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by alkonaut 2y ago
The .NET 4.X runtimes baked into Win10/11 are OS components just like Win32 is an OS Component. That's first of all brilliant if you want to ship apps that run on those systems, because you don't need to ship the runtime. Bu
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by alkonaut 2y ago
But no few would write a process-per-request web server today for example. And if a single process web server handles 100 requests you would then accept that one bad request one tore down the handling of the 99 others. Even if you have a wa
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by alkonaut 2y ago
ChatGPT takes 5-10 seconds to respond. Until it's as fast as google, i'm not switching. The question is: are you searching for answers to something, or are you searching for a site/article/journal/whatever in order
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Re: panics: If you have a single long lived process that must do multiple short-lived things (web requests, say) and a panic in one of them MUST NOT take down the whole process, is that extremely difficult to pull off in Rust? I thought you
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Everyone can produce _something_ they have written. Yes there are people who literally clock in at work and code 8-5 for 10 years and never touched a hobby project or contributed to an OSS project. And you might not want to filter that grou
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by alkonaut 2y ago
As umpteen other have said: drop the timer and add drag & drop and it's a winner. The problem (compared to wordle) I think is that it requires manual work to make the categories. If you want to rank the results I think number of gu
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by alkonaut 2y ago
It’s a European alternative so yes. It operates in a legal framework where Spain makes the rules rather than in one where they don’t.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Depends on whether they are reasonably independent. This works pretty well for e.g NRK, YLE, DR etc. Government can’t have a say in short term (less than an election cycle) funding, or who’s leading the Public Service company or similar. T
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Free (as in beer) and centralized or giving the impression of working as a centralized system. That seems to mean it must be ad supported, or run on donations. What doesn’t work is trying to invent some open/stabdardized/distribut
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Why is that a problem? For some critical goods (Food, Medicines, Defense) it's a security risk to not have a supply. But for flip flops and umbrellas, no country is somehow better off by having thousands of factories, instead of doing
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by alkonaut 2y ago
It's astonishning that we are discussing a price hike of asian made mass-market products (effectively your entire Amazon or Wal-Mart inventory from floor to ceiling) of 10% or more, and that's "just 10-13%" now? As if th
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Retaliatory tariffs from the EU have repeatedly targeted things like Bourbon, in order to target specific parts of the US (likely mostly aimed at certain politicians, but also at voters I imagine).
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by alkonaut 2y ago
This isn't surprising in any way is it? And it just goes to show that no model will ever be a box from which you can trust the output isn't tainted by copyrights, or that you don't inadvertently use someones' likeness. I
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Assuming citizens united isn't going anywhere (it's not, with the current SC), then yes.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
In the first scenario the investment isn't astronomical, and if there is surplus capacity you can definitely shift around to avoid tariffs. I think Volvo already announced this wrt. to their US plants. They can take some production fro
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Whether one umbrella factory moves from China to the US within this election cycle doesn't really make a dent. The moving of industry from the US happened over decades, and was hand-in-hand with the US making fewer umbrellas and more c
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by alkonaut 2y ago
That Democrats have held both the white house and congress several times over the last decades, and didn't try to put in place some reasonable voter ID laws is really sick. Basically the law they would need is "states can do whate
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> "they have no idea what's coming" are I believe naive. There could be someone who understands this. But this someone never shows their face in public, or provides any rationale for the policies beyond the nonsense like &
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> I’m pretty sure that they weren’t voting for those candidates for the express purpose of stripping away those rights and there were other policies and values that they were voting for. Sure. But this is that age-old meme: You know thos
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I completely disagree with this. A friend is someone who I can disagree politically with and still be friends with. I extend the tribe to political views that aren't too extreme (fascists, extreme populists, violent revolutionary socia
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The whiteboard image is insane. Even if it took more than 8 to find it, it's really impressive. To think that a few years ago we had dreamy pictures with eyes everywhere. And not long ago we were always identifying the AI images by the
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by alkonaut 2y ago
There’s no shock in seeing an old person enjoying a job. The shock is when you see someone who obviously isn’t, who looks like they’re in pain, doing physical jobs.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
That was the biggest shock to me when visiting the US. Not seeeing tip choices 15,20,25 or bars with parking lots, it was seeing people clearly over 70 working jobs you rarely see anyone over 25 doing elsewhere. Even physical and/or po
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Because X was (initially) good, while every attempt to make something distributed has been relatively bad. I don't really care how the platform works so long as the content is the content I want. Nor does 99% of users. And that's
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If they conflict then it's a separate "story". They couldn't be part of the same timeline. You don't end up with one big ball of mud test which tests everything in the app, you end up with N different tests based on
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Whenever I see a test suite do 9 steps of setup to assert one thing and then (mostly) the same 9 steps again to assert some other thing, I die a little inside. Especially when the setup takes multiple seconds for each case. The lesser evil
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by alkonaut 2y ago
It’s such a simple setup that you could make it in CGI in 2005 far cheaper than this. The balls barely affect the environment and the physics is really simple. I thought for 20 years that it was CGI because obviously ”who would do that clea
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> if the manager is thinking about and getting involved in architecture after the PR is written it does suggest something has gone wrong. If there are architectural considerations then it is good to discuss them with the coder before th
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> Are there actually any such cases of printers being destroyed by third party i I don't know. Which is why I consider the whole discussion only interesting in principle . I.e. should manufacturers be liable for warranty when non-
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I don't think boycotts are primarily about tariffs. I think it's more a response to the "Governor Trudeau" and "51st state" remarks, and similar. To the extent they are about tariffs I'd assume it's m

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