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by piokoch 6y ago
Is this system better than, say, Lenovo Legion 5 or HP Envy, they have similar price, are those System76 laptop offer better build quality, etc?
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by piokoch 6y ago
For me the biggest flaw of GDPR that it does not distinguish between something done as a business to make money and something done non-profit, as a hobby project, etc. GDPR killed forums, etc. everything moved to Facebook groups, where peop
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yes, I believe this is the case. One thing are conventions. If domain name ZZZ is taken, you can use getZZZ, ZZZapp, and so on. It does not matter much, as almost nobody types www address. Plus there is huge amount of top level domains, so
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by piokoch 6y ago
There are a lot of terrible things that we use or were using. I don't want to sound mean, but Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 were not that great. Not to mention Windows Millennium Edition. Think of all that electricity wasted because people
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by piokoch 6y ago
I've checked google trends and for Julia programming language they are showing slow increase, at least that's my guess as generic search for Julia (choosing programing language suggestion) shows decline while searching for "J
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by piokoch 6y ago
It is 2021, you say or write something and six months later it turns out that there is some "oppressed" minority that is hurt by your words, people are insulting you on Facebook and Twitter, your friends are removing you from thei
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by piokoch 6y ago
I am not getting this kind of journalism. Guardianmag magazine article is a direct copy paste from https://phys.org/news/2021-03-simulations-earth-oxygen-rich-... . Yes, they cite that as a source (oddly enough, Guardia
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by piokoch 6y ago
Graphene manufacturing was not needed as our best ~5nm chips could use copper wires to transfer electricity. I suppose the ones that are on R&D now (3, maybe 2 nm) also use copper (that's my guess only). But going smaller will requ
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by piokoch 6y ago
I disagree that Democrats are center-right. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders are definitely left wing, even for European standards. But you might be partly right. One of the reasons for that are rules of political marketing (rarel
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by piokoch 6y ago
That would be difficult in a fields with a vast range of specializations (physics for sure). They would really need an army of reviewers to cover everything from astronomy to particle physics.
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by piokoch 6y ago
What if someone jumps in with a even better offer for agents (fed also by VC money) to "disrupt" Compass? Wouldn't this sink Compass?
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by piokoch 6y ago
By curiosity I've looked on Gab and I don't see any content you mention. Yes, there is something about protests against banning guns, some celebrities teaming up to support Trump, etc., which is considered to be "far right&qu
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by piokoch 6y ago
This is really touching. My impression was that in the US government is not going to step out to help the poor, but there is a lot of private charity that helps people. Isn't that the case? I guess I might have idealized picture of Ame
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by piokoch 6y ago
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a beast. As a PhD student I was given from time to time letters from people who claimed that they invented perpetual motion machine (University was obliged to provide answers for letters and obviously all
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yes, you are right, but part of the reason that nuclear power is so costly and we don't have a good solution to handle wastes is that we didn't have much scientific and engineering progress in that are for a very long time. Nobody
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by piokoch 6y ago
Remarks about IBMs OS/2 are very true, but there was one more aspect: Win 3.1 was coming on 2 floppy discs, OS/2 was coming on 10 or more, can't remember exactly, but this was something huge, bigger than anything else at that
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by piokoch 6y ago
Reminds me history of Kazik Nowak [0], who traveled alone on a bike through Africa. The expedition took him 5 years (between 1931-1936). He wrote a great book about his trip, prizing amazing African nature and giving a hard time colonial po
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by piokoch 6y ago
Could be something great, but could end up with some "entity" will rewrite, say, ls or cp and suddenly it will turn out, that ls is still free and open source, but sends all user listed files to that entity (obviously for the sake
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by piokoch 6y ago
Could you shed some light on what is wrong with being a monarchist? I mean there are still a lot of countries on the World that are monarchies: Sweden, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium to name a few largest European monarchies.
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by piokoch 6y ago
Copy title, paste into search engine box and access from the search engine list. It seems FT wants to get the traffic and the indexing more than money from subscription.
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by piokoch 6y ago
This interview is amazing, things like "The program worked, but it was almost 200 lines long - almost too big for the Pascal system." sounds like something written in a totally different universe. Also, it seems that those were ti
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by piokoch 6y ago
So very true. The ideas mentioned in the article does not sound appealing to me: "In this picture, the curvature of space would constantly fluctuate on extremely small scales, well beyond anything we could hope to measure" "H
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by piokoch 6y ago
Interesting. I've checked [1] and it seems that number of antisemitic incidents in Poland is rather low (for instance is smaller than in Sweden, which has much smaller population), not to mention France, where number of incidents was 5
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by piokoch 6y ago
I believe when you sign up to Facebook you need to accept some terms and condition clause - this is the contract which is signed between you and Facebook (Facebook is referring that document when users are banned, so apparently they conside
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by piokoch 6y ago
Exactly, and that only means that people behind anti-encryption regulations does not care about national security. Or they are so painfully incompetent that they don't understand that it is much better if one cannot figure out that som
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by piokoch 6y ago
This smells like some really bold and really ridiculous PR attempt. "Ikea uses about one percent—yes, one percent—of the world's entire commercial wood supply. That amounts to about 17.8 million cubic yards of lumber last year. &q
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by piokoch 6y ago
There are many companies that are growing on free software without contributing to it much, however I would hesitate to add Red Hat to that category. First of all they were one of the first Linux distro (I remember installing 4.2 at home) w
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by piokoch 6y ago
Is putting something like "otherwise objectionable" as a reason to terminate contract legal? Can AWS terminate contract with a website owner who supports, say, gay marriages, because there is someone in Amazon who considers this t
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by piokoch 6y ago
And you nailed it perfectly "Personally, I always clicked to read more if I wanted to know more about a certain topic." The crux is that all those "information" sites want you to click even if you are totally not interes
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by piokoch 6y ago
You don't need to read books to be literate. You can read magazines, newspapers (paper or electronic), if you look on such statistics [1] then, well, numbers are different. Here Poland is on the 3rd place in Europe in terms of time spe

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