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by brmgb 3y ago
Or, you know, taking into account the stupid things Musl does like not having TCP DNS fallback. I’m only half joking. Features detection in Musl is a generally pain. I don’t blame developers for sometimes taking the path of least resistance
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by brmgb 3y ago
This reminds me of the Button [1] experiment Reddit held in 2015. The interplay between the effect of the countdown reaching zero, the badge associated with clicking and the single use mechanics were quite interesting to witness. It was qui
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by brmgb 3y ago
For all the good things Musl does, its authors can often be downright ridiculous out of a dogmatism which is very unpleasant to deal with as a user. See also their stubborn refusal to give you an easy way to detect that the libc is Musl whi
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by brmgb 3y ago
The main issue is not that the Republicans pretend they barely care about the environment and I’m not here to defend the awful bilan of the Republican party. The issue is that despite a lot of posturing amongst some of them the Democrats do
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by brmgb 3y ago
> It will make humanity even more efficient and give us even more space to grow, but the biosphere will still be in trouble and all that clean energy will make people consume even more of earth's resources. The global population wil
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by brmgb 3y ago
This isn’t a left vs right issue especially in an American context where the left is basically center right and has entirely abandoned its historical ideas in favour of other fights. The left has been entirely as bad as the right when it co
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by brmgb 3y ago
The only country which benefited from the Euro is Germany and they had the audacity to not only refuse the fiscal policies and transfers which might have made that fair but actually undermine the most affected countries like Greece even mor
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by brmgb 3y ago
Genuine question, what exactly is the security problem here? It’s a set of basic techniques to find where a photo was taken. I have a hard time envisioning an actual new issue here. Obviously, people shouldn’t post pictures of things they d
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by brmgb 3y ago
> The U.S. population is still growing, which of course may be lag, but can also be caused by immigration. Indeed which is why I specifically talked of fertility as immigration is a thing. Irrelevant on a global level obviously. > I e
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by brmgb 3y ago
Or we could, you know, cap the amount of sugar in products by law or introduce a tax on added sugar. Just seems simpler. Plus it’s working in the EU.
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by brmgb 3y ago
You are 30 years late. The world at large didn’t wait for you. Fertility has been declining worldwide for decades and been subreplacement in the USA and Europe for quite sometimes. South East Asia and Africa are slowly getting there too. Po
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by brmgb 3y ago
China growth rivals Japan before stagflation and this despite not benefiting from major help from foreign countries. I am not too fond of their regime but I don’t understand the comment I read here. If you compare China to its direct neighb
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by brmgb 3y ago
I think the parent comment was strictly limited to the USA which China views as an adversary and not a partner. Anyone who has travelled a bit in Africa, South East Asia or the Balkans in the past decade could tell that the influence of Chi
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by brmgb 3y ago
Yes, you are right. I was confused by what I read as they started offering a free preview in December 2015 and was convinced they released at the same time they did their serie A.
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by brmgb 3y ago
> Please man, use your brain at least a little bit. Thank you for being condescending. If you expected being a bully might shield you from tearing apart your argument you will be very disappointed. 15 people is a lot closer to two than t
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by brmgb 3y ago
Well Figma started eating their lunch in 2015 having started with a 4 millions seed round and 15 employees for two years so it’s clearly is doable to take on Adobe with far less money that they themselves spend provided your offer is good.
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by brmgb 3y ago
That’s not comparable and you know it. Spotify offers to you is a software and a subscription to their music catalogue. The music is content. The different pieces of software in Office 365 are not. They all do widely different things. You c
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by brmgb 3y ago
I think you are involuntarily given a great exemple against the point you are trying to make. WhatsApp is the de facto default messenger even on iOS and despite having to go the AppStore to install it in most of Europe and South America. Th
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by brmgb 3y ago
> I doubt that most people get 100 uses from cheap cloth bags. Cloth bags are impossible to destroy, light, easy to repair and easy to clean. I would be surprised if anyone gets less than 100 uses out of them. I also have reusable plasti
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by brmgb 3y ago
I think you are missing the point here. The only even prime is 2. The only prime ending with a 5 is 5. The last digit of a prime bigger than 5 can only be 1, 3, 7 and 9.
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by brmgb 3y ago
The track record in other industry is that it might make things more expensive at first then back to affordable once the engineering solutions have matured. There is a clear incentive for companies in making things cheaper after all. It mea
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by brmgb 3y ago
Controversial opinion but I still deeply believe that any building tools offering a “latest” option in its build configuration file and not as an option to update said file is doing something deeply wrong and just poorly designed. Everythin
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by brmgb 3y ago
> Someone have to pay for the ongoing support. It’s a question of incentive. Right now, supporting software is costly for a long time because very little attention is given to making software maintenance cheap. That’s why it’s reasonable
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by brmgb 3y ago
No, “de” in French has the same meaning as “of” and sounds exactly as weird here. That’s clearly not where this comes from. Also the translation of string with this meaning is “chaîne de caractères”.
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by brmgb 3y ago
I migrated a project from clearcase to git at my first company and for all the hate I have for clearcase even I agree there was little point in switching to something else before. We had a bit of svn on other part of the company but that wa
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by brmgb 3y ago
Because you think the US managed to get above shooting each other? Ah, my sweet summer child. Enjoy your mostly empty continent surrounded by oceans and the quirk of history who briefly put you were you are. It’s unlikely to last long.
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by brmgb 3y ago
The American point of view is that people are American when it allows Americans to keep to their narrow minded patriotism and aren’t when it doesn’t suit it.
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by brmgb 3y ago
There definitely is. I don’t think it’s impossible at all. That’s what I meant by: “The potential is definitely there”. But mismanagement until it is too late is definitely a risk. The country should be able to solve that with some imports
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by brmgb 3y ago
It’s not an either/or situation. Most of the Big Oil companies have significant investments in renewable power. It’s just that oil is insanely profitable, to a point which is hard to grasp so it dwarfs whatever else they do.
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by brmgb 3y ago
I expect the trend to continue and get worse. India is on the verge of having serious issue with its food supply. To keep its share of importation stable, given the current population growth, the country needs its production to grow by 20%

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