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by mmjaa 9y ago
I've got two credit cards, a Visa and a MasterCard, both of them backed by my Bitcoin wallet. Where's the problem? I can pay with Bitcoin anywhere I could've paid with Visa/Mastercard .. this isn't about BtC vs. V
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>>>Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment If anyone has an app for AR, Amazon has an app for AR. Maybe they're expecting us to browse the aisles virtually in the very near future?
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I think you need to listen to reason. Snow Crash is serious business!
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, I'm aware of that, I mean in the context of the last 100 years, apropos German-English, English-English, American-English, and so on. I think a bit of American vernacular has a German'ification phase, the languages seem to b
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Ahem, hand is a cognate of old German and Dutch .. Also, the '-ing' part comes from the continent, as well. :)
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I think there is a certain stigma to English people using German words, on account of the fact that the nations have a long history of rivalry and open warfare against each other .. perhaps a linguist can pipe in and tell us if there was ev
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Interestingly, the use of English in German (the opposite) is not nearly as awkward, and often comes off as quite intelligent and resourceful on the part of the speaker. I think there is a cultural bias behind this, however. The English ar
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I think Wikileaks is entirely opposed to the whole basket of deplorable "non-legal strategies" that the Clinton cabal was willing to throw at him.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Instead of a single source of censorship, against which the people can fight, there will be multiple sources of censorship, and fighting one won't solve the problem. And in your E911 example, there are already ways for this to be solve
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by mmjaa 9y ago
If one takes the view that Clinton and her cabal have engaged in heinous crimes for the last 30 years, then its a simple matter of the lesser evil. I really think he feels this way, as do many supporters of Wikileaks. Plus, there's th
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I think Assange was "compromised" by his inability to deal, personally, with the disgusting things Wikileaks has revealed about America. That, to me, is the most significant aspect of recent events: what started out great, has be
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Expect: a tool (from tcl/tk) used to write tests, whether we like it or not. Expect that "gimme gimme gimme" is a cheap way to determine if the tests are running after midnight, nor not. If so, do more extensive tests; if no
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by mmjaa 9y ago
That would be an appropriate response if you're reviewing newly-checked in code from junior developers, but this has been there for years and if you remove it, you're probably going to break things downstream .. there'd liter
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Many, many good things come from re-invention in our world. I only wish there were a longer-term awareness .. because there is a devolutionary angle, where people sort of forget why its important to do/not-do things certain ways, and
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Seems like an opportunity to use sun and sand to construct 3D-printing oases in the middle of nowhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptUj8JRAYu8 Wonder why this isn't working out as the "new construction techniq
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Also (having followed him for decades now), I think its very important to remember that Linus lives and dies by the maxim: get the kernel working, or gtfo. Things which intentionally destroy a running instance of Linux, or in some way rende
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>personal difficulty imagining the level of sophistication that existed prior I think this is something that happens in our industry specifically - every few years (to me it seems like every 4 years) - we go through these phases of amnes
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>> Simplicity and beauty of C is long gone. Lives on in Lua. Everything I want to do in C++, I can do with Lua instead. Plus: still C under it all.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
"Silicon Valley thinks it invented ..." Honestly, this got me thinking. There are so many things that in fact, SI just re-invent , but .. don't sort of get .. the re-invention. Is this not just 'the thing' about S
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by mmjaa 9y ago
If you can afford one of these cars, you probably don't do anything for a living.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I'd really like to jump on the RISC-V bandwagon. Does anyone have any recommendations for hardware that would be .. somewhat .. future-proof for hacking/experimenting on this platform? I'd love to have a board or two akin t
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The layout is awful at first but after a week or two of use, I got into it and now I hardly even notice. Keep in mind though, the whole thing is quite pocketable ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I haven't run into any such problem with the Atom CPU in the GPD Pocket .. of course I did go through a lot of hell with Arm netbooks and so on in the past (and am still an avid porter of producers to the OpenPandora universe) .. but I
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I've followed GPD since the days of the GP2X and GP32 game consoles (also an awesome example of hardware disruption done in a way that the mainstream players can't compete) .. and I do look forward to the next product from GPD.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, I think this is really about wide-spread availability - there have been other Macbook-killers, but none as readily available as the GPD Pocket so far, imho ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
8Gb of RAM really makes the difference between production and frustration. I've had 'all the machines', but this is the first time I've been totally satisfied to the point where I can easily recommend it to my other dev
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Well, the touchscreen factor should not be underestimated. I've gotten rid of an iPad, a netbook, and a desktop workstation by having the GPD Pocket serve the same basic functions as each .. where I would comfortably use the iPad for
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I'm at the point where I don't even notice any more, and can use the keyboard all day. But for the first 3 weeks I was seriously cursing and bringing down the house of hades on the designers for making such curious decisions as t
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I've found it more than sufficient for my needs - yes, an i5 would be more interesting, but the fact is that in this form factor probably would be a little more difficult to use, heat-wise. I'm holding out that GPD will produce a
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by mmjaa 9y ago
It did take some getting used to - its not exactly a perfect layout - but actually after a week I don't even think about it any more and type on it comfortably. Its a sort of similar experience to the jarring discord that would happen

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