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by madmax96 10y ago
Hmmm... can't say I've seen that before. I agree that 4gb of RAM should be more than enough for Firefox. Chromium has a history of fetching and installing binary blobs w/o asking for user permission. I'm curious about th
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> firefox is really sluggish Statements like this are very hard to quantify in a meaningful way. Especially on Windows, over a time interval I can notice a definite performance degradation of programs. Often times, completely d
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Right, but that's not what they were responding to. OP was trying to make it seem like Google acting hypocritically by allegedly helping foster an entitlement mentality was the same as false advertising.
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I respect that opinion, and I'm with you on treating (computation in general, in fact) as a public utility. It seems that you and I have different attitudes regarding the scope of government involvement in this sort of thing. I appreci
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> It's true that no obligation is created under our > current legal structure, but I think the statement > still has relevance. Your stance reminds of me people > that said, in the wake of the subprime
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by madmax96 10y ago
> Actually it kind of does -- saying one thing and doing > another is a deceptive business practice, and deceiving > consumers is generally frowned upon False advertisement isn't the question here -- nice s
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To be fair, it would be very unreasonable for anyone to make the claim that Lolita is erotica. The Supreme Court define obscenity as being a work that was reasonably lude by the standards of the day, and lacked "serious literary, artis
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> A mentality Google fosters constantly with virtually > all of their products. This statement has no relevance to the conversation -- it doesn't magically produce any obligation for Google to act differently than
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by madmax96 10y ago
The data resided on Google's servers -- their property. Read the terms and conditions you agree to, Google doesn't owe you anything. > If it was art that borders on distasteful to some > then google is deciding
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>Go has made changes post-1.0 that were more aggressive >than anything Rust has done, such as changing the size of int. Changing the size of int shouldn't be a breaking change in Go since pointer arithmetic isn
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by madmax96 10y ago
Thanks for the response! I'm excited to see what you all do with the errors:) The UX of compilers have been improving dramatically lately...
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by madmax96 10y ago
I think that Java has (on the whole) been very stable, but as steveklabnik pointed it, it also has had breaking changes. But considering Java's age and the quantity of these changes, I'd say it's been exceptionally good (espe
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by madmax96 10y ago
The compiler has been fantastic emitting warnings about future language changes and I have appreciated it. The Rust compiler's messages (in general) are some of the highest quality I've seen, actually. The Rust Devs have done a su
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by madmax96 10y ago
Super exciting! I followed Rust at the beginning and I was pleased with the design goals of the language. However, I wasn't thrilled with the pre-1.0 documentation, and even after 1.0 there were breaking changes to the language. Hopefu
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>doesn't mean you can sacrifice others for greater good. Nobody forced them to use the driverless features. The driver took a risk and died. EDIT: newline after quote for formatting
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by madmax96 10y ago
I don't think this is correct. Each day when we drive we assume a certain degree of risk and implicitly acknowledge that we may be hurt. We make the decision to put ourselves in danger, whereas in the trolley problem we are led to assu
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>We can’t cut corners just because we want to rush a life-saving product to market. But there's a huge difference between a self-driving car and a novel drug. These cars are using statistical learning mechanisms -- it is impossible
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by madmax96 10y ago
I use FreeBSD on the Desktop. It took me a bit to set up my system, so I keep lots of backups. I've been exploring the idea of building an image that contains all the stuff I use. I find that FreeBSD is generally a lot simpler and more
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by madmax96 10y ago
This is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of. Whoever was responsible for this decision this should lose their job.
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by madmax96 10y ago
Same, it took me just a few minutes. The human writers all have a point, whereas the machine writers (although they sometimes do have some beautiful imagery) obviously lack a plot or overall structure. It's just words without purpose.
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by madmax96 10y ago
Of course the selection of data is arbitrary -- but Rich gives us a definition, which he makes abundantly clear and uses consistently. All definitions can be considered arbitrary. He's not making any claim that we have all the relevant
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by madmax96 10y ago
And Plan 9 will never have more than 1000 users because it can't get a web browser to deliver a satisfactory experience. It's a horrible chicken-and-egg thing.
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Clojure Breadth-first search and A* Pathfinder(tickstales.com)
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>make lives better By some sense of the word. I think we over-value convenience, which is all most of this tech really gives us.
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by madmax96 10y ago
I was going to post this -- beat me to it! Once you internalize the truth that Objects and Closures are two ways to express the same sort of things, your mind is free to craft wonderful solutions.
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How plentiful is Uranium? I'm not a nuclear engineer, so the 3 grams metric isn't meaningful to me -- is that a considerable amount?
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That's because OS X's user land is based on BSD. BSD in general is a much more well thought out UNIX-like OS than Linux. When I made the switch a couple of years back, I was surprised at how simply everything fit together compared
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by madmax96 10y ago
I agree with this. This actually describes a lot of my problems with Docker as well: I __hate__ that I have to use `docker ps`, etc. This is due to a weakness in traditional UNIX architectures. I ran HURD in a virtual machine a while back a
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I think people are upset because we're creating a lot of technical debt here. Every new "feature" we add creates a larger learning curve, makes a system that much more complex, and adds more to our maintenance costs. A si
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This violates the rule of least surprise. Honestly, it looks like the Systemd maintainers operated without regards to the community at all. There's probably going to be some commenter who says "it only is surprising to you &quo

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