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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
Precisely! You’re trying to learn the art of poking the box in the right way. As an engineer, I really despise the bastardisation of the term to refer to jobs or tasks that are inherently non-scientific.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
The issue with averaging is that over large inputs, it drowns out small signal. For example, there is a chance that it completely loses a reference to something made only in a single sentence somewhere in a large document.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
IITs are prestigious institutions. They’re not OKish institutions in the slightest.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
TLS secures your message till the endpoint which is a (plaintext) code repo. Why would you want a special tool to read plaintext code? Your argument makes no sense whatsoever. I’m not sure what you’re getting at here but it sounds more like
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
FOSS does not mean free of charge. They’re not obliged to write Free Software AND give it you for free.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
Why should anyone stop China and India from making lives better for their people? Seems like the classic American mindset where they get to pour as much concrete as they’d like but when other countries try to do it, they start talking of th
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
Such comments are now becoming the new “low-effort shitpost” on HN. If somethings unclear or incorrect, pointing it out may be a better idea
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
The UNIX way is not a holy gospel; it’s a way of thinking that has worked relatively well for software. There’s no reason it should be blindly copied into everything else. Stop using the UNIX way as a hand-wavy solution to complex problems.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
This argument doesn't make any sense at all. The price of a base model iPhone is around €800. Saving $.10 on a USB-2 module wouldn't make any difference to a consumer spending €800, but it will translate into major savings for App
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
A nation isn't a singular-minded entity; rather, it comprises diverse citizens who assume various roles and contribute uniquely to global improvement. Just because they've successfully landed a rover on the moon doesn't imply
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
> Unless you’re equally interested in non English speaking users then the global average is absolutely meaningless. The US is not even the largest English speaking population, it’s India. Additionally, if a subset is to be chosen, why is
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
There’s nothing hysterical about the OP’s argument that the setup is overkill and power hungry. It’s important to note here that OP is merely criticising the setup. It’s their right to speak freely about it just as you have the right to cal
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
Fedora Kinoite, an immutable desktop operating system built on Fedora with the KDE desktop environment. Most applications are flatpaks and I use toolbox for development.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
It’s a lot of emotional arguments without any technical substance. I agree that for personal static information HTTP is good enough. Another good use case is the usage of HTTP for distribution of update packages for distorts like Debian sin
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
Just before he passed away, my grandfather spoke with everyone he loved (and who couldn’t be there during his very final moments) from his hospital bed using a Nokia 2600 phone. A few years ago, I realised my mother kept the phone and refus
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
> However it is perfectly on brand of the "Open Source" corporatist movement that seems to be supplanting free software This has been happening on HN too. The vilification of GPL and AGPL as ”not free in the truest sense of the
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
Amen. I feel disgusted to be a part of a species that despite its extraordinary intelligence lacks basic empathy for other creatures.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
NLtimes.NL can serve as a European contemporary for this stress test. Absolutely unusable without an adblocker.
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
Seems to be an extremely charitable interpretation of the parent comment. I also read it as -- "Despite the plethora of issues with Debian, it manages to surprise". Like the second-level commenter, I'm also curious to hear mo
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by pietro72ohboy 3y ago
> That can happen in open source, see Stallman and others. Could you elaborate on because I'm increasingly seeing Stallman being thrown around as a bogeyman who impeded FOSS progress for years if not decades and I really dislike thi
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
Open source with arbitrary restrictions on its usage. I don’t get how “this is the way”. Examples like these make it clear why FSF explicitly distances itself from the term open source.
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
Why is being USB-C being open conflated with “now every idiot and his mother will start making USB-C cables”? Couldn’t a consumer buy a cable from a reputed brand like Anker, Apple or Samsung and be done with it? I can never understand the
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
Incorrect. If multiple services interoperate with each other, that does not mean that one service can vacuum up the entire data on that network. As an analogy, Gmail servers cannot touch emails that are stored on Outlook and have never been
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
Exactly. You're supposed to read and cite carefully, not just "citation dump" articles in favour of whatever argument you're trying to make.
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
> Sadly, Google have co-opted to run RCS ( https://jibe.google.com/ ) and most people have now serious doubts if Google will ruin messaging again like how they ruined Hangouts. Even though there’s nuance to this (RCS is a
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
Exactly! Seems weird to miss out the name of the project lead.
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
I’d argue that listing archaic electronic items on a customs form is the correct way. Law and legal documents should assume a catch-all nature by design to address edge cases and until we can absolutely assure that all Walkman, floppies and
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
Got some citations for this or is it just the normal Wednesday evening causal racism?
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
That ecosystem is gone and gone with it are elements of that ecosystem that would’ve prevented our climate situation. The land and the grasslands those bison inhabited has been destroyed. The massive forests of that day are gone. You cannot
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by pietro72ohboy 4y ago
I cannot recall the number of times the “Apple is a hardware company, not an ad company” argument has been put forward to suggest that Apple will somehow behave better than Google.

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