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by alexvoda 4y ago
The definition of true is a rabit hole and spelunking its depths is not especially productive. It is more productive to replace the word with what is actually meant. Is something part of objective material reality. Is something a valid logi
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That actually depends on the specific costs. There is a clear business desire to replace capex with opex even when the resulting expenditure is higher. This achieves that at the pcb soldering level. It does not have to be a good idea to get
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The article at the link you posted is about the Cardboard WM. Shoutout for Cardboard, an awesome Wayland compositor and a rare example of Scrolling Tiling window management. https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard
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There are plenty of flying objects more energy efficient than quadcopters. Quadcopters are actually very inefficient. They brute force flying using thrust and with enough thrust anything will fly. The big advantage they have is maneuverabil
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My point was that the saying itself is wrong and a bad meme (the ethics of it were secondary to my argument) and I linked to where it originated to show that it wasn't even a thing in the first place. Explaining the meaning of a bad me
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Fake and Misattributed Ancient Quotes(talesoftimesforgotten.com)
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I have detailed that and linked an even more comprehensive explanation in this sibling (cousin?) comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34380697
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I see there are many people commenting on the ethical value of that saying. To understand it better it is worth noting that it is a bastardization of this misquote commonly attributed to Socrates: “By all means marry; if you get a good wife
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The USA has everything it needs to back up that claim to being a superpower among which we can count: - being a top tier tech power - being a top tier culture exporter - being the reserve currency for the world (the USA is THE monetary supe
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Indeed, we wouldn't want magnets to become a potential source of global warming if they oxidize.
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Indeed, SQL is tricky like that because there are plenty of performance consequences for a language that is meant to be declarative and optimized by a query planner. Unless you have realistic data in the test database the performance behavi
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Well that still happens, but instead it's in history classes. But in soviet countries during soviet times we had precisely that kind of "philosophy" classes mandatory. I wonder if that is what they meant? Also, note, I have s
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Always the "sphere of influence" crap rhetoric. We all know Russia WANTS a sphere of influence. But why should Russia have a sphere of influence? What is so special about Russia that you believe it deserves such a thing? Russia is
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To expand on 1, it does not have to mean that one has not thought about the subject. It can also mean that one has thought about the subject in depth but has either reached a dead end or has reached a undesirable answer. Since this is about
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I would argue that UAC is a much more polished solution compared to solutions available on Linux like PolKit and its UIs. Maybe the reason is that Microsoft was under a lot more pressure to solve this and once solved had a lot more power to
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Care to expand on that? The way I see it, math is a really powerful multiple purpose tool that people just don't use all that frequently in day to day life. Philosophy, on the other hand, while intersting from a history of human though
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This is not an issue of the free market, it is the curse of progress in general. The free market is a concept that is actually fragile and rather rare in reality. Progress is unstoppable and brings with itself nefarious uses and consequence
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We simply do not have the option to uninvent the internet the same way people in cholera infested London didn't have the option of getting water from elsewhere. What you propose is taking action at the individual and family scale and t
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Same for Mirasol and the other non-emissive display technologies.
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First of all, Rust can be used to develop multiplatform UI. The difference between Dart and Rust is that Dart is developed solely (or mostly) by Google and therefore Flutter is the one true way to do UI. With Rust, you have many options non
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Kawai Wasabi is incompatible with Yakotori. It is a known choice by the lead developer. When using Yakotori you should use Tare instead.
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I say the community should be more proactive. Hasbro is surely using plenty of open source software under licenses like MIT, BSD, GPL v2 which do not have the magic word "irrevocable". I say some software devs should just declare
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A further observation here is that selling status symbols is what Apple does. They have transitioned from being a computer manufacturer for the DTP and creative industry to being a luxury brand. But that itself is not enough. In the pre-iPh
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With the tiny nitpick that there is a distinction between signalling status and having status itself. And the relationship between the two is not always straight forward. Status symbols are more related to the former.
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I agree with your analysis and it matches my thoughts. But then, wouldn't a naive conclusion be that in order to maintain the freedom of the market, the appearance of status symbol brands/products must be prevented? That's a
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Right, and I think the person trying to legally poke the status quo on this issue is an idiot (as in, they are in Carlo M. Cipolla's lower left quadrant) because it will either blow up in their face or it will blow up in everyone'
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You are correct and that is why what I suggested doesn't broadly happen. There is value in specialization. Yet we can't help but ponder whether there might be a better way and what it might involve.
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> The economic models assume consumers have more power than they do. That is a fair assessment. But what is the cause of it? What I am saying is we need better models. Better theory. > It's easier for industry to convince (or for
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I fully agree with what you wrote but I just want to mention that, as you also imply, the ideas behind "the current decentralized trend ("web3", etc.)", really aren't new. They just build on older ideas with regards
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Apart from regulation mandating that safety features work, are reliable and are easy to use (physical buttons), I think we need some new economic theory. Why is it that for products with complex spec sheets, the free market (the auto indust

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