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by foldr 2y ago
You really think that this conflict has no repercussions or implications for US interests?
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by foldr 2y ago
A minor point, but it was hardly the first epic movie to have an intermission. Gone With the Wind has one, for example, and is a similar length.
933.
by foldr 2y ago
An Xbox Series S does a fine job of playing Xbox 360 games and doesn't cost much.
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by foldr 2y ago
I wish that the private companies I’ve worked for were ruthlessly efficient amoral profit-optimizing machines. At least then one would be able to make some kind of sense of management decisions. Once companies reach a certain size, decisi
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by foldr 2y ago
I can see why this isn't a good HN story, but echoing the sibling, can we please not keep pretending that stuff Elon Musk says comes under the heading of 'celebrity gossip' given that he's the world's richest man an
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by foldr 2y ago
Although the analogy between European nation states and US states is very weak, it's hard to resist pointing out that different parts of the US are also not aligned on politics.
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by foldr 2y ago
It's hard to imagine anything he's done in private with the KGB cameras rolling being worse than the mountain of stuff that's already publicly known, or that he has openly done in public.
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by foldr 2y ago
I’m just responding to the specific claim regarding the incompatibility of current UK legislation with EU law. AFAIK this is not an established fact. It’s an increasingly hypothetical question, though not entirely so. There are EU countri
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by foldr 2y ago
Are you referring to this? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-co... If so, that was a judgment about legislation that is no longer current (and wasn’t when the judgment was issued)
940.
by foldr 2y ago
“Surveillance state” is debatable. I would disagree, but I’ve had that debate too many times on HN recently, and don’t propose to start it again here. However, to call the UK “totalitarian” is just an abuse of language. The country is not r
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by foldr 2y ago
I am not in the US. I have decided for myself on the basis that (i) the first word of the tweet I linked is a nasty ethnic slur and (ii) its contents are merely schadenfreude over someone's raw emotional outburst in response to a traum
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by foldr 2y ago
Ok. I guess it doesn't damage the credibility of this conference that they've invited an anonymous racist troll as one of their speakers because no-one is as smart as Isaac Newton.
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by foldr 2y ago
We know that Isaac Newton wasn't a simpleton because he wrote the Principia . I think you will search in vain for any output of similar intellectual quality by this particular individual.
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by foldr 2y ago
I agree. I don't necessarily think that low birth rates are a crisis. My point is that anyone who thinks that they are ought to be in favor of the government spending a lot of money to fix the crisis.
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by foldr 2y ago
Apparently invited speaker Babygravy9 is one of the “brightest minds in the world”. Who’d have thought? https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1892928467152322571
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by foldr 2y ago
One thing that doesn't seem to have been tried out very widely is making it a net economic benefit to have children. This used to sometimes be the case in the days when you could send your eight year old down the mine, etc. etc. But t
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by foldr 2y ago
It's probably an order of magnitude smaller than the risk of getting into trouble in more or less any country for not effectively keeping tabs on the kind of content that's being posted in the forum you're hosting.
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by foldr 2y ago
I use Apple laptops primarily for the hardware. But Linux has never really been a great experience on Mac laptops when it comes to battery life, reliable suspend/resume, etc. etc. I used to use Yellow Dog Linux on a G4 PowerBook way ba
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by foldr 2y ago
That’s actually not a bad rule of thumb!
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by foldr 2y ago
>Application designers do not get the luxury of somehow having high memory usage in an idle state but being able to cut down memory usage in an active state. That may be so. However, in that case, it does not make sense to complain about
951.
by foldr 2y ago
You seem to be thinking about memory usage in general and not specifically about memory usage in an idle state, which is what I’ve been talking about in this thread. Otherwise, what exactly is the alternative you have in mind? Should Electr
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by foldr 2y ago
I’m just saying that it would not make much difference if Electron reduced its idle memory usage. If you use an app infrequently, then it will get paged out and the memory it retains in its idle state will be available for other processes.
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by foldr 2y ago
Sure, the ideal app uses no resources. But it really doesn’t matter how much allocated memory an app retains when in an unused state (if you’re running it on a modern multitasking OS). If there’s any memory pressure then those pages will ge
954.
by foldr 2y ago
Swapping is perfectly fine for the case where an app that has remained unused for a significant period of time starts being used again. It may even be faster than having the app manually release all of the memory it’s allocated and then man
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by foldr 2y ago
Some fields do have the opposite problem, though, where standards for publication are so high that they prevent publication of useful ideas or results that could be built on by other researchers. I don’t think a published paper should have
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by foldr 2y ago
Using 500MB of memory while not doing anything isn’t really a problem. If RAM is scarce then it will get paged out and used by another app that is doing something.
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by foldr 2y ago
Expectations have changed. You can't ship a phone now that has the same capabilities as the iPhone 3GS.
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by foldr 2y ago
It’s a “housing crisis” in the very straightforward sense that a lot of people need a house and don’t have one. Your comment is like saying “this ‘famine’ is not really a famine per se, as the problem is not with the cost of growing more fo
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by foldr 2y ago
There have been some instances of people being inappropriately contacted by the police over things they wrote online. I think that this has largely stopped following the court judgment that I mention downthread. I think there's broad a
960.
by foldr 2y ago
I don't think so. Twitter before Musk had all kinds of TOS that obviously blocked speech that would be protected by the First Amendment. No-one is saying that Twitter used to be a free speech absolutist free-for-all before Musk took ov

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