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871.
by pif 4y ago
No, it's short-sighted people from US not realising that the internet is broader than the US. Please, if you are writing an US-centric article, state it in the title. Example: "Agile and the Long Crisis of Software in the USA&quot
872.
by pif 4y ago
> it is planted near intersections and cutting off line of sight You've just described a wonderful and very intelligent form of traffic calming.
873.
by pif 4y ago
Very nice, where is it?
874.
by pif 5y ago
> 6. The complex interdependencies between generated files is nigh-impossible to understand You are not supposed to understand it. Stop wasting your time and blaming autotools instead of your process.
875.
by pif 5y ago
> it's just no comparison to debugging the 1000s of lines of shell code autotools generates If you find yourself debugging generated scripts, you have done something wrong.
876.
by pif 5y ago
You can.
877.
by pif 5y ago
If you are developing against a supposed implementation, rather than the published interface, you are wrong. rand is not the culprit, newlib is not the culprit: you are. You don't want to use malloc? Don't have malloc.
878.
by pif 5y ago
> other than paranoid people, who don't want government IDs at all If you don't trust elected officials a priori, you have no place in a voting booth.
879.
by pif 5y ago
> what's wrong with early voting? By French law, the envelopes are inserted into a transparent box that must be visible by any elector during the voting period. Having the box sit several nights without public scrutiny is not as saf
880.
by pif 5y ago
I think that requesting an ID to vote is the right thing. Getting an ID being an issue is the real problem.
881.
by pif 5y ago
It is more secure because you validate the envelope: more than one ballot implies the envelope is discarded.
882.
by pif 5y ago
https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Uncertainty/combination.html
883.
by pif 5y ago
The first one is gaining just enough money that I can ponder the meaning of life. The second one is pondering the meaning of life.
884.
by pif 5y ago
> communism is the most ethical option in nearly every way Citation needed.
885.
by pif 5y ago
> corporations never cared This is a pet peeve of mine: I understand it can be liberating to blame those greed corporations for giving profit the top priority, but the truth is that corporations never cared because consumers never cared.
886.
by pif 5y ago
Would you like to go back to the dark times of IE6?
887.
by pif 5y ago
> open standards also slow down the development of new features On one hand, that is not right: open standards mean no walled garden, rather than each garden equally ugly. On the other hand, that is exactly the point: no new feature can
888.
by pif 5y ago
> I have never understood how some drugs are absolutely illegal, but alcohol gets a pass. Because the overwhelming majority of alcohol drinkers are able to limit themselves to an acceptable use?
889.
by pif 5y ago
> It looks ancient but it is powerful It is powerful because it is ancient.
890.
by pif 5y ago
> You don't need to ... create custom types > > All it requires is the input to implement an "as-milliseconds()" function A.k.a. custom type!
891.
by pif 5y ago
Apple can put any price stick on their monitors, until enough idiots accept to buy them.
892.
by pif 5y ago
> all it needs is politicians with guts Good politicians are of no use to a country where half the people can vote for Trump.
893.
by pif 5y ago
> the success of Electron is in making desktop applications so much more approachable for those that are mainly front-end focused Enabling more sh t being shipped is not a badge of honor for a technology. Same goes for Visual Basic and G
894.
by pif 5y ago
Yes, you're right.
895.
by pif 5y ago
At 30° you do not need clothes at all.
896.
by pif 5y ago
Wiki shows what we mean for coronavirus now, at the moment we are having this discussion. That the world had maybe a different connotations 40 years ago is not relevant at all.
897.
by pif 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Causes The common cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract which can be caused by many different viruses. The most commonly implicated is a rhinovirus (30–80%), a t
898.
by pif 5y ago
> ... that wouldn’t simply be kicking the can down the road more. Kicking the can down the road is a good thing. It buys us more time to look for a more impactful solution.
899.
by pif 5y ago
Same stuff in Italy.
900.
by pif 5y ago
> I have no idea how people write whole browsers and operating systems in this language. They are software developers.

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