benj111

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by benj111 8mo ago
Surely the issue is estates (in this sense) in general. Did anyone in the estate actually know the guy whose legacy they're supposed to be protecting? How does paying money to Mondrian's great great great great grandchildren enhan
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by benj111 8mo ago
TBF there's currently a massive perverse incentive in that we want to encourage creators to create, but then allow the successful ones to retire making money from past works.
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by benj111 8mo ago
If I write an OS in Basic, surely the 'natural' language for exposing the system calls is Basic? Yes Unix predates C. But at this point in time 50+ years down the road, where the majority on nix users don't use anything that
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by benj111 8mo ago
On the other hand some people have things to ward off evil demons, and aren't bothered by evil demons. The parent has actually done the thing, and found no issues, I don't think you can hand wave that away with a biased metaphor.
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by benj111 8mo ago
A thing can be good and bad. Everything is a tradeoff. The reason why C is 'good' in this instance is the lack of safety, and everything else that makes C, C (see?) but that is also what makes C bad.
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by benj111 8mo ago
Yes, but ultimately. Just like transporters, it was pulled out of Roddenberry's arse. We could have have a long debate about how society would work if transporters were a thing, but that doesn't make transporters possible. The exa
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by benj111 8mo ago
By what metric? Around me it was all sheep farming or weaving. It seems to me having the agency to choose your own hours, to be able to collect fire wood for the fire is better than on paper earning more, but being in a slum a family to a r
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by benj111 8mo ago
Yes plain text is mentioned in the last paragraph, but the article isn't about that. I'm sure you could set up word to just output plain text, you can set up excel to deal with CSV. That would not be congruent with the entire rest
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by benj111 8mo ago
Maybe I've been in Linux land too long but sending a file to a printer seems pretty obvious to me. Yes it's transformative in a way, but you could equally argue that my word document with A4 layout is a digital version of a docume
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by benj111 8mo ago
There's a printer icon in windows and *nix. Many icons represent things that have wildly different forms. People and cars look different, but road signs manage to portray these things.
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by benj111 8mo ago
So if they're reusing the shell, they passed the savings on to customers right? If this were a £10 mouse then this excuse might be valid, but it isn't.
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by benj111 8mo ago
Right.... So.... Add some charging circuitry. Is it a problem if people don't use it as a wireless mouse anyway. Yes it's very apple to force users to use devices how Apple wants, but that isn't a particularly good reason.
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by benj111 8mo ago
As opposed to the legal ones???
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by benj111 8mo ago
I'm quite surprised there isn't an obvious link to the YouTube channel of the same name. That's how I know of him.
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by benj111 8mo ago
I don't particularly see the problem with Libre office. But then they talk about collaboration and we've had that in the form of wikis for over 20 years, so I struggle to think what else this, as yet undefined, new thing needs to
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by benj111 8mo ago
Talking heads reference? Part of me thinks that we're already reaching peak stuff/employment/the current system. We are currently churning out graduates who work in coffee shops. More and more employment is make work. The iss
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by benj111 8mo ago
So pretty much like Autism. Where the popular myth doesn't line up with reality...
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by benj111 8mo ago
True. I can see 58008 on mine....
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by benj111 8mo ago
Did Ace ever meet Lord Flash Heart? Now that would have been a Comic Relief crossover.
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by benj111 8mo ago
Didn't it move to the US as Junkyard wars with Henry Rollins?
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by benj111 8mo ago
I think the main issue with CGI is that it makes it easy to have big space battles, so everything is. You see this with TNG v DS9. TNG would have one alien ship in an episode at best. It forces you to write story. Come DS9 and you can have
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by benj111 8mo ago
I can't remember why I opened a cupboard door, although I recently came across Cerulean blue in an art shop which after much googling got me to the X files episode that I can't have seen since it first aired. memory is indeed weir
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by benj111 8mo ago
In my head 1 sold left shoes, the other right shoes...
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by benj111 8mo ago
Is the friend of friend limited to one deep? What happens if friends conflict? Personally I like hn because there is karma, but it's an afterthought. Although I'll it a try. I suspect the problems of reputation and the internet ar
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by benj111 8mo ago
What about catenaries? Trucks aren't going anywhere. I'm guessing 95% of lorry traffic is on ~5% of roads, small battery for the last mile and power lines for long distance.
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by benj111 8mo ago
They would but the driver isn't paid for the fuel saving so he spends 5 extra minutes to save the company money.
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by benj111 8mo ago
I hope you can accept that all of those things are incredibly rare, and that it's not clear that a higher speed would be a net benefit to the driver, much less all the other road users. Then consider what removing the hard limit does f
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by benj111 8mo ago
I am getting it. I'm saying 10 years ago demand was X and we had the gas capacity we needed. Now demand is X-10. We have 10 too much capacity without building any more gas generation. I haven't even gone into the presumption that
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by benj111 8mo ago
In the UK, demand has been steadily going down. We don't need new gas power stations to cover increased usage.
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by benj111 8mo ago
"sunlight is free" This is the UK btw...

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