a 2.4GHz wifi for its terminal client, squashed into a paltry 100 MHz of spectrum. There are
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by ajross 1y ago
Government only works via compromise. Yes, either side could capitulate. Honestly "give this popular subsidy a vote" seems more like compromise to me than your idea. Also, and mostly unrelated: does anyone find it funny that the
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by ajross 1y ago
> You aren't making any points. You replied directly to a comment where I tried to engage substantially and with external links in a discussion about whether or not he was "literally" doing a Nazi salute. You ignored that
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> Also, a line number is often helpful That's not error data, that's (one level of) a stack trace. And you can do that in zig, but not by putting call stack data into error return codes. The conflation between exception handli
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by ajross 1y ago
This seems kinda contrived. In practice that "ERROR DATA" tends not to exist. Unexpected errors almost never originate within the code in question. In basically all cases that "ERROR DATA" is just recapitulating the r
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by ajross 1y ago
The problem with that story is the dates. If you sold in 1998 when PG realized the ponzi characteristic of the market[1] you'd have lost ("lost") a ton of money. The nasdaq composite in June of 1998 was about $1800. It rea
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by ajross 1y ago
Exactly, the headline sort of paradoxically reflects the desire for news, and not news itself. But still, the actual stock market behavior right now is PROBABLY (!!) more reflective of random motion than it is of a fundamental shift in in
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by ajross 1y ago
Just to extend the thread: nothing you say there engages with my point (which amounts to "Musk is just a routine reactionary right winger like we all deal with every day"). You're just saying you want to hate him because you
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by ajross 1y ago
> it is a literally literal Nazi salute, twice It is clearly not, though. It's arguably evocative of one. There is an actual form to the thing, it was a military gyration, and people taught it. You can even read the Wikipedia pag
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by ajross 1y ago
That's a pretty strained "literally". Even taking everything at the worst possible interpretation, it's edgelord fuckery. Not something I'd personally support, but absolutely in the "drunk uncle" categ
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> They purposely chose to design the electoral college system in a way that gave rural regions a significant say in political outcomes even when their population densities are much lower than those of cities. This is a myth. The electo
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by ajross 1y ago
Only if you take as a prior that he's somehow more objectionable than the like 20% of the electorate that I'm painting as "drunk uncles". And he's... not. He's just rich. Musk doesn't say or do anything
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by ajross 1y ago
Where do you see me making excuses for Musk? I'm saying I'm happy to drive, buy and recommend a Tesla even if the company is run by a drunk uncle because the other 100,000 of them seem like they worked hard to make a good product
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by ajross 1y ago
Right, and I repeat: if this you arguing with drunk uncles, that's not me. If this is you doing praxis and trying to organize, you are aiming at the wrong target by trying to engage with your political allies here on HN. Mostly, I s
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by ajross 1y ago
Yeah, but "the standard" in this case is basically "everyone's slightly racist drunk uncle". You or I might disagree with that politics but it's absolutely not "uncommon", at all. In fact there&#x27
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> Tesla fanboys don’t realize I don't know who you're addressing. Lots of people, me included, don't like the conspiracy minded politicization of his fortune but still think the cars are pretty great. Seems like a boring
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by ajross 1y ago
> [Obama] called for universal health care but once he was elected he started saying it was "too radical". He "called for" a bill that would pass (barely, as it required a filibuster-proof majority that will never hap
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by ajross 1y ago
> you take the position that [...] those people are not that bad. I genuinely can't see where you get this except by deliberately misconstruing. I'm saying that "bad" is a nuanced position, and that we (collectively,
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> your argument is so unbelievable, I had to go back and read it again to make sure I got it right. You didn't. I had to repeat it.
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Not to nerd out too much, but this is HN so it's probably OK. The Pax Romana/Mongolica concepts have wide support in academia. Unified government under despotic colonial powers was indeed the source of the immense social progr
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by ajross 1y ago
The "checks notes" thing is a marker that you're about to argue with a straw man. Don't do that here, please. The root cause of the terrible stuff you (and I) cite, is that the US has terrible power. Cheney used a litt
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If you must reduce the argument so far, then sure. Khan and Caesar brought peace to millions. Life is complicated. But some worlds are worse than others, and Dick Cheney's actions sit solidly in the middle of the pack. They're
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by ajross 1y ago
> Theres a high level of dislike for him probably justly earned. Pretty much. At the same time, he didn't blow it all up. Cheney sits in the same class as figures like Kissinger. You can view them as Machiavellian overlords doing
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It depends on the semantics of "everyone" and "knows". The X11 selection bindings predate CUA clipboard usage by a few years, actually. But in any case, the contention was that they were simpler , not that they are st
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by ajross 1y ago
You can cut/paste within your editor just fine. The subject at hand is window-system level clipboard/selection interaction, and in particular the presence of standard key bindings for them in various environments. While some ter
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> I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!) You, uh, never tried middle clicking?
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Again, no, because the motor needs to be powered and the battery is vastly larger than the motor already in any of those applications. Even in RC planes, which fly for 5-6 minutes at a time, the battery is 5x or more the weight of the moto

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