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by mpyne 2mo ago
> There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors. I think that time corresponded to when monitors were smaller than 27 inches though. A "good" CRT monitor used to be 15" and at that size
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by mpyne 2mo ago
Ukraine is also running headlong into the reality of kill or be killed.
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by mpyne 2mo ago
Yes, but the military exists for the nation, not the other way around, so a military success that turns into a national disaster is not a military success at all. That's why even in the nuclear Navy, as crazy as they are about reactor
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by mpyne 2mo ago
The hidden implication in your extension of the foodie analogy is that consistent food must have worse quality. That's not true, and if anything in software having consistent software delivery makes it more likely to achieve Michelin
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by mpyne 3mo ago
Yes
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by mpyne 3mo ago
I don't know, did the prior vibe-coded Zig code not ever have pointers aliased to data? Might be preserving semantics too well, if anything.
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by mpyne 3mo ago
People absolutely will sell you Linux, and they make a lot of money in the process. I'm not even sure I'd describe it as a monoculture either, if it was that would probably have accelerated its growth even more. Imagine where Linu
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by mpyne 3mo ago
Couldn't they already do this today, without an additional regulation? Why is a charity supposed to be able to magically conjure sales the original seller was unable to find? I just think if it was as easy to doing this, there's a
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by mpyne 3mo ago
Sure. Until it wasn't. Even if Linux was a monopoly that would not necessarily be the case for ever, as the example of the Windows monopoly demonstrates. But Linux isn't even a monopoly today.
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by mpyne 3mo ago
At the time that may even have been true, there was essentially nothing else for personal computer usage, and there were no alternate form factors like mobile. But even there the issue wasn't the existence of monopoly per se, but with
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by mpyne 3mo ago
The invisible hand of the market has been handcuffed a bit here though. Though I imagine this will simply show up as higher cost rather than blanket inavailability.
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by mpyne 3mo ago
> Typescript isn't nearly as popular as C++ Huh? You should reassess how your current understanding of language popularity compares to what's actually going on outside your environment. Typescript has already surpassed C++ in p
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by mpyne 3mo ago
The Linux kernel isn't even a monopoly though.... FreeBSD, OpenBSD, heck even ReactOS are all things you can use and make better instead. No one is forcing you to use Linux any more than anyone is forcing you to use Windows or macOS.
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by mpyne 3mo ago
Typescript is an even better example. And there are some domain-specific languages that aren't meant to become popular general-purpose languages, but succeed in their niche through the help of transpilation to a general-purpose languag
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by mpyne 3mo ago
> No they weren't, in fact they were very surprised by the adoption from Python folks I'm kind of surprised that the Go creators were surprised by this. Like I know they didn't like C++, but Go is by no means a replacement
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by mpyne 3mo ago
> But it also stands to ask, why isn't the bridge being constantly targeted? What factors are weighing ukrainian decisionmaking to not simply strike the hell out of this bridge until it falls? It's not as easy as it sounds to p
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by mpyne 3mo ago
> Where are the armored vehicles now in Ukraine? A more appropriate question might be, where are the armored vehicles now in Russia? And as it turns out, they have indeed started adding armor to transport craft, including trains: https:
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by mpyne 3mo ago
I still have my CD for Office 97 and (somewhere) SuSE Linux 7.2, but I can't honestly say I can continue to use those. The way to get around that is either continually releasing feature upgrades with one-time payments, or paying for ac
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by mpyne 3mo ago
> However, if my continued use of a specific version of your software has no continued cost to you That's just it, it does carry a cost, at the least for security updates and allowing the application to continue to be installed on l
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by mpyne 3mo ago
Nintendo does it the right way. I'm not at all afraid to say I want more Mario, Samus, Fox McCloud, Fire Emblem avatars and the like. But they don't simply do roster updates, they bring those characters and worlds into new experie
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by mpyne 3mo ago
C++ has std::reduce for that, which is std::accumulate except it's defined to operate without any specific ordering.
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by mpyne 3mo ago
The original example isn't really using ranges except to emulate C++98 iterator work though. The actual equivalent might be something closer to: inline double algorithm_call(std::span<double const> xs) noexcept { re
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by mpyne 3mo ago
That's correct, with curbside pickup you drive to the store, pop open your trunk, and in principle someone from the store's staff is ready and waiting to verify your identity and then load your pre-staged shopping right into your
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by mpyne 3mo ago
"isn't fast" is basically how you'd sum up the U.S. military in a nutshell. So much of what it is in the past 3 decades is coasting off its Cold War legacy. Target lists for an Iran scenario should absolutely have been
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by mpyne 3mo ago
The worker-owned businesses that are more effective will do a better job of concentrating wealth though, as they don't have to pay investors back dividends or participate in stock buybacks. Software in general is a field quite compatib
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by mpyne 3mo ago
If you're being told explicitly to consume tokens then leaving it running while you try to get real work done sounds value-added to me. "Don't worry boss, no one's beating our team on the token leaderboard this week...
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by mpyne 3mo ago
Nothing is stopping employees from banding together to create these obviously-superior businesses right now and eating the VCs' lunch. Right?
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by mpyne 3mo ago
This is true of every market that has ever existed, and that's not stopped small players from finding niches.
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by mpyne 3mo ago
No doubt, but the issue I think they keep running into is they don't understand how useful those "human tools" are, so they keep trying to replace the functions humans provide with AI, without realizing all the other function
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by mpyne 3mo ago
> The NSA managed to deliberately insert a backdoor into elliptic-curve cryptography right under the noses of everyone capable of making elliptic-curve cryptography. That sort of proves the opposite point, assuming you're referring

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