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by bborud 4y ago
gust of wind
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by bborud 4y ago
Clickable link to screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/dh7Gcfk
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Ask HN: Chrome and Completion of “News.”
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I don't agree. If we move to goalposts too far down the field the political resistance will guarantee that we accomplish less. We have to focus on making repairing stuff possible and economically feasible first. And I think it will
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> one of the biggest steps we could take is strong right-to-repair laws I could not agree more. Thank you for bringing this up. I think part of why this doesn't turn up more often when green parties try to get elected is that it isn
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...which then inspires people who aren't youtubers to buy voice microphones which they aren't going to learn how to use so you either don't hear them, or they sound like their lips are almost resting on your ear.
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Believing that this is somehow about nations is misguided. It is about incumbents and political power. As soon as businesses reach the size and power where they have direct influence over politics, they will seek to stifle innovation to c
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This supposes that figuring out how something is done is a bottleneck today. It isn't. It also supposes that figuring out how stuff is done is a bigger hurdle than the problems patents present to innovators. It isn't. For patent
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Patents should be abolished.
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Yeah, sure, just heap in more stuff. Because it isn't chaotic and ugly enough yet.
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That makes me think of a chapter in a Daniel Suarez novel where an AI tortures a human for a prolonged period of time.
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Or one of those springs that some doors use to dampen impacts with the wall. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ocvBI_vtJwA
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To be honest, that looked a bit thin. And the most productivity-killing Java boilerplate is hardly due to its static typing but rather the baroque style required by lots of frameworks. It is important to differentiate between language and
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Oh, it'll all be great when ChatGPT writes all that code for us and we can be off somewhere having a beer and a cry instead.
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> Statically typed languages are known to lead to slower initial > development times I hear people saying that, but I'm not sure I buy it. Is there any research that supports that, and if so, for which languages? Also, what doe
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What is a bit sad is that JS and TS both get in the way of the development of something more sensible to replace it. I had hoped that WASM would make application development for the browser a bit more sane. I had hoped that someone would c
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To me the language is very secondary to me as it exists in an endless swamp of: - chaotic and baroque layers of tooling that need to be figured out and made to keep working - a software tradition where poorly thought out ideas are implement
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That's a plausible explanation which I find to have support in personal experience.
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My guess is that it isn't just down to the language, but possibly better design and perhaps better programmers. Back when I used Java as my main language I reimplemented a few projects in Java that had been C++ and sometimes got an un
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I didn't say the laws do not exist. I pointed out that they obviously do not work. And they obviously do not work because politicians are strongly disincentivized to ensure they work.
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Observation: there exists a few companies whose market positions are very close to monopolies and where the government isn't doing anything that has actual effect. I don't think it is an issue with enforcement alone, but with laws
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When tweets become "articles" the problem isn't really twitter, but suggests the reader may have trouble correctly describing their process of finding things out. When reading this twitter thread I was intrigued so I: - Looke
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According to a friend of mine who lives in Japan and fits the stereotype "foodie", reality is somewhere in the middle. Farmed Norwegian salmon was indeed seen as a less desirable option for sushi - and apparently still is. Accordi
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Happy New Year!
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This is about erecting a tombstone for a service that spent years and years in a hospital bed - not even well enough to cough up blood. It doesn't make me excited. It makes me sad. I gave up on Flickr this year. Some time early next y
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The sensible thing to do would be to abolish patents completely. Patents originated as a way to create incentive to publish inventions. We do not need patents for that purpose anymore. Today patents have the opposite effect: they stifle
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This is the most boring possibility so it is probably the correct guess :-)
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You could send search requests. The reason I remember this is because I was writing a Gopher server which had a built-in search engine. I say "I was building" rather than "built" because two things happened: someone sho
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From wikipedia: "As of July 2021, Tumblr hosts more than 529 million blogs." That's a lot bigger than I had imagined. I wonder how many of those blogs are active and how many are dead.
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Except that implementing ideas usually takes a non-zero amount of time.

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