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by arghwhat 2y ago
Using C compiler infrastructure, taking Rust where rustc/llvm does not go. Proprietary platforms with proprietary compilers for example.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
logind does not "manage devices", it just provides an API for your display server to open privileged I/O devices and get a file descriptor, and have these file descriptors revoked later. The difference with a plain `open` is
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Modularity would be to be able to use, say, systemd-logind or systemd-udev without using systemd as your init, as there is no tangible or important dependency on the use of systemd as init for those functions. On a fully-systemd system you
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The point of the app is to figure out the calories of a meal automatically by taking a photo. Without knowing the amount of sugar, butter, oil, etc. is used in a dish, one cannot know if a dish is worth 250 kilocalories or 750 kilocalories.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The case for the local guy is not calculated correctly for EU VAT, leading to the misunderstanding. The cost of the input increases proportionate to VAT, with the VAT refund cancelling this out exactly. Let's assume as you did that the
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> Local produces also have VAT reduced by the value of goods they bought locally, so it is not such a burden for a local producer vs importer who doesn't benefit from such VAT reduction at all for his costs. Huh ? VAT is transparen
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by arghwhat 2y ago
That's interesting, and if true (what one publicly states does not necessarily reflect ones actions) then the mind remains boggled.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The funny thing is that we actually have a quite big commercial market for such utility vehicles, currently met by dropside vans: vehicles built on a van frame with a flatbed or other custom equipment on the back. This is not really that
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Here in the EU, you'd generally just pay VAT of imports. And to be clear, we pay the same VAT on internal goods. To make it convenient for consumers, large foreign platforms would automatically handle VAT at point of sale, reducing fri
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Ah apologies, you're right - I was tired and read things wrong. But I suspect "GL issues" (i.e., GL API stability) is being mixed together with e.g. mesa issues if mesa is being bundled inside the app/in a "flatpak
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Apologies, but "I heard that..." is not an example.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Of course it does. Their goal was to stop it from being added, including in said towns. Policy makers make things happen by passing laws that make it a requirement or provide financial incentives to do it, and make things stop by outlawing
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Sure, win32 contains GUI bits, but modern apps do not use those GUI bits. OpenGL and Vulkan ABIs are also stable on Linux, provided by mesa. The post is pretty focused on the simplicity of win32 though, which is what I'm refuting as be
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by arghwhat 2y ago
These are however the same on Linux - mesa may change, but what the app uses is OpenGL and GLX. A more modern app might use EGL instead of GLX, or have switched to Vulkan, but that doesn't break old code. You can also run an old mesa f
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Not really when it comes to government initiatives. They'd like the water plants to stop adding fluoride, so they make a policy that the plants should not add fluoride.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Note that this also underlines that the post's premise of Windows having a simple stable ABI - win32 sure is stable, but that's not what applications are coded against anymore. Sure, you can run a 20 year old app, but that is not
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> Compare use case to use case, not language to language. Then you are comparing "bank account interest and debt systems" to "embedded drivers". Or "tax systems" to "embedded drivers". Or "ins
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by arghwhat 2y ago
So numbers from the only supplier...? You are making a false comparison. Even if we assume the number is correct, you're making a false comparison - COBOL is a language, "embedded drivers" is a software component. The equival
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The general consensus around here has always been that you can get paid whatever you want if you're willing to code COBOL by being a specialist consultant. This holds true for any legacy system, whether it's a factory control syst
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Where in the world did you get those statistics from?
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by arghwhat 2y ago
This misses the point of why COBOL is legacy and bad. Using a language with no real community support and a very small available skilled workforce has massive negative effects on cost and productivity (i.e., the ability to deliver changes
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Within EU, you have free movement of goods, and the VAT is generally paid in the country of sale, not in the country of of the consumer. There are a few exceptions to this, and other regions might have other trade agreements. Within the EU
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Yeah, but that there is such a distinction is a little sad. The use of companies for tax avoidance can also lead to some prejudice against small companies in general, which is unfair to those playing nice.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Or when a restaurant owner inexplexably has really low private food expenditure, or has really low revenue on paper despite being relatively popular, or small companies having a lot of company dinners, or labor workers having a lot of c
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by arghwhat 2y ago
I am making a judgement on the US corporate culture and population within it, yes. It has far more loopholes that remain open and actively used than Denmark does. Denmark does its very best to make it either a pain in the arse or impossible
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Black Swan was a big deal, but this article massively overstates the average Dane's faith in the system. The welfare state is certainly not reverred as a religion, and the current state of it is always a hot discussion topic with pulls
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Remember that what matters is the general driving populace, and there will always be people who drive better and who drive worse. Also, a very significant portion of drivers overestimate their driving skills, in particular older drivers. Ha
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by arghwhat 2y ago
I have a very wide definition of novel - any exact environment you have not yet traversed. First time taking that right turn? Novel route. Out eyes, ears, voice and hands are quite useless when operated consciously.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> The issue with self-driving is (1) how it generalises across novel environments That's also an issue with humans though. I'd argue that traffic usually appears to flow because most of the drivers have taken a specific route d
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Just always pull a string through the conduit, full stop.

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