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by foerbert 4y ago
> It's still a good option for various native GUI software and the occasional bit of number crunching/utilities, especially when used with Lazarus Yeah, that was definitely quite the bright spot. At the time GUIs weren't r
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by foerbert 4y ago
I felt that way most of my first evening with it. Thankfully I stuck with it, because once I finally got the compiler to accept my awful C-in-Ada-clothes I was hooked. The damn thing worked, first time it compiled, no matter what I threw at
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by foerbert 4y ago
It depends a lot on what exactly you need or want to use. Sometimes you find something great, or nothing, or something in-between. One nice thing with Ada is how easily it binds to C, and that just got some improvements. Not as easy and nic
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by foerbert 4y ago
I'm not sure about that. Dangerous, I can see it if it's not implemented reasonably. I'll admit to being less than a stellar ARM reader so I can't say for sure, but I'd bet this was well-considered when it was added
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by foerbert 4y ago
I'm really excited by this! I haven't been keeping up with the 2022 stuff, and I'm quite pleasantly surprised. I will admit to not liking using '@' for notation much at all in any language - never mind Ada - but I&#
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by foerbert 4y ago
Who says we don't? I think I'm past-due for my regular Ada plug, so uh, here it is.
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by foerbert 4y ago
There's another side to the coin that I think you're, understandably, overlooking. I don't think either side alone is the full story. It's a big grey ball of tradeoffs, no matter how it all falls. Even with just your own
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by foerbert 4y ago
Perhaps, but after even just a few relatively short attempts to start organizing some of my files with tags I don't think this would be sufficient. I found the meaning of tags frequently started to drift. What I cared about and why jus
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by foerbert 4y ago
> East Asia population are aggressive consumers of social media. If they are not getting depressed from it, then the Anglosaxon (which seems to be suffering from this crisis) should look elsewhere. Only if you discount the rest of the se
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by foerbert 4y ago
I don't think you can just "by definition" reality like that. Sure, the non-reactive strain won't be called a symbiotic partner, by definition. But that doesn't poof the bacteria out of existence. That said, I think
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by foerbert 4y ago
I probably should have clarified that I was responding to the content of the parent comment rather than the submission itself. I think this is just the slop of language, but in this case it's obscuring all the important details so excu
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by foerbert 4y ago
This is not a sound approach. You're declaring what humans think random is first, and then throwing out any data that doesn't match your declaration. There is no way to learn anything from this. I also think 'HHHHHHHHHH'
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by foerbert 4y ago
> processes for the production of wool may entail some impact, independent from the material but related to the sheep. I suspect this is the massively buried lead here - one so huge and so buried that I'm having a hard time giving y
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by foerbert 4y ago
Probably, yes. But it's not a guarantee until you include infinity. And that's the important distinction here. Without any such guarantee of the larger result, all you have is a 50/50 chance for the next flip. With infinity,
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by foerbert 4y ago
That convergence towards 50% happens at infinity. You aren't flipping the coin an infinite number of times. There is no convergence happening without the infinity. If that doesn't help your intuition, maybe try this technically in
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by foerbert 5y ago
It's not really about light. It's not so much the case that the speed of light is itself special, so much as it is that light (in a vacuum) travels at a special speed. That speed is effectively that of causality, in the 'spee
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by foerbert 5y ago
I can't say I agree with this. AWS has the size, reputation, and sheer near-unavoidability to find themselves with significantly more leeway in this kind of thing. Just because AWS can get away with something doesn't mean you can.
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by foerbert 5y ago
In terms of (only) racial equality, it is actually only an issue for non-whites. That's not factually incorrect. Hence we come back to the OP's point - it's hard to get broad public support for both racial and class issues si
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by foerbert 5y ago
Really? I made the same move (or at least finished it 100%) at the same time, and that's not a problem I've ever seen. Some (surprisingly few, actually) don't perform well under Wine/Proton, or at all, but random freezin
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by foerbert 5y ago
Does this even help with that though? Without some further means of identifying users, what use is there in saying download#123 got installed x times? Even if you add the obvious IP information to this, then what? Run GeoIP and say "oh
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by foerbert 5y ago
Are government agencies somehow restricted to compromise telcos but not any other organization?
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by foerbert 5y ago
Nobody did that, though? One person mentioned it felt scammy for an ineffable reason. Another responded with that bit of history, including the fact it is only history. That's it.
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by foerbert 5y ago
Yes, that is the reason they mentioned the A* pathfinding algorithm - to solve that exact problem.
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm all for cutting down total hours, but personally 4x10 hour days still sound much better than 5x8. There is a lot of time and effort - both physically and mentally - that goes into the transition to and from work that I'd love
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by foerbert 5y ago
That's kind of what I mean though. None of those are particularly innovative and certainly aren't going to end up somehow protected. It wouldn't be hard to just follow along. In the time it takes to do that, a small fraction
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by foerbert 5y ago
Particularly in the context of washing machines, I find this a little hard to swallow. What constant innovation is needed here? The product is infrequently replaced, and mainly just needs to do the one thing it already does. Sure you have c
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by foerbert 5y ago
We don't know that. We have a single report so far, just like GM apparently got.
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think that's relevant. (Note - I am not OP.) Being hypocritical is an indictment at the speaker, not of the speech. The most hypocritical person to ever live may well be completely right about their most hypoc
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by foerbert 5y ago
I mean, plenty of people also have a problem with that. I'm not sure a discussion on the ethics of a thing should end just because a similar thing is more widespread.
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by foerbert 5y ago
Who says they aren't already? If Youtube had no more small creators from on, I have my suspicions about what their revenue would look like 1, 5, 10.. years out.

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