anon291

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by anon291 9mo ago
No not at all. The world is way better off today than at any time in the past. This is objectively true and we can all feel it everyday we don't die of dysentery, sepsis, etc.
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by anon291 9mo ago
The last century was characterized by two mega wars that killed tens of millions and social changes / revolutions that killed tens of millions as well. This century is off to an AMAZING start. Perhaps unprecedentedly good in world hist
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by anon291 9mo ago
50k is a pittance compared to the amount of suffering the average criminal causes. I'd pay $1 million /year to incarcerate more people so long as we got the right people. I'd pay any amount. The cost of being a victim is mons
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by anon291 9mo ago
Yes of course I am. This is the best possible time quite literally. Barely any conflict. The entire world, including 'poor' countries, are getting richer. Like the world of 2100 is going to be F'ING amazing. We are making our
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by anon291 9mo ago
That's because you're listening to your hormones not reality.
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by anon291 9mo ago
Every single 'it was better in the X0s' is actually 'i want a tween/young teenager in the X0s'. Everything else is post hoc rationalization I'm jealous of my kids since they are so much better off in every way
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by anon291 9mo ago
Luckily most everyday programs are typeable.
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by anon291 9mo ago
Actually no. Linux pretty closely follows the ACPI standard. The issue is that ACPI implementors specifically work around bugs in Windows , which does not follow the standard well and has its own quirks. Thus, in order to make Linux '
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by anon291 9mo ago
This is certainly not going to cause any conspiracy-minded nutjobs to go berserk.
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by anon291 9mo ago
I mean in some countries today, the idea of universal literacy helping people is still met with skepticism by some segments of the population. It's apparently not obvious that mode access to books , learning, and literacy will improve
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by anon291 9mo ago
Net job creation will be the outcome as the insane number of businesses that were once too expensive to start due to lack of knowledge labor suddenly come online.
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by anon291 9mo ago
This is exactly how I feel. I entered the software industry right before GPGPU programming was becoming a thing. I was aware of AI and neural nets back then and saw the future and decided I wanted to be part of it. So what if my job is no l
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by anon291 9mo ago
Having ended up in management by accident and then just sticking around with it for a while just because.... I am now back in an IC role and I mostly feel sorry for my manager honestly.
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by anon291 9mo ago
Honestly he's probably doing fine That man is clearly very smart and proactive. I'd be worried for the poor middle manager caught completely off guard.
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by anon291 9mo ago
The nice thing about Linux is not waking up from sleep is a bug. On windows, the restarts at inopportune times is a feature!
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by anon291 9mo ago
Correct. Windows is not a serious operating system. It really never has been. I've been on desktop linux for decades now. Linux is a serious operating system. Nothing happens without you asking it too. My linux computers are never turn
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by anon291 9mo ago
I mean you can also copy my dotfiles onto your linux machine and have a more advanced system than anything windows would provide, and it'll take less than ten seconds, but this is 'fiddling' or somethin.
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by anon291 9mo ago
> if the DE itself not outright crashes (KDE, master in Plasma/Widget crashes!). And so many other desktop feel like they have been made in the 90s (probably are) and never gotten updated. All modern Linux desktops feel more advance
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by anon291 9mo ago
> Yes, there are many UI implementations in Windows but they are almost totally transparent to the user (no pun intended), and they can all run on the same system at once. I mean this is a solved problem on linux using modern distributio
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by anon291 9mo ago
Once again, I don't really understand people who say Windows is easier. Take printer drivers. In windows you have a 'simple' wizard to install a printer driver. Except in my experience... it never works the first time and you
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by anon291 9mo ago
If I'm going to be a grumpy old man on hacker news you can at least let me live in last year :)
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by anon291 9mo ago
If everyone who wanted to move to Canada actually moved to Canada, Canada would be filled to the brim. It's like the modern day Shangri-la. A mythical land.. far far away.
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by anon291 9mo ago
> borders are secure now, nobody gets to leave This is honestly insane. > On the military angle, I'd much rather live in a country without nukes. That's because the majority of the typical American with these views is extrem
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by anon291 9mo ago
I'm about as into formal methods as you can get, with a deep background in Haskell and such. Rust is wonderful and all that, but sometimes I think the optimism is misplaced and doesn't come from a place of full knowledge. Statemen
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by anon291 9mo ago
It is difficult to take anyone worried about the US seriously when their solution to protect themselves is to move to Canada. Not saying anyone's right or wrong but the idea that, should America go psycho, Canada would somehow be okay
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by anon291 9mo ago
Mostly because it's easier to get a Canadian visa and pay less. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this in hiring panels.
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by anon291 9mo ago
Why is windows so hard? In my many years of Linux, I've never managed to brick a computer. Microsoft makes computers hard for no reason. At worst, in the olden days I used to just boot into a livecd and fix my issue, including using an
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by anon291 9mo ago
I mean the simple answer here is to just develop proper frameworks for Futamura projections. There's an exact one to one algorithmic correspondence between an interpreted program and the compiled version of that. GraalVM and PyPy are g
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by anon291 9mo ago
Reminder that in the full democracy of the UK , you can be prosecuted for social media posts questioning the governments immigration policy.
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by anon291 9mo ago
Again, misconceptions abound. US elections are run by bureaucrats with an elected head. There are consistent rules across the entire state for all elections, with some federal oversight. Scrutineers are appointed by both parties, but also f

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