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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
> Banning something that has so huge disadvantages, but has been lobbied just like cigarettes is exactly the kind of society I want to live in. Alcohol isn't like cigarettes. It's more like coffee or cake in terms of the social
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
You're now making a rational argument against an irrational condition. As I keep saying: the underlying causes behind alcoholism is something that needs to be specifically addressed if you don't want alcoholics to simply switch to
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
Not as well as you'd think: 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68085190 > Saudi Arabia to get first alcohol shop in more than 70 years. [...] Saudi officials said the shop would counter "the ill
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
I actually don’t disagree with some of that. But that’s not the point I was discussing. Let me put it another way: banning something that most people use sensibly and enjoy in moderation isn’t a society that anyone wants to live in nor sh
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
That’s an impossible to prove opinion without changing the laws of physics. But there are some precedence we can refer to as a counterargument. 1. There have been plenty of other substances that have been banned which were legal and widely
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
> There is an unfortunate lack of unity for such things. It would work if governments made it easily understandable how to categorize content, but the vast majority is handled by closed boards of people, so no "case law" exists
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
> I was only using your own framing. You're the one who lazered in on health. Actually no I wasn't. It was shrubby who mentioned "health" in the medical sense. I was replying to them using "health" in the so
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
As a language author myself, I'd be interested to learn more about how you utilised agents.md and skills for this language of yours.
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
You've completely missed the point. People don't drink alcohol because it's healthy. Just like people don't eat cake because it's healthy, nor drink coffee because it's healthy. They do it because the unhealthy
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
To be honest I just picked moments when the kids were bored and wanted daddy time but weren’t buzzing around the house with excess energy to burn. It wasn’t something I specifically planned in advance for. Which meant though whole experienc
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
But you’re now arguing the same point I am: Portable means low effort porting. Saying something “can” be ported doesn’t make it portable. People would port games from the NES to the Master System, to 8 bit Micros but in most cases they were
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
What’s healthy isn’t complete abstinence, it’s moderation. This is true of coffee, sugar, alcohol, social gatherings, work, play, and everything else in life.
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
All software is portable by that former definition. When people talked about portable before, they meant code that used an abstraction that was platform agnostic. And that’s how it’s still used today. It’s just we have better abstractions n
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
I usually start with game: guess the number. The computer generates a random number between 1 and 100. And you have to guess. When you’re too high, the computer says “too high” and likewise when you’re too low. It’s a great starter program
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
Oh yeah. I had loads of 6502 and Z80 systems (still do in fact). Can’t believe I forgot about that! Though in fairness, I do mostly now just use those systems to teach my kids BASIC
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
16 bit programs used 16 bit addresses, generally speaking. Even with 32bit systems where you’d want more than 4GB RAM, application software still had 32 bit addresses (and thus 4GB memory limit). I think it was a lot more common for 8bit sy
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
The time management problem is having a job, family, and other commitments. Some of us only get a couple of hours a week to play games. Your solution would mean we’d have to wait a whole week after buying a game before we can play it. And I
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
QoS is designed to minimise these issues by prioritising real time protocols and other latency-sensitive traffic over other traffic. But that doesn’t mean that slowdown isn’t happening. With 500Mb you’ll be fine 99% of the time. But you don
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
The author is talking about using one device at a time. And if you’re living along then gigabit might be surplus to your needs. However many of us have families. I work from home and since getting gigabit, my video conferences have stopped
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
Google is a massive company and your json is example is literally a different module entirely!! I assume you’ve got experience in the subject you’ve got an opinion on?
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
This has nothing to do with Chrome. This is Go (golang). It’s not even the same language used in the development of Chrome. And the reason I make the distinction between feature flags and this is because some of the “experiments” discussed
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
No. Feature flags are a mechanism for enabling some of the experiments. But what’s being discussed here are the features themselves.
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
You say that like people shouldn’t be allowed to change their opinion of other people.
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
> break countless thousands of pieces of software I'd estimate millions
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
> Really not possible as most of POSIX semantics arise naturally from the kernel (or are enforced/executed at the kernel level). The kernels undoubtedly take different approaches. But there's nothing in NT that strictly prohibi
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
I was responding to a tangent rather than about this specific case. General how-tos (as the GP described) is a very different problem from someone personally helping someone else to kill themselves. I’m very interested to see how this cas
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
Liable for what exactly? I don’t know of any law in the Florida jurisdiction that would prohibit authoring such documents. But I’m also not an expert in Florida law. There might be an argument that they’re an accomplice but you’d have to pr
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
Arguing over who is more “British” isn’t the flex you and the GP think it is. All it demonstrates is close mindedness towards others.
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
Practicing Muslims, ie the ones that would be worshiping in a mosque in Whitechapel, are unlikely to be the same pissed up uni students that you’re thinking of. Just like not all Jewish people are orthodox and not all Christian’s are cathol
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by hnlmorg 5mo ago
I wouldn’t say that’s an accurate generalisation. I’ll often meet and hang out with friends in central London.

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