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by dexen 7y ago
"Why would we want to switch to 128 bit addresses?" - eru, 2019 I am gonna hold onto your quote, for enjoyment and giggles in 2032 :^)
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>What makes us special is persistent collective learning and abstract communication. No; passing on knowledge isn't quite sufficient. The key difference is our ability to manipulate objects with hands, and our ability to harness e
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Be sure to check out the "[Enterprise Mode]" in lower left corner :-)
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Your both points (very valid) could perhaps be wrapped up as: Indexes have lower computational complexity for certain tasks (in particular range queries & sort), but higher constants than typical hashing. Thus indexes make more sens
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>It's significantly easier to get to team-based outcomes if you can adhere to a common platform. Both the good outcomes and the bad outcomes. Cue the recent Slack WYSIWYG editor woes. Slack used to have an IRC gateway, allowing an
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by dexen 7y ago
Certainly runs on Raspberry Pi - there are several mentions to that effect. Sadly I can't help you more - best ask on mailing lists[0] or on IRC[1]. Historically Plan 9 was developed from grounds up to support several architectures, so
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by dexen 7y ago
Plan 9's Acme (a GUI editor similar to sam) is just fine when ran over LAN - no felt lag at all. Not sure how well it handles modern-day internet, but quite possibly would be practical. And yes, it uses mouse-based select/cut&#x2F
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by dexen 7y ago
Plan 9 as a whole is a pretty good IDE for general development - excels at C, shell scripts, Go, and similar. Having been created explicitly to OS differs from older (POSIX/VMS era) OSes by making GUI, architecture portability, namesp
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by dexen 7y ago
That fake university was Obama's program[1]. Are you now going to advocate deplatforming Barrack Obama? The fake university was a magnet for people who didn't want to show up to the classes - the gist of the program was to find st
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by dexen 7y ago
I hear your points, lets add two minor nitpicks: >a lot of what we do as humans—at our best—is frankly irresponsible There's no responsibility without risks. If anything, responsibility is in the conscious & reasoned risk-taki
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by dexen 7y ago
>Even cars built for autobahn travel will not survive a major crash at that speed. One can't realistically ask people to only ever do what's safe. As a species we're built to operate at certain risk level. If you track t
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by dexen 7y ago
>The fact the nuclear reactor hasn't been miniaturized to the size of a coin But it has, or at least close to: RTGs[1] weighting a couple dozen kilograms are used in space exploration and in rare cases in cold climates. Their main
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by dexen 7y ago
>giving up on consuming news because everything might be biased is simply lazy Not at all; it's a valid strategy. The events and the state of the world can be deduced from observing the (near) past just as well as from reading the
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by dexen 7y ago
It's not satire, it's somebody with high education and low experience. To quote from the 'About' section, >To achieve this goal, I am developing a file system to replace the hierarchical file system paradigm used on
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by dexen 7y ago
>a successful server-based peer-to-peer project other BitChute certainly, if only in part. The website proper is centralized, but the video delivery is ran via BitTorrent. Currently the video quality is kept somewhat low (720p IIRC), b
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by dexen 7y ago
>Are you suggesting we should allow less people to graduate in order to fix the problem? Yes of course. As per "The Mythical Man-Month"[1] adding more people to a project doesn't speed id up - quite the opposite, slows i
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by dexen 7y ago
Security bugs are unavoidable, Rust/Java or not. This calls for architectural defense in depth. A lot of the exploits would be rendered harmless by employing well established technique of splitting one huge monolithic app into processe
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Always reminds me of the "Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes" blog > https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
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Surprisingly enough, PHP is a good example of environment that doesn't break backward compatibility much. About the only change that had a significant impact on projects I worked on was removal of the 'mysql' DB extension (re
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by dexen 7y ago
Semi-related - USS Vesuvius [1] used compressed air (rather than steam) to ensure a somewhat soft launch of its artillery projectiles. This was necessitated by the use of dynamite payload - a potent & practical explosive, but somewhat
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by dexen 7y ago
You fact-checked a meme. That's more befitting Snopes[1] than serious HN discussion. Thus my joking response - mirroring your post's form & logic, and yet arriving at the opposite result. Essentially me lampooning your positio
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by dexen 7y ago
Strange. You seem to have posted a link to a source discredited on the subject of climate. The fact that we are seeing the same headlines for many years now should have been an obvious giveaway to you before you posted it. https:/&#x2
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by dexen 7y ago
I want to boycott websites that paywall themselves off like that. Hopefully with some more similarly minded people we can get the ball rolling - get Google to honestly enforce their no cloaking policy. Maybe even get HN to de-rank submiss
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>Skilled immigration is an economic home run Your response is tangential to the original point. OP asserts correctly that increasing supply of labor depresses wages, by lowering the negotiating leverage. Your response handwaves it away
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>How accurate are their articles in general? Is it a publication worth supporting? It's an opinion paper. Specifically, (UK's) Labor-style socialism + 4th wave feminism. If you have emotional attachment to those positions, yo
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The article belongs in an Opinion section, not in a (Technology) News section. >Journalism and activism can’t be separated. They should and they can. Either have a separate publication, or at the very least have a separate, clearly del
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by dexen 7y ago
>You can establish institutions that are elected directly by the people, and/or are granted strong legal immunity from demands of the executive branch etc. Any example you could name would be highly contested as to validity of the
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by dexen 7y ago
>everyone should have free access to a basic web based email service. > It should be a public service, paid for by the taxes No, that would lead to even worse abuses. Cf the present day Hong Kong protests, and Yellow Vests protests
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by dexen 7y ago
>Political advertising should be banned entirely This strikes way too close to throwing the 1A out the window, in all the ways that touch the everyday activities. That sci-fi book you wrote, with Lord Admiral character? It was a manife
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by dexen 7y ago
A great comment - detailed, comprehensive and correct. Thank you, erfgefesa .

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