lapinot

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by lapinot 4y ago
This thread seems to get derailed into the age old anarchistic debate "organization or not", also sometimes named "platform or not". My take on it is that this debate is usually theoretic in nature (in particular in this
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> That's what is nice about signals implementation is it stands. Sure they handle SMS, but the real problem here is that Signal is just another walled garden: they have an overtly negative stance towards alternative clients, while a
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by lapinot 4y ago
They aren't strictly incorrect or lying. They just do a very bad job at doing a thorough and honest analysis of the history, literature & software landscape of data transfer and file servers. Which is to say this is a motivated pub
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I believe you are talking about a replacement institution which would be internet. I stand by my point: "the skills universities claim only they can give you is freely available.", "A handful of search queries and a ton of
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by lapinot 4y ago
aka "Tech exec says he has remorse of building a bad plateform, says the new one will be better and really nothing like the previous one". What a joker! Either they play dumb or they really don't understand the mechanics of h
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by lapinot 4y ago
> I like how you pointed out a strawman in my argument with another strawman. Not every generalization is a strawman. A strawman isn't about generalization it's about simplification of opponent points to the point that they mak
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by lapinot 4y ago
This may be true in the US but it's based on a false dichotomy. And i'm even convinced that any kind of factual reality it has in the US is because this false political dichotomy has been put into reality by bipartism. If you actu
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> I'm happy about it actually. We are going through a transformation with regard to our relationship with information. [...] Imho this is naive optimism. Surely things are changing and surely things weren't great, but the direc
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by lapinot 4y ago
It's irony and self-derision. Obviously (to me at least) using/making these kind of images are something that OP is fighting against.
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by lapinot 4y ago
This is a strawman. In fact if you go search for actual leftists that don't just repeat keywords on social media you will find that most agree in some sense with what you just said (in the sense that the political situation is tons of
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by lapinot 4y ago
This point is moot. You can think that if you want but it solves in no way the problems as described by OP. In the article, you can basically replace university with school and get the same result (perhaps at a very slightly lower level of
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by lapinot 4y ago
tldr: be consensual to mainstream tastes, jump on every viral bandwagon you notice, encourage frenzieness and addictive behavior. Thanks but no thanks. Thus article is how to destroy any kind of cultural diversity 101. And create vast rigid
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OTOH it's already probably a couple decades since some more fresh terminal emulator projects have popped up that kick a bit into the old cruft and provide both lightweight stuff and actual drawing routines for specific stuff. From a gr
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> so much of our built society [..] is designed to appeal to consumers. Consumers who want their phone to be light, waterproof, beautiful and more powerful than the last one they bought, and at the lowest price possible. Nope, i beg to d
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by lapinot 4y ago
The formal art of describing a coat of arms is quite funny, eg "Party per pale argent and vert, a tree eradicated counterchanged". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazon There's an actual formal gramma
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by lapinot 4y ago
Just write pure functions, i've got no use to interacting with the world :P
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> Thus CCP can influence our elections. Would it make any difference if it was a US owner? The real problem here is more basic: 80B americans have 20% of their free time centrally controlled. This a health and social problem, whoever own
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by lapinot 4y ago
Imho you're missing the point, or at least, you've stated a valid conclusion but the point lies below. Sure, by tightly integrating you are getting material benefits (size, consumption, optimization, etc). But by doing this, you g
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by lapinot 4y ago
In which world is the bus not a nightmare?! Waiting for it at a random bus parking where nobody knows where it arrives, almost no ability to walk around nor go to the bathroom, less space than train, no access to your big luggage.. I'm
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by lapinot 4y ago
> Who is the loser here? When you have big money then you think like big money. What people are angry about is WMF becoming too big and the heads managing this budget becoming independent of the actual foot soldiers. It's not about
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by lapinot 4y ago
I've noticed that now the language selector is a two seemingly random places depending on ?? (the classical places is on the left, an exhaustive list ordered alphabetically; the new place that is sometimes there is on the top right, in
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by lapinot 4y ago
And i'm sure mining for coal, building ever expanding suburbs or driving cars doesn't contribute to killing any bird or mammal.. I'd need the figures but i'm convinced that human activities are far more dangerous for oth
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by lapinot 4y ago
Erm cars? Or neighbors? Sounds like most of my cats deaths were caused by either cars or some sort of poisoning. Looks very predatorish to me.
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by lapinot 4y ago
Frogs are a protected specie in france: you can catch some for personal "use" but there are quotas. So all the frogs you eat in restaurants come from elsewhere in europe. Could explain the evolution. Also i'm not sure it&#x27
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by lapinot 4y ago
no, ipfs.io seems to originate from protocol labs own network: https://bgp.he.net/AS40680
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by lapinot 4y ago
For pro-nuclear HN people that want to read about themselves, here's a pretty honest analysis: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2022/08/ROBIN/64951 (in french)
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Did you ever do any gardening or heard about any kind of development cycles? It's not because something is ok with some temperature in summer that the same temperature in winter is ok for the same being.
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Do you realize your argument is exactly the good old "who cares about 2 degree global warming? i'm happy i like summer" Go read up some ecosystem science will you? "Frying few fish" "replenished easily" &q
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remark: i've included some in the list (i believe sqlite, timelydataflow) which are doing the program synthesis at runtime (in contrast with the other that really output some kind of library that you bind to afterwards). These might mo
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Sure! So first, being in C/asm/.. is not incompatible with what i say: i'm saying that some of these are not hand-written, but are generated. So off the top of my head: - FFTW: an ocaml synthesizer for fft kernels from a four

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