alacombe

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by alacombe 6y ago
> You wouldn't dare accuse people of colour of imitating slave traders Not just imitating, but being slave traders too, either in the past or even today. Plenty of tribes in Africa sold other Africans to Europeans, and slavery is
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by alacombe 6y ago
North America != United States.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Psychedelics are not all controlled substances, eg 1P-LSD is generally legal in North America.
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by alacombe 6y ago
I just slaughtered two muttons over the week end, enjoy your highly processed fake meat while I enjoy some tasty juicy ribs !
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by alacombe 6y ago
> If they are, then the Vancouver solution is very effective Because rent could be considered affordable in Vancouver ? In which Canada do you live ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
That's petty resentment right here found in both communist ethics and catholicism... "if I can't get filthy rich, nobody shall be". If the bakers gets filthy rich, kudos on them !
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The situation in Berlin before the policy change was that the city government had made it very hard to build apartments at all. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If i
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by alacombe 6y ago
The AIM case was entirely different as it was in the mist of the Time Warner merge event. Also, many would argue that Google or Apple are in no monopolistic position.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Backward compatibility is, by definition, an all or nothing binary deal. You can't have it otherwise. [and yes, this is gonna be unpopular in a post-modernist era where everything get constantly redefined and where there is no such thi
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by alacombe 6y ago
[citation needed]
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by alacombe 6y ago
> This will not go anywhere. :) Of course, you don't have any argument, so you're posturing and running away. Very immature.
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by alacombe 6y ago
How is such a ban any different than multiple independent company owned by the same parent entity (either a company, or an individual / group of individual). Each of these company having exclusive deal with each others. You can't
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by alacombe 6y ago
Instead of shooting the messengers, please provide me a non-anecdotal reference about Rust being relevant.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> As I've said above: backwards compatibility is an admirable goal but it doesn't override everything. You'll never get a job at either Microsoft, or in any system jobs where backward compatibility is paramount (say, the L
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by alacombe 6y ago
Show me a metric which makes Rust a relevant language. > Anecdotal for sure, I'll agree, but your observation is no less anecdotal than mine. I haven't seen Rust in any "top X language" news. Prove me wrong.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> However, demanding mainstream tools to lag behind because of said exotic architectures is unrealistic Rust is mainstream on HN, not in the real world. Because "Uber" or whatever unicorns uses it doesn't make you mainstre
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by alacombe 6y ago
> However, I can't resist but asking: if those things do have their uses then why didn't the hobbyists support them through patches to GCC / clang and LLVM? They didn't decide to create a whole new language and make e
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by alacombe 6y ago
No, it has to be done in the server configuration.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> For decades programmers have wasted their time porting software to different-but-not-better architectures Microarchitecture, register layout, ABI also constitute differences which have real-world uses, Not to mention sheer competition
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by alacombe 6y ago
It's interesting that the community praising multiculturalism favors hegemony of only a few computer architecture. Portability used to be paramount of design...
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by alacombe 6y ago
You're not answering the question, I'm not asking anything about streaming anything over 5G. I'm asking about the cost of IoT subscription, plus all the logistic to put in place in every country where a company intend to your
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by alacombe 6y ago
How low can you get these ? Even at $5/month, that's $60... is a single user's data worth that much ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Soon they'll be coming with their own 5G chips that phone home over cell networks - no wifi access required This is something I never understood about the IOT bullcrap, even if something can connect to a mobile network, they&#x2
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by alacombe 6y ago
Do you inspect all traffic going through ? I'll NEVER trust my TV to be "connected", I basically use all my "TV" as monitors for a raspi or chromecast.
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by alacombe 6y ago
To be fair, GTP-3 is, by actual human standard, totally stupid.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Please no, NO MORE STUPID SENSORS.
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by alacombe 6y ago
All manufacturer did it right 15 years ago, thus why I won't buy any vehicle made after 2010'ish.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> This is absolutely necessary to have a community. Do you want a community/bubble or be open to other's idea ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Dang actually considers the comment fading an absolutely essential feature: All rulers like the tools helping them reign over their fiefdom. edit: I actually do most of my HN reading through premii.com, so I ignore all the fading and a
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by alacombe 6y ago
Any kind of LCD screen is a security hazard at night. Even black are lit enough to cause distraction and prevent getting used to the dark.

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