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by caslon 5y ago
That's not true, actually. The Wikipedia page for Linux has a bunch of direct-from-Linus citations. Here's one I found literally on the first row of citations. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux/
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by caslon 5y ago
Does it matter where they'll go? People will always find some spot on the internet to have conversations after a given platform hits the friction threshold, and some might not even go anywhere: They might just leave. Where people wil
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by caslon 5y ago
The problem is false positives. Graham's experience of combating spam involved writing a Bayesian filter for his mailbox. That's fine. Somebody misses a message and one of the two parties feels bad, but they eventually either catc
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by caslon 5y ago
In defense of the genre, the world had plenty of great and popular side-scrollers throughout the next two decades. Rare and Nintendo made a bunch of universally-beloved ones, for example.
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by caslon 5y ago
They serve ads on DuckDuckGo, though.
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by caslon 5y ago
That isn't true. Here's a video showing how simple it is: https://streamable.com/yapgz
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by caslon 5y ago
It's incredible, isn't it? Just as web developers , of all people, are finally, after over a decade, coming to the conclusion that arbitrarily-packaged dependencies are a bad idea for so many obvious reasons, Rust developers ar
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by caslon 5y ago
The games are less innovative now, on average, than they were during the first days of Oculus. Aside from Boneworks, the trend is less interaction, rather than more.
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by caslon 5y ago
I'm aware. I use VR daily, for both work and play. It's not new, though. Luckey's work was a revival, not a conjuring. There was a motion-tracked HMD in 1961, and Sutherland established more or less our modern take on it
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by caslon 5y ago
Do they? The author seems to have submitted only three posts in the last three weeks.
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by caslon 5y ago
It didn't claim that video games weren't fun or profitable, and the author even admitted they'd had fun with them. It just claimed that the current status quo of them has gotten kinda stale for them. Video games being sta
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by caslon 5y ago
Why not?
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by caslon 5y ago
You're deliberately applying the least intelligent light you can to everyone in this thread's comments. With Gopher, you don't have to worry about whether someone is ideologically-opposed to JavaScript, and you don't h
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by caslon 5y ago
John wants to read a blog over HTTP. John reads the blog. There is a link. It is to a social media website. He clicks on the link. The social media website requires JavaScript. John has no context for the blog he was reading, and is saddene
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by caslon 5y ago
It's a demonstration that the modern patent system fails at that.
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by caslon 5y ago
It also mentions Jack Burness, the author of MOONLANDER. Here's an article that interviewed him last year: https://www.acriticalhit.com/moonlander-one-giant-leap-for-g...
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by caslon 5y ago
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by caslon 5y ago
You could write under a pseudonym for less polished posts.
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by caslon 5y ago
Your writing is really incredible.
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by caslon 5y ago
Something can be designed well without being made by a designer. Jaruzel accused him of being a designer as a "reason" for why the site's functionality was, allegedly (and wrongly), not working on low-DPI devices. In reality,
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by caslon 5y ago
"I have to use a plastic spork for work. Therefore, I cannot use a metal utensil at home. Therefore, you shouldn't be able to make food that doesn't mesh well with my plastic spork." .NET works with Linux, anyway.
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by caslon 5y ago
Exactly! X11 gives you options, and doesn't force anything on your programs, allowing program designers to use fitting tools for the job.
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by caslon 5y ago
Looks fantastic on a real operating system at 1920x1080. Gwern is many things, a few of them positive, but he's not a designer. He's just a guy with an internet connection. The site works, though. Just install a better operating s
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by caslon 5y ago
No, you're clearly strawmanning. You're taking extreme posts, of individual users not representative of the average in any way, shape or form , and insisting, despite all available evidence, that extremists were the average.
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by caslon 5y ago
That's an insane strawman of an entire subculture. It's like saying the average Hacker News user doesn't know what a computer is. You're picking an extremist, extremely small amount of users as an "average," de
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by caslon 5y ago
I don't see how this argument isn't roughly writing off the root of all of these problems in exchange for one of the symptoms.
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by caslon 5y ago
Medical software is primarily proprietary. They are contributing to the problem. Educational software is almost exclusively for-profit and proprietary. They are contributing to many problems. Digital support for infrastructure is overwhelm
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by caslon 5y ago
Actually, it's just an attempt to accuse people writing lazy comments, not to excuse myself. I don't work on proprietary software.
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by caslon 5y ago
Nobody cares about social responsibility, and you'll be hard-pressed to ever get anyone to genuinely care. Our "profession" has gone out of its way to establish new avenues in which copyright can be applied solely so we cou
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by caslon 5y ago
Try using the native build of Basilisk II? You might have a bit better luck.

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