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by erikbye 6y ago
Based on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgj6FYghPh8 They do a lot more than what you claim. Did you forget e.g. blu/red force tracking and routes? Mission planning?
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by erikbye 6y ago
Sorry, to clarify: I meant end up at zero gain, not zero as in loss. So instead of losing money, it would just be not having gained anything in 10 years, which is not that unlikely, and has happened. Ask me, that is 10 years of potential pr
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by erikbye 6y ago
If they get out before crashes. Otherwise you could end up at zero again after being in for a decade. Maybe that was timed just with your retirement when you were about to make use of your now vanished gains.
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by erikbye 6y ago
Hello ad. Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22745001
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by erikbye 6y ago
I think Elon moved more users than the user you quoted. EDIT: We know it was a joke. Maybe you are downvoted because of your username.
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by erikbye 6y ago
> And no, I don't want to hear about any figures for self-contained builds. Then what is your point? When talking about the size required for a program to run, you have to weigh all of its dependencies. For anyone interested, such a
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by erikbye 6y ago
> The .Net tooling used to be easy, now you’ll be able of building your entire application in python before you’re even done configuring your .Net environment. > I know I’m grossly exaggerating... I do not even think it is an exaggera
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by erikbye 6y ago
> these CLI libraries can be easily replaced with some small hand-coded solution. If that was your takeaway from what I wrote that was definitely not my intention. I do not think that. I am sure several of these libraries are well-crafte
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by erikbye 6y ago
Kind of my line of thinking as well. I would never pull in a library with a 100 features when my software only needs 2 of those features. I write those 2 features myself.
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by erikbye 6y ago
I am not sure most users would agree with your assessment that IRC is easy. To many it is arcane. If you created two Telegram alternatives, that was identical except for performance, would users not choose to use the most performant one? St
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by erikbye 6y ago
> Very few users care at all about the size of an app That depends on the target audience. IME the target audience of console/CLI programs are more likely to care about size. CLI apps tend to cater more to power users. And many user
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by erikbye 6y ago
Dependencies, dependencies, dependencies. All for a simple console program. And you end up with a console app that is 20-100MB. Traditionally this program was a few KB. It can still, if you use the right language(s). Making software should
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by erikbye 6y ago
It is false that we as an industry cannot make robust software. We have made lots of software I would classify robust. E.g., in aerospace (yes, there are always exceptions), defense, and automotive. My washer's, dryer's, and oven&
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by erikbye 6y ago
He was uncivil toward other editors. https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/wikipedia-fram-banning-...
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by erikbye 6y ago
> I don't believe in free speech without limits. Freedom of speech with limits is an oxymoron.
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by erikbye 6y ago
> That usually means, especially if it's a younger person, that they are smart and probably lonely. What a weird asssumption to make. Projecting?
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by erikbye 6y ago
Article about a specific sci-fi author: Every HN user just mentioning their favorite sci-fi book or author does not add any value. Especially when they say nothing interesting about named book and have not read the author in question. Helpf
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by erikbye 6y ago
It is not measurable, unless you count adverbs and adjectives or things of that nature, but it can be critiqued. George Orwell on prose: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli... . A
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by erikbye 6y ago
I use Arch Linux.
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by erikbye 6y ago
Agreed, they do not hold a candle to Wolfe's prose. Though, many genre readers seem completely oblivious to prose quality and read purely for story. In the case of Hyperion everything is b-movie quality.
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by erikbye 6y ago
Strange that you feel the need to recommend a book by an author totally unrelated to this thread when you have not even read Wolfe. You have no reference as to what someone who likes Wolfe might enjoy.
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by erikbye 6y ago
I do not think your taste is critical if you enjoy Game of Thrones prose. Gene Wolfe's is far above. GoT is average fantasy prose and nowhere near literary fiction quality.
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by erikbye 6y ago
Gene Wolfe’s work is great, and I feel he is appreciated by many HNers. But one author I think is too seldom mentioned and read is Ballard. His take on science fiction is very interesting, often working on a more psychological level.
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by erikbye 6y ago
This was later, but I learned a lot from Game Developer magazine. The entire archive is available for free. https://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag
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by erikbye 6y ago
I am teaching my thirteen-year-old nephew programming. We use Python to nail the basics of variables, conditions, loops, branching, functions, classes, etc. And Unity and C# to make games and learn some physics, vector math and matrices. Th
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by erikbye 6y ago
> Reality check: Most people don't use email programs anymore. Guess you are not in enterprise.
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by erikbye 6y ago
> it's not perfect, but I really honestly don't think I could match their uptime by self-hosting This is such a common misconception. The services I self-host was configured by me, if anything goes down (which they very rarely
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by erikbye 6y ago
Have you submitted the requested bug reports? Also, it seems the FAQ answers several of your points: https://element.io/help
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by erikbye 6y ago
I wonder at which point did he quit his job and make this website his sole income. How much money was the site making him at that point? Either way, very risky to quit your job for what is basically a content website with as few as 500 visi
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by erikbye 6y ago
> The vast majority of things in the late 10 years felt like a planet scale tweak (phone has tilting backgrounds, css animations, ..) Sounds like you are in a very small bubble if that is your take on the last decade's tech inventio

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