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by coldpie 8mo ago
Sure. Turn it into a public company with a board, sell the shares to reduce any individual's ownership stake to <$100M.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
It might! Reducing the power held by this handful of billionaires necessarily means that power is spread out amongst more people. That means the people who work at newspapers might have the power to influence laws and society in a way that
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I'd love to hear more ideas for how we can reduce these peoples' power to control our society!
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> Take away his ownership of Amazon as it increases above 100MM? Yes, that sounds reasonable to me. No single person should have control of a company with that much power.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Good spot, thanks for pointing it out. I normally don't like the LLM accusation posts, but two posts from a brand new user in the same minute is a pretty huge red flag for bad behavior. https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> while a calculator would be faster he'd still earn the same per hour. This guy gets it.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I have two or three that I inherited from my dad. I've never learned to use them because I haven't thought of something I'd use them for. The one thing I could think of is quickly doing fractional math while woodworking (wha
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Agreed. I signed up for a paid subscription last month after I was linked to this article[1] which correctly, clearly, and accurately labeled the administration's claims about that incident as lies. This is journalism, and it is worth
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by coldpie 8mo ago
These things get a lot less creepy/sad/interesting when you ignore the first-person pronouns and remember they're just autocomplete software. It's a scaled up version of your phone's keyboard. Useful, sure, but th
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Yeah I read through the linked blog post and came away thinking, it's just bots wasting resources to post nothing into the wild? Why is this interesting? The post mentions a few particular highlights and they're just posts with no
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> I really wish more devices went this way. It's a shame Xbox Game Studios is run so badly, because pretty much everything else about Xbox is genuinely better & more consumer-friendly than what PlayStation & Nintendo are doi
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Series X controllers still work this way. Takes standard-ass AA batteries, including rechargeables; or you can buy a bespoke charge pack[1] which actually supports charging while in the controller. [1] https://www.xbox.com/
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by coldpie 9mo ago
> a big "unsafe" dunce cap to shame you for being a naughty, lazy programmer That's bizarrely emotional. It's a language feature that allows you to do things the compiler would normally forbid you from doing. It'
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by coldpie 9mo ago
I know, I know! Change is hard and scary. To be honest, while I am glad they're finally tackling this, I'm also expecting to have a pretty annoying couple of weeks whenever they ship this support and I finally decide to make the s
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by coldpie 9mo ago
> Still I perceive a lot of XFCE's userbase to be more "traditional" and conservative about technologies, and likely to be skeptical of both Wayland and Rust, seeing them as complex, bloated, and unnecessary. Very long tim
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by coldpie 9mo ago
It depends on how it's implemented. You're correct that Wine can't support kernel-mode drivers, but there are user-mode ways to talk to hardware, too. Wine supports direct user-mode access to USB devices, so if the control
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by coldpie 9mo ago
Having done contract development work for a number of different-sized software companies, a common rule I've noticed is the quality of the product is directly proportional to how many QA staff are employed. Clients that had me in dire
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by coldpie 9mo ago
It's so funny watching the proprietary OS folks despair as their software falls to pieces to make shareholders richer, meanwhile my Linux distro has "just worked" since 2007. You don't have to keep running on this treadm
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by coldpie 9mo ago
I don't even know what a realistic plan to fix this looks like. How do you cult de-program 40% of the population of the most powerful country on the planet? Nuremberg-style trials for every single person working under this administrat
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by coldpie 9mo ago
Agreed, I also did it in high school, circa 2005, and it was a fantastic experience. Learning how to build dozens of different projects and see how they all fit together really set me up for my career doing systems programming. I never actu
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by coldpie 9mo ago
Yeah this is unreadable trash.
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by coldpie 9mo ago
The vast majority of Linux kernel development is corporations paying devs to implement the features they need. Some of that is in-house developers, some of that is hiring contractors like Igalia or Collabora or many others. That's what
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by coldpie 9mo ago
In your first comment you said, "why would I pay for [software] if it is provided for free?" And you're right, you don't. What you pay for is for someone to develop software/features that don't exist yet. Maybe
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by coldpie 9mo ago
Igalia, Collabora, Red Hat, GCC, LLVM, Wine, the entire Linux kernel. Tons of open source consulting companies out there working on all kinds of projects.
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by coldpie 9mo ago
I worked for 13 years on open source software and I definitely did it to make money. Nothing wrong with trying to make money on open source software, it's just a different business model than proprietary. More consulting oriented than
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by coldpie 9mo ago
> You have to fund it from selling a product. Well, no. Most people in the world get paid for doing a thing. I pay someone $X and they do Y for me and then I have the Y that I wanted done. This can work for software too. Someone pays me
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by coldpie 9mo ago
Nothing will make a boring corpo job not-boring, but one thing that can help mix it up is to change which boring corpo job you're doing once or twice a decade. Five years is a decent stint at one job. Worth taking a look around and s
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by coldpie 9mo ago
Weak.
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by coldpie 9mo ago
What is childish about being glad an enemy of the United States was removed from a position of power?
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by coldpie 9mo ago
Even just keeping the focus on fighting video games, the community still exists. Search for something like "<your city> FGC" (ie "fighting game community") and you'll probably come up with several hits. Join

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