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   by hvs 6y ago

   Online learning has been almost impossible with my child with ADHD. Screens are the worst thing possible for her.
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   by hvs 6y ago

   For the first few years of the 2000's, Apple actually supported a similar project called OpenDarwin. It was basically the open source components of MacOS. I ran it for a bit, but there wasn't much community support for it. https:
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   by hvs 6y ago

   Because the U.S. isn't a democracy it's one that was explicitly founded on the model of the Roman Republic, albeit one with a written constitution.
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   by hvs 6y ago

   I was being a bit glib, and others have expanded better than I can on the theory (plus Roman politics is complicated) but here's an example of the theory: https://www.history.com/news/rome-republic-augustus-dictato
5. 245.▲
   by hvs 6y ago

   Unfortunately, that precisely the opinion that the Romans came to as well.
6. 246.▲
   by hvs 6y ago

   It reads more like a patent description than telling me what it's for.
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   by hvs 6y ago

   Here's the decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf The dissenters basically believe that “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” doesn't include "sexual ori
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   by hvs 6y ago

   We've been doing curbside pick up for groceries for the past few months and fresh food and produce are definitely the biggest problem with the substitutions being the second. The substitutions would probably be better/less often i
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   by hvs 6y ago

   With regards to #3 among the more libertarian minded: if we all where masks it's not only a show of spontaneous order to slow the spread (as it has in HK and other Asian countries), it will limit the need for the more draconian governm
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    by hvs 6y ago

    Ah, the computer from "Wargames". https://www.imsai.net/movies/wargames.htm
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    by hvs 6y ago

    What ever this is, the use of colors, arrows, bad clip-art, and everything else just yells, "DON'T LISTEN TO ME."
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    by hvs 6y ago

    This is pretty much a judgment of Rust: Such ecosystems come with incredible costs. For instance, rust cannot even compile itself on i386 at present time because it exhausts the address space. Consider me a skeptic -- I think th
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    by hvs 6y ago

    I think it might be able to be an herb garden for a small neighborhood. But that's about it.
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    by hvs 6y ago

    I believe it's an attempt at a truly distributed OS, but it is buried in about 10 miles of unnecessary obfuscation and wordplay. Apparently now it is a Slack-clone as well.
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    by hvs 6y ago

    That's a good idea. People have this weird fear of caffeine pills, but many of them are just 100mg of caffeine. That's a cup of coffee. Don't abuse them, and for what you are talking about (easing off caffeine) they are are a
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    by hvs 6y ago

    I can't remember why I bought this game (I was in the middle of high school at the time), but I logged hundreds of hours in this game. It's hard to appreciate games from a generation before you because you've developed a cert
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    by hvs 6y ago

    I was a programmer back then, and it's not the "golden age of programming" that some make it out to be. For one thing, WE were complaining about how big and bloated software was becoming compared to the "old days" w
18. 258.▲
    by hvs 6y ago

    Meetings are exhausting, Zoom or no Zoom. I’ve noticed no difference and I’m on at least 3/day.
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    by hvs 6y ago

    I'm probably not representative, but when I last really tried to use Go on a project seriously the lack of generics and the way that errors were handled became a real blocker for me. Which is unfortunate, because I really wanted to lik
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    by hvs 6y ago

    Probably won't happen. Companies have been willing to buy the IP and support it (Serenity Systems with eComStation, Arca Noae with ArcaOS) because there are legacy installations of OS/2 that need to be supported (and are willing t
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    by hvs 6y ago

    This isn't quite true. Microsoft and IBM were working on OS/2 together and Microsoft got fed up with the development delays and decided to build their own system. So NT was designed from the ground up. It originally had multiple s
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    by hvs 6y ago

    VMS's command line is... verbose. It has nice completion and is well documented, though. And you can see where the '/' style of parameters came from. e.g. DIR/SINCE="1-FEB-1994 17:00"
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    by hvs 7y ago

    Agreed. Haskell is masters class in functional programming that is generally more interested in pushing theory forward (not necessarily a bad thing). If you are a .NET developer, F# is a wonderful language (based on OCaml) that allows you t
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    by hvs 7y ago

    I was a senior in HS when it came out and I remember a bunch of us really liking the style. But, yeah, it tasted terrible.
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    by hvs 7y ago

    You're using it right now :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) Lisp is probably more popular among those that read HN than the general developer public. It also depends on what you mean by &
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    by hvs 7y ago

    - The shuttering of many media outlets.
27. 267.▲
    by hvs 7y ago

    They did alter their return policy. That's what the article is about.
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    by hvs 7y ago

    Those comics reminded me that without context even the English language can be inscrutable.
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    by hvs 7y ago

    I'm not digging into their offering, but "making things easier" can be a great value proposition. They just need to be upfront about it.
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    by hvs 7y ago

    Nothing beats my old HP-48G that I used in college. Unfortunately, HP has all but left that space and my HP 35S (yes, I do own one) is but a shadow of what HP calculators once were.