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by mwfunk 7y ago
I never had that impression, I always felt like the software sold the hardware. The hardware was always premium hardware with premium prices and correspondingly premium margins, but because the hardware was so good, people who bought it mai
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I’m completely drawing a blank as to why people having fewer children would be a bad thing for anyone, aside from the Idiocracy scenario. I can think of all kinds of reasons why it would be a good or neutral thing, but I can’t think of any
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I’m not so sure that looking on the bright side of slavery proves any points here. Any “civilizing” that was done would have been for the purpose of making them better slaves. Over the last 48 years I’ve lived in crime- and poverty-ridden n
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by mwfunk 7y ago
You left out step 4, without which 1-3 would just make everything worse for everyone: just like with car insurance, everyone would be legally required to purchase health insurance up to some minimal level of coverage. Not for their own sake
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The difference is in living through it vs just reading about it in the past tense. For example, my grandmother grew up in it and had all sorts of money-related neuroses for the rest of her life. Maybe that was just her, but many Americans o
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by mwfunk 7y ago
To me, the fact that Hotz didn’t seem to realize that NHTSA was a thing that existed and that he should be talking to them makes me not trust anything the guy does. If someone can be that colossally ignorant about something that’s so centra
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Sure there is, depending on what you’re doing and where you live. There’s all sorts of things you could do that would make a vehicle no longer street legal and/or a danger to yourself and others. And I would hope people would take the
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It's both funny and sad to read my local Nextdoor comments, for exactly those reasons. The comments around me fall into a few major categories: (1) Announcements from the local police and local government about stuff they want to let p
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It's pointless to ask that question (in any forum really), unless you love downvotes. If you want to contribute something, post about why think it shouldn't be, with references to the HN guidelines that you think backs up your cas
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Free Software enthusiasts can't advocate against copyright, because it's the only thing that gives the GPL any meaning at all. In a copyright-free world, any company could make a proprietary GCC fork, lock its code up behind many
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by mwfunk 7y ago
No, a (good) therapist helps you find things that would be difficult or impossible to find on your own, it's literally an outside perspective. If what you did works for you, you either didn't have any serious mental health issues
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I totally believe that someone in uniform might get extra nice treatment, but aside from that, I'm surprised you could type something like that without it feeling like waving a big red flag at yourself. If I find myself thinking stuff
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I kinda left off my conclusions from all of that: obviously you don't want a situation where (like in the designer vs web developer example), designers are empowered to dictate designs which would naturally result in poor implementatio
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I think the most interesting things to create are often the work of groups of people who all have very different areas of expertise. Everybody's working together towards the same final product, but everyone has their own mental model o
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It's bizarre and misleading that the author didn't take the shifts in the Chinese market in the last year or two into account. The article starts out with a statement about smartphone sales being down in America across the board,
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Sadly PDFs are usually just a series of graphics instructions for drawing stuff (including text) at specific sizes and positions, on a page with a defined size. It's an inherently hostile format for reflowing text, although I think som
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Originally there were AcroForms, part of the PDF spec. That's supported by pretty much everyone. Then, Adobe saw an opportunity make some enterprise money and introduced XFA (XML Forms Architecture). The XFA spec is associated with the
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All that’s telling everyone is that you are not caring about a lot of very important stuff and caring way too deeply about the wrong things. When one party is blatantly anti-science, doesn’t believe in the value of professional expertise, a
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by mwfunk 7y ago
They’re both screwed. I’d rather have crippling debt than children dying from malnutrition, but obviously both Marc and John are completely screwed in different ways. They’re both losers in this scenario, there are no winners.
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No, that's just people talking at each other. Conversation is when they listen to each other too.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This sounds amazing. And all of that (even the physical controls, in a sense) is really more about interfacing with the onboard computer systems, which arguably aren't part of the car itself, but something extra built on top of it. For
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A certain breed of neckbeard, at least that’s been the association the last 10-15 years. It’s probably more of a jokey reference these days though. Although red hats in general are also an unfortunate form of branding to be stuck with nowad
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Unicode search in PDF works fine, there are just a few issues that can cripple it for specific files, or specific files using specific PDF implementations. The following is advice for anyone working with the format, it should not be constru
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I don't blame MacOS- there was no expectation that an OS for 16-bit CPUs with no VM, no protected memory, and only cooperative multitasking would have proper multiuser support. With that kind of hardware, what's the point? Good th
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It hasn't won yet, but relatively few people would agree that the FSF approach results in the end-user benefits that the FSF claims it does. A large group of people for sure, but it's a long way off from being a consensus view. Th
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by mwfunk 7y ago
How would you improve the existing C/C++ interopability in Swift? What needs to work that doesn't work right now?
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In my experience, when a workplace has a perpetual crunch time culture, little if any additional work gets done that wouldn't have gotten done if everyone stuck to 40 hour weeks. I'm very curious how true this is in 996 places. Wh
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"Fake it till you make it" means, sound like you're way more confident about what you're saying than you actually are, until you become the sort of person you're presenting yourself as. It's not people making u
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They became unhappy Blackberry customers, prompting them to become a happy customer of something else. Nobody forced them to stop buying Blackberries.
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Generally when people are down on Tesla or Elon Musk, it's because they want them to succeed at displacing internal combustion engines. They're not rooting for internal combustion engines, they're rooting for electric cars an

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