paulryanrogers

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by paulryanrogers 1mo ago
Doubt. Arguably the US thrived because it is too far from Europe for their wars to cause too much devastation. Unregulated industrialization also gave us child labor, 12h days, 6d work weeks, and company scrip. After WW2 the US stood alone
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by paulryanrogers 1mo ago
Will the CEO suffer consequences? It seems the worst they face is being fired with a golden parachute.
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by paulryanrogers 1mo ago
Perhaps. Yet with this administration it seems victory in lower courts is hollow until challenged up to the Supreme Court. Which lately rules overwhelming in their favor. And in rare circumstances where the admin is rebuffed, like tariffs,
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by paulryanrogers 1mo ago
I thought the government's use of deception was limited to only circumstances necessary to protect people from harm, not to inflict harm upon them.
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by paulryanrogers 1mo ago
It seems the paint.net situation was more about anti-AI folks vs a pro AI dev. Not very red or blue coded, nor engagement bait, as far as I can tell. I suppose it is something of a culture war. Albeit without the CEO's thumb on the sca
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by paulryanrogers 1mo ago
Are true crime authors going to jail? Or even authors of heist fiction?
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Haiku OS has gone up to 6y between releases. While not entirely inactive in that time, lurkers who aren't as motivated to dig for signs of life could reasonably conclude the project is inactive. For example, I'm a big fan of DOSBo
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Velocity of LoC isn't important. Velocity of user visible improvements can matter if a project feeds off of usage and popularity. Or at least that velocity matters until the OS is capable enough to satisfy the user base.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
> If you get rid of the investment and capital class you will get a new investment and capital class, probably made up of the leaders of the revolution that overthrew the old one. How true is this? Certainly trust busters like Teddy had
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
I've daily driven Linux for years, even on laptops. Yet they're always plugged in because I've yet to see Linux out perform battery life of native OS's. Well, except for very niche and pared down Linux's. Rather it
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
My concern is for the devices I have, which are usually newer, and for battery life. Linux doesn't even have full hardware support, much less efficient battery life on these now several year old devices. Maybe things will unlock soon a
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Or vote for other people and change the incentives that lead to broken/failed promises?
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Land acknowledgement where the most ancient natives get the most marginal and inhospitable land. Plenty of people think it's hypocrisy and are willing to collectively sacrifice to right the many, many wrongs.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Yet strangely not cryptocurrency or bank transfers
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
How likely is such tuning to happen within the practical lifetime of these devices? It's already been years and Linux isn't even feature complete on newer models. Apple's indifference to OSS does not give me much hope.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
What do you do with older hardware that you've bought? Do you not wipe it and resell / donate? If you encrypt from day one then a lease isn't much different.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Perhaps I just didn't write enough Ruby. It all felt very hard to grok for the time I spent with it. Whereas other languages, even quite obscure ones, felt more parsable to me.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Thanks for elaborating. That does seem worthwhile.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Sorry if I was unclear. I mean they'll never have enough time to learn a significant amount of modern web tech because they'll be working up to it from lower layers and basics. Browsers from scratch are multi-year projects for mul
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
People still commit to clubs, sports, and other hobbies. I enjoy an online DOS gaming club (IRC, video calls, forums, and podcast). Time is still a sacrifice in any group activity.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. I read it as exceptional careers
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
I don't mean he's destitute. Just that he's no longer exceptional, which is fine.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
> I think the best part of nature are human beings. I don't think it's a naive middle schooler idea. It's in fact the most lindy, biologically rooted idea that exists Every sentient species probably feels the same about th
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Ken Silverman
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
> A 1950s neighborhood bowling club looks like a jihadist training camp from our completely detached ways of living. Why? There are still bowling clubs? People just organize themselves into more hobbies and sometimes even virtual communi
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
How did that edge manifest?
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
For every wunderkind that has a long career there's also plenty who are overlooked or peak early.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Each new bet will be expensive and depend less on technical merit than luck and having a backup so your family doesn't starve.
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
They'll learn so much more that won't transfer to as many job opportunities. For ex, say more about C++ and less about cutting edge CSS (because modern browser tech is an ocean). I suppose they might luck into other adjacent or un
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by paulryanrogers 2mo ago
Humanity is part of nature. And undeniably a part with outsized impact on the remainder of nature. Seeing humans as just a part makes a lot of folks more humble and desire balance. A more extreme view on the other side is that people should

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