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by bborud 10mo ago
And that’s just his open source work.
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by bborud 10mo ago
Why does every GNU web page look like 1996? This actually matters. Even stripping the page down and removing any styling would make it look more trustworthy less like an abandoned project. Perhaps a GNU style could be something we could hel
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by bborud 10mo ago
I generally don't worry too much about static vs dynamic dispatch. Not that I use a lot of interfaces all over the place, but there are certain places where I do (for instance persistence layer abstraction - where it doesn't actu
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by bborud 10mo ago
If Go refuses to add complexity to gain performance and cannot engineer its way around the GC, it effectively resigns from the pursuit of the high-performance tier. I'm completely okay with that. In fact I much prefer it. Writing hi
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by bborud 10mo ago
Do you have some tips for blog postings, code, articles that explore these topics in Go?
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by bborud 10mo ago
I don't understand why Youtube would do this. Both applying these kinds of "enhancements" to video and to do so without consent or even informing people. How is this a smart move? We need more people experimenting with creati
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by bborud 10mo ago
Well, that doesn't sound too bad. But this is a high enough barrier for Mathematica to not see wide spread use. I don't remember what the pricing has been throughout the years. But I do remember that for some of the time I couldn&
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by bborud 10mo ago
But this isn’t what is happening. Look at the numbers. What would you expect if Individual Vehicle Approvals represented an actual bridgehead for manufacturers? You’d expect noticeable growth over the past decades. But it is still a roundi
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by bborud 11mo ago
Yes, they should, but there are a couple of things to consider here. In most countries we are talking about very low numbers of cars that are exempted. You can see this as a safety valve of sorts: provide some leeway to ensure you don&#x27
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by bborud 11mo ago
> "In the US, regular school shootings have made this a complicated issue [...]" That sentence really stood out to me. When (and where) I grew up this wasn't even a possibility one would consider. It reminds me how irrele
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by bborud 11mo ago
This is the theory, yes. And then reality comes bursting through the door and you are confronted with the awfulness that is the C/++ toolchain. Starting with multi-OS, multi-architecture builds, and then plunging into the cesspit that
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by bborud 11mo ago
I'd object to the notion of a free market. Free and fair markets don't actually exist in the way we like to think. Pretty much every kind of business I've been involved in has different strata of rules for different players.
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by bborud 11mo ago
I don't think you have chosen the correct physical model for insulation. Insulation is about thermal resistance, not minimizing mass. Your body is continuously producing heat. What matters for staying warm is how fast you lose that he
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by bborud 11mo ago
And yet, this isn’t what what people in polar regions do. Nor is it how professionals are taught to dress in cold climates. Reinhold Messner believes in yetis. Linus Pauling thought you could cure a cold with vitamin C and shot coffee up hi
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by bborud 11mo ago
Oh it is going to be a more than 10x profit. The materials themselves probably cost no more than a few tens of cents, so all the cost is going to be the in the manufacturing process. The knitting pattern does look somewhat advanced, so I g
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by bborud 11mo ago
When you put it like that I can find no fault with your argument :-)
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by bborud 11mo ago
I haven't tried it so I wouldn't know. But I'll have a look. Thanks for the tip! As I mentioned, I've gone through a lot of jackets in order to try to find a model that consistently works and it is slightly baffling. I
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by bborud 11mo ago
Perhaps it works if you are not physically active. But it is quite the opposite of what people do in cold regions. The inner layers are usually the most important ones. The inner layer needs to do two things: transport moisture away from t
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by bborud 11mo ago
Gore Tex is a good example of a material that, on its own, doesn't actually work as well as the marketing would have you believe. For instance it stops breathing when it gets wet. And then the whole rationale is gone. It means your p
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by bborud 11mo ago
The MA-1 "works" under a relatively narrow set of conditions that I don't see most days. I tried. It is a miserable garment for how and where I live. I'm not saying synthetic materials are always bad. I own a few jack
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by bborud 11mo ago
To some degree, but junk is junk even if it says Issey Miyake on it. But at the price they are asking I'd insist on higher quality materials. Not this junk. It is like those horrible Louis Vuitton plastic bags. Yes they are expensiv
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by bborud 11mo ago
I'm pretty confident the answer on both counts would be "no". (This teminds me of a show I once saw where various design students were given the task to design things. Philippe Starck was the judge. One of the students made
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by bborud 11mo ago
Objects have to earn the right to exist. We make so much stuff. Most of it unnecessary. Stuff that will soon be cluttering your home and then end up in a landfill. This is not a product that deserves to exist. It is not made from quality
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by bborud 11mo ago
If you want to shoot to JPEG, and not post process, you aren't really going to need a camera that was designed to capture far more data than the target format is capable of representing. And yet, people pay for really expensive cameras
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by bborud 1y ago
Correction: you have to distinguish between taking photos and publishing them. You are generally not probibited from photographing individuals in Germany. The limits generally only apply to publication.
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by bborud 1y ago
Making it illegal is a few steps too far. It leads to situations where you can end up doing more harm than good. In reality this is is a very complicated question and any attempt at "solving" it with absolutes will only complica
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by bborud 1y ago
This is a double edged sword. Two good events that should make us think about this are the Charlie Kirk funeral and the No Kings protest. The former was a relatively small event broadcast live. The latter was a huge protest involving more
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by bborud 1y ago
If we'll worm our way back to where I started, the term "public" has changed its substantive meaning over the years. And we have to acknowledge that. If I took pictures of people on the street and published them 50 years ag
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by bborud 1y ago
as a non-militant bicyclist I see this every day. People who insist on their right to ride where they are legally allowed to while at the same time being a nuisance. Yes, you can ride on the sidewalk, but it'd be really nice if you d
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by bborud 1y ago
I wasn't trying to make a "ship has sailed"-argument, but rather the argument that going after photography is odd given how little we care about surveillance and data collection that is far more invasive, complete and dangero

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