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by asveikau 2y ago
I saw an interesting video showing Argentines in the 90s vs Argentines today, both in BA with more or less the same age and status, and the former group had way more of that "Italian" sounding accent. I think it's going away
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by asveikau 2y ago
That's not true. He was a sitting president, elected in 1968, and a bunch of the scandal was about his re-election campaign in 1972. He was successfully re-elected to a second term but then those events caught up with him over the foll
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by asveikau 2y ago
> Of course, if congress doesn't like something a president is doing, they can change the laws and remove his or her legal authority to do something. No, the supreme court just gave the president immunity for exactly this. This exac
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by asveikau 2y ago
> The absolute bone headed move they did is they continued to promote and sell their legacy models front and centre cannibalizing their own future growth. That's kind of exactly what I meant, though. Nokia made an almost identical m
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by asveikau 2y ago
> Instead of recognizing the game changer that the iPhone was they slept on the market But they made that error long before buying QNX. By the time they bought QNX they had probably lost too much ground to turn it around.
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by asveikau 2y ago
> It would require me to write a custom paint function for every single control, which would take so much time I could raise a family in the meantime This is a weird comment that shows the philosophy of old school win32 has not clicked f
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by asveikau 2y ago
It only works if the case label body is a single line or is enclosed in brackets. I'll confess, I've used this construct to mean "omit the first line of the next case label but otherwise fall through". If you think of th
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by asveikau 2y ago
I'm kind of surprised Redbox is still a thing. It feels like a very late 2000s idea.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I think his bitterness and open hostility are not well received on HN and simar places, but I find it absolutely refreshing. He's often right too.
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by asveikau 2y ago
Not first but the initial release was 2 years before Netscape was founded, and 1 year before Mosaic. It was definitely an early browser. I first used lynx years later when I was getting into Linux in the late 90s, and I found that part surp
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by asveikau 2y ago
From my understanding, the Jewish European languages, including Yiddish and Ladino (judeo-spanish) have a short of frozen in time quality. I know more about Ladino because I know Spanish and am always interested in romance languages. Many (
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by asveikau 2y ago
Actually Democrats have a long history of doing things like that and then losing. Look how they abandoned single payer and a public option during the Obamacare period. Then they lost the Congress immediately after. Democrats do centrist or
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by asveikau 2y ago
You are fear mongering for the first two, and the damage for the third was already done a long time ago, would not be undone even with a full pardon. I'll be very honest. You have a bias. You will fit everything to that bias. You don&#
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by asveikau 2y ago
This is totally symbolic. There's no practical downside to him being a felon in the US and a free man in Australia.
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by asveikau 2y ago
The thing is, I'm not on any jury, and I'm expressing my opinion. I never claimed to be a juror, judge, or anything. I'm saying it's my personal opinion that his case is different from the many people I've read abo
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by asveikau 2y ago
Given that he was released with time served, I don't think US prosecutors gained much from allowing him to plea. What is the motivation for them to pressure him to do so when they are not seeking any additional outcome?
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by asveikau 2y ago
Well yes, the fact that he was held without trial for a long time is worse than the fact he did a plea deal.
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by asveikau 2y ago
Plea deals and innocent people being pressured into accepting guilt is a huge problem in the US criminal justice system, but I'm not sure Assange in particular fits this. I think he did what is alleged. You could also separately argue
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by asveikau 2y ago
I absolutely believe the author approaches the topic in good faith. I don't doubt they've poured a lot of love and attention into the project.
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by asveikau 2y ago
Doesn't make the conclusion incorrect. I don't feel the need to convince anyone else of this. I also don't have time to dig up that original material and I don't have time to reassess the library to see if it has improve
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by asveikau 2y ago
> No need to be rude. It was appropriate criticism. The comment above just said "like, people really value binary compatibility and stuff" -- as if it's OK to code against a very specific moment in time with internal dynam
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by asveikau 2y ago
I would need to dig up blog posts I read several years ago to get specific. I recall reading a blog post of yours where you describe hardcoding particular constants to play nice with some loaders and/or dynamic linkers. My impression
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by asveikau 2y ago
I disagree with your assessment in all cases. You simply do not know what you were talking about. Standardization efforts and backward compatibility assumes a well-behaved application. If you explicitly depend on really weird hacky stuff li
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by asveikau 2y ago
Years ago I read some of the author's posts (they're active on HN too iirc) about it, and it seemed to me like they were relying heavily on the internals of the loader or dynamic linker on each platform, such that a new release fo
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by asveikau 2y ago
Ooh, that sounds good. I must have missed that part.
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by asveikau 2y ago
> Basically when a window is created, we receive an event. After getting that event, we lock the X server, then ask it about the new window. And sometimes, the window is just not there Relying on this sounds like a race condition even if
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by asveikau 2y ago
Oh, ok, I skimmed past this: > The shot was also superior to once-daily Truvada, another Gilead drug that is used for HIV prevention. That's good news. As I understand it the existing treatments were already very good. And these i
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by asveikau 2y ago
They don't ask people to live their lives any differently than they would, nor do they expose anyone to HIV on purpose; they just track them assuming that x% of people get HIV in any given year. So they compare what X is for people wh
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by asveikau 2y ago
As I understand it would go like this: Normally, some percentage of the population will get HIV in any given year. So what you do is give a bunch of people the shot and track them long term. You count how many got HIV after N years, compa
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by asveikau 2y ago
I feel like a simpler explanation is that the money involved attracts lots of shallow people trying to make a buck, who do not care about the substance or technology.

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