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by gspr 1y ago
I didn't say that their function is tacky. I'm saying that not having them is likely a choice, not an indicator of a lack of resources.
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by gspr 1y ago
> Agreed. But the median American has one the highest consumer spending and disposable incomes in the world. Absoutely. But the differences are no longer insane when considering medians: US at 43 kUSD, and the rest of top 5 at 42, 41, 39
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by gspr 1y ago
People like you are arguing that one should give up on society because of society's flaws. I think your attitude is sad and poisonous. We need societies, and we need to work to fix their flaws. Every person cannot be an island.
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by gspr 1y ago
This is indeed a way to cope. But why should we have to merely cope? Why do we accept the world getting objectively worse? The necessary technology is cheaper, better and more abundant than ever – so why are we letting a few megacorps and s
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by gspr 1y ago
> - Consumer spending; > - Disposable income; While it is undeniable that the US leads in these areas, it should be pointed out that the distribution of who spends and who has disposable income does matter. As in: if you and your 100
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by gspr 1y ago
I do not believe for a single second that the lack of those in southern Europe is a matter of cost or availability. To me, as a European (albeit a northerner, where mosquitoes are very annoying, but not a source of disease), those screens a
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by gspr 1y ago
For me it's simply this: the best thing about computers and programming is that they do exactly what the code I write says they'll do. That is a quality that humans and human/natural languages don't have. To me, LLMs fee
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by gspr 1y ago
I've certainly found myself in a situation where a few percent of memory use would be the difference between holding all data in RAM and having to do IO to load it on demand. 6 of 16 bits wasted is enormous then.
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by gspr 1y ago
Sure, but if someone came at the C-centric ecosystem today and said "let's do the work to make it so that any language can play in this world", then surely "just FFI through C" would be considered rather underwhel
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by gspr 1y ago
> If you need to manipulate the DOM - just do that in JS, calling from WASM into JS is cheap, and JS is surprisingly fast too. From the point of view of someone who doesn't do web development at all, and to whom JS seems entirely cr
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by gspr 1y ago
> The UK banned single use plastic bags at major supermarkets. We all moaned about it for a few minutes, forgot our reusable bags a couple of times and then got on with it. I hope you're right. Here in Norway, the sensible people
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by gspr 1y ago
Luckily my bank still allows a fob type device as 2FA. But of course your point is valid. It's a travesty that this behavior is allowed, of course, but as long as it is, I'd keep the cheapest possible regular smartphone around for
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by gspr 1y ago
Why, oh why, is there not a smartphone – or even a similar form-factor device without the ability to phone – that lets its user run anything they want (say, a normal Linux distro)? And then you emulate Android whenever you need something th
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by gspr 1y ago
> No one is forcing you to buy a particular device. True. But society in practice requires a smartphone with one of two operating systems to live a normal life without significant efficiency losses in your day. Now all phones with both
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by gspr 1y ago
These people. I don't have words. I'm getting ready to give up on smartphones altogether. I used to think that surely a sufficiently open phone would come along, and that you could then just run a sandboxed Android emulator on tha
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by gspr 1y ago
Ignoring for a sec the silly idea of a "language crashing": > … using the latest stable versions as of May 2025: > Go 1.23 Go 1.24 was released in February 2025. > Rust 1.78 Rustc 1.86 was released in April 2025. > C++
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by gspr 1y ago
> If merely choosing Debian is sufficient reason enough for the user to assume that Debian as the distributor acts as a middleman in all sorts of ways, how exactly is that different from an app store? Because you decide the power of the
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by gspr 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling
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by gspr 1y ago
> Given that Debian doesn't give the user any indication of the fact that it even has modified an upstream piece of software Debian also doesn't give any indication that we haven't modified an upstream piece of software.
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by gspr 1y ago
I'm not trying to argue which distribution model is best, or whether one should avoid distributions altogether. That's messy, complicated, and full of personal variables for each individual. I'm just trying to correct the not
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by gspr 1y ago
Since this is the FOSS world, you are of course free to eschew distributions. But: > it's effectively nothing but the "app store" model, having an activist distributor insert themselves between the user and software. is ju
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by gspr 1y ago
> Do distro maintainers share patches, man pages, call home metrics and other data with other distros’ maintainers (and them back)? Yes, at a minimum the patches are in the Debian source packages. Moreover, maintainers are highly encoura
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by gspr 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_gauge
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by gspr 1y ago
You certainly can add an remove peers from your Wireguard network on the fly. Granted, this is something you have to do yourself, not something Wireguard has automatic tooling for, so I guess that's a difference :)
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by gspr 1y ago
> You can use it for pretty much anything you would use a VPN for, but it is much easier to configure Ease of configuration is very much also a feature of the finest VPN software I've ever used, Wireguard.
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by gspr 2y ago
You and the parent poster are talking past each other. They asked: > Why would there a VAT on, say, domestically produced pasta on the grocery shelf, while the Italian import pasta right next to it has none? You answer (correctly) that t
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by gspr 2y ago
That's what fertilizers are for. And the production of fertilizer was the point of Birkeland–Eyde process.
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by gspr 2y ago
Would you call it the same when a bunch of your friends recommend you stay away from someone? Or the opposite, introduce you to someone they like?
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by gspr 2y ago
I'm confused. At the universities I attended, or later worked at, lectures were absolutely, definitely, optional. That's how it should be. Universities provide a framework for students to learn. The university then tests what the
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by gspr 2y ago
> We have robots do physical chores for us: washing machine, robo-vac etc, so why can't we have robots that do mental chores for us? Sure, we can! That's in some sense what computers are . It's nice that they can quickly

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