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by jopsen 1y ago
Because docker was written in golang. And before docker, not many large applications were.
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by jopsen 1y ago
Many countries have some oil and if the civilian economy didn't drink so much -- there probably be plenty to make jet fuel, etc.
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by jopsen 1y ago
There is also: https://pdfcpu.io/ That said, if you're looking for a GUI app to do simple PDF mutations it's often hard to fine a simple solid open source cross platform app. At least I haven't found one :)
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by jopsen 1y ago
Could be survivorship bias ;) But yes, the don't make them like they used to -- in fact they never did! People said the same thing 25 years ago, and 25 years before that. A modern fridge is probably cheaper (corrected for inflation) an
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by jopsen 1y ago
How much of that budget is maintenance of very very old buildings?
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by jopsen 1y ago
Does doing away with the monarchy also mean confiscating their property?
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by jopsen 1y ago
> Also, president boris, stamer or farage is just a humiliation I can't really cope with. The British royal family does get some bad press from time to time, but the recent string of British PMs really does serve to remind us all th
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by jopsen 1y ago
I view the money we pay the Danish royal family as the cost of not having a bloody revolution some 150-200 years ago. When you consider how many people and how much wealth was destroyed during/following revolutions like the French or R
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by jopsen 1y ago
Yeah,.critical reporters fall out of windows in Manhattan all the time. </sarcasm> That's not to say that America doesn't have problems. That the problems aren't unique. But there has always been problems, and they
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by jopsen 1y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the trend. But one could argue that a computer is just a cheaper implementation of the yesteryears discrete electronics. Which was itself a cheaper implementation of old school mechanical gears
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by jopsen 1y ago
There are probably many places where the cost of sending a technician to replace the display is rather expensive.
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by jopsen 1y ago
The more old school alternative is to just buy old CDs and a CD player. Used, you can find this stuff pretty cheap. Abd it's still more physical than NFC cards.
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by jopsen 1y ago
> Spending $1.5 billion on a campaign (and still losing) is near unfathomable. Perhaps we should be delighted in the fact that political ads can win an election. I have a hard time seeing other positive outcomes :)
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by jopsen 1y ago
The argument was that ChatControl is a threat to the rule of law. Because enforcement would be so arbitrary.
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by jopsen 1y ago
Your right that some people think voting means participating in democracy. But public debate, petitions, the press, demonstrations, etc. is also an important part of democracy. But really, if you want impact, don't do it individually:
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by jopsen 1y ago
And so much of our tech stack runs on old abstractions. Do you even need an MMU, if you have memory safe languages? Honestly, maybe semi scaling is a problem for AI, but for most other software today, the problem is bugs, bloat, latency.
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by jopsen 1y ago
More over there are probably lots of avenues we haven't even attempted because when the node scales down we get quadratic benefits (right?). Where as tailored hardware, software improvements are unlikely to continue yielding such payof
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by jopsen 1y ago
> If you seriously start knocking on people's doors, you re most likely to end up dead or in prison in this day and age. Not in Europe, certainly not Denmark. As a kid I've knocked on many doors selling lottery tickets for a ch
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by jopsen 1y ago
I don't think the political ads are like in the US. Not at all. Also the scale is no where near. TV2 in Denmark just ran an article saying that the 24 politicians and parties buying the most ads bought a total of 250k ads ahead of this
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by jopsen 1y ago
True, semi scaling is slowing down. But our software could be orders of magnitude more efficient. Am I wrong?
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by jopsen 1y ago
Agreed, examples and reference docs. When feasible, I'd add repl environments. The ability to quickly modify and test the example can make up for a lot of the shortcomings documentation might have.
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by jopsen 1y ago
The golden age of software may indeed come to an end some day. But I don't think the market is saturated just yet. Even when we stop having unicorns, SWE salaries may go down, but that'll also open new opportunities.
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by jopsen 1y ago
Security updates. And fixing things when they eventually break. Honestly, there is a reason I still use a dreamhost shared plan. It's dirt cheap, been running forever, and I've never had to do the boring stuff. And if they break m
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by jopsen 1y ago
How do you upgrade to new versions? How do ship security patches? How do backup? And do you regularly test your backup? I feel like upgrade instructions for some software can be extremely light, or require you to upgrade through each versio
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by jopsen 1y ago
Not a strong defense, but it helps. But it's also why sites that don't work well with a password manager are actively setting their users up to be phished. Same with every site that uses sketchy domains, or worse redirects you to
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by jopsen 1y ago
Just my personal, not fully conceived opinion: ChatControl cannot exists without criminalizing cryptography (crypto with backdoors is not crypto). When the act of uttering sufficiently complicated mathematics is a crime, we entering the ter
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by jopsen 1y ago
He isn't alone, lots of people sent the emails from their personal account. You can have outsized impact by participating in democracy.
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by jopsen 1y ago
I wrote a personal message. But huge thanks to Joachim for making it easy!
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by jopsen 1y ago
For any Danes out there, you can sign here: https://www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-forslag/?Id=FT-2115...
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by jopsen 1y ago
A building sized thing has much higher installation costs. And you can't DIY it, it's not just plug and play.

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