greyman

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by greyman 6y ago
Will this require a chip to be inserted in such a body? Also, couldn't this be misused to pressure people to do what that controlling system wants them to do?
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by greyman 8y ago
> That Siri and Alexa are both female by default puts them in the stereotypical female-secretary roll. But isn't this happening only if some marxist is searching for this "problem"? I never considered it this way, until yo
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by greyman 8y ago
There are a lot of conspiracies floating around regarding 5G, now I start to think whether there is something to it...
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by greyman 8y ago
But this is also basically just a political opinion - some people agree that it is "toxic", others not.
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by greyman 8y ago
To be honest, it caught me by surprise how politically unified the whole top management is, and how strong their political convictions are. It is publicly known that Eric Schmidt for example supports democrats, but I (wrongly) supposed that
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by greyman 8y ago
Good exercise, but I doubt this will be cheaper than a commercial offering like Cloudflare, for example.
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by greyman 8y ago
> Of course, to REALLY solve the problem you'd "only" need people to stop seeing sex (and porn) as bad, dirty, taboo, etc. But this won't happen anytime soon :-((( It won't, since it is not universally true, that
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by greyman 8y ago
I am actually not that familiar with that decision, since I still work on python projects (but those don't require multithreading). But the guys who work on Go projects mostly cited the following advantages: 1) good performance, since
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by greyman 8y ago
Python is my language of first choice, but I must say that I am not that thrilled how this multithreading ended up. There are many tutorials about the topic promising to explain how it works, usually in the form of "simple introduction
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by greyman 8y ago
> I’m not a fan of full blown IDEs that require their own configuration. Hmm, but those IDEs actually do solve most of the problems author has had with Python. If one regularly code in Python, spending a few hours configuring the IDE is
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by greyman 8y ago
To be honest, it didn't get my attention yet, since I don't know what useful thing I could do for example with exporting all my Facebook data. I would only be slightly worried with how to protect them from theft, and basically the
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by greyman 8y ago
That is possible, but more impractical. In Evernote, I just click Win-Shift-F within any application, and then directly type the search keyword, and then get the list of notes, which I can preview in another window. It's just not the s
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by greyman 8y ago
> plain text files and your favorite editor I tried this solution as well, but I missed one core feature of Evernote, that you can search by tags or keywords, and it instantly list all related notes.
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by greyman 8y ago
I tried these solutions as well, but I found it too slow to add note. With evernote, I can click ctrl-alt-N from any app I am in, and a New note window pops up. I still didn't find how to achieve this with web version.
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by greyman 8y ago
OP, I am like you, but so far I wasn't able to find anything better than Evernote, so I learned to live with the 2 device limit...I just use the web version on the 3rd device. In evernote, I can add new note very quickly via shortcut,
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by greyman 8y ago
From the article: > One thing developers spend a lot of time on is completely absent from both of these lists: debugging! I notice that times changed a bit. This was true in software engineering like 10 years ago, but in recent years the
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by greyman 8y ago
But Google has customers also into those rivals countries. I would prefer military to hire their own people, and don't touch normal companies.
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by greyman 8y ago
> I'm not a US citizen, so for me the US having a strong military isn't necessarily in my best interests, depending on circumstance. Yes, that's exactly the problem. What if in the future, my country and USA will be enemie
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by greyman 8y ago
But there are also people outside of your country. Google is a global company, and I am also their customer... It doesn't feel right to support a company, which in turn supports military of another country than mine.
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by greyman 8y ago
Yes the second point is exactly what I was getting at - how exactly is Rust so much better that it justifies to learn it instead of C++. (but I don't imply it isn't, just curious to see some real points).
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by greyman 8y ago
Could I have a tangential question: I did learn what is Rust for, but if there is a steep learning curve, it is that much better comparing to C++? I worked about 15 years professionally in C++, it's a solid language, and it is used by
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by greyman 8y ago
I agree, that isn't the justification. But I see it is hard to argue with RMS and his fans, since every response is essentially "Software freedom means this, and you are wrong if you think it means something else". If you thi
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by greyman 8y ago
But I don't recognize that definition of "freedom of their users". It's an artificial construct made by RMS. There are various reasons why some people or companies don't open their source code. That choice should be
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by greyman 8y ago
Then why the expression of freedom-as-defined-by-RMS is that I shouldn't use Github? I think Lubos is right.
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by greyman 8y ago
> I feel like I'm in the minority; that people my age and younger who give a shit about things like this, prefer BSD/MIT/Apache style licenses. I am of older age but I too prefer MIT over GPL. The logic is like this: time
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by greyman 8y ago
Doesn't C have something better than that type punning via union to achieve the same effect? I understand Linus reasoning, but still it's an ugly hack.
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by greyman 8y ago
> Of course people may try and use "Free Software" to mean "software that has no price", but people apply labels and terms wrong all the time, that doesn't make them right. Yes, but why do you think it is "w
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by greyman 8y ago
Because for example someone could say: "Software freedom means that I am free to use the software, so freeware follows software freedom, regardless if the source code is open or closed, because I don't care about that." Of co
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by greyman 8y ago
I would just like to mention, that in my opinion "decentralized GitHub" is an oxymoron, Github's innate feature is being centralized, to centralize developers into one place, being a kind of social network.
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by greyman 8y ago
But we should always add, that the "freedom" we refer here to is actually "freedom-as-defined-by-RMS". It doesn't match what the word normally means; RMS made up a definition of what he thinks is software freedom, a

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