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by foxes 4y ago
Just because there is a lot of "value" does not make something ethical or the right thing to do. There is a lot of "value" in fossil fuels, crime, the slave trade etc. Fossil fuels are a big component of international tr
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by foxes 4y ago
I retract everything, indeed they seem extremely sus.
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by foxes 4y ago
What is the controversy?
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by foxes 4y ago
>A viable option if you have a zoophile polyamorous commune you can rely on to support you while you fiddle around Does a bit of furry art really give you such mental anguish that you have to spew some junk on hn? > Please don't
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by foxes 4y ago
>And to be snarky... Lol, that is not how things work at all. An idea can be better and still be a minority. The imperative mindset has a lot of momentum.
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by foxes 4y ago
Look down, look down Don't look 'em in the eye Look down, look down, You're here until you die
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by foxes 4y ago
Interesting to see so many confused /parents/spouses/etc in this thread. Even though what we work on is highly abstract, my parents have a reasonable non technical interpretation. I would think its the norm that the people yo
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by foxes 4y ago
Strong typing is not a mistake or a curse. Use a more advanced language that supports stuff like generics, or model your problem with the appropriate type. If you need real numbers you need real numbers, not some weird mix. I don't thi
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by foxes 4y ago
What was "improving the world" for you? Why are there so many lost/doomer threads recently. People starting to realise delivering meaningless "value" to shareholders while turning the Earth in to an uninhabitable sc
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by foxes 4y ago
The chad 1x engineer, the virgin 10x engineer
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by foxes 4y ago
And they appealed and then Twitter decided to uphold the decision. What is wrong with an AI doing some flagging? I've seen plenty of people say "killed" "kill" etc on Twitter in the context of news stories. Those ac
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by foxes 4y ago
You cannot prove things in the real world by running a computer program. Traditional financial systems have trust, belief, demand all factored in. They are constantly prodded and tweaked by powerful entities, with cultural, legal and milit
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by foxes 4y ago
Yes, clearly there is an issue with the Schrodinger equation. I think it is very obvious that basic quantum mechanics (with the Shcrodinger equation) does not apply to the entire universe. It would be better to talk in terms of quantum fiel
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by foxes 4y ago
I don't even understand the joke, it doesn't seem funny. The original comic isn't funny either. >haha women have to do what we say. I'd flag that too tbh. Clearly posting a linux command in a vacuum is not going to ge
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by foxes 4y ago
It’s almost like managing the state yourself on a modern cpu is a complicated task. Automatic vectorisation, reordering, etc can all be more easily done to a pure declarative program. Imperatively managing the state and the control flow wit
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by foxes 4y ago
Probably going to be too close to home for all the post industrial techno barbarian Americans on hn living in their car strewn wasteland cities. The pro car centrism I've experienced on this website is insane. It's maybe not indiv
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by foxes 4y ago
You mean the same companies that lobbied the government to get us in this mess in the first place? They have no responsibility in it at all?
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by foxes 4y ago
Don’t you have windows?
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by foxes 4y ago
I certainly would love to live in a society where convenient efficient public transport is the primary option. Sitting in traffic for hours a week is the bizarre choice. I often ride or catch a train to work past all the cars stuck in a hor
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by foxes 4y ago
Where did I mention everyone? Why are you so immediately on the defensive? Maybe if it is not possible for your particular special unique circumstances you have a reasonable exemption. A lot of people however live in cities and don't r
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by foxes 4y ago
Replacing everyone's car => electric car is not the solution. Car ownership needs to plummet.
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by foxes 4y ago
The average HN commentor seems like they are extremely out of touch. Most normal people do not care about the alleged privacy violations. They don't care it uses electron. For most people it runs fine. Honestly I know more, and I don&#
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by foxes 4y ago
To be honest this is slightly disturbing or eerie. It’s like a glimpse inside the minds of people from the era that set us on the trajectory of ruined car focused wasteland cities and climate destruction. It’s like art depicting capitalism
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by foxes 4y ago
What is a style? Are you trying to create a poster or do some graphic design? Some weird xml style sheet thing? Yes it’s not for that, but then also doing that in libre office or word also sounds horrible and unmaintainable.
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by foxes 4y ago
A bit like the meta discussion, salty is current term in society unlike GIMP and Inkscape UI. I have a concrete questions: Why can’t a lot of FOSS projects try and distill what is good about modern UI or ideas instead of looking like a prog
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by foxes 4y ago
You said it yourself, the web apps popular. Why do you think that is? What makes them popular? Figma, canva etc are all really popular. Google docs is popular. They are all easy to use. For basic tasks we really dont need a huge expanse of
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by foxes 4y ago
You can be salty if you want but the majority of the word has moved on from archaic desktop apps.
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by foxes 4y ago
I don’t know what precise control you need over the document in the use case served by Google docs.
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by foxes 4y ago
Why does it see so hard for FOSS to design a good looking UI. I honestly struggle visually with distinguishing what all those symbols mean. I don't use inkscape enough to memorise keyboard shortcuts. I'm sure an experienced user w
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by foxes 4y ago
In contrast to your anecdote, I have never had issues with Google docs. It has always just worked, reasonably clean interface. I'm not sure what elaborate styling you need, but it seems serviceable for when you need a basic document wh

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