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by alacombe 7y ago
There is sure no better way to show how you are constrained by the system than by ordering the assassination of your exiled brother with nerve gas in a foreign country !
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by alacombe 7y ago
If I'm getting to the source, it's generally because I need to add/tweak a feature, so the first step generally involve `grep' through the source tree, and pull the string from there.
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by alacombe 7y ago
If what you are doing only revolve around "writing code to give the CPUs some work to do", then a $30 Rasp-Pi will work just as good. Also 99.999% of people want to "use" software, very often proprietary one, not re-inve
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by alacombe 7y ago
How so ? Brandishing "diversity" as the epitome of progress is close to nonsensical. My workstation requires 4 4k output, both HDMI 2,0 and display-port, and decent OpenGL & other hardware accelelation support. There is no way
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by alacombe 7y ago
And then you end up requiring a binary-only library, or can't upgrade with the whatever PCI-e device because no drivers and that's the end of the ARM adventure...
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by alacombe 7y ago
Pretty much any mini-itx board (ie. <$100) comes with 4 sata standard.
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by alacombe 7y ago
So... if every player (and Google in particular) start locking their platform, how could this not constitute ground for antitrust trial ? Even explorer was less tightly integrated 25 years ago...
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by alacombe 7y ago
Just think of all the software infrastructure you rely on is probably running COBOL or very, very old tech, you really don't want those to be re-written today. Also, the industry (think CNC controllers) relies on tried and true inter
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by alacombe 7y ago
Outside of the US, the world hasn't a great personal freedom track record (including Europe)... disclamer: I exiled myself from Europe due the lack of objective personal freedom and opportunity. "Liberte, egalite, fraternite"
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by alacombe 7y ago
Glass breaks.
491.
by alacombe 7y ago
They were probably coated with wax, which make them... non-recyclable.
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by alacombe 7y ago
it isn't, it's just easier to generate/control from whatever dumb microcontroller than a current source.
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by alacombe 8y ago
Code cleanliness has no correlation with lack of bugs. Also, 1) your sample size is pretty small, and 2) what looks clean to you might very well be despicable to someone else.
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by alacombe 8y ago
One the other side, unless you are an artist and not dependant on your software actually being used, you have to get product out at some point. It's easy to demonize CEO and managers. We, as devs, will always find an excuse as to why
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by alacombe 8y ago
Proving something is correct is only part of the problem. A random bit flip (no matter amount of error correction and physical hardening) and your proven-correct software goes amok. And this is just one of the many issue you can encounter d
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by alacombe 8y ago
... and welcome recession like we've barely known before. You won't power the supply chain urban cities rely on with PV / wind alone. Crop will suffer, and a lot of people will die, those in cities first.
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by alacombe 8y ago
I think you meant "condemn", not "condone".
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by alacombe 8y ago
This is a poisoned gift, there was a twitter conversation posted a couple weeks ago about the cluterf*ck that thunderbolt is... quite a scary read :-/ https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1097777102563074048
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by alacombe 8y ago
> The United States has a lower [homicide] rate No it has not, the wikipedia article mentions "death rate". "homicide" != "death". About 2/3 of America's death rate is suicide. Canadians statistics
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by alacombe 8y ago
Because you haven't seen one does not mean it's banned. There is easily millions of legal handguns in private hands in Canada, probably another few millions illegal ones (including both the ones in criminals hands, and those in ot
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by alacombe 8y ago
Why should a private company make a cake for a customer asking for the display of a message they disagree with ? Private companies are already bound to anti-discrimination provisions, this is no different. Either private company are free to
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by alacombe 8y ago
I guess you have no issue with Patreon and Mastercard deciding which business you can give money to either ? Not so diffirent from banks refusing to serve cannabis stores, or pornstars.
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by alacombe 8y ago
though, what are the proof that "progressivism" is actually "progress" ?
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by alacombe 8y ago
I'm pretty sure you can find a group seeing the existence of a platform for managing X (replace with something you disagree with) the same provocation. Does that give them an licence to retaliate ? How far do you go through the rabbit-
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by alacombe 8y ago
Retaliatory unprovoked attacks are not acceptable either.
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by alacombe 8y ago
Counterpoint: Apple has been censoring apps it morally disagree with here in the US.
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by alacombe 8y ago
True, but it can be difficult for public relation on one side to censor LEGAL speech you disagree with locally (here in the US), and yet accept worse conduct remote. Same argument about Google in China. Though I guess it only make sense if
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by alacombe 8y ago
You need your psychoactive drug fix (caffeine), not coffee.
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by alacombe 8y ago
We're talking about the greenback, not our cheap canadian pesos...
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by alacombe 8y ago
Frustrating experience.

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