cturner

28 ms·

241.
by cturner 6y ago
I find the idea of a European army to be the stuff of fantasy. The reason Europe is so dependent on the US is because European NATO members have for decades chosen not to honour their spending and capability obligations to that treaty. Cert
242.
by cturner 6y ago
Ideas do not have the same dynamics as real property (scarcity). Rather than being an example of property rights, copyright is an example of government undermining property rights. The concept of real property rights predate nation states b
243.
by cturner 6y ago
This is largely achievable, http://songseed.org/post/20201113.aa.simple.launch.menu.html
244.
by cturner 6y ago
Here, you make an argument is about enforceability that undermines your earlier note about "10 or 20 years". The obvious conclusion of your enforceability argument is that we should not have any form of copyright. That's fine
245.
by cturner 6y ago
I used to work for an education-resources publisher that had a problem with lecturers photocopying their books. We created a portal with value-add features, and put the ordering-user ID on every page of every book. Photocopying all but disa
246.
by cturner 6y ago
"There's a need to allow artists and writers to make money" The current system does not satisfy that standard. Artists and writers don't make money due to far-reaching copyright. Musicians make money by selling tickets t
247.
by cturner 6y ago
There is a documented situation where Getty attempted to charge an artist for their own work ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340178 ). The only reason we know of that particular case is because they happened to charg
248.
by cturner 6y ago
FYI - may be useful - there is some contrast between the CPC releases of Rebelstar and Laser Squad and the Spectrum releases.
249.
by cturner 6y ago
Exposing the limitations of the underlying tech is a good thing, because it makes it clear what needs to be fixed. Early operating system APIs grew up around batch systems, which were inherently synchronous. As multi-user systems and networ
250.
Avoid premature optimisation, but keep your options open(songseed.org)
1 points by cturner 6y ago|1 comments
251.
by cturner 6y ago
"pseudo English syntax do nothing to open programming to the masses" But they did with hypercard, right? I remember my sister showing me a hypercard presentation she did while she was in primary school.
252.
by cturner 6y ago
For what it's worth, Rust's string length tells you the number of conventional characters, whilst following typical programming notation rules.
253.
by cturner 6y ago
Me too, loved your post.
254.
by cturner 6y ago
This is the forth-is-my-chisel vs node-js-is-my-glue-gun worldview collision. It's bigger than vi-or-emacs, it's older than functional-vs-procedural. There's no bridging it with contextual examples.
255.
by cturner 6y ago
None of your points are evidence of the earlier claim. Your post follows the pattern of the earlier one that I replied to: you echo the mantra that Murdoch has control over politicians, and you again leap from claim into statement of truth
256.
by cturner 6y ago
> they effectively decide who wins the next election in countries like Australia and the UK Big claims require big evidence, and here you haven't given any.
257.
by cturner 6y ago
An amusing angle on this situation. If you go back thirty or twenty years, it is hard to think of an industry better-positioned to capture the momentum of the internet than the news media. (1) They had teams of people producing regular fres
258.
by cturner 6y ago
This is political content. Every other news aggregation site on the planet covers this stuff. It detracts from hacker news.
259.
by cturner 6y ago
Something I found frustrating - the Maximite repl goes out of its way to prevent the user from writing machine code. This is not in the spirit of classic systems. Maximite lacks memory protection, and does allow direct writes to memory. The
260.
by cturner 6y ago
The anti-malware measures in modern Windows are at least part of the issue. There was an interesting conference video exploring this, about eighteen months ago. It was part of a project to make git faster on windows. I can't find it, m
261.
by cturner 6y ago
There's been rumours The notion that anyone is steering the UK towards the quirky US model is simple fear-mongering. Even the partisan article you cite only talks about privatisation of elements of the NHS. A mixed public&#x2
262.
by cturner 6y ago
> Broker offerings here seem a few "paradigm shifts" > behind the US. Zero commissions are unheard of last > I checked. A US-style zero-commission model is not viable in the Australian landscape. The roo
263.
by cturner 6y ago
Thanks for the reference to includeos. They do seem to have built something in the spirit of what I have been looking into.
264.
by cturner 6y ago
Agree this is interesting, and user mode looks like legacy for some major domains. For example, if you are building a grid computer, you don't need mechanisms that were designed to protect university students from one another. Consider
265.
by cturner 6y ago
Revisit. I can where brown9 is coming from. I could have avoided leaving that interpretation open by writing, "here is an example of a quality that is held by all X, yet not by all Y".
266.
by cturner 6y ago
This thread considered an issue: whether services and microservices are equivalent concepts. They are not. There is a quality that is held by Microservices, yet which is not universally held by Services. You have observed that other service
267.
by cturner 6y ago
"currently USD is the only real option for international trade" I think you have conflated currency matters with sanction matters. I will attack that here, but much of your point stands. My points here: international business tend
268.
by cturner 6y ago
Microservice implies systems that are decoupled for deployment purposes. For example, Microservice A could restart to a new version while Microservice B keeps running. This is a more complicated interaction contract than services where thei
269.
by cturner 6y ago
"What is your alternative?" Aggressively small teams, with no hands-off middle-management layer. You can build massive capability around a small number of well-managed message-backbones and a single codebase. By keeping the number
270.
by cturner 6y ago
Interesting on your x470 experience. I bought a X470 Taichi U from Scan UK in early February, and the 3600 chip worked. I was wary of the issue you raise, but lucked out, and figured the issues you talk of had washed through. Maybe the ware

More ›