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811.
by mmjaa 9y ago
This is very incorrect. The USA is a bully - most of the nations wanting "USA protection" are really just asking to not be bullied.
812.
by mmjaa 9y ago
In fact, a larger majority of the world consider that the USA is the very power that has kept the world at war for the last 80 years .. and they're kind of right.
813.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Whereas the USA just invades [wherever] and says "its because you're not democratic/have too many terrorists/whatever".
814.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I think the fact that the US is engaged in open warfare around the world has a lot to do with it. Russia has its problems - but it hasn't deployed $Trillions of military assets around the world in order to project power, like the USA
815.
by mmjaa 9y ago
What parts of any dystopia are well designed?
816.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I gave up on Apples' Music app .. and just use VLC, now. There is something very liberating about using VLC on iOS, and managing my own music archive, manually. Sure, it feels like 1996 all over again - but at least I know exactly whe
817.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Back in the day (early-mid 80's), PC-Write was kind of like the SublimeText of the era. Multiple-select was indeed one of the key reasons to use it, as a programmers editor, even though it was intended for more general-purpose word pro
818.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Oil companies are the industry, in military-industrial-complex. (Note that it should really be: military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex, since that is a more accurate description of the conglomerates currently destroying the planet..)
819.
by mmjaa 9y ago
PC-Write had it in the 80's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write
820.
by mmjaa 9y ago
PC-Write had it, long, long ago and .. like ST .. this feature was the only reason I used that app.
821.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I have the position that I've had no interest in it, up to this point, for the simple fact that it hasn't functioned as a stand-alone device, general-computing'ish.. until now. For me, the tethering angle has always been the
822.
by mmjaa 9y ago
First, I must compose the statement: I used the phrase "materialism" in a real, materialist sense. I didn't mean communism, although that is a standing wave in a social context, but more that the material value of the effort
823.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I've been living in a comfortable, if but small, house, about 15 years now. Its my family home. One of my kids was born in it. That can never be explained in terms of capital.
824.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I've always been highly suspicious of those who resort to dialectic, and only dialectic, in their reasoning. I think its only a small part of the picture - that there are ways of synthesising ideas without requiring dialectic material
825.
by mmjaa 9y ago
.. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who would be quite happy if someone would do a smaller, lighter, cheaper version of this: http://smartflowersolar.com Perhaps DIY is the way to go.
826.
by mmjaa 9y ago
int noMain() __attribute__ (constructor); int noMain() { printf("Goodbye, main()"); } // &etc.
827.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Yeah, then I'd have to use a service that has already failed me. I think this shouldn't be the case.
828.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I just want my own info. Like, I need to see it. Problem is: there is no simple way to see my own info in this leak. I either get a third-party involved, and thus make the leak worse, or I .. get everyone elses data and have a look at it
829.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Joy Division fans were tragic hipsters before there were hipsters, yo. So, no worries. :)
830.
by mmjaa 9y ago
On the other hand, you'd be surprised with how little you actually need in order to survive and live a peaceful, happy life. Building regulations are fine - if you wanna be a normal, living a normal life, in a normal society. But the
831.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I think you're trying to sell a fish when really all you have is a horse. Wikileaks isn't contemptuous of its audience; its contemptuous of an ignorant public who have allowed their state to be infiltrated and usurped for the purp
832.
by mmjaa 9y ago
> exploring new CS ideas and techniques The point is, this isn't a "new CS idea and technique" - in fact, this technique is as old as computer UI's themselves. I have no idea how old this developer is, my only issue i
833.
by mmjaa 9y ago
>Are you suggesting that in this case, unidirectional UI flow is just another name for a FSM? Yup. The UI reads its current-state data, which comes in on an event queue, and renders the display accordingly. This is a state machine.
834.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I would argue that a lot more of the worlds productive plumbing depends on C-based apps/libraries/frameworks than we would care to admit - its just that its 'not sexy' enough for the young-uns to get behind and start usi
835.
by mmjaa 9y ago
The more I read, the more I felt that the author was long-windedly discovering FSM's, only describing them using the language de-jour - i.e. JavaScript-ecosystem-ism's. Is this the state of things today - that kids start off as hi
836.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Yeah, thanks for the advice - I'm considering a lower-tech solution though, using just a plain ol' ESP32 board, wired up to the ol' Oric. Actually thats not the hard part - once this is working, we'll still have to writ
837.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Social Octopuses? GTFO? Really? I must know more (as I am an avid octopus junky) and I thought that octopus were not social .. Got any more specifics?
838.
by mmjaa 9y ago
This is all very hilarious, but I'm actually quite serious about the effort to get my favourite 8-bit machine from the 80's - the Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat machines (which also use 6502-based CPU's) - onto the Internet
839.
by mmjaa 9y ago
FWIW, Ubuntu Studio rocks for audio guys.
840.
by mmjaa 9y ago
In my opinion, we need simply to continue to build vessels to weather all we can encounter, on this planet on others, i.e. yes please, sign me up for the mother ship(s).

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