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by flukus 5y ago
Only if they're modifying the source code, which would be a tiny minority.
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by flukus 5y ago
> Humans need to leave Earth long before the Sun turns into a red giant. We have billions of years for that. Everything else we can deal with much easier here than we can on mars. > Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth&#
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by flukus 5y ago
We could build colonies underground, under the Antarctic ice sheet and under water, that would be far easier and cheaper and allow us to survive just about any extinction event the universe is likely to throw our way in the next billion yea
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by flukus 5y ago
> One speculation I've read is that Australian/Japan/New Zealand's very-bad 2019 flu season was SARS-CoV-2 before it could be diagnosed This is complete BS on par with 5G conspiracies. We know how quickly this virus s
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by flukus 5y ago
Rents increase with inflation, a mortgage doesn't. I have a few older friends kicking themselves for not buying a property when they could afford it, rents have risen and there is a very real prospect that they will have to move out of
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by flukus 5y ago
The same or similar patches exist for WSL. One of the examples I gave was tail not working on windows files, cygwin has had a patch for years so it just works, ubuntu had to add the same or a similar patch to work in wsl.
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by flukus 5y ago
> f you share land borders, you are subject to the whims of the least careful country on your subcontinent. Only if a nation is incapable of controlling their land borders, and that doesn't have to mean fully closed. All of those co
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by flukus 5y ago
No one closed off contact, quarantine is mandatory though. That only keeps it out though, most places have had outbreaks and had to rely on measures completely unrelated to their remoteness, like lockdowns and contact tracing.
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by flukus 5y ago
Wow thanks, this is exactly the type of comment I come to HN for. I wonder if the numbers would change significantly for gentoo or anything compiled manually that had more knowledge of the CPU specifics?
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by flukus 5y ago
> I used WSL1 when it launched and it was _incredible_. Bash actually on Windows. My workflow changed because of the level of integration I had with Windows. I could run browser automation tools against my Windows browsers, from Linux. I
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by flukus 5y ago
I don't believe the CCPs exact figures, but they locked down hard and fast to eliminate the virus and had very extreme contact tracing and wore masks. The results are in line with liberal democracies have achieved with the same mitigat
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by flukus 5y ago
.net core broke compatibility with many more, c#/.net is now decoupled from MS legendary backwards compatibility. Then you've got things like hiring concerns, $nextJob will want people with $nextTech on their resume, it doesn&#x27
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by flukus 5y ago
> The amount of energy Microsoft is pouring into these front-end efforts is pretty incredible. After winforms, silverlight, wpf, webforms and WinUI I don't want energy, I want to see them focus for more than 5 minutes. The only stab
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by flukus 5y ago
When they go out of their way to say VB is a first class component and repeatadly say over many years that c# is not a replacement for VB then yes, I do think it's realistic to expect them to support it. That said, despite what MS has
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by flukus 5y ago
Overall population growth is leveling off, but urbanization ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization ) continues, cities keep growing and rural areas keep shrinking, at least relatively. There's possibly a degre
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by flukus 5y ago
There's also a lot of people karma farming (for employment reasons?). A couple of years ago I was searching for something and the same question was asked by someone else on SO and this came up repeatedly while I was looking, but after
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by flukus 5y ago
Sadly me and many others in large corporate environments. Not quite that bad but still pretty bad. My advice to people is to consolidate projects wherever possible, although you wouldn't know it seeing some project layouts you can stil
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by flukus 5y ago
> In the real world, higher level languages have a much better comparison since everyone's C program has their own slow, buggy "standard" library instead of the hyper optimized ones of higher level languages. In the real w
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by flukus 5y ago
Singapore is essentially a city state so is very limited in how much of that rainfall can be stored long term. If you look on a satellite map you'll see that the undeveloped land is already dominated by water catchment and storage: ht
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by flukus 5y ago
I think there's an age factor there too. In my 20's as long as I was exercising regularly I could easily burn off that extra 200 calories, but in my 30's I've had to (try to) avoid the calories in the first place.
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by flukus 5y ago
Back when the "Law of Leaky Abstractions" was first coined such things were given as examples: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... > Even though network libraries like
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by flukus 5y ago
> One cannot let the user play with the addresses, and use procedures, and play with pointers--which is pointing to the data--and be able to understand how one can transform the program to run more optimally." Well 50 years on we st
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by flukus 5y ago
> I see only one sustainable solution. A public news organization, paid out of the federal government budget, with your and my taxes. Like PBS, but with 50x the budget. HN's audience will hate the idea, but such things already exist
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by flukus 5y ago
I would be shocked if that sub wasn't thoroughly astro-turfed. The constant influx of new devs and repetitive questions, the relative lack of experienced devs and the potentially large payoff make it the ideal breeding ground for manip
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by flukus 5y ago
> Where exactly is this war zone in California...? No idea how universal these things are in all of California, but nearly every Australian that visits LA and a few other areas come back with stories about hearing gunshots from the hotel
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by flukus 5y ago
> Hasn't Covid taught us that suburbs have tremendous merit? Cities are cramped and lonely hellscapes during the pandemic. I thought we learned the opposite. With offices closed city centres weren't quite so cramped and living
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by flukus 5y ago
> Like, what is your "I don't care for subsidies" threshold? People that have a higher standard of living than me seems to be a reasonable cutoff, why should I live in a small apartment but pay for your gluttonous lifestyl
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by flukus 6y ago
> this meant they had came across Sun’s Project Wonderland - the delightfully terrible 3D virtual workplace of the future (or so Sun thought, before they had to sell to Oracle.) It was terrible, barely a good demo ... It required somethi
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by flukus 6y ago
Recently I ported a suite of 30 year old c/c++ programs, each one was deployable and runable on their own and communicated via sockets, microservices from the early 90's. Likewise FaaS doesn't add much that couldn't be d
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by flukus 6y ago
I think they're right for the wrong reasons. It wasn't that it was done to be "on the right side", it was done because it was cheap, visible and allowed everything to continue as it was with as long as we all "just

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