piekvorst

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by piekvorst 11mo ago
I believe that while centralized computing excels at specific tasks like consumer storage, it cannot compete with the unmatched diversity and unique intrinsic benefits of personal computing. Kindle cannot replace all e-readers. Even Apple
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
Why should we believe in another apocalypse prediction?
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
It’s very common for dictators to call people stupid as an excuse for their power abuse.
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
Nice article, never seen that. I’ve always thought it’s good practice for a system to declare its limits upfront. That feels more honest than promising ”infinity” but then failing to scale in practice. Prematurely designing for infinity can
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
I think the land of “freedom” knows that “Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
What’s wrong with zero values? They free the developer from guessing hidden allocations. IMO this benefit outweighs cast riddles by orders of magnitude.
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
Glad to see that Sam is not dead.
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
Mouse warping does not work in XWayland. Thus, I still use X11. David (UI details) beats Goliath.
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
> I’m not saying it’s wrong to have a preference for smaller languages, I just haven’t seen anything in my career to indicate that smaller languages outperform when it comes to faster delivery or less bugs. I can imagine myself grappling
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
You can’t defend any rights by reference to legal authority. As long as it’s a legal domain, any exceptions are permitted, even on the “human” rights level. Rights can only be defended on moral grounds, like rights to freedom or self-defens
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
That’s the point. They could initiate any massive production but it wasn’t maintainable at the scale they intended.
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
I like the ambiguity of bin and dev. Unix is full of such puns: cat, man, more/less, etc. Etc is strange, yeah.
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by piekvorst 11mo ago
I don’t get why should programming fonts be necessarily monospaced.
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by piekvorst 1y ago
The later the disclaimer, the funnier.
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by piekvorst 1y ago
I meant property rights violations generally. The consumer agreed to something which they didn’t provide. If the consumer simply wasn’t served better than he could have, that may violate some non-objective law, but not the consumer’s proper
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by piekvorst 1y ago
You mean being both pro-consumer and pro-producer? Sure it can be both, provided we establish the principle uniting the two. Property rights is one. Altruism is another. The two would lead to totally different outcomes. Speaking of property
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by piekvorst 1y ago
What about anti-producer government practices?
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by piekvorst 1y ago
Why did I read this comment in Russian?