dee-bee

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by dee-bee 3y ago
It doesn't really matter at all, frankly. The workplace is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship. Whether you view the workers as nuanced complex moral human beings or just cogs doesn't change the impact the companies have on
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Who wants to rent? I imagine most would opt to own instead. Rent is certainly far higher than a mortgage would be, which makes little sense if you're trying to encourage ownership (as often is the story about the american dream)
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Why ban by ideology? Just do it by behavior of the route/node.
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by dee-bee 3y ago
> Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person. Why do people put up with this? Seems absolutely insane to connect a car's functionality to the internet, aside maybe from remote start. Where are the legislators? Wher
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by dee-bee 3y ago
> providing the kernel interface through stable syscalls is actually the super power of Linux I thought that it was drivers? Linux isn't particularly unique for having a stable abi (and the utility of such a decision is highly quest
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by dee-bee 3y ago
> Once again the EFF is proving that they'll stand behind their principles and defend freedom even for those they disagree with. They are one of the few remaining organizations that I feel I can support without reservation. I find t
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by dee-bee 3y ago
I meant "alignment" there not "aliasing" but the point is the same.
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by dee-bee 3y ago
I agree that gaming on mac is fairly grim, but I've been quite happy playing games on my 13" M1 macbook (air i think?). This excludes most AAA games, but I've certainly enjoyed Victoria 3 (and other paradox games). They don&#
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Is this the equivalent of directly asking the os for more pages, or does it work via some other heap-like mechanism that simply isn't garbage collected?
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by dee-bee 3y ago
"Artificially high" by a factor of maybe 3. We need to look at how to get to a factor of 100 or 1000. Oil is much, much more valuable in the long term as a material commodity, not a fuel commodity. This can be realized if we bring
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by dee-bee 3y ago
I've seen the fuel or carbon tax pitched with a program where wealthy states directly subsidize the growth of non-carbon-emitting processes (or a low amortized rate, for instance for the concrete and mining and processing of nuclear fu
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Fair.
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by dee-bee 3y ago
This seems to be an artifact of using Qt Creator. Generally speaking it is just a matter of running the same compilation steps with different targets (so long as you don't have arch-specific stuff in there like reliance on aliasing b
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Yes. I'm going to specifically recommend Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula Le Guin for particularly socially-focused fiction that is, in many ways, much more relevant to our current social issues than most contemporary f
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by dee-bee 3y ago
The parallel on a website would require a clickwrap, I think they're just being bold and hoping nobody notices and/or they want the suit.
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Hell if we're calling reactionary politics a reaction to climate change, call me a reactionary.
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by dee-bee 3y ago
The Mars Trilogy relies on a number of very idealistic characters to carry the politics specifically past what the earth was capable of, as well as unrealistically effective resolutions when violence does occur. But I really think you'
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by dee-bee 3y ago
I agree with this assessment. However, the book was never supposed to be realistic, simply a plausible beginning to a story. Idealistic hope, and imagining yet unimagined sci-fi stories that specifically reject the dystopian mindset that ca
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Same as anywhere: write off theft and make bank off the rich people. The idea that SF is somehow unique is asinine. If i were to guess they want the public to foot the bill for cops to just shoot shoplifters.
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by dee-bee 3y ago
> Requiring that autonomous vehicles never be tested on a public road in real world conditions is another way of saying that you do not believe autonomous vehicles should ever exist. Sure, but that's a wildly different case than &qu
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by dee-bee 3y ago
I'd argue it's the design of crypto, the "crypto values" themselves, that make the space so welcoming to grifters. Emphatically including YC.
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by dee-bee 3y ago
Presumably these companies are free to provide their software for research. The onus is on them to demonstrate it works in the first place.... > how do we know this isn’t a problem they have worked extensively on and made great improveme