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by excursionist 7y ago
> it presents the "most true" version of reality based on where you're coming from. The fact of which country controls a territory, which country's laws apply there, which is the local currency, etc. does not change b
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by excursionist 7y ago
> By that logic, all areas of Russia where the non-Russian ethnicity is dominant (of which there are a lot) should all be written out in their respective languages. Why not? Use the most common local language as well as Russian.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I'm not sure I would describe an LSD high as having mental clarity... trying to solve simple problems while on LSD can be very hard. There is a lot of clarity after the high though - the next several days.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> But the Valley has never been particularly fertile for the salaried professionals and “engineers” hired by these companies, who even now generally make less than their counterparts on Wall Street or in Big Law. Kindergarten playroom of
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by excursionist 7y ago
It seems like most of the construction in Toronto is condos and road repairs. The subway system is an embarrassment.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I believe google translate offers pretty much all of the toolkit functionality (and more), but packaged in a different way. Take a look at the google translate advanced docs: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs&#x2F
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by excursionist 7y ago
Let me remind you what you said: > Unfortunately, the community is still "the community," and much like those kids who wouldn't get out of their parents' basements, they're now in their 50s, crusty and pedantic a
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by excursionist 7y ago
> You’re a little combative, huh? Interpreting the questioning of your grand claims as combative should tell you something about your own attitude. > As I’m sure you’re aware, publishing benchmarks of commercial RDBMSs is usually proh
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by excursionist 7y ago
> And I know it to be true, just as you do, and every other person here on HN knows it to be true. I lived through it. That "attitude" is one of the major things holding back Linux on the desktop. Sad, but true. Maybe you shoul
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Who exactly do you think you are that you can be so incredibly presumptuous? Says the guy grouping the entire Linux community under 'crusty 50 year old basement dwellers'. And your '20 years in the industry' means n
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by excursionist 7y ago
> I tend to agree with parent that the general Linux UI/UX experience (even the flagship Linux OS, Ubuntu) is subpar compared to commercial operating systems. Have you used linux is a desktop for a non-trivial amount of time? The fa
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by excursionist 7y ago
> They call an 800 number to get help or send it back. So they either attempt to get a solution from the same kind of service you get by buying a commercial linux desktop (or just the support), or they 'send it back' - which wa
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by excursionist 7y ago
> The non-technical among us, the 80-90% if you will, are not going to use a desktop Linux distribution the way they are currently setup. A home user is not going to use Google to fix a problem. They're not going to call their techn
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Tooling and speed. That's too vague to be of any use. What tooling? What benchmarks? > I can vouch for the quality of SQL Server's tooling – SSMS is very nicely integrated with SQL Server. The fact that you like SSMS doesn
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Whatever proprietary company is most sucessful will be the greatest enemy. If not MS, then Apple, or Google, or whoever. That's not true. Apple and Google have not done even 1% of the damage to Linux and Open Source that MS has. &
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by excursionist 7y ago
> People don't use Linux Desktop because it is bad. People do you Linux Desktop because it is great. I do. > The fact that Google has been able to take the Linux kernel twice and produce a better and more popular desktop experien
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Because Microsoft makes some of the best tools for developers. What are some of these tools besides VSCode, and what makes them 'the best'? > Because sql server is a fantastic product that has basically no real equivalent
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by excursionist 7y ago
Microsoft has historically been the single greatest enemy of Linux and Open Source in general. The only reason they now changed face and hopped on the Linux train is that they realized they lost or cannot possibly win the battle when it com
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by excursionist 7y ago
I recently started noticing some sellers including a little brochure/paper along with the product with something like this written: 'Write a review for this product, rate 5 stars in all categories, send us an email at <qqq@qqq.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I think the main difference between the Engelbart work you cite and Turing, for example, is the ambiguity of their ideas. It's a lot easier to come up with some futuristic idea about _what_ is being done, then a specification of _how_
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by excursionist 7y ago
> What is the meaning of private property if individuals can not move it abroad as they wish? Move your money wherever you want, after you paid your taxes.
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by excursionist 7y ago
Don't forget that these people have tremendous amount of power and influence in politics and work hard to keep these loopholes open for themselves.
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by excursionist 7y ago
The only assumption I'm making is that you have no choice where and when you are born. Do you disagree with that?
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by excursionist 7y ago
It's possible to predict local events with a certain degree of accuracy. The better our models/knowledge and computational capacity the greater the accuracy. We can see patterns on a macro level and exploit them without looking at
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by excursionist 7y ago
No, Go tags are like metadata which can be accessed through reflection at runtime. Java annotations allow you to actually generate code during the build phase.
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by excursionist 7y ago
But humans don't exist in a vacuum, your decision process was programmed into your brain by nature & nurture, and you had no control over either - the decision process for any control you think you might have had was previously pro
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by excursionist 7y ago
I don't see how any kind of scientific experiment could possibly support the concept of free will. If the universe is deterministic, then obviously there is no free will - since humans are part of the universe. If it is non-determinist
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by excursionist 7y ago
Go has reflection, but it doesn't have annotations or generics. Annotations are key for libraries such as hibernate.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> The kind of person who clicks on ads also buys stuff. Everybody who has money buys stuff. People that click on ads are probably more easily persuaded into buying shit they don't need. I don't have any data on this, but it&#x2
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by excursionist 7y ago
> is pretty much infeasible unless you have formally verified hardware as well, which is not even possible even for commercial vendors Why is it not possible? Formal hardware verification is probably more common than formal software veri

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