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by disordinary 7y ago
I don't agree. Systems are more complicated to build with a lot of dependencies that's true, but this is mitigated by shipping pre-built binaries and containers which have the dependencies bundled. Yes, those binaries can be from
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by disordinary 7y ago
A lot of it is out of their control as well as there being a scale issue - for instance if you're a country like Niue which has a population of 1,000 and a total GDP of $10 million and you're thousands of kilometres from the neare
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by disordinary 7y ago
Prices for most things would be (much, much) more expensive in Tuvalu than Mississippi, pretty much everything has to be imported at very small scale and high cost and if it's remotely affordable it's because of aid from countries
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by disordinary 7y ago
I remember when Cuil launched about 10 years ago they suggested that 1% of the search market was worth a billion dollars so it's big money if you can get inroads. Of course search is probably less important now than it was back then, w
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by disordinary 7y ago
Then you have consumers feeling ripped off when the next batch arrives, as has said above they could be trying to build brand loyalty.
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by disordinary 7y ago
Nice, I'll have to check it out.
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by disordinary 7y ago
I must admit I didn't realise Valve had WINE integration into Steam. When I used to do it I had to have a separate steam client which ran under WINE. Basically I don't have the time to tinker anymore, I want things to work and I d
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by disordinary 7y ago
I'm talking AAA games available on steam without having to run something like WINE. I like games with strong immersion and narrative and on Linux that's restricted to Alien Isolation, the BioShock series, the Metro series, etc. an
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by disordinary 7y ago
You say that but while there's a few good games but not that many and if you talk to anyone that games on Linux I guaranty you that we all own all those games.
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by disordinary 7y ago
Isn't that what Eucalyptus was supposed to be?
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by disordinary 7y ago
It's quite common for people to die within months of retiring, even if they retire healthy. It's down to a lack of purpose.
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by disordinary 7y ago
Rocket lab though uses less metal and has carbon fibre chassis, fuel tanks, etc. They 3d print their engines which is the main metal part of the ship. The constraint may be in autoclaves as carbon fibre is a more intensive product to make t
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by disordinary 7y ago
There's quite a few competitors in the narrow body space like the 737: Airbus, Bombadier, Embraer, Irkut, COMAC, etc. The lack of competition is in wide body aircraft (With Airbus and Boeing being the only players although there will b
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by disordinary 7y ago
The other thing that happened was the separation between the defence and civilian parts of the business was removed. The defence part of the organisation was used to a lower standard of rigor and was used to delivering products which weren&
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by disordinary 7y ago
It's open source, there's nothing stopping you from integrating it with the payment platform of your choice and contributing the code back to the project.
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by disordinary 7y ago
Surely democracy is an incentive to improve.
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by disordinary 7y ago
I'd imagine in most developed countries you can do everything online. In New Zealand over the last year I've renewed my passport, setup a company, renewed my drivers license, re-registered my car, opened a business bank account, r
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by disordinary 7y ago
No, I didn't say that. I meant there was a lot of work pushed on the people by a ruthless government.
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by disordinary 7y ago
I don't doubt it. It was a rapid modernisation and raising of living standards.
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by disordinary 7y ago
Because communism accelerated development and living standards. A lot of the infrastructure is a legacy of this.
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by disordinary 7y ago
That's a good point, after WW2 the Soviet Union had the double problem of a rapidly urbanising population and having to rebuild all the destruction. They needed a quick solution and what they chose worked.
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by disordinary 7y ago
I've stayed in them several times, they're great. They're incredibly warm in winter and central heated, they're in park like areas with playgrounds and schools in between them. For the climate of Russia apartments are go
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by disordinary 7y ago
It depends on where you get the doors from, you could probably get used ones from building recyclers or ebay for very little.
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by disordinary 7y ago
That's the marble machine X, the marble machine was the first iteration and was built and performed in a video a few years ago. It was unreliable and couldn't be disassembled to perform with outside of a studio hence the new proje
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by disordinary 7y ago
Yeah, there's definitely good Noir work in films and TV. It's a bit easier there because you can invoke the mood easier in a visual medium even if the dialogue or characters don't reflect the genre as much.
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by disordinary 7y ago
Thanks for that, I haven't read the Berlin Noir "trilogy" will put it on my reading list.
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by disordinary 7y ago
Kind of a mixture I suppose.
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by disordinary 7y ago
I liked it at the time, but haven't seen it for a while. It's more of a homage and consciously embraces the tropes and cliches which is a subtle difference to a work that's just in the genre.
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by disordinary 7y ago
I think it's pretty hard to write a hardboiled style noir now days without it feeling derivative. The tropes are now cliches and the dialogue can be cumbersome and hokey. A lot of time it feels like someone imitating noir rather than
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by disordinary 7y ago
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of passengers waiting for and riding in vehicles. The "data heavy" businesses often have the ability to cache their data in CDNs. Uber's data is realtime and dynamic, you scale that th

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