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by jarfil 11y ago
It seems to me like the main thing about a physical calculator would be the physical keys. Would it make sense then to have a Bluetooth "calculator" keyboard linked to a smartphone?
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by jarfil 11y ago
Veblen goods, that's why.
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by jarfil 11y ago
Isn't WIP what branches are for?
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by jarfil 11y ago
That would be the egocentric view, instead of letting the commit stand on its own.
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by jarfil 11y ago
Lidl sells plenty of stuff other than groceries, with anything from clothing to telescopes, they just don't stock them permanently. But when they do, sometimes they even beat direct-from-China pricing, by up to a 60%. Which is pretty i
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by jarfil 11y ago
When "outdoor grazing" means dedicating land for animal use instead of planting crops that could feed several hundred people, just so that a couple of them can get to drink milk... I'd rather see the "zero grazing"
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by jarfil 11y ago
"a device which ensures your 'home automation' data stays in your home" I have one of those, it's a Linksys router with OpenWRT acting as a firewall. But if you can make it more user friendly and sparkle some hype a
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by jarfil 11y ago
Academic tabloid, FTFY
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by jarfil 11y ago
Some people with high IQ are smart enough to say "I want to be a cab driver", and do it. They probably are happier in their jobs, than many others who just do whatever "is expected" of them.
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by jarfil 11y ago
Freedom of speech != freedom to force anyone to listen to you. As long as you are free to create your own community where you can say whatever you want, there is no need for any other community to listen to you.
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by jarfil 11y ago
The GPL is a great way for companies (socipathic, soulless, etc.) to work together. The BSD is a great way for those same companies to get your $100... and ask for another $500. But if you can make your stuff work with no abstract legal ent
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by jarfil 11y ago
> when you license something under BSD, at any point you have the power to take it to another license or make it proprietary And that's why I would NEVER contribute code to any of your projects. You want people to work for you for f
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by jarfil 11y ago
Those ever-cheaper laptops started as copies and spin-offs from the "helping the poor" projects and related technologies. So while the projects themselves may have failed, I wouldn't say they had no impact.
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by jarfil 12y ago
Many people still think that "Macs don't get viruses". Having that faith shattered can drive more than one away from the product.
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by jarfil 12y ago
The idea stealing myth originates from people (cubicle drones) who have so few ideas of their own, that when they finally have one, since it seems so scarce to them, it obviously must be valuable and thus worth "stealing". Unfortu
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by jarfil 12y ago
And whose fault is that? As a professional you should at least be aware (just aware, no need to be any kind of expert) of the pipeline you use. Which in this case is anything from your high level language of choice, all the way down to the
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by jarfil 12y ago
The thing with a digital "prank/crime", is that a minor action similar to a prank, can have major consequences similar to a crime... or no consequence whatsoever, all of it with the same action. I agree that in this case the
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by jarfil 12y ago
d) All of the machines require the patch, but on 90% they have already applied it with no need to reboot.
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by jarfil 12y ago
I think going on a mission would be more about influencing the outside, than about outside influences. Maybe they considered, quite correctly, that poorer people in disaster stricken areas are easier to influence.
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by jarfil 12y ago
If people who knowingly infect you with AIDS get thrown in jail, why should it be any different with people who knowingly decide to increase your chances of contracting any other disease? I say supervised interactions with society is a very
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by jarfil 12y ago
At the moment of this writing, there are 13725450 Bitcoins in existence [1], with a value of $195.30 each [2]. That makes a grand total of $2,680,580,385 (2.6 billion). How low would they have to fall for there not being enough of them to p
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by jarfil 12y ago
These exercises may lack practical value, except perhaps to the virus makers, but they do kind of prove there is no extraneous overhead required by the language. So we already knew that about assembler, now we also know Rust can be twisted
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by jarfil 12y ago
TL;DR: TANSTAAFL
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by jarfil 12y ago
GOTO statements are not bad, they make your code run 10% faster while taking just 10 times as long to debug. So if your code gets executed millions of times per second, like in some OS kernel, it may be wise to use GOTOs. Otherwise, stay aw